Comparison

What Sticks vs BeatZone

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

Head to head
About

What Sticks

This app helps you understand how sleep, exercise, and walking habits are related. It analyzes data from your devices to reveal personal correlations and provide insights into your wellness.

Highlights
  • Create relationship tables
  • Analyze sleep, exercise, and walking data
  • Uncover wellness factors
  • Evidence-based self-understanding
  • View data on iPhone tables
  • Access algorithms on GitHub
Features
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1) What does it do? Create tables that display relationships between sleep, exercise and walking. What Sticks employs a straightforward approach to uncover the factors that influence your wellness. We believe in a holistic approach to health and wellness and to accomplish this we should access all available levers available to us – including our data. 2) Why? Purpose: What Sticks is designed for users who seek to understand themselves better using an evidence-based approach. We help answer personal questions such as: "Do I really sleep better when I exercise to the point of exhaustion?" "How does cloudiness affect my walking habits?" "Does weather influence my exercise routines?" 3) How? Methodology: We harness the power of vast amounts of data already being collected from your devices. What Sticks provides simple, yet insightful statistical analyses, displaying correlations in user-friendly tables. Our approach is straightforward and unapologetically blunt in order to provide directionally correct and transparent answers now. We are constantly updating the website and users can view the data collected and restructured to produce the correlations that are displayed on their iPhone tables at https://what-sticks.com/user_home after logging in. For more in depth details into how calculations are made visit our GitHub page with the algorithms used to make the calculations: https://github.com/costa-rica/WhatSticks13DataTools. 4) Our Mission Mission Statement: Our mission at What Sticks is to pioneer a shift toward personalized, holistic healthcare. We believe in harnessing precise data collection and analysis as a cornerstone for advancing Precision Medicine, ultimately enhancing individual health outcomes across the globe.

About

BeatZone

Features
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BeatZone connects to any Bluetooth heart rate monitor — including WHOOP, Polar, Garmin, and more — and gives you real-time alerts when your heart rate leaves your target zone. Set your low and high thresholds, and BeatZone does the rest. A pulsing heart animation shows your live BPM, color-coded by zone. When your heart rate drifts below or above your targets, you get an instant audio alert. If you stay out of zone, recurring alerts fire at an interval you choose so you never miss it. Key features: • Connects to any standard Bluetooth Low Energy heart rate monitor • Live heart rate display with animated heartbeat • Configurable low and high HR thresholds • Instant alert when HR leaves your target zone • Recurring alerts at a customizable interval while out of zone • Choose from 5 alert sounds or go silent • Optional iOS notification banners • Works in the background via BLE and local notifications and/or alert sounds • Dark UI designed for mid-workout glanceability • All data stays on your device — no account, no cloud Whether you're doing zone 2 cardio, staying in a fat-burning range, or keeping intensity below a ceiling, BeatZone keeps you honest without having to stare at your watch. Medical disclaimer: BeatZone is a fitness tool only and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek your doctor’s or other qualified healthcare provider’s guidance before making any medical decisions about your health, heart, or exercise.

Screenshots

What Sticks4 screens
BeatZone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BeatZone at 15.1 against What Sticks's 17.0. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
What Sticks versus BeatZone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat SticksBeatZone
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNick RodriguezMichael Varilek

In-app purchases

None

What Sticks

No in-app purchases

None

BeatZone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What Sticks free?
What Sticks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BeatZone free?
BeatZone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do What Sticks or BeatZone have ads?
Neither What Sticks nor BeatZone shows ads.

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