Circa vs Pollenary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circa
Build a calmer bedtime routine and understand your sleep patterns with private insights from Apple Health. Plan daily habits, reduce digital distractions before bed, and track sleep trends securely on your device.
- Personalized daily routines
- Digital distraction blocking
- Private sleep insights
- Circadian schedule visualization
- Product discovery for sleep
- Apple Health integration
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Build a calmer bedtime routine and understand the patterns behind your sleep. Circa combines a practical circadian schedule with private sleep insights from Apple Health. Plan the habits that shape your day, reduce digital distractions before bed, and follow your sleep trends without sending sensitive health data to external servers. YOUR DAILY RHYTHM • Create a personalized wake-up, morning light, meal, wind-down, and bedtime routine • See your current phase and what comes next at a glance • Receive optional reminders and Live Activities at the right time PROTECT YOUR WIND-DOWN • Choose distracting apps, categories, or websites with Screen Time • Apply optional boundaries during wind-down and after waking • Keep your selections private through Apple’s Family Controls framework PRIVATE SLEEP INSIGHTS • Turn sleep records stored in Apple Health into clear duration and bedtime trends • Follow resting heart-rate patterns from a compatible wearable • Explore interactive weekly and monthly charts CALMER DISCOVERY • Browse a focused collection of products for darkness, noise, comfort, and waking • Open product pages securely in an in-app Safari view • Affiliate links are clearly disclosed and never affect your price PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your Apple Health values and Screen Time selections are processed on your device. They are never sent to Mixpanel, Amazon, or advertising platforms. Circa uses limited analytics only when a Discover product link is opened. Circa is a general wellbeing tool and is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition. Privacy Policy URL: https://studiojb.app/privacy/circa Terms of Use URL: https://studiojb.app/terms/circa
Pollenary
This app provides detailed daily pollen forecasts, identifying specific plants contributing to airborne allergens. Users can log their symptoms to discover which pollens personally affect them, receiving personalized alerts. It offers a 5-day forecast and supports multiple locations, with optional Apple Health integration.
- Specific plant pollen identification
- Daily pollen forecast alerts
- Symptom logging and correlation
- Personalized allergy insights
- Multi-location support
- Apple Watch and Home Screen widgets
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Pollenary tells you what is actually in the air — and which pollen is actually yours. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most pollen apps show one number. Pollenary shows the plants behind it, for every day of the forecast. Ragweed on Saturday. Grass on Sunday. Tree pollen all week. The severity comes from Google's Pollen API, on the Universal Pollen Index (0-5), at 1 km resolution. We checked it against real pollen-counting stations before we trusted it. FIND OUT WHICH POLLEN IS YOURS Log how you feel in two taps: congestion, sneezing, a runny nose, a headache. Pollenary compares your bad days with the pollen that was in the air, and shows which pollen actually affects you and which symptoms it drives. It stays quiet until it has enough days to be sure. Saving to Apple Health is optional. ONE ALERT, AT 9 AM YOUR TIME Choose the allergens you react to and how bad a day has to be. One alert each morning covers every place you save; expand it to see each place across the next five days. It arrives at 9 AM wherever you are, and you can make it high priority so it skips your notification summary. WORKS WHERE YOU ARE The US, the UK, Europe and Israel. Use your location, or search for any town. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN An Apple Watch app with complications, plus Home Screen widgets. NO ACCOUNT. EVER. There is no sign-up, no login, no email, no password. Open the app and it works. We store your ZIP or postal code, your alert settings, and the symptoms you log in Pollenary. Nothing else. We do not know who you are. FREE - Today's pollen level and the plants behind it - A daily alert for today - One place - Log your symptoms POLLENARY PLUS - The full 5-day forecast - Which plants drive each day ahead - Early warnings, up to 5 days out, repeated each morning as the day approaches - Which pollen is yours: your symptoms compared with recorded pollen - Recorded history for every place you save - Up to 10 places, and Follow me: it switches to the place you are in Pollenary Plus is $0.99 per month, with a 1-week free trial. Cancel any time. Pollen data is a forecast, not a medical measurement. Pollenary is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition. The symptom comparison shows a pattern in your own log; it is not a diagnosis. Talk to a doctor about your allergies. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Pollenary Plus costs $0.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pollenary.dancykier.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Circa at none against Pollenary's 1. Pollenary's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Pollenary sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Circa asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Circa against 5.0 for Pollenary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Circa ships an update every 3 weeks, Pollenary every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circa | Pollenary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jean-baptiste delcros | Summit Electronics LLC |
Customer experience
Circa
Pollenary
In-app purchases
Circa
No in-app purchases
Pollenary
- Pollenary Plus7 Days trial$0.991 Month









