Comparison

Brass Monkey vs Saavu

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Brass Monkey

Control and monitor your smart bath or barrel remotely. Schedule cooling cycles, access product guidance, and receive maintenance reminders. Offers enhanced control for ice-generating products.

Highlights
  • Remote monitoring and control
  • Eco-friendly scheduling
  • Product guidance and maintenance reminders
  • Status updates and issue alerts
  • Enhanced ice generation control
  • Redesigned intuitive interface
Features
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Starting a journey with cold water? This app has free guided content and inspirational stories with plenty more to come in this space. For Brass Monkey customers, this app helps your bath or barrel become even smarter: • Use it to connect your bath or barrel to the Brass Monkey cloud for remote monitoring, support and software updates • Control your Brass Monkey from anywhere and set eco schedules for it to be cooling only when you need it to • Access product guidance and get reminders of maintenance tasks • See the status of your Brass Monkey and get notified of any issues • For those with a Brass Monkey zero degree ice generating product, this new app gives greater control of the bath’s patented ice cycles, offering 3 levels of ice generating intensity. The new features this app brings from the last: • A redesigned interface to make navigation and bath status more intuitive • As customers were telling us they want more control over exactly when the cooling engine is on or off, we’ve also simplified the scheduling feature • We’ve simplified the ice cycles on ice baths. So now, under 2 degrees, you can now set the intensity of ice production, removing the guesswork of using a temperature setting to get ice • Improved responsiveness between the app, Brass Monkey cloud and your bath • Greater set of maintenance reminders and issue alerts, with push notifications to your phone • Water flow rate alerts for chiller engine products.

About

Saavu

Features
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People feel better after a sauna. They just can't prove it. Existing fitness apps treat sauna as an afterthought, a manual log entry at best. And nobody takes their phone into a sauna anyway. Without data, the habit feels invisible. Without proof, habits fade. Saavu is a sauna companion that pairs with your Apple Watch. Your Watch goes in with you. Saavu reads what your body does in real time. Start a session on your phone. Saavu reads your heart rate live from your Apple Watch via HealthKit, guides you through heat, cold, and rest phases, and shows your body's response in real time. Leave the phone outside. Your Watch keeps the session going. After each session, Saavu shows your heart rate curve, HRV recovery, and a face state, a simple visual that maps to how your body responded. Over time, you'll see your resting heart rate shift, your HRV improve, and your readiness score climb. These are your numbers, compared only to yourself. Saavu maps saunas, spas, and cold plunge venues near you. Check in when you arrive, and your sessions are linked to the places you visit. Can't find your local? Submit it. The venue database grows with the community. A quiet calendar on your home screen tracks your consistency. No gamification noise, just an honest record of the days you showed up. Weekly charts show your trend at a glance. Free users get unlimited session tracking, venue discovery, check-ins, and streak tracking. Saavu Pro unlocks full session history, HRV trend analytics, personalised wellness insights, session sharing, and your wellness score. Saavu is not a medical app. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. All data is for personal wellness awareness, your body's story, told in your own numbers. Heat. Cold. Thrive. - Terms of Use (EULA): https://saavu.app/terms/ - Privacy Policy: https://saavu.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Brass Monkey4 screens
Saavu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brass Monkey at none against Saavu's 2. Brass Monkey also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Saavu sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Brass Monkey asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brass Monkey ships an update weekly, Saavu every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Brass Monkey versus Saavu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrass MonkeySaavu
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.4 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrass Monkey Health LTDRivoro Studio

In-app purchases

None

Brass Monkey

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Saavu

Subscriptions2
  • Saavu Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Saavu Pro (Annual)$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Brass Monkey free?
Brass Monkey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Saavu free?
Saavu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brass Monkey or Saavu have ads?
Neither Brass Monkey nor Saavu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brass Monkey or Saavu?
Brass Monkey ships an update weekly, and Saavu every 2 weeks. Most recently, Brass Monkey was updated on November 4, 2026 and Saavu on November 5, 2026.

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