Comparison

HRVSpark vs OpenHealth

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

OpenHealth

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OpenHealth: Actionable Self Improvement Loops Your health, together for free. OpenHealth brings supported Apple Health readings into one private iPhone experience and helps you build a daily loop: observe, act, and check again. OBSERVE Review activity, heart, body measurements, blood pressure, glucose, cardio-fitness context, and sleep records where available. See dates and sources, explore trends, and choose the display units you use. ACT Find a focus and choose one manageable wellness action for movement, sleep, or recovery. Suggestions use your existing readings and local rules. The app remains useful without a language model; eligible devices may use Apple's on-device model to phrase a short summary. CHECK AGAIN Return after your next reading. Review progress, keep what fits, or choose another small action. The loop is wellness education, not a diagnosis, treatment plan, or guarantee of a health outcome. SLEEP FROM APPLE HEALTH Compare total sleep and the Awake, Light / Core, Deep, REM, and unspecified stages supplied by your Apple Health sources. OpenHealth does not record microphone audio, infer missing sleep stages, or create a sleep-quality score. FREE AND PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, subscription, in-app purchase, ads, tracking, or third-party analytics. OpenHealth's analysis stays on your iPhone, with zero third-party/server retention. Apple Health keeps its records under Apple's controls. OpenHealth's local preferences, pending manual entries, selected action, and any records from older builds remain under the local export and deletion controls. CAREFUL MANUAL ENTRY Enter blood pressure or glucose readings from a suitable external device. Review your entry and explicitly authorize a save to Apple Health. An iPhone alone cannot measure blood pressure or blood glucose. Data availability depends on your compatible devices and apps, existing Apple Health records, and the access you allow. OpenHealth supports selected HealthKit categories; it does not promise every possible measurement or replace professional or emergency care. Requires iOS 26 or later. Support: https://kiskir.dev/projects/open-health Privacy: https://kiskir.dev/projects/open-health/privacy Terms: https://kiskir.dev/projects/open-health/terms

Screenshots

HRVSpark4 screens
OpenHealth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenHealth at none against HRVSpark's 2. OpenHealth also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). HRVSpark's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. OpenHealth asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HRVSpark ships an update weekly, OpenHealth every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HRVSpark versus OpenHealth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHRVSparkOpenHealth
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJoel FarthingSihang Chen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HRVSpark

One-time2
  • HRVSpark Pro$0.99
  • HRVSpark Tip Jar$4.99
None

OpenHealth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HRVSpark free?
HRVSpark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OpenHealth free?
OpenHealth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HRVSpark or OpenHealth have ads?
Neither HRVSpark nor OpenHealth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HRVSpark or OpenHealth?
HRVSpark ships an update weekly, and OpenHealth every 2 days. Most recently, HRVSpark was updated on October 14, 2026 and OpenHealth on October 31, 2026.

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