Comparison

Sleepcraft vs SwimPaceTimer

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

Head to head
About

Sleepcraft

This app analyzes your sleep stages, providing individual scores for deep, REM, and light sleep. It visualizes your sleep patterns on a clock face and helps you understand how daily factors affect your sleep quality. It also connects daytime activity to nightly recovery and forecasts sleep quality based on trends.

Highlights
  • Sleep stage scoring (deep, REM, light)
  • 12-hour sleep clock visualization
  • Personalized scoring by age and sex
  • Tagging daily factors affecting sleep
  • Daytime activity and HRV integration
  • Sleep quality forecasting
Features
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Sleepcraft reads your sleep data from Apple Health and breaks it down differently than most apps. It shows your sleep on a 12-hour clock face so you can see exactly when you got deep sleep, REM, light sleep, and awake periods. Instead of one combined sleep score, Sleepcraft gives each phase its own score — deep, REM, light, continuity, and regularity — so you know exactly what's working and what isn't. Scoring is calibrated to your age and sex. A 50-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman have different optimal deep sleep and WASO targets, based on clinical benchmarks from the NIH, CDC, and NHS. You can tag daily factors like late coffee, alcohol, or a hard workout and see how they affect not just your overall sleep, but each individual stage. Some patterns aren't obvious — for some people, ovulation can increase deep sleep, or a daytime nap might actually extend total sleep duration rather than shorten it. Sleepcraft surfaces these personal links so you're not guessing. It also connects your daytime active energy and HRV to nightly recovery, and uses your historical data to forecast tonight's sleep quality based on your current trends. All processing happens on your iPhone. No backend servers, no accounts. Your tagged factors and ratings sync through your own iCloud. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sleepcraft.app/privacy

About

SwimPaceTimer

Features
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SwimPaceTimer is an Apple Watch interval timer for the pool. Three settings, that's it: distance, reps, and your send-off cycle. MADE FOR SWIMMERS WHO - are tired of watching the pace clock and counting in their head - just want to hold a send-off without fiddling with settings mid-set WHAT IT DOES - Build a set: distance x reps x send-off cycle (e.g. 25yd x 5 @ 1:30) - Tap start, get 5 seconds on the wall, then push off on the buzz - A heads-up buzz 5 seconds out, then a start buzz - hold your cycle without looking at your wrist - Countdown ring, rep dots, heart rate, split and total time at a glance - Live heart rate on screen while you swim WORKS ALONGSIDE THE WORKOUT APP SwimPaceTimer is a send-off timer, not a tracker. It never takes over a workout you are already recording. Start a pool swim in the built-in Workout app if you want it saved to Health — that also turns on Water Lock for you — then let SwimPaceTimer handle the send-offs. BUILT FOR THE WATER Screens are hard to read and harder to tap when you're wet. Set everything on the wall before you push off, then swim - your wrist tells you when to go. Yards or meters follows your region automatically.

Screenshots

Sleepcraft4 screens
SwimPaceTimer1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SwimPaceTimer at none against Sleepcraft's 4. SwimPaceTimer also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Sleepcraft sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. SwimPaceTimer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleepcraft ships an update weekly, SwimPaceTimer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sleepcraft versus SwimPaceTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleepcraftSwimPaceTimer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNikolai FabrikaKyunghyun Choi

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sleepcraft

Subscriptions4
  • Sleepcraft Membership7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Sleepcraft Membership$9.991 Month
  • Sleepcraft Membership7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • Sleepcraft Membership$49.991 Year
None

SwimPaceTimer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleepcraft free?
Sleepcraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SwimPaceTimer free?
SwimPaceTimer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleepcraft or SwimPaceTimer have ads?
Neither Sleepcraft nor SwimPaceTimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sleepcraft or SwimPaceTimer?
Sleepcraft ships an update weekly, and SwimPaceTimer every 5 days. Most recently, Sleepcraft was updated on October 14, 2026 and SwimPaceTimer on September 27, 2026.

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