BodyState vs Anchor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BodyState
This app provides a daily energy score based on your fitness metrics, helping you manage stress, plan workouts, and understand your body's condition. It tracks sleep, recovery, stress levels, and training load, offering personalized insights to optimize your well-being.
- Personalized Energy Score
- Sleep & Recovery Tracking
- Stress Insights via HRV
- Acute Training Load (ATL)
- Personalized Baseline Learning
- All-in-One Dashboard
- Apple Health Sync
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Monitor Your Energy, Every Day with BodyState! BodyState gives you a daily energy score from 1 to 100, combining your most important fitness metrics into a single, clear signal. Whether your goal is to manage stress, plan workouts, or simply feel better, BodyState helps you make smarter choices in tune with your body. Key features: - Personalized Energy Score: Track your body’s condition with a single score, powered by sleep quality, HRV, resting heart rate, and recent physical exertion. No guesswork, just real insights. - Sleep & Recovery Tracking: Discover how restful your sleep truly was and how well your body recovered overnight. - Stress Insights via HRV & Resting Heart Rate: Monitor your stress level over time and stay ahead of burnout. - Acute Training Load (ATL): See the impact of recent physical activity on your body. Know when to push harder and when to pull back. - Know What’s Normal for You: BodyState doesn’t rely on generic health data. Instead, it learns your personal baseline over time to give context-specific insights. Understand how today's numbers compare to your standard. - All-in-One Dashboard: Get your energy, stress, sleep, and training signals all in one intuitive view. - Effortless Syncing: Works seamlessly with Apple Health to gather the metrics you already track, no extra setup needed. How It Works: 1. Sync with Apple Health to pull in key health metrics. 2. Get your daily score and see how each input affects your energy. 3. Check f you’re balanced, depleted, or primed for performance. 4. Track trends over time and adjust your habits. This App is intended for general wellness and information purposes only. BodyState does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult healthcare professionals for medical guidance. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Anchor
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Performance breathwork for people whose state has a cost when it slips. Anchor isn't a meditation app. It's a training system for the one variable every high-stakes day runs on: your nervous system. Five breathing protocols, two HRV-driven scores, and a personalized daily stack — built to put you in the right state before the moment that matters, and bring you back down after. FIVE PROTOCOLS, FIVE LEVERS Every protocol is a published breathing technique — the same physiology operators and clinicians use to control arousal in real time. • Pre-Pitch — Box breathing (4-4-4-4). Steady before the moment. The cadence used before high-stakes performance. • Deep Work — Coherent breathing at the resonant HRV peak. One channel, no static. • Negotiation — Extended exhale to lower arousal, without anyone noticing you're doing it. • Reset — The physiological sigh. The fastest known way to drop stress in real time. About 30 seconds. • Recovery — 4-7-8 wind-down. Stop carrying the meeting home. TWO SCORES THAT TELL YOU WHERE YOU STAND Anchor reads your heart-rate variability (HRV) from Apple Health and tracks it against your own 30-day baseline — not a generic number. A daily Readiness score tells you whether to push or recover today. A rolling Capacity score shows whether your nervous system is trending up or down over weeks. Watch it respond instead of taking our word for it. YOUR 90-SECOND PROFILE A short assessment matches you to one of five performance archetypes and builds a 30-day protocol stack around how you actually break down under pressure — which protocol to run, and when. No guesswork about where to start. BUILT TO COMPOUND • A private journal and mood check-ins to connect your state to what's actually going on • A consistency calendar and streaks so the habit holds • Clean, distraction-free sessions with guided pacing and haptics ONE PAYMENT. YOURS FOR GOOD. Download and start free. Unlock everything with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, no trial traps, no monthly drip. Buy it once, keep it. Anchor is a performance tool, not a medical device, and not a substitute for medical or mental-health care. Not meditation. Not wellness. The state your work depends on — trained.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Anchor at none against BodyState's shown. BodyState's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. BodyState sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Anchor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | BodyState | Anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fitness & Sports apps SRL | James Montgomery Design Inc. |
Bugs and requests
BodyState
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inability to access app due to Health permissions
- App not working after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Longer data history
- Automatic Apple Watch complication updates
- Customization options
- Ability to manually log feelings/recovery
Anchor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BodyState
- Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Weekly premium$2.997 Days
- Weekly premium$4.997 Days
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- Weekly premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly premium$39.991 Year
- Yearly premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Yearly premium$49.991 Year
- Supporter$4.99
- Patron$9.99
- Champion$14.99
Anchor
- Anchor - Full Unlock$9.99









