Comparison

HRV vs 150 Min

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

Head to head
About

HRV

This app analyzes heart rate variability from Apple Health and Apple Watch to provide actionable insights into your daily stress, energy levels, sleep quality, and recovery. It uses scientific visualizations and dual HRV metrics to help you understand your autonomic nervous system activity.

Highlights
  • Dual HRV metrics (SDNN + RMSSD)
  • All-day stress curve
  • Energy (Body Resources) reserve tracking
  • Nightly Sleep Score
  • Personalized Recovery score
  • Interactive trend charts
  • Apple Watch complications
Features
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HRV Tracker — private, on-device insights from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Turn heart-rate variability, heart rate, sleep and activity data from Apple Health into clear views of stress, recovery and energy. Track both SDNN and RMSSD, calculated from available beat-to-beat intervals. iPHONE APP • Home dashboard for HRV, Recovery, Sleep Score, Stress, Energy, Activity, heart rate and weight • Today view comparing your day so far with your usual pattern at the same hour • Detailed HRV, Sleep, Activity, Strain and Weight views • Behaviour logging for habits such as alcohol and caffeine • Daily and weekly coaching • Interactive daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts PERSONAL INSIGHTS Explore which parts of your routine are associated with changes in HRV, sleep, stress and other measurements. • Influences screened against chance • Stronger findings separated from preliminary and descriptive patterns • Combined effects for pairs of behaviours • “Moving Together” comparisons between health metrics • U-shaped relationships • “Compare Everything” matrix and influence explorer • Personal experiments in Labs Insights describe associations; they do not prove cause and effect. TODAY & COACH Compare today’s readings with similar hours from your history. Coaching can consider sleep, recovery, stress, energy, activity and events such as workouts, late coffee or mindfulness. A separate note summarizes the previous seven days. AI-written coaching requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone running iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence enabled and available for your device language. Other devices retain their scores, insights and standard app-written coaching summaries. Coaching is generated locally; health information is not sent to an external AI service. KEY SCORES Stress — A continuous 0–100 physiological-load score. When both signals are available, it combines 40% HRV with 60% heart rate. It continues with heart rate alone when no nearby RMSSD exists. The curve shades sleep, excludes workouts and identifies missing watch periods. Stress reflects physiological activation, not emotional stress. Energy — An all-day 0–100 estimate of how much you have “in the tank.” It recharges during sleep, taking Sleep Score and sleep stages into account, and responds to calm, stress and physical effort. Compare it with your usual reserve at the same time. Sleep Score — A nightly 0–100 score blending duration (35%), continuity (25%) and restfulness (40%). Restfulness considers overnight HRV, heart rate and physiological load. Scores personalize as your history grows. Recovery — Compares RMSSD with your history at a similar time of day. iPhone uses up to 30 previous days without including a reading in its own reference. Apple Watch uses a shorter local history, so its quick score may differ. Activity — Combines movement with sustained effort. Workout load uses heart rate when enough readings are available; otherwise it is estimated from workout type and duration, so yoga is not treated like intense cardio. The Activity page shows what contributed to the score. APPLE WATCH • Native Recovery and Stress views • SDNN and RMSSD at a glance • Stress and HRV charts • Complications and widgets • RMSSD from available heartbeat series • Support for dense chest-strap readings • Cached baseline for faster opening DATA & PRIVACY HRV Tracker analyzes Apple Health data on your devices. Your health history is not uploaded to an HRV Tracker server. AFib History on a compatible Apple Watch greatly increases beat-to-beat sampling and is strongly recommended for complete RMSSD, Stress, Energy and Recovery views. With infrequent measurements, some curves and insights may remain incomplete. HRV Tracker is intended for personal information and wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition.

About

150 Min

This app automatically tracks your weekly exercise minutes using Apple Watch data. It analyzes heart rate to classify activity levels and estimates fitness metrics without manual logging or user accounts.

Highlights
  • Automatic exercise minute tracking
  • Heart rate-based activity classification
  • Sleep duration and regularity tracking
  • VO2max estimation
  • Daily heart rate timeline view
  • Data privacy focused
Features
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150 Min tells you if you're getting enough exercise using data your Apple Watch already collects. No workouts to log. No buttons to press. No streaks. Research shows 150 minutes of vigorous activity per week reduces all-cause mortality by 20%. 150 Min tracks your progress toward that target automatically, using heart rate data from HealthKit. What it does: - Classifies every minute as rest, moderate, or vigorous based on your personal heart rate range - Learns your sleeping heart rate and max heart rate over time — no setup required - Shows weekly effective minutes with a daily breakdown - Tracks sleep duration, regularity, and stage composition - Estimates VO2max from your heart rate range with age-group percentiles - Lets you drill into any day to see your heart rate timeline and activity bouts What it doesn't do: - Collect or send your data anywhere - Require an account - Gamify your health with streaks or badges - Tell you what to do Your data stays on your device. There are no analytics, no cloud sync, and no ads.

Screenshots

HRV4 screens
150 Min3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 150 Min at none against HRV's 8. 150 Min also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). HRV's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. HRV sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. 150 Min asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

150 Min holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HRV ships an update every 6 weeks, 150 Min every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HRV versus 150 Min: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHRV150 Min
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilippe GerinDavid Powers

Customer experience

HRV

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

150 Min

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

HRV

One-time5
  • Bronze Supporter$1.99
  • Bronze Supporter Tier$1.99
  • Silver Supporter2 variants$4.99
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  • Gold Supporter2 variants$11.99
  • Platinum Supporter2 variants$44.99
None

150 Min

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HRV free?
HRV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 150 Min free?
150 Min is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HRV or 150 Min?
150 Min is rated higher. HRV averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while 150 Min averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HRV or 150 Min have ads?
Neither HRV nor 150 Min shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HRV or 150 Min?
HRV ships an update every 6 weeks, and 150 Min every 5 days. Most recently, HRV was updated on October 9, 2026 and 150 Min on October 14, 2026.

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