Comparison

FUNCAP vs Metered

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

Head to head
About

FUNCAP

This app helps individuals diagnosed with ME/CFS self-evaluate and record their functional capacity. It uses questionnaires to assess various domains and can generate PDF reports, optionally including heart and movement metrics. Data is integrated with HealthKit and is not transferred elsewhere.

Highlights
  • ME/CFS functional capacity assessment
  • FUNCAP55 and FUNCAP27 questionnaires
  • PDF report generation
  • Optional heart and movement metrics
  • HealthKit integration
  • Data privacy focused
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- For patients diagnosed with ME/CFS - Self-evaluate and record your FUNctional CAPacity - Assess your capacity using FUNCAP55 or FUNCAP27 by scoring questions across 8 domains, eg "being upright", "reactions to light and sound" - Create a PDF report that you can save or share - Optionally include recorded heart and movement metrics, averaged over the last month - The app does not transfer your data in any other way Integrated with HealthKit USE ONLY WITH THE ADVICE AND GUIDANCE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR RESEARCH TEAM. THE APP RECORDS THE USER'S OWN ASSESSMENT AND DOES NOT PROVIDE HEALTH GUIDANCE.

About

Metered

This app helps individuals with chronic illnesses manage their energy levels by planning activities, energy taxes, and rest. It provides insights into daily budgets, potential overspending, and recovery needs, with optional advanced features for deeper analysis and reporting.

Highlights
  • Spoon-style energy budgeting
  • Activity and energy tax tracking
  • Personalized activity library
  • Daily budget and risk guidance
  • Morning Signal with Apple Health integration
  • Apple Watch and widget support
  • Reports for appointments and events
Features
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Plan your spoons before the crash. Metered is a private energy planner for chronic illness, fatigue, pain, PEM, and limited capacity. Build today and tomorrow around a spoon budget, spot when a plan is too heavy, and learn what activities, energy taxes, and rest cost over time. Everyday planning is free. Metered+ is lifetime, one-time, and no subscription. No account, analytics, tracking, or servers. PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEND Other apps tell you what happened yesterday. Metered helps you decide what you can do today and tomorrow. Add activities, energy taxes, and rest or recovery entries. Describe your day in plain language, reuse yesterday, or save a good plan as a template for similar days. CALMER TODAY GUIDANCE Today keeps the important signals easy to scan: - remaining spoons and over-budget state - why your budget changed - PEM recovery and carry-over context - gentle risk guidance when a plan may be too much Optional check-ins let you record how you feel now without changing your activities. Structured saved check-ins contribute automatically to on-device patterns, while free-text notes are never analysed. MORNING SIGNAL Metered+ reads overnight heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate, and sleep from Apple Health. HRV and resting heart rate are compared with recent personal baseline data; sleep is compared with your sleep target. The result is shown as Strong, Steady, Caution, or Low. APPLE WATCH, WIDGETS AND QUICK NEEDS Check your budget, complete activities, send Quick Needs, and run short orthostatic checks from Apple Watch. Widgets keep remaining spoons visible without opening the app. Metered+ adds Live Activities for a persistent Lock Screen budget. BUILT FOR COMPLEX ENERGY Metered supports ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Long COVID, POTS, EDS, MS, lupus, chronic pain, PMDD, endometriosis, IBD, caregiver burnout, and more. Track physical, cognitive, social, sensory, masking, and recovery load so your plan reflects how energy really gets used. FREE ENERGY PLANNING Metered includes: - Unlimited activities and daily planning - Fixed daily budget and manual tracking - Day review, flare mode, and recovery days - Weekly overview and Daily Balance insight - Apple Watch, widgets, Siri Shortcuts, and Quick Needs - Apple Health integration - iCloud sync - Tended import - Searchable Help & Guide METERED+ Metered+ is a one-time lifetime purchase. No subscription. Unlock: - Personalised budget reasoning - Morning Signal and signal history - Learned and sensitivity-adjusted activity costs - Possible crash and PEM risk patterns - Energy debt and deeper trends - Premium budget insight displays - Weather, cycle, sleep, and recovery budget factors - Day templates and event planning - Activity sequencing suggestions - Live Activities - Doctor, OT, appointment, PEM, and event reports - CSV export PREPARE FOR APPOINTMENTS Metered+ reports can help explain your energy limits, pacing patterns, activity costs, recovery days, symptoms, crashes, PEM patterns, and event recovery for doctors, occupational therapists, carers, or support conversations. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. No tracking. Your data stays on your device and in your personal iCloud account. Metered reads Apple Health with your permission and does not write health data back. Analyses run on device using your plans, outcomes, and optional health data. Rest is allowed to count. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Spoon theory credit: Christine Miserandino (2003). Informed by ME Association, Bateman Horne Center, and Workwell Foundation. Metered is a personal energy planning journal, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent, or clinically predict any condition. It shows self-reported plans, Apple Health context, and possible patterns based on your own data. Always speak to a qualified healthcare professional about medical decisions. Terms: https://www.cocoacorn.com/metered/terms Privacy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/metered/privacy

Screenshots

FUNCAP4 screens
Metered4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FUNCAP at none against Metered's 1. Metered's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Metered sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FUNCAP asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FUNCAP holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FUNCAP ships an update every 4 months, Metered weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FUNCAP versus Metered: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFUNCAPMetered
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB43 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDavid Davies-PayneGeoff Davis

Customer experience

FUNCAP

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Metered

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FUNCAP

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Metered

One-time1
  • Metered+$29.99

Questions

Is FUNCAP free?
FUNCAP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Metered free?
Metered is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FUNCAP or Metered?
FUNCAP is rated higher. FUNCAP averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Metered averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do FUNCAP or Metered have ads?
Neither FUNCAP nor Metered shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FUNCAP or Metered?
FUNCAP ships an update every 4 months, and Metered weekly. Most recently, FUNCAP was updated on October 24, 2026 and Metered on October 25, 2026.

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