Comparison

HRVSpark vs EndureIndex

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

Head to head
About

HRVSpark

Visualize your raw heart rate variability data directly on your Apple Watch face with a dynamic sparkline complication. Get immediate insights into your body's trends without opaque scores or labels. A companion iPhone app provides detailed views and guidance.

Highlights
  • Raw HRV sparkline complication
  • 8-hour free complication
  • 24/7, 7-day, 30-day Pro views
  • Circular gauge and corner complications
  • iPhone companion app
  • No interpretation layer
  • Complication-first design
Features
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HRVSpark puts your heart rate variability on your Apple Watch face as a sparkline, a gauge, or a corner complication. It shows the SDNN readings saved in Apple Health and nothing more. WHAT YOU GET • Three free 8-hour complications: a sparkline, a gauge, and a corner • Seven Pro complications across 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day windows • Gaps left visible when your watch took no readings • An iPhone app with a live gallery of every complication and setup help JUST YOUR HRV HRVSpark shows your SDNN values across useful time windows without turning them into a readiness, stress, or recovery score. What they mean for your day is up to you. BUILT FOR THE WATCH FACE The complications are designed for quick checks on the wrist. Each gauge places a recent value between the low and high of its window. The Apple Watch app works without the iPhone app and keeps a record of your daily averages. The iPhone app adds older days whenever you open it. ONE-TIME PRO UNLOCK Download free and use the three 8-hour complications. Unlock all ten with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, account, ads, or telemetry. PAIR IT WITH RHRSPARK RHRSpark gives the same direct view of resting heart rate, with recent sedentary heart rate and Apple's daily resting heart rate. HealthKit data stays on your devices and moves only between your iPhone and Apple Watch through Apple frameworks. HRVSpark may request a small configuration file from filamentlabs.io to show current product messages. That request contains no health data. If you claim the supporter thank-you, HRVSpark sends Apple's signed record of your HRVSpark purchase to filamentlabs.io so each purchase receives one RHRSpark Pro code. That record contains no health data. HRVSpark is for informational purposes only. It does not provide medical advice or diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition.

About

EndureIndex

Features
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Ready to train — or is recovery the smarter choice today? EndureIndex helps you better understand your daily readiness and plan your training more consciously. The app uses data from Apple Health and turns it into clear signals for readiness, training load, recovery and endurance development. This helps you see more clearly whether your body is ready for training, whether light movement would be a better option, or whether you should give your recovery more space. What EndureIndex offers: • Readiness Score for your current daily condition • Endurance Score for your endurance development • Training load, recovery and trends at a glance • Analysis of HRV, resting heart rate, sleep, steps and workouts • Weather and environmental load, where available • Clear insights instead of raw data only • Goal focus for fitness, fat loss, weight maintenance, more energy, consistency and movement • Apple Watch app and widgets • Support for English and German Why EndureIndex? Not every day is the same. Sometimes your body is ready for an intense workout, sometimes light movement or recovery is the smarter choice. EndureIndex helps you better understand important signals from Apple Health and use them to make more conscious decisions about training and recovery. EndureIndex Pro With EndureIndex Pro, you get advanced analyses, longer trend histories, deeper insights into training load and recovery, goal evaluations, correlations and additional premium features. Privacy EndureIndex uses Apple Health data only with your permission. Your data stays on your device and is not used for tracking or advertising. Location data is only used with your permission to include weather-related load factors. Disclaimer EndureIndex is not a medical app and does not replace medical advice. The analyses are intended for personal orientation around training, recovery and fitness. Privacy Policy: https://danilo-krautz.de/privacy-endureindex/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

HRVSpark4 screens
EndureIndex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HRVSpark at weekly against EndureIndex's monthly. HRVSpark also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. HRVSpark sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and EndureIndex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HRVSpark ships an update weekly, EndureIndex monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HRVSpark versus EndureIndex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHRVSparkEndureIndex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoel FarthingDanilo Krautz

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HRVSpark

One-time2
  • HRVSpark Pro$0.99
  • HRVSpark Tip Jar$4.99
2 purchases

EndureIndex

Subscriptions2
  • EndureIndex Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • EndureIndex Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is HRVSpark free?
HRVSpark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EndureIndex free?
EndureIndex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HRVSpark or EndureIndex have ads?
Neither HRVSpark nor EndureIndex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HRVSpark or EndureIndex?
HRVSpark ships an update weekly, and EndureIndex monthly. Most recently, HRVSpark was updated on October 31, 2026 and EndureIndex on November 7, 2026.

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