Comparison

Sun Light vs RealAwake

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

Head to head
About

Sun Light

Track your daily sunlight exposure with this simple app. It uses your Apple Watch data to fill a daily progress ring, track streaks, and show your history. Enjoy a straightforward approach to monitoring your time spent outdoors.

Highlights
  • Daily daylight progress ring
  • Streak tracking
  • 7-day history chart
  • Morning, afternoon, and evening breakdown
  • Custom daily goal
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Get outside. Sun Light does the rest. Sun Light turns your daily sunlight into a simple ring, a streak, and a clear picture of when you actually got your light — morning, afternoon, or evening. Most people get less daylight than they think. Sun Light makes it visible in one glance, from your home screen or your wrist. WHAT YOU GET • Daily daylight ring and streak • Morning light window — see your first daylight of the day against sunrise • Morning, afternoon and evening breakdown • 7-day history chart • Shareable daily card • Custom daily goal • Sunrise and sunset times • Home screen and lock screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complications HOW TRACKING WORKS With an Apple Watch, daylight is recorded automatically — nothing to start or stop. Apple Watch writes Time in Daylight to Apple Health and Sun Light reads it. Without an Apple Watch, use a Sun Session: tap start when you head outside, tap stop when you come back. Sun Light saves those minutes to Apple Health too. Automatic tracking requires Apple Watch Series 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), or Apple Watch Ultra, on watchOS 10 or later. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No analytics. No ads. Your daylight data stays in Apple Health on your devices. SUN LIGHT PRO Sun Light is free, and everything above stays free — including the shareable daily card. Pro adds your morning light window history and unlimited history beyond the last seven days. 7-day free trial, then $24.99/year — or $49.99 once for lifetime access. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

RealAwake

Features
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Most of what you dream is gone within minutes. RealAwake is a contemplative, private space to catch it first, and explore your inner world through dreams, lucid states, astral experiences, meditation and reflection. Designed for people who take their inner life seriously. No ads. No tracking. No AI interpreting your dreams. Just a quiet, personal tool that respects your privacy. WHAT'S INSIDE DREAM JOURNAL Record your dreams every morning with entry types — Normal Dream, Lucid Dream or Astral Experience. Add emotions, tags and build a real archive of your inner life over time. Half asleep? Tap the mic and dictate your entry instead of typing, in 8 languages. REALITY CHECK REMINDERS Build the habit of questioning reality throughout the day. Set custom reminders with your own prompts — so the practice carries into your dreams naturally. LUCID DREAMING TECHNIQUES A curated library of techniques including MILD, WILD, FILD and more. Each one explained clearly so you can apply it tonight. ASTRAL PROJECTION Techniques for astral projection and out-of-body experiences, including the Head Lift Alarm. Set it to a specific time and it plays a gentle chime to bring you to the hypnagogic state, without fully waking you. MEDITATION A simple, distraction-free meditation timer with ambient sounds including rain, forest and theta binaural tones. PRO members also receive new guided meditations regularly. INSIGHTS A dedicated space to reflect, interpret and connect patterns across your dreams. Link insights to specific entries and track how your understanding evolves. DREAM VOCABULARY Build your own personal symbol library. Add symbols that appear in your dreams and explore a built-in collection of 91 archetypes and symbols, organized in categories so you can find the right one quickly. JOURNEY MAP — PRO Visualise your entire practice over time. Dream Patterns surfaces recurring themes and symbols. Insight Web maps connections across your reflections. Monthly Report generates a PDF of your month. PRIVACY FIRST Everything lives on your device by default. No data leaves your phone unless you choose to enable Cloud Backup (PRO). Voice dictation turns your speech into text on your device, and RealAwake never records or stores your voice. No ads. No AI. No third-party tracking. Ever. Cloud Backup is opt-in, encrypted and stored on Firebase servers. REALAWAKE PRO Unlock Cloud Backup, Biometric Lock, Dream Patterns, Insight Web, Monthly PDF Reports, Dream Backgrounds for your entries and insights, regular guided meditations and more. Available as a monthly or annual subscription with a 7-day free trial. The free version is genuinely usable — most features are fully accessible without a subscription. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Pattern analysis is tuned for English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian, and you can fine-tune it by hiding or restoring words. Voice dictation also supports Japanese and Chinese. More languages coming soon. Terms of Use: https://realawake.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://realawake.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sun Light3 screens
RealAwake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: RealAwake at 13.0 against Sun Light's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Sun Light sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and RealAwake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sun Light ships an update every 8 days, RealAwake fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sun Light versus RealAwake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSun LightRealAwake
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB210 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJAMES JAY QUACKENBUSHAntonio de Araujo Feitosa Neto

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sun Light

Subscriptions1
  • Sun Light Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Tip$4.99
  • Sun Light Pro Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

RealAwake

Subscriptions2
  • RealAwake PRO$4.991 Month
  • RealAwake PRO7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Sun Light free?
Sun Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RealAwake free?
RealAwake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sun Light or RealAwake have ads?
Neither Sun Light nor RealAwake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sun Light or RealAwake?
Sun Light ships an update every 8 days, and RealAwake fortnightly. Most recently, Sun Light was updated on October 31, 2026 and RealAwake on November 13, 2026.

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