Comparison

HeadSleep vs Stress HRV

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

Head to head
About

HeadSleep

Features
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HeadSleep(情绪急救箱) ——是一款以科学减压 + 高质量睡眠,帮你放下焦虑,安心入睡的应用。我们将「内容 + 训练 + 健康数据 +Apple Watch 微交互」整合为一体化方案:白天用 3~10 分钟快速降压,夜晚更快入睡,配合 HRV/心率与睡眠数据给出个性化建议,帮助你看见日/周/月的持续改善。 主要特色 • 科学减压训练:方块呼吸、4-7-8、节律呼吸等练习,声音引导 + 触觉节拍,3/5/10 分钟随时可练,适合通勤、会议前后等紧张场景。 • 高质量助眠内容:助眠故事、音乐、白噪音、ASMR(含自然/城市/器乐/粉噪/棕噪等),支持睡眠定时、淡入淡出、全离线缓存音乐,减少中断与惊醒。 • 数据驱动的洞察:在你授权前提下结合 HRV(SDNN)、心率、呼吸频率与前晚睡眠,生成压力指数与睡眠评分,并提供清晰解释与建议(何时训练、何时放松、何时就寝)。 • 番茄专注与环境声:25/50 分钟专注计时,配环境声与完成反馈,帮助稳步提升专注力和耐受度。 • 认知与记录:失眠日记(含 CBT-I 元素)与情绪日记,配压力自测(如 PSS-10),更系统地识别触发因素与有效应对策略。 iPhone 与 Apple Watch 协同 • Apple Watch 一键开启 3/5/10 分钟呼吸训练,Taptic Engine 触觉引导,闭眼可用。 • 基于 HRV/心率查看当日压力指数,出现高压时智能提醒进行短练习。 • 晚间“睡前例行程序”提醒,帮助建立稳定的入睡节律。 小组件(iOS 16+) • 小组件支持一键开始呼吸、展示今日压力指数与久坐情况。 它如何工作 • 记录与分析:在你授权前提下读取心率、HRV、睡眠等数据,建立你的个人基线。 • 动态建议:当 HRV 低于基线、心率偏高或睡眠欠佳时,给出针对性的训练与作息建议。 • 正向循环:短时练习—状态回落—夜间睡眠改善—次日活力提升,形成可持续闭环。 (无 Apple Watch 亦可正常使用助眠与冥想等核心功能;搭配手表可获得更完整的数据洞察与提醒体验。) 适合人群 • 入睡困难、夜间易醒、睡后不解乏的人。 • 工作/学习压力大,经常紧张或反刍思维多的人。 • 需要在白天用 3~10 分钟微训练快速调节状态的人。 • 希望通过 HRV/心率/睡眠等指标更好认识自己、循证改善的人。 隐私合规与免责声明 • 健康数据隐私优先:仅在本地加密存储和iCould云备份,不用于广告,不出售数据。 • 你可随时在设置中管理授权范围;我们仅在获得你许可后读取必要数据。 • 本应用为身心健康与自助工具,并非医疗诊断或治疗。助眠减压伴侣提供的所有信息不可以被视作医疗建议或诊断,请勿替代专业的诊断和治疗。如果感觉压力过大无法调节或者长期失眠无法解决,以及做出任何医疗决定之前,请及时寻求专业医生帮助。 价格与订阅 • 助眠减压伴侣可以免费下载,基础功能免费:压力监测、睡眠监测、基础压力与睡眠概览等。若选择升级到付费版本,有付费功能。 • 我们提供一次性购买、按季度和按年三种不同的购买选项。订阅VIP可获得:完整助眠音频内容库、呼吸训练、减压操、多设备同步与离线缓存等。 • 试用:7 天全功能试用,首月优惠(如有活动以 App 内显示为准)。 • 可随时取消订阅。价格可能因地区而异。若需退订,请在当前订阅期结束前至少24小时内,手动在 iTunes / Apple ID 设置管理中申请退订功能。 我们的承诺 • 以科学为底:参考 HRV/心率/睡眠等客观指标与合理算法,避免夸大与噱头。 • 以体验为先:夜间护眼模式、语音引导、自定义白噪音、无障碍与动态字体支持。 • 以长期主义为目标:帮助你形成稳定、可复用的自我调节能力,从今天开始更好地睡与更从容地活。

About

Stress HRV

Understand your body's stress levels by tracking HRV, RHR, sleep, and activity against your personal baseline. Receive daily guidance on whether to push harder or rest, and access guided breathing exercises to manage stress.

