Comparison

Barnaburn vs Gentled

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

Head to head
About

Barnaburn

Gamify your sleep routine with this app that connects to Apple Health. Earn rewards like XP and awards by hitting your sleep goals, and clear playful citations with good sleep. Track your progress with insightful graphs and an animated companion.

Highlights
  • Gamified sleep tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • XP, levels, and awards system
  • Playful citation system for missed goals
  • Sleep goal setting
  • Progress graphs and insights
  • Animated companion
Features
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Barnaburn is the dog that closes your apps at bedtime. Pick your distracting apps and sign tonight's bedtime contract. At curfew, Barnaburn, a small and judgmental bedtime accountant, puts them behind a lock: CLOSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SLEEP. You get one emergency appeal per night. He files everything. In the morning, Apple Health tells him how you actually slept, and you get the Morning Report: your verdict, the evidence, XP earned, and a shareable Dream Receipt. Hit your sleep goal and earn levels, streaks, and awards. Miss it and receive a citation: a playful, fully recoverable offense you can clear with one good night. FEATURES - Shutdown Orders: your chosen apps close at bedtime and reopen at your wake goal - One emergency appeal per night, logged in tomorrow's report - Bedtime Contracts: sign tonight's terms (Reasonable, Ambitious, or Emergency) - Morning Report: last night's verdict, evidence, XP earned, and new awards - Dream Receipts: a shareable receipt for every night's sleep - Citations: rough nights get a playful writeup; one good night clears it with bonus XP - Case File: your sleep record, from commendations to repeat offenses - XP and levels: from Pillow Intern to Sleep Bureau Legend - Awards: a trophy case of 21 sleep achievements - Graphs: duration, schedule drift, and pattern insights over 7/30/90 days - Reminders: optional wind-down and morning check-in notifications that follow your goal - Barnaburn himself: an animated dog companion who gets visibly exhausted when you don't sleep - Works with Apple Watch, Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, and any device that writes sleep to Apple Health - 100% on-device, no accounts, no ads, and your data never leaves your phone App blocking is optional and entirely under your control. Barnaburn is a habit and motivation app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or measure any health condition.

About

Gentled

Features
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Gentled helps people with chronic illness make movement, fitness, and exercise fit changing capacity, then learn what was actually tolerated later. Built for chronic illness, pain, fatigue, PEM risk, dysautonomia, hypermobility, flare days, and changing capacity, Gentled supports bed-based movement, mobility, strength, balance, stamina, walking or wheeling, physio, classes, and everyday activity. It starts with today's body rather than a generic workout plan. What Gentled helps with: - Check today's readiness before movement. - Choose restorative, light, or steady options. - Build a flexible weekly rhythm around mobility, strength, balance, stamina, or recovery goals. - Choose a weekly exercise focus with harder-day, everyday, and stronger-day options. - Add optional movement invitations on days you choose, without creating missed workouts. - Check in and control a session from Apple Watch, with optional session-only live heart rate that is treated as context rather than a safety score. - Keep the next useful action visible with iPhone, Lock Screen, Smart Stack, and Apple Watch widgets. - Bring movement from outside Gentled into the same week and recovery loop. - Save movement instructions you already use, open them again from Today, and run them as a text-led session without Gentled rewriting them. - See recorded active time and exercise goals represented in your week without rings, streaks, or a minutes target. - Filter suggestions by position, body area, equipment, and stop signals. - Rest, stop early, make easier, or switch position during a session. - Log immediate response and delayed recovery 12 to 48 hours later. - See which movement was tolerated, pending, or needs caution. - Export CSV history or create optional Gentled+ PDF reports. - Use the app without accounts, analytics, ads, or tracking. Gentled is wellness self-management support. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, physiotherapy, rehabilitation prescriptions, or guarantees that movement is safe. Your symptoms and judgement always outrank the app. Terms of Use: https://www.cocoacorn.com/gentled/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/gentled/privacy

Screenshots

Barnaburn4 screens
Gentled4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Barnaburn at none against Gentled's 1. Gentled's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Gentled sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Barnaburn asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Barnaburn ships an update fortnightly, Gentled every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Barnaburn versus Gentled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarnaburnGentled
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB90 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlexander MoksyakovGeoff Davis

In-app purchases

None

Barnaburn

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gentled

One-time1
  • Gentled+$24.99

Questions

Is Barnaburn free?
Barnaburn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gentled free?
Gentled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Barnaburn or Gentled have ads?
Neither Barnaburn nor Gentled shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Barnaburn or Gentled?
Barnaburn ships an update fortnightly, and Gentled every 2 days. Most recently, Barnaburn was updated on October 10, 2026 and Gentled on October 25, 2026.

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