Comparison

HealthLight vs Stress HRV

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

Head to head
About

HealthLight

Log your daily health data, including stress, training, and nutrition, in a calm and clear interface. It integrates with Apple Health to display trends and body signals without judgment. Features guided breathing for moments of calm.

Highlights
  • Daily health logging
  • Body signal tracking
  • Trend awareness
  • Apple Health integration
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Cross-device support
Features
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HealthLight is a calm place for everyday health logging, body signals, and trend awareness. It brings stress, training, nutrition, body feedback, and Apple Health data into one clear view. With your permission, HealthLight can read Apple Health signals such as steps, heart rate, HRV, active energy, and blood oxygen. It presents them alongside your training, nutrition, and subjective feedback, with attention to trends, sample freshness, and record completeness instead of judging your day from one number. You can: • Log training, nutrition, hydration, and body feedback • Review stress, heart rate, HRV, training, and recovery trends • Keep up across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and widgets • Use guided breathing to create a short moment of calm • Optionally sign in with Apple for HealthLight Cloud AI • Receive 10 free AI analyses per account each week, with the remaining allowance shown in the app Care Circle lets you share selected health signals with people you care about and view today’s and 7-day trends. Celebrate workouts with badges and a badge wallet. Aegis connects conversations and insights with your health, training and recovery records. Core local features do not require an account. HealthLight is not intended for medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency alerts. If you have persistent symptoms or a specific health concern, consult a qualified healthcare professional.

About

Stress HRV

Monitor your body's stress levels using HRV and RHR data. Get personalized insights to know when to push harder or rest. Track sleep, activity, mood, and water intake with integrated features.

Highlights
  • HRV and RHR stress monitoring
  • Personalized baseline comparison
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Sleep and activity tracking
  • Mood and water logging
  • Watch complications and widgets
Features
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Understand your body's stress — instead of waiting until it gives out. Stress is a stress monitor for Apple Watch and iPhone. It reads your HRV (heart rate variability), RHR (resting heart rate), sleep and activity, compares them with your own baseline and answers one question daily: keep pushing, or ease off? ◎ Stress read against your own baseline - Four plain levels: Fully Charged · Doing Fine · A Bit Tired · Feeling Rough - No generic "normal range": the app learns your own HRV and resting heart rate, day and night apart - Under 7 days it says the baseline is only indicative; from 28 days it's stable - Every number comes with a one-line takeaway ◎ Stress rising? Ease it on the spot - Six rhythms: Relaxing 4-4, Balanced 5-5, Wave 4-4-6-2, Deep 4-7-8, Focus 4-4-4-4, Snore Relief 5-6 — 1, 3 or 5 minutes, matched to your stress right now - Note your mood after; the time counts as Mindful Minutes in the Health app ◎ Your night on one page - Sleep score, stage timeline, naps counted separately - Overnight HRV, resting heart rate and wrist temperature - Compared with your usual bedtime, so you spot when the routine slipped - If your body worked harder overnight, a gentle morning note — a nudge to rest, never a diagnosis ◎ Mood, water and daylight — no extra apps - Mood check-ins built on State of Mind in the Health app, plus your mood pattern on higher-stress days - One-tap water logging into the Health app, with daily goal and weekly trend - Steps, active energy, workout routes with heart rate zones, time in daylight ◎ Trends that read like a weekly report - Week, month and year: your stress patterns in plain words, your best days, and when stress quietly climbs - HRV, resting heart rate, sleep, activity, water, daylight and breathing side by side ◎ Works on its own on Apple Watch - Complications: stress, HRV, heart rate, steps, water, active energy - Browse stress and trends on your wrist, and log water there - If a fresh HRV reading points to higher stress, your watch tells you ◎ Useful without opening the app - Siri and Shortcuts: check stress, log water, start breathing, log mood - Control Center: start breathing or log water in one tap - Widgets on Home and Lock Screen: stress, HRV, heart rate, steps, water, energy, breathing - Fits iPhone Duo, iPad split view and wide windows; 11 interface languages ◎ What we believe Life is full of numbers already; one more opaque stress number doesn't make anyone feel lighter. So every metric comes with a takeaway: read "A Bit Tired" and you know what's next — an hour more sleep, three deep breaths before the meeting, a walk instead of the hard weekend session. No alarms, no lectures. ◎ Your data is yours - Health data is read and processed on your device only, never uploaded, no account needed - We read only the data types you allow; theme, language and goals sync via your own iCloud ◎ Free and Pro - Free: stress status, current-period trends, sleep analysis, mood, water, widgets and complications, relaxing, balanced and wave breathing - Pro: live stress monitoring, month/year and past-period trends, deep, focus and snore-relief breathing, full workout records - New installs get 24 hours fully unlocked, no payment first ◎ Health disclaimer Stress gives no medical advice or diagnosis and is no substitute for professional care. If stress stays hard to manage, or a medical decision is involved, please see a doctor. ◎ Subscription Stress is free to download; Pro unlocks all paid features as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Your Apple Account is charged within 24 hours before the period ends and renews for one more period. To cancel, turn off auto-renewal in Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. Privacy Policy: https://www.luckydance.top/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.luckydance.top/terms

Screenshots

HealthLight4 screens
Stress HRV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HealthLight at none against Stress HRV's 3. HealthLight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Stress HRV's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Stress HRV sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. HealthLight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HealthLight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stress HRV has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HealthLight ships an update every 4 days, Stress HRV fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HealthLight versus Stress HRV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHealthLightStress HRV
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings113 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXiamen Baiheng Technology Co., Ltd.Sleep Pilot Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

HealthLight

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stress HRV

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HealthLight

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Stress HRV

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • LifetimeFree

Questions

Is HealthLight free?
HealthLight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stress HRV free?
Stress HRV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HealthLight or Stress HRV?
HealthLight is rated higher. HealthLight averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Stress HRV averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do HealthLight or Stress HRV have ads?
Neither HealthLight nor Stress HRV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HealthLight or Stress HRV?
HealthLight ships an update every 4 days, and Stress HRV fortnightly. Most recently, HealthLight was updated on October 31, 2026 and Stress HRV on November 10, 2026.

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