Comparison

Pangenea vs Hold Until Sunrise

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

Head to head
About

Pangenea

This app combines real-time biometric data from a smart ring with your genetic information to provide personalized wellness insights. Understand how your body responds to sleep, activity, and daily habits based on your unique genetic blueprint.

Highlights
  • 24/7 biometric tracking (sleep, heart rate, SpO2)
  • DNA-aware intelligence for personalized insights
  • Advanced sleep and recovery analysis
  • Stress and energy pattern identification
  • Nutrition and metabolism insights from genetics
  • AI assistant for wellness questions
  • Long-term trend analysis
Features
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Pangenea is a wellness app paired with the Pangenea Smart Ring that helps you understand your daily patterns around sleep, activity, recovery, stress, and energy. Users can view trends like sleep stages, heart rate, movement intensity, and readiness and explore easy-to-understand insights for a better understanding of their bodies. The app provides a cleanly designed dashboard, so you can see your wellness trends and patterns all in one place, Pangenea and the Pangenea Smart Ring are consumer wellness products and are not medical devices. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. All data and suggestions provided by Pangenea are for general wellness and informational purposes only. They should not be taken as medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional before making any medical decisions.

About

Hold Until Sunrise

This app offers a calming ritual to recenter yourself. Hold your finger on the screen to watch the night transform into dawn, guiding your breath. Receive gentle affirmations and reflective questions to carry into your day.

Highlights
  • Hold-until-sunrise ritual
  • Breathing sun animation
  • Hundreds of affirmations
  • Gentle reminders
  • Quiet record of moments
  • Set intentions
Features
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Hold Until Sunrise is a quiet ritual for recentering yourself — any time of day. When you need a pause, open the app and hold your finger on the screen. As you hold, night softens into dawn, a warm tone blooms, and the sun rises and grows. Breathe slowly with it. At sunrise, a few gentle words meet you — one of hundreds, never the same twice in a row — and a small question to carry into your day. That's the whole thing. No feeds to scroll. No streaks to protect. No hustle. Just a moment of stillness, whenever you reach for it. - A hold-until-sunrise ritual — an embodied pause you feel, not just read - A breathing sun that rises as you hold, to pace your breath - Hundreds of calm, first-person affirmations and reflections - Gentle reminders at times you choose — with a sound you can turn off - A quiet record of the moments you've returned to yourself - Set an intention and let it greet you each time you open - Calm, ad-free, and honestly made — no nagging, no dark patterns Hold Until Sunrise isn't an alarm and won't wake you from sleep — it's what you reach for once you're up, or any moment you need to come back to yourself.

Screenshots

Pangenea3 screens
Hold Until Sunrise3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hold Until Sunrise at 100% against Pangenea's 15%. Hold Until Sunrise also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hold Until Sunrise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Pangenea's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hold Until Sunrise's.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pangenea versus Hold Until Sunrise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPangeneaHold Until Sunrise
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCRI Genetics LLCPaolo Peralta

Customer experience

Pangenea

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative76.9%

Hold Until Sunrise

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pangenea

No in-app purchases

None

Hold Until Sunrise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pangenea free?
Pangenea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hold Until Sunrise free?
Hold Until Sunrise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pangenea or Hold Until Sunrise?
Hold Until Sunrise is rated higher. Pangenea averages 3.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Hold Until Sunrise averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Pangenea or Hold Until Sunrise have ads?
Neither Pangenea nor Hold Until Sunrise shows ads.

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