Comparison

ActiveTime Buddy vs Ayro

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

Head to head
About

ActiveTime Buddy

This app helps children develop healthier screen time habits by prompting regular breaks. It offers a variety of activity suggestions to encourage movement, creativity, and tidiness during downtime.

Highlights
  • Smart screen break reminders
  • Idea generator for off-screen activities
  • Activity categories: Move, Help, Create, Learn, Tidy, Reset
  • Promotes positive habit building
  • Designed for families
Features
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ActiveTime Buddy helps parents support better screen break habits for their kids who can easily lose track of time on their devices. The app uses notifications and an idea generator to encourage regular breaks that help pause, reset, and refocus. When it’s time for a break, the built-in Idea Generator offers hundreds of suggestions across several categories: • Move – quick ways to get moving • Help – simple ways to help around the house • Create – creative and imaginative prompts • Learn – curiosity-boosting mini activities • Tidy – small, manageable cleanup wins • Reset – calm moments to recharge and refocus Designed with families in mind, ActiveTime Buddy promotes balance by encouraging off screen activities and building positive habits.

About

Ayro

This app offers a structured training system for breathwork, focusing on measurable improvements in endurance, recovery, and mental focus. It provides personalized training blocks based on your baseline performance and offers quick tools for specific moments like pre-workout or stress relief.

Highlights
  • Measurable baseline assessment (BOLT)
  • Personalized training blocks
  • Performance improvement tracking
  • Quick tools for specific moments
  • Immersive visual and haptic guidance
  • Integration with Apple Health
Features
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AYRO: TRAIN YOUR BREATHING. INCREASE YOUR PERFORMANCE. Most breathwork apps give you a library. Ayro gives you a training system: a measurable baseline, a structured block built around your goals, and a retest that shows exactly what changed. Your breathing efficiency is measurable. It's trainable. And a consistent practice reshapes how you perform under pressure, recover from effort, focus through noise, and hold steady under stress. WHAT IMPROVES - Endurance. Be steadier when it's hard. Build tolerance for breathlessness so intense moments feel manageable instead of overwhelming. - Recovery. Become stronger and faster-recovering. Train techniques that support endurance and bring you down faster after effort. - Mind. Stay sharper and more focused. Develop sustained attention that holds through deep work, long days, and high pressure. START WITH YOUR BASELINE The BOLT (Body Oxygen Level Test) is a quick breath-hold measurement that gives Ayro an objective starting point: measured in seconds, not a vibe check. Your score maps to one of six training levels. Most untrained people score 10 to 20 seconds. Elite endurance athletes often exceed 40. YOUR TRAINING BLOCK Instead of scrolling a library wondering what to do next, Ayro builds a structured training plan: matched to your BOLT level and weighted by the outcomes you're actually training for. Complete your block. Retest your BOLT. Your next block meets you at your new level. QUICK TOOLS FOR SPECIFIC MOMENTS - Pre-Workout Activation: prime your system before training - 2-Minute Reset: clear your head mid-day - Focus Primer: sharpen attention before deep work - Post-Workout Downshift: help your body recover faster - Sleep Wind-Down: ease your system into rest BUILT FOR REAL PRACTICE - Breathing ring: immersive visual guides every phase in real time - Phase haptics: feel each breath without looking at your screen - Spoken and audio cues: hands-free guidance - Picture in Picture: breathing ring floats over your screen when you switch apps THE SCIENCE Structured breathing practice improves Heart Rate Variability (HRV), stress recovery, endurance capacity, and sustained attention. The difference between a real training approach and random sessions is progress you can measure. Ayro is built on established techniques: reduced breathing, breath-hold tolerance training, resonance-frequency breathing, and nasal breathing protocols, the same foundations used by elite athletes, coaches, and practitioners worldwide. FOR ANYONE BUILDING A PRACTICE Athletes. Runners. Office workers reclaiming focus. Students under pressure. Anyone who wants a steadier, more capable nervous system. This is breathing as a learnable skill: practiced deliberately, tracked honestly, developed over time. PRIVACY Your health data stays with you. We write to Apple Health (as mindfulness minutes) with your permission and never sell personal data. SUBSCRIPTIONS Weekly, monthly, and annual plans with a free trial. Auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in your Apple Account Settings. Unlocks full access to all training blocks, exercise categories, cue methods, and progress tracking. NOTE Not medical advice. Individual results vary. Terms of Use: https://www.ayro.fit/terms/

Screenshots

ActiveTime Buddy4 screens
Ayro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ActiveTime Buddy at 5.0 against Ayro's 4.8. ActiveTime Buddy also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Ayro's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2). 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. ActiveTime Buddy sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Ayro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ActiveTime Buddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ayro has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ActiveTime Buddy ships an update every 11 days, Ayro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ActiveTime Buddy versus Ayro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActiveTime BuddyAyro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings225 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB36 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDo Not Get Abstracted Studios, LLCLaya Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

ActiveTime Buddy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ayro

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

ActiveTime Buddy

Subscriptions1
  • ActiveTime Buddy Pro$0.991 Month
One-time6
  • Move pack$2.99
  • Help Pack$2.99
  • Create Pack$2.99
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  • Learn Pack$2.99
  • Tidy Pack$2.99
  • Reset Pack$2.99
4 purchases

Ayro

Subscriptions4
  • Ayro Pro7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Ayro Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Ayro Pro3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Ayro Pro7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is ActiveTime Buddy free?
ActiveTime Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ayro free?
Ayro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ActiveTime Buddy or Ayro?
ActiveTime Buddy is rated higher. ActiveTime Buddy averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ayro averages 4.8 from 25 ratings.
Do ActiveTime Buddy or Ayro have ads?
Neither ActiveTime Buddy nor Ayro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ActiveTime Buddy or Ayro?
ActiveTime Buddy ships an update every 11 days, and Ayro every 2 weeks. Most recently, ActiveTime Buddy was updated on October 18, 2026 and Ayro on October 10, 2026.

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