Highlights
  • Personalized HRV and RHR baseline tracking
  • Daily stress level assessment
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Sleep analysis and score
  • Mood and water logging
  • Activity and daylight tracking
  • Apple Watch complications and standalone use
Features
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Understand your body's stress — instead of waiting until it gives out. Stress is a stress monitor for Apple Watch and iPhone. It reads your HRV (heart rate variability), RHR (resting heart rate), sleep and activity, compares them with your own baseline and answers one question daily: keep pushing, or ease off? ◎ Stress read against your own baseline - Four plain levels: Fully Charged · Doing Fine · A Bit Tired · Feeling Rough - No generic "normal range": the app learns your own HRV and resting heart rate, day and night apart - Under 7 days it says the baseline is only indicative; from 28 days it's stable - Every number comes with a one-line takeaway ◎ Stress rising? Ease it on the spot - Six rhythms: Relaxing 4-4, Balanced 5-5, Wave 4-4-6-2, Deep 4-7-8, Focus 4-4-4-4, Snore Relief 5-6 — 1, 3 or 5 minutes, matched to your stress right now - Note your mood after; the time counts as Mindful Minutes in the Health app ◎ Your night on one page - Sleep score, stage timeline, naps counted separately - Overnight HRV, resting heart rate and wrist temperature - Compared with your usual bedtime, so you spot when the routine slipped - If your body worked harder overnight, a gentle morning note — a nudge to rest, never a diagnosis ◎ Mood, water and daylight — no extra apps - Mood check-ins built on State of Mind in the Health app, plus your mood pattern on higher-stress days - One-tap water logging into the Health app, with daily goal and weekly trend - Steps, active energy, workout routes with heart rate zones, time in daylight ◎ Trends that read like a weekly report - Week, month and year: your stress patterns in plain words, your best days, and when stress quietly climbs - HRV, resting heart rate, sleep, activity, water, daylight and breathing side by side ◎ Works on its own on Apple Watch - Complications: stress, HRV, heart rate, steps, water, active energy - Browse stress and trends on your wrist, and log water there - If a fresh HRV reading points to higher stress, your watch tells you ◎ Useful without opening the app - Siri and Shortcuts: check stress, log water, start breathing, log mood - Control Center: start breathing or log water in one tap - Widgets on Home and Lock Screen: stress, HRV, heart rate, steps, water, energy, breathing - Fits iPhone Duo, iPad split view and wide windows; 11 interface languages ◎ What we believe Life is full of numbers already; one more opaque stress number doesn't make anyone feel lighter. So every metric comes with a takeaway: read "A Bit Tired" and you know what's next — an hour more sleep, three deep breaths before the meeting, a walk instead of the hard weekend session. No alarms, no lectures. ◎ Your data is yours - Health data is read and processed on your device only, never uploaded, no account needed - We read only the data types you allow; theme, language and goals sync via your own iCloud ◎ Free and Pro - Free: stress status, current-period trends, sleep analysis, mood, water, widgets and complications, relaxing, balanced and wave breathing - Pro: live stress monitoring, month/year and past-period trends, deep, focus and snore-relief breathing, full workout records - New installs get 24 hours fully unlocked, no payment first ◎ Health disclaimer Stress gives no medical advice or diagnosis and is no substitute for professional care. If stress stays hard to manage, or a medical decision is involved, please see a doctor. ◎ Subscription Stress is free to download; Pro unlocks all paid features as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Your Apple Account is charged within 24 hours before the period ends and renews for one more period. To cancel, turn off auto-renewal in Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. Privacy Policy: https://www.luckydance.top/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.luckydance.top/terms

Screenshots

HeadSleep4 screens
Stress HRV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: HeadSleep at 16.6 against Stress HRV's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. HeadSleep sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Stress HRV sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HeadSleep ships an update every 9 days, Stress HRV fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HeadSleep versus Stress HRV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeadSleepStress HRV
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size382 MB44 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer业书 曹Sleep Pilot Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

HeadSleep

One-time3
  • 助眠解压季度VIP$2.99
  • 助眠解压年VIP$9.99
  • 助眠解压终身VIP$14.99
3 purchases

Stress HRV

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is HeadSleep free?
HeadSleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stress HRV free?
Stress HRV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HeadSleep or Stress HRV have ads?
Neither HeadSleep nor Stress HRV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HeadSleep or Stress HRV?
HeadSleep ships an update every 9 days, and Stress HRV fortnightly. Most recently, HeadSleep was updated on October 11, 2026 and Stress HRV on October 31, 2026.

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