Comparison

Sleep Island vs Intervo

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Island

This app monitors your sleep patterns without requiring a wearable device. It offers a variety of soothing sounds, music, and podcasts to help you fall asleep, and provides detailed sleep reports upon waking. Premium features unlock full playback and advanced sound options.

Highlights
  • Wearable-free sleep monitoring
  • Customizable bedtime ambience
  • Smart sleep stage detection
  • Detailed morning sleep reports
  • Extensive sound library
  • Podcast integration
  • Immersive visual scenes
Features
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Open Sleep Island once at night. Wake up to your sleep report. White noise, nature sounds, music, or podcasts fade out and stop when sleep is detected. Set custom timers, loop, download for offline listening, or play in the background. ◎ YOUR BEDTIME AMBIENCE Settle in with rain, wind, or crickets. Adjust multiple ambience sounds alongside podcasts or soundscapes, with separate volumes for ambience sounds and listening content. Immersive bedtime scenes unite sound and visuals. Appearance can follow the ambience or system, or stay fixed in light or dark mode. ◎ SMART SLEEP MONITORING • Auto-start: Open once during your nighttime window to begin monitoring automatically • Wearable-free: Keep iPhone nearby and sleep as usual; Apple Watch is optional • Sleep estimates: Sleep onset, final wake-up, nighttime awakenings, returning to sleep in the morning, and naps • Morning report: Duration, estimated stages, awakenings, sleep score, and multi-night trends • Energy: Night Sounds records with less energy. With it off, tracking needs no all-night app activity; when the app is not running, it does no continuous overnight work With Health permission, sync Apple Watch sleep records. With the Watch app connected to iPhone, view last night's summary, start/stop monitoring, play/pause, or skip back/forward. iPhone tracks sleep independently. ◎ NIGHT SOUNDS—MORE THAN SNORING Detected clips can include: • Snoring, heavy breathing, coughing, sleep talking, and possible teeth grinding • Baby cries, babbling, and other vocal sounds • A partner's voice and sounds from the room • Full recorded clips and playback history; 15 seconds limits only some free previews, not recording length • “Not Me” for sounds from someone else • Play, pause, resume, favorite, batch delete, or mark multiple clips “Not Me” Full playback beyond free previews and Favorites require Premium. Baby and other Night Sounds are for review and memories, not medical use or baby safety monitoring. ◎ A CLEAR BEDTIME SCREEN The sleep card and playback controls stay separate. Start or check monitoring at a glance, access sounds, music, and podcasts, and control playback. ◎ SOUNDS, AUDIO & VIDEO • Six colors of noise: White, pink, brown, blue, green, and purple • Nature: Rain, ocean waves, streams, forest, crickets, campfire, fireplace, wind, and hundreds more • Music: Piano, ambient, classical, Lo-fi, meditation, binaural beats, 432Hz, 528Hz, and more • ASMR: Tapping, page turning, makeup sounds, and other gentle triggers • Audio: Bedtime stories, audiobooks, and English learning • Immersive video: Forests, rain, valleys, streams, blizzards, and dreamscapes with panoramic panning • Sound mixing: Blend your own soundscape ◎ BEDTIME PODCASTS • Search Apple Podcasts and add RSS feeds • Curated bedtime stories, meditation, white noise, ASMR, English listening, talk shows, and regional charts • Resume automatically from where you stopped • Smart sorting for series and standalone episodes ◎ AMBIENT SCENES, RELAXATION & FOCUS • Open the app to an atmosphere of sound and visuals • Switch among cicada summer nights, rain by the window, morning birdsong, and more; set a custom duration • Unwind with box breathing or 4-7-8 breathing • Use Focus mode for work, study, and reading ◎ AI SLEEP ANALYSIS AI sleep analysis compares multiple nights with your personal baseline, using scores, estimated stages, awakenings, and Night Sounds summaries for personalized analysis and suggestions. View weekly and monthly trends. ◎ MENTAL WELLNESS CHECKS PHQ-9, DBAS-16, and other established questionnaires support self-reflection; they do not replace professional diagnosis. ◎ MUSIC ALARM (iOS 26+) Wake to music that gently fades in. Set multiple alarms, smart public-holiday or alternating-week schedules, and labels for wake-up, naps, medication, going out, pickups, workouts, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Intervo

Features
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Generate an ascending, descending or pyramid interval workout with optional rest, preparation and cooldown, then save the full timeline as an editable workout. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Session Ladder from Home. Choose a shape, number of levels, first work interval and per-level increment. 2. Add optional rest and bookends. Review the complete timeline and total duration before saving. 3. Save as an editable workout, review the plan and use the existing workout runner when ready. Existing workout editing, interval running, history and settings remain available. Generated intervals are stored together in a single transaction, preserving their order and exact durations. WHAT TO KNOW Up to 12 levels and two hours total. A pyramid includes its peak once. Zero-length optional stages are omitted. Rest after the final work stage is optional. The generated workout is a timer plan, not a prescribed exercise program. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Sleep Island4 screens
Intervo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sleep Island at Free against Intervo's $0.99. Sleep Island also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Intervo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Sleep Island is free to download; Intervo costs $0.99 up front. Sleep Island sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intervo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleep Island ships an update every 3 days, Intervo weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Sleep Island versus Intervo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep IslandIntervo
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank—#195 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerchaohua gaoRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sleep Island

Subscriptions2
  • Sleep Island Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Sleep Island Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$29.99
None

Intervo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleep Island free?
Sleep Island is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intervo free?
Intervo costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleep Island or Intervo have ads?
Neither Sleep Island nor Intervo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sleep Island or Intervo?
Sleep Island ships an update every 3 days, and Intervo weekly. Most recently, Sleep Island was updated on November 8, 2026 and Intervo on November 5, 2026.

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