Comparison

Yawn vs LifeBuff

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

LifeBuff

Features
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Life Buff is your daily food, sleep, water, and mood companion — helping you build better habits without pressure. Small habits can change how your whole day feels. Life Buff makes healthy living easier by helping you understand what you eat, how much you drink, how well you sleep, and how your mood changes over time. Just snap a meal, check your daily score, log your mood, track your sleep, and get simple, friendly suggestions from your personal habit sidekick. Whether you want to eat better, sleep earlier, drink more water, or simply feel more balanced, Life Buff helps you improve one small step at a time. Try Life Buff now and start building better days with simple insights, playful feedback, and personalized daily guidance. What Life Buff Can Do 1. Snap a Meal, Understand Your Food Take a photo of your meal and Life Buff helps estimate calories, macros, and nutrition highlights. See what is high in protein, balanced, light, high in calories, or energy-rich. Life Buff helps you understand your food without making tracking feel complicated. 2. Track Calories and Macros Get a clearer view of your daily intake, including calories, carbs, fats, and protein. Life Buff gives easy-to-read summaries so you can quickly understand whether your meal is balanced, heavy, light, or needs a small adjustment. No strict dieting. No confusing numbers. Just simple food awareness. 3. Build Better Hydration Habits Life Buff helps you track your daily water intake and reminds you when it may be time to drink more. Small hydration habits can support better energy, focus, and daily routine. Stay refreshed, one cup at a time. 4. Understand Your Sleep Log your sleep time and wake-up time to see your total sleep duration. Life Buff helps you understand whether you are well-rested, slightly tired, or running low on energy. Build a better bedtime rhythm with gentle reminders and simple feedback. 5. Check In With Your Mood Choose how you feel each day with expressive mood stickers. Track moods like happy, calm, excited, sad, anxious, stressed, tired, neutral, or no mood. Life Buff helps you notice emotional patterns and connect them with your food, sleep, and daily habits. 6. Get Your Daily Life Score Life Buff brings your food, water, sleep, and mood together into one simple daily score. See what went well, what could be improved, and what one small change you can try tomorrow. Your day does not need to be perfect. It just needs one better habit. 7. Meet Your Habit Sidekick Life Buff uses a fun, expressive character to make habit tracking feel lighter and more human. Your sidekick reacts to your daily status — tired, strong, happy, sleepy, bored, or low-energy — so your progress feels more playful and motivating. Who Is Life Buff For? [About LifeBuff Premium] • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription • Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off, by going to iTunes Subscriptions after purchase Terms of Use: https://app-service.lifebuffai.com/static/user_agreement.html Privacy Policy: https://app-service.lifebuffai.com/static/privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

Yawn4 screens
LifeBuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LifeBuff at none against Yawn's shown. LifeBuff also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Yawn's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Yawn sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and LifeBuff sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LifeBuff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yawn has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Yawn versus LifeBuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYawnLifeBuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperclvrPIXELCELL.LIMITED

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
1 purchases

LifeBuff

Subscriptions1
  • LifeBuff Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Yawn free?
Yawn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LifeBuff free?
LifeBuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Yawn or LifeBuff?
LifeBuff is rated higher. Yawn averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while LifeBuff averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Yawn or LifeBuff have ads?
Yawn shows ads; LifeBuff does not.

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