HeadPause vs Steadwise

HeadPause is a guided balance and stillness practice that uses the motion sensors in your AirPods to show you how your head is moving, in real time. Pick what you need, put in your AirPods, and follow the voice. HeadPause scores each step so you know you did it right. BALANCE Guided routines inspired by vestibular exercise: Epley, Semont, Brandt-Daroff, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll, and gaze stabilization. With motion-capable AirPods you get live pose guidance and a form score. With other headphones or the speaker you get a voice walkthrough. STILL Eyes closed, head quiet. With motion-capable AirPods and Pro you get a calm score from 0 to 100, spoken coaching and drift feedback. Everyone gets a soft soundscape timer. MOTION Practice keeping your gaze steady with a live horizon, plus box breathing, for travel and screen time. RING Soft sound beds for a quieter room: comfort sounds, gentle focus tones, and a wind-down track. No head tracking required. STEADY CHECK A 15 second reading of how still your head is, so you can watch your steadiness change over days. FREE AND PRO Brandt-Daroff and gaze stabilization are free, fully guided and scored. Every other maneuver includes one fully guided, scored run so you can feel how it works. Still starts with a free 3-minute soundscape timer. Pro unlocks guided scoring on every maneuver, the Still calm score and coaching, your full progress history, and every stillness, travel and sound session. One-time purchase. No subscription. Family Sharing included. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. We never receive your practice data. It is kept on your device, and in your private iCloud account when iCloud is available, where only you can read it. HeadPause can optionally save Mindful Minutes to Apple Health if you turn it on in Settings; it never reads your health data. IMPORTANT HeadPause is a wellness practice, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and is not a substitute for care from a clinician. If dizziness is new, severe, or comes with other symptoms such as weakness, double vision, trouble speaking, fainting, chest pain, or a sudden severe headache, seek medical care. Motion-capable AirPods are required for head tracking. Coaching voice is AI-generated.

If you're doing vestibular rehab — gaze (VOR) drills, habituation, balance work — you've probably hit the same wall everyone does: the exercise is supposed to make you a little dizzy, but not too dizzy, and nobody's in the room to tell you which side of that line you're on. Steadwise is the instrument for that. You set your starting point, and it holds your target range, paces each rep, times your recovery, and tells you calmly when to ease off — so you can do your exercises without doing the mental math while your head is moving. WHAT IT DOES • Sets a baseline before each session and holds your personal range (your "dose"), so you're not guessing. • Paces each rep with a calm spoken or visual cue — go only as fast as the target stays clear; you can slow it down anytime. • Watches your range and eases you off before you overdo it. Overdoing it is the thing to avoid, and Steadwise treats that as the point. • Times your recovery back to baseline, so you know the session settled. • Eases your difficulty up over weeks when you're ready — and steps it back, calmly, after a flare. A flare-up is an expected part of recovery, not a failure. • Keeps a private record of how you're trending, and exports a clean PDF you can hand to your provider. BUILT FOR HOW THIS ACTUALLY FEELS • Calm, low-clutter screens, large targets, reduced-motion and high-contrast options — because brain fog and visual sensitivity are real. • Spoken cues so you're not reading while you move your head. • A first-class safety step for anyone with a history of falls, and a clear "see your provider" off-ramp for red-flag symptoms. WHAT IT IS NOT Steadwise is a companion for exercises you've already been given — not a diagnosis, not medical advice, and not a positioning maneuver (it does not do the Epley or other canalith-repositioning maneuvers; those are a different treatment for BPPV — talk to your provider about those). It works alongside care for vestibular migraine, PPPD, vestibular hypofunction, and similar. Everything stays on your device. If your exercises came from a vestibular PT and you've been winging the "how hard is too hard" part alone, this is for you. Steadwise Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $39.99/year (with a 7-day free trial) or $7.99/month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://apps.9592.tech/steadwise/terms Privacy Policy: https://apps.9592.tech/steadwise/privacy