Comparison

Yawn vs CircadiaOS

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

Head to head
About

Yawn

This app tracks your sleep patterns to help you understand your personal sleep needs and calculate your sleep debt. It provides a daily sleep score and insights into your bedtime regularity, all personalized to your goals.

Highlights
  • Sleep score tracking
  • Personalized sleep debt calculation
  • Identifies individual sleep needs
  • Monitors bedtime regularity
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Personalized goal-based quizzes
Features
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You know that feeling — waking up and actually feeling rested. Clear-headed. Like yourself again. Yawn helps you get there. Most sleep advice stops at "get 8 hours." Your body never read that memo. Yawn learns what your body actually needs from your own sleep history, then shows you the one number that matters: your sleep debt — how much rest you owe yourself, and exactly how to pay it back. THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER • Sleep score — a clear rating every morning, so you know what kind of day you're walking into • Sleep debt — the rest you owe your body, tracked night over night • Your sleep need — how much sleep you personally need, learned from your history, not a generic 8 hours • Regularity — how steady your sleep and wake times really are • Energy curve — your predicted highs and lulls through the day, so you can plan around them A PLAN, NOT A LECTURE • Ideal schedule — your personal bedtime, wind-down window, and morning-light window • Smart alarm — wakes you at the right time and rings through silent mode and Focus • Gentle reminders — wind-down, last coffee, morning light, bedtime, all timed to you • Wind-down tools — guided breathing and calming sounds for the nights sleep won't come MEET YOUR SLEEP COACH Ask it anything. Yawn's coach knows your real numbers, your goals, and what's keeping you up — and talks you through it like someone who's actually read your chart, not a chatbot reading a script. SCAN YOUR ROOM Point your camera at your bedroom and Yawn flags what might be quietly costing you sleep — light, heat, clutter — with simple fixes. The photo is analyzed and never stored. HOW IT WORKS Yawn reads your sleep from Apple Health — no wearable required; it can even estimate your nights from your phone alone. A short quiz personalizes everything to your goals. From there it's simple: sleep, check your score, pay down your debt. — Subscription details: Yawn requires a subscription for full access. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://yawn.you/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CircadiaOS

This app learns your body's ideal sleep temperature and automatically adjusts your smart thermostat throughout the night. It uses data from your wearable to personalize a four-phase temperature schedule for optimal sleep recovery. Requires a compatible smart thermostat and sleep-tracking wearable.

Highlights
  • Learns ideal sleep temperature
  • Personalized four-phase temperature schedule
  • Integrates with smart thermostats
  • Syncs with sleep-tracking wearables
  • Analyzes sleep quality
  • Two-week calibration period
Features
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CircadiaOS adjusts your bedroom temperature through the night, automatically. Your body temperature isn't constant while you sleep. It drops as you fall asleep, stays low through your deepest sleep, and rises again before you wake. A thermostat held at one number all night works against that. CircadiaOS builds a temperature curve for your night and drives your smart thermostat to follow it. Connect a wearable and the curve adapts to your own recorded nights instead of a general model. HOW IT WORKS - Connect your thermostat and your wearable - CircadiaOS builds a curve from your profile on night one - As your nights accumulate, the curve shifts to your own data - See exactly which parts come from your sleep and which are still estimates WHAT YOU SEE - Tonight's schedule, phase by phase - Why each setpoint is what it is - Your best and worst nights, side by side, and what differed Requires a compatible smart thermostat. A wearable is optional but unlocks personalization from your own sleep data. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Yawn4 screens
CircadiaOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Yawn at 4.6 against CircadiaOS's 3.5. Yawn also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). CircadiaOS's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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. Yawn sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and CircadiaOS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yawn holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Yawn's written reviews are positive against 75% of CircadiaOS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yawn ships an update weekly, CircadiaOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Yawn versus CircadiaOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYawnCircadiaOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better3.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1011 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB25 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperclvrCircadiaOS LLC

Customer experience

Yawn

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CircadiaOS

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Yawn

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Annual$24.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
4 purchases

CircadiaOS

Subscriptions4
  • CircadiaOS Lite Monthly$9.991 Month
  • CircadiaOS1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • CircadiaOS Lite Yearly$99.991 Year
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  • CircadiaOS1 Month trial$159.991 Year

Questions

Is Yawn free?
Yawn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CircadiaOS free?
CircadiaOS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Yawn or CircadiaOS?
Yawn is rated higher. Yawn averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while CircadiaOS averages 3.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Yawn or CircadiaOS have ads?
Both Yawn and CircadiaOS show ads.
Which is updated more often, Yawn or CircadiaOS?
Yawn ships an update weekly, and CircadiaOS every 3 days. Most recently, Yawn was updated on October 28, 2026 and CircadiaOS on October 24, 2026.

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