Steady vs Dawnline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steady
This app helps shift workers manage fatigue and optimize sleep. It offers a smart wake alarm, fatigue forecasting, and personalized coaching tips. Prioritizing privacy, it keeps all your data on your device.
- Drive home risk alert
- Smart wake alarm
- 3-day fatigue forecast
- Evidence-based coaching tips
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Private, on-device data storage
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Steady is built for shift workers, not 9-to-5. WHAT MAKES STEADY DIFFERENT SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Steady Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jcmobileappstudio.com/apps/steady/privacy/ • Roster import from a photo: point your camera at the printed schedule on the wall. Steady reads the dates, codes and hours, and you confirm every day before it's saved. Or import from your Calendar. • Drive home risk alert: warns you before you get in the car when fatigue makes the drive too risky. 17 hours awake is roughly a 0.05% BAC. • Your next 24 hours: a predicted alertness curve that shows when you'll crash, plus the best windows for exercise, meals and light. • A sleep score that understands nights: consistency is measured against your own rotation, not a 9-to-5 clock. • Sleep debt, and a way out: how far behind you are, whether it's growing, and a payback plan built around your real rota. • Discoveries: learn what actually changes your sleep, corrected for work nights vs rest nights. • Smart wake alarm: wakes you in your lightest sleep within a 30-minute window, backed by a real system alarm on iOS 26 and later. • 290 evidence-based coaching tips, grounded in AASM, NIOSH and chronobiology research, matched to how you're doing right now. • Bilingual English and Spanish, written natively in both. • Private and on-device: no accounts, no servers, no tracking. Apple's "Data Not Collected" badge. BUILT FOR YOUR ROTATION • Manufacturing: DuPont, 4-on-4-off, Panama 2-2-3, 5-on-5-off • Healthcare: 12-hour rotating, fixed nights, on-call • Public safety: police, fire, corrections, dispatch • Hospitality: hotels, restaurants, bars, gaming • Transit and logistics: trucking, rideshare, public transit, delivery FREE FEATURES • Shift templates and a custom pattern editor • Roster import from your Calendar • Sleep log with Apple Health sync and write-back • Daily fatigue score with a full "why" breakdown • Ten-second bedtime and wake check-ins • Wind Down: brown noise, pink noise and 4-7-8 breathing • Smart nap planner • Caffeine, alcohol, exercise and meal logging • Bedtime and shift-day reminders • Sleep streaks • Apple Watch app with complications • Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center widgets • Live Activity for your next shift • Siri and Shortcuts STEADY PRO Free for 7 days, then $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year. • Roster import from a photo • Drive home risk alert • Your next 24 hours and the light plan • Sleep debt ledger • Shift-aware sleep score • Sleep stages and overnight vitals • Discoveries • 7-day fatigue forecast on your calendar • Smart wake alarm • Unlimited Apple Health history and shift overrides • The full coaching library EVERY SCREEN • iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch • iPhone Duo inner display: two columns, a sidebar layout, menu commands and keyboard shortcuts. Never a stretched-out phone screen. WHY WE BUILT THIS Most shift workers don't get to choose their schedules. They do get to choose how they recover. Steady helps you do that, without selling your data or charging $70 a year. Steady is not a medical device. Always consult a licensed clinician for medical advice.
Dawnline
This app provides detailed explanations for your sleep score, showing the exact calculations and data used. It emphasizes transparency and confidence in measurements, highlighting data reliability and trends over time. Your sleep data remains private on your device.
- Detailed score explanations
- Data transparency and confidence metrics
- Sleep stage breakdown
- Trend analysis over weeks
- Apple Watch and Home Screen widgets
- On-device data processing
- Privacy-first architecture
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Most sleep apps hand you a number in the morning and leave you with it. Dawnline shows you where that number comes from — and how certain it is. Every number explains itself Tap any value and the arithmetic appears beneath it: the formula, the inputs it used, and the nights it rests on. Total sleep names every individual stage that went into it. The score names all seven components with their points. Nothing goes into it that you cannot see. Confidence instead of false precision Not every night is measured equally well, and Dawnline does not pretend otherwise. Each night carries how dependable it is and why: a continuous recording with detected sleep stages is not the same thing as a few fragments from two devices. What was never measured appears as a gap, not as a zero. And an analysis that still needs more nights tells you how many — rather than showing a number that isn't one yet. Your score, fully disclosed Seven components with fixed weights: duration 34, regularity 22, efficiency 14, continuity 12, and 6 points each for deep sleep, REM and the detected sleep stages. The whole table lives in the app under "About the calculation", together with the reasoning behind every single weight. Today The night ring draws your night as one calm arc, from going to bed to getting up. Beneath it sit the metrics: total sleep, efficiency, continuity, deep sleep, REM, time to fall asleep, awake time after falling asleep, awakenings and sleep midpoint. Each one leads to its own explanation. Trends Across weeks you see what a single night cannot show: how regular your sleep is, how far your sleep midpoint scatters and which way it is drifting, how much sleep debt has built up against your goal. The weekly comparison also tells you whether a difference is larger than your usual variation — or only looks that way. All of it stays correct across midnight and on the two daylight saving days each year. On your wrist and on your Home Screen Apple Watch shows your score and the numbers of the night, with a complication for your watch face and widgets for Home and Lock Screen. They all show the same numbers as the app: they do not calculate on their own, they pass values along. Privacy here is not a setting, it is the architecture Dawnline has no account, no server and no networking code. Apple Health is the only data source, and it is read only. No subscription, no ads, no tracking. Your sleep data never leaves your device, because there is no path by which it could. Dawnline is not a medical device and does not replace medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Dawnline at free against Steady's freemium. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Steady sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Dawnline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steady against 5.0 for Dawnline. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Steady ships an update weekly, Dawnline every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steady | Dawnline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JC Mobile App Studio LLC | Alexander Skowronek |
Customer experience
Steady
Dawnline
In-app purchases
Steady
- Steady Pro, Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Steady Pro, Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Dawnline
- Dawnline Plus$3.99









