Comparison

Stress Tracker HRV vs LockIN

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

Head to head
About

Stress Tracker HRV

Monitor your body's stress levels, sleep quality, and recovery using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) data from your Apple Watch. Gain insights into your mental and physical well-being to make informed decisions about rest and activity.

Highlights
  • Real-time stress tracking via HRV
  • Daily and weekly stress trend analysis
  • Recovery Index for bounce-back assessment
  • Sleep score and optimization insights
  • On-device data privacy
Features
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Stress tracking with HRV, sleep insights & recovery in one simple app. Feel tired, anxious, or burned out without knowing why? This app gives you answers, not guesses. Stress Tracker uses Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to show your real stress level, sleep quality, and how well you’re recovering — all from your Apple Watch. Track your daily stress instantly. See how it changes across the day or week. Know when to rest, recover, or push forward with data-backed clarity. Features: • Real‑time stress tracking based on HRV • Daily & weekly stress trends • Recovery Index to see how you bounce back • Sleep score and insights to optimize rest • Fully private – nothing leaves your device Get clarity over your mental and physical health. Stop guessing. Start tracking.

About

LockIN

Features
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Premium unlocks two studio coach voices and the monthly health report. Everything needed to train — heart-rate coaching, plans, the field test, progress — is free. Heart rate requires an Apple Watch. On the Simulator or an iPhone without a paired watch, the run screen will wait for a heart-rate source. There is no account system, no sign-in, and no server. Nothing in the app is gated behind an identity, so no demo credentials are needed. HEALTHKIT HealthKit data is never uploaded to a server — LockIN has no backend and no network path for it. Heart rate, workouts, and routes are read from and written to HealthKit on the device; training data is stored locally in SwiftData. No HealthKit data is shared with third parties, sold, or used for advertising. The app's one third-party SDK is Sentry, for crash reporting, and it never receives HealthKit data: sendDefaultPii, attachScreenshot and attachViewHierarchy are disabled and tracing is zero, because a crash screenshot of the run screen would itself be heart-rate data. PERMISSIONS The Health and Apple Music screens explain why access is wanted and then always present the system permission sheet. Declining is available on Apple's own sheet; onboarding completes either way.

Screenshots

LockIN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LockIN at Free against Stress Tracker HRV's $7.99. Stress Tracker HRV's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On ads 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

LockIN is free to download; Stress Tracker HRV costs $7.99 up front. LockIN sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Stress Tracker HRV asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stress Tracker HRV versus LockIN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStress Tracker HRVLockIN
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlvaro Garcia PizarroRyan Bergeron

In-app purchases

None

Stress Tracker HRV

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

LockIN

Subscriptions2
  • LockIN Premium$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$99.99

Questions

Is Stress Tracker HRV free?
Stress Tracker HRV costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LockIN free?
LockIN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stress Tracker HRV or LockIN have ads?
Neither Stress Tracker HRV nor LockIN shows ads.

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