Comparison

StrideWise vs BeatSleep

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

Head to head
About

StrideWise

Features
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Reach your daily step goal and bring your friends along. StrideWise was born out of a family challenge to hit 10,000 steps a day. It reads your steps straight from Apple Health and turns them into something you actually want to look at. WALK TOGETHER Add friends with a code or a link and watch your steps line up next to theirs on a shared leaderboard. Compare today, yesterday, this week, this month, or the whole year, ranked by steps, goal reached, or current streak. A podium crowns the top three, because a plain list never made anyone walk further. TAKE ON A CHALLENGE Pick a friend, pick a length and see who moves. Most steps wins, or best goal percentage so nobody is punished for having longer legs, or one shared target the whole group walks towards together. Anything from a single day up to a month. Finished challenges stay in your archive, so you can still settle who won last summer. SEE YOUR PROGRESS A daily ring that fills as you walk. Your last seven days at a glance. Streaks, a goal calendar, monthly and yearly charts, and a year end forecast that tells you where you will land if you carry on like this. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Works with your iPhone alone or with an Apple Watch. Nothing to set up beyond your daily goal. Available in English, Deutsch, and Português (Brasil). PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your steps stay on your device unless you choose to set up a Friends profile and even then only the people you accept can see them. 100 % free to use! Privacy Policy: https://www.stridewise.de/app-privacy/ EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

About

BeatSleep

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BeatSleep does one thing. Your Apple Watch reads your heart, then vibrates on your wrist just under your own rate. Your pulse follows the vibration down, and you fall asleep. No sound, and nothing to watch. The screen exists only to prove it is working, and it fades away once you no longer need it. HOW A NIGHT GOES For the first 45 seconds nothing vibrates, while BeatSleep measures the rate you are actually resting at. Then the cadence anchors there and sheds four beats every ten minutes, staying just under your pulse: far enough to lead, close enough to be followed. If a noise wakes you, it stops pulling and re-anchors to your real heartbeat within a minute. Apple Watch gives an app only a handful of vibration patterns, and most carry a tone through the speaker. BeatSleep uses the one that does not, so the person beside you sleeps through your night. The night closes itself five minutes after your pulse has settled. A hard fifteen minutes, or the whole night, are yours to set instead. IN THE MORNING Health will tell you that you slept seven hours. BeatSleep will tell you that forty minutes of them were awake in eleven separate pieces, how long you took to fall asleep, and how far your pulse fell below your resting rate. It reads Apple Health, so there is something to show you on the very first morning. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget that leads with the figure you choose: how long the descent took, the nights in a row, the lowest rate you held, or how closely your pulse followed the vibration. And every night is in Spotlight, so you can ask for one in your own words and open it. The index is built on your device and stays there. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICES No account. No server. No analytics, no advertising identifiers and no third-party SDKs. Your heart rate is read from HealthKit on the watch, the summary is computed there overnight, and it travels to your iPhone over Apple's encrypted device link. If you turn on iCloud sync, your nights go to your own private iCloud, in encrypted fields, never to us. You can export everything as a file, or erase it for good, at any time. BEATSLEEP PRO Free leads three nights in any seven days, and they are whole nights: the same descent, the same failsafe, the same morning summary. Pro lifts the count to every night, and adds your full history, every month behind you, the Thrum and Hush waveforms, a breath with your own four counts, iCloud sync, and the rest of the colors. BeatSleep Pro is €3.99 a month or €24.99 a year, billed to your Apple Account and renewing until you cancel, which you can do at any time in Settings. Terms of Use: https://javi7899.github.io/beatsleep-web/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://javi7899.github.io/beatsleep-web/privacy.html Requires an Apple Watch. BeatSleep is not a medical device: it does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition.

Screenshots

StrideWise4 screens
BeatSleep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BeatSleep at 17.0 against StrideWise's 26. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. StrideWise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year and BeatSleep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrideWise ships an update every 5 days, BeatSleep every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
StrideWise versus BeatSleep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideWiseBeatSleep
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS2617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB16 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBjoern KapitzJavier Torres Rubio

In-app purchases

3 purchases

StrideWise

Subscriptions1
  • Buy me a Coffee regularly$8.991 Year
One-time2
  • Buy me a Coffee$2.99
  • Buy me a Coffee & Cake$11.99
2 purchases

BeatSleep

Subscriptions2
  • BeatSleep Pro$3.991 Month
  • BeatSleep Pro$22.991 Year

Questions

Is StrideWise free?
StrideWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeatSleep free?
BeatSleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StrideWise or BeatSleep have ads?
Neither StrideWise nor BeatSleep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StrideWise or BeatSleep?
StrideWise ships an update every 5 days, and BeatSleep every 3 days. Most recently, StrideWise was updated on November 4, 2026 and BeatSleep on November 10, 2026.

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