Comparison

NeuroRest vs Driftless Vitals

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

Head to head
About

NeuroRest

Gain deep insights into your body's sleep, recovery, and readiness using your Apple Watch data. Understand how daily habits and stress impact your performance with personalized scores and detailed analysis, all while prioritizing your privacy.

Highlights
  • Personalized readiness score
  • Detailed sleep stage analysis
  • Illness detection alerts
  • 28-day recovery capacity tracking
  • Habit impact correlation
  • Fitness metrics (VO2 Max, heart rate zones)
  • Nervous system resilience score
Features
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Know how you slept and how recovered you are, measured against your own normal, and finally see what your habits do to it. NeuroRest turns the nights your Apple Watch records into a morning Readiness score, a Sleep score and a few plain words about how your body is doing. Tag your evening (a drink, a late dinner, a hard workout, a stressful day) and it shows what each one does to your next morning. WHAT YOUR HABITS DO Plenty of apps let you tag a night. NeuroRest tells you whether the tag mattered, and how sure it is. - Each habit is ranked by what it does to your next-morning Readiness, HRV and heart rate, with a confidence level it has to earn: enough nights with it and without, tested so a lucky streak can't pass. - A day you didn't log is unknown, not a clean night. A week you forgot to tag never counts as a week without wine. - Clean days leaves out alcohol and illness evenings, so they don't drown out everything else. TAGGING THAT FITS A REAL EVENING Quick-add timed to now, or leave it untimed; a 1 AM snack counts toward the evening before. Make your own tags, tag ahead for a trip, and see your tags on your HRV and across your day. DESIGNED FOR SERIES 12 AND ULTRA 4, BUT WORKS WITH ANY APPLE WATCH Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 measure heart rate variability all night. NeuroRest is built around that: an overnight HRV curve, night-to-night HRV you can trust, and the full recovery picture. Older watches take a few HRV readings a night. Readiness, sleep, heart rate, Overnight Vitals and Daytime Balance all still work; a handful of HRV views need the newer watch, and the app tells you which. READINESS Each morning, from your sleeping heart rate, your lowest heart rate and your overnight HRV, each against your last 60 nights. Choose what drives it: Balanced, HRV-led or Heart-rate-led. BATTERY AND STRAIN A battery for your day at the top of Today. Your Readiness and last night's sleep set where it starts; every hour awake, your workouts and everyday activity drain it, and calm time slows the drain. Tap it to see what moved it, hour by hour. Strain shows everything that raised your heart rate, against your usual day and your usual week. SLEEP How long and how soundly you slept, against your own nights, not a population average. Deep, REM and light sleep, time awake and wake-ups, and your heart rate and HRV through the night. Sleep History compares time asleep, deep and REM, HRV and heart rate week over week, month over month or year over year, and scrolls back through every night you've recorded. OVERNIGHT VITALS Sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, breathing rate and breathing disturbances, each against your own range. When several are off at once the night reads Strained, and NeuroRest lets you know. RECOVERY TREND One line, one word: Run down, Fair, Solid, Strong or Prime. Your last three weeks of HRV and lowest heart rate against your own past year, so real progress stays visible for months. Swipe back through it, and see where you were three months ago. DAYTIME BALANCE Stress, restorative and active minutes across your day, from your watch's heart rate and motion. MINDFUL SESSIONS A breathing pacer, with your heart rate and HRV during the session and how they compare with before. REPORTS A monthly report, a weekly summary, a PDF to share with your clinician, and a full export of your data. BEDTIME A wind-down reminder built from the time you actually go to bed. FREE, PRIVATE, NO ACCOUNT No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Your health data stays on your iPhone. If you choose, your tags are backed up to your own private iCloud, which only you can see. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone and an Apple Watch worn to bed, with Sleep tracking turned on in the Health app. Scores start after 14 nights and settle by 30; NeuroRest can use the nights your watch has already recorded. NeuroRest is for general wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition.

About

Driftless Vitals

Features
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Driftless is a calm, private health co-pilot for busy people. It reads Apple Health, quietly learns your personal baseline, and speaks up only when something meaningfully drifts — one gentle, plain-language signal instead of another dashboard to manage. No charts to check every morning. No streaks, no scores, no pressure. Just an occasional heads-up when your body's numbers move away from what's normal for you — and silence when all is well. COMPLETELY FREE • No purchases, no subscriptions, no ads. • Every feature is unlocked for everyone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no login, no sign-up. • No data collection of any kind — not even anonymous usage statistics. • No analytics, no trackers, no third-party SDKs. • No backend and no automatic cloud upload: processing is on-device. Health data only leaves your iPhone if you explicitly export, share, or back up. CALM, NOT ALARMIST • At most one quiet signal a day, rate-limited and debounced so you're never flooded. • Quiet hours and an adjustable frequency cap. • Warm, plain-language wording — never a red-alert dashboard. WHAT IT WATCHES Resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, and daily activity. Driftless builds a robust personal range for each and tells you, in one sentence, when today drifts from it — plus one small suggested action. NOT A DIAGNOSIS Driftless is not a medical device. It never names a disease, never diagnoses, and never gives medical or medication advice. Every message is informational and carries a "not a diagnosis" framing. If you're concerned about your health, talk to a clinician. WORKS WITH YOUR DEVICES • Apple Watch optional — metrics like HRV, respiratory rate, and wrist temperature light up if you wear one, and the app gracefully does without if you don't. • Apple Watch app and complications for a glance at your day. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • Full support for 16 languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Czech, Turkish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. Driftless does one thing: it watches quietly, so you don't have to.

Screenshots

NeuroRest4 screens
Driftless Vitals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NeuroRest at weekly against Driftless Vitals's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NeuroRest ships an update weekly, Driftless Vitals every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
NeuroRest versus Driftless Vitals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeuroRestDriftless Vitals
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB24 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLegit Ledger, LLCAndrey Sapunov

In-app purchases

None

NeuroRest

No in-app purchases

None

Driftless Vitals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NeuroRest free?
NeuroRest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Driftless Vitals free?
Driftless Vitals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NeuroRest or Driftless Vitals have ads?
Neither NeuroRest nor Driftless Vitals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NeuroRest or Driftless Vitals?
NeuroRest ships an update weekly, and Driftless Vitals every 6 weeks. Most recently, NeuroRest was updated on October 28, 2026 and Driftless Vitals on November 1, 2026.

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