Comparison

HeadPause vs VertigoMe

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

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About

HeadPause

Features
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HeadPause guides vertigo and BPPV exercises, including Epley, Semont, and Brandt-Daroff, using AirPods head tracking. HeadPause is a practice tool for balance, stillness, steadiness, and ear calm. It reads head pitch, roll, and yaw from the motion sensors in your AirPods and turns every session into a small, honest score. No microphone. No HealthKit. No account. Nothing leaves your phone. FOUR PRACTICES Balance. Symptom-first vestibular routines for positional vertigo and BPPV. Epley, Semont, Brandt-Daroff, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll, and Gaze Stabilization. Each maneuver is voice-guided, paced by the motion in your AirPods, and timed step by step. Still. Eyes-closed steadiness sessions with a soft soundscape. Sit, breathe, and let the app measure how much your head drifts inside a six-degree tolerance window. You leave with three numbers: calm score, held-steady percent, and peak drift. Motion. A horizon-hold anchor for moving environments. A gentle box-breathing pacer plays in your AirPods while you keep your head level. Soft haptic nudges when you drift out of the tolerance window for too long. Built for cars, trains, planes, and walking. Ring. Sound sessions for masking, focus tones, wind-down, and quiet-room support. Works with any headphones, EarPods included. A comfort tool for your ears, not a tinnitus treatment. WHY AIRPODS The motion sensors in AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max already track your head roughly ten times a second. HeadPause is the practice loop built around that signal. No new hardware, no extra pairing, no microphone access. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT One permission: AirPods motion. That is it. No microphone, no HealthKit, no location. Head motion samples are read in memory, scored, and discarded. Only the derived summary is saved. No account, no sign-up, no ad tracking. Optional iCloud sync if you want practice history across your own devices. FREE TIER Brandt-Daroff and Gaze Stabilization routines, Still sessions up to 3 minutes, Motion horizon-hold with box-breathing pacer, Ring masking, and the last thirty days of history. Always free, no account required. PRO UNLOCK, $19.99 One-time unlock. Yours forever. Full Balance library (Epley, Semont, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll). Longer Still sessions and more soundscapes. All five Motion environments with drift haptics and trip telemetry. Full Ring sound studio (masking, focus tones, wind-down, quiet-room support). Full practice history and iCloud sync across your devices. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone living with BPPV or positional vertigo who wants a quiet, guided way to practice canalith repositioning maneuvers. Meditators who want an eyes-closed signal that does not require opening their eyes. Passengers on bumpy drives, flights, boats, or busy trains who want a grounded anchor. Anyone curious what the word steady actually means for their own head. NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE HeadPause does not diagnose or treat vertigo, BPPV, motion sickness, or any other condition. The scores and metrics are practice rulers, not clinical measurements. If dizziness is new, severe, or worsening, contact a clinician. Made by GMX3C.

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VertigoMe

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VertigoMe is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. It is for general wellness and self-tracking. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional. VertigoMe helps you keep one clear record of your vertigo and the everyday things around it, then turns your own logged history into patterns you can use and share with your doctor. Track everything in seconds. Log a spin by voice, text, or a tap from your own list of symptoms, triggers, medicines and reliefs. Say "woke up with the room spinning, took 16mg betahistine" and VertigoMe sorts the details for you. It watches the things that matter to you. Connect Apple Health, Oura, Polar or Garmin (optional) and your sleep, heart rate and recovery come in automatically. Live weather is logged for your location, since many people track pressure changes. Link a food app or scan meals and ingredients like sodium, caffeine and alcohol are noted in your diary. Understand your own data. The Insights tab summarises your logged history: how often you've recorded spins, which factors tend to show up alongside them, which positions you've noted, and how you felt after each medicine. Ask VertigoMe about your own data in plain English and it answers from what you've logged. Whether you live with BPPV, Vestibular Migraine, Meniere's, Vestibular Neuritis, PPPD or MdDS, VertigoMe gives you one organised place to record and understand your experience. Premium unlocks fuller summaries and exportable reports to share with your clinician.

Screenshots

HeadPause4 screens
VertigoMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: VertigoMe at 3 against HeadPause's 1. VertigoMe also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. HeadPause sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VertigoMe sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HeadPause ships an update every 8 days, VertigoMe every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
HeadPause versus VertigoMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeadPauseVertigoMe
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 5 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.015.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGMX3C LLCJordy Verwerft

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HeadPause

One-time1
  • HeadPause Pro$4.99
1 purchases

VertigoMe

Subscriptions1
  • VertigoMe Premium Monthly$6.991 Month

Questions

Is HeadPause free?
HeadPause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VertigoMe free?
VertigoMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HeadPause or VertigoMe have ads?
Neither HeadPause nor VertigoMe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HeadPause or VertigoMe?
HeadPause ships an update every 8 days, and VertigoMe every 5 days. Most recently, HeadPause was updated on September 18, 2026 and VertigoMe on September 13, 2026.

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