Comparison

Weighback vs VitalCast

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

Head to head
About

Weighback

This app helps you track your weight by analyzing your history from Apple Health. It identifies meaningful goals based on past readings and presents them as achievable milestones. The app focuses on privacy, keeping all your data on your device.

Highlights
  • Reads weight from Apple Health
  • Identifies historical weight goals
  • Presents goals as a milestone staircase
  • Shows all-time low and peak weight
  • Displays date of current weight history
  • Zoomable historical weight chart
Features
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Weighback is a quiet companion for your weight tracking. It reads your existing weight readings from Apple Health, finds the meaningful goals based on your history, and presents them as a progressing staircase of milestones you can target. Treat weight loss like a rewind in time, for you to find your "weigh" back! WHAT YOU'LL SEE • Your all-time low. Every weighback goal you've crossed, in descending order. • Today's "weighback" — the most recent date you previously weighed what you weigh right now. (If the number on the scale feels familiar, it probably is.) • Your peak weight and how far you've come from it. • A chart that zooms cleanly from a single month out to your full history, with momentum panning when you grab the timeline. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • Your data stays on your iPhone. Weighback never sends it anywhere, never logs in, and has no account. • It doesn't ask you to weigh in. It reads what's already in Apple Health, including readings from any scale or third-party app that writes there. • The full chart goes back as far as your data does. Weighback is free with no ads. A small in-app tip supports continued development; the feature set is the same either way.

About

VitalCast

This app helps you understand how daily habits impact your health metrics like heart rate and sleep. It prompts you to tag your day and provides personalized insights based on your data, all computed on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily habit tagging
  • Personalized health insights
  • Correlation with heart rate and sleep data
  • Customizable tags
  • Live Activities and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri integration
  • Health record consolidation
Features
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Your watch already knows your resting heart rate, your HRV and how you slept. What it cannot know is why. VitalCast asks you one question at the end of the day, in a single tap, and answers it the next morning. Tag today. Alcohol. A late meal. A hard workout. Travel. Work stress. Thirty tags, one tap each, from the Home Screen widget, your Apple Watch, Siri or the app. Custom tags for the things only you do. What helps, what hurts. After five days with the same tag, VitalCast compares the mornings that followed with all the others: heart rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep, sleep efficiency, deep sleep. In plain percentages, against your own nights only, with the honest answer "no clear difference" when that is what the data says. Your data, not proof of cause. Explained, every time. A tag on yesterday becomes context in this morning's read: "resting heart rate ran high, you noted alcohol." Every score in the app shows its arithmetic, and every claim links to the study behind it. On your wrist and your Lock Screen. Live Activities count down the caffeine you logged to a sleep-safe level, hold Rest Mode with an end button, and watch the overnight signals when they sit off your range, on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in the Apple Watch Smart Stack. A caffeine-window complication joins readiness and sleep on the watch face. Ask, from anywhere. "Log alcohol in VitalCast." "When should I stop caffeine in VitalCast." "Ask my data in VitalCast." Nine Siri shortcuts, English and Spanish. Works with the watch you own. Readiness, sleep score, training load with heart-rate zones, daytime versus overnight HRV, heart-rate recovery, on any Apple Watch that writes to Health, and with Oura, Garmin, Whoop and Withings data that flows through it. Still the records app. Your labs, medications, conditions and allergies from every health system on one timeline, the same lab value charted across providers, and appointment prep from your own records. No account. No server. Nothing uploaded. Everything is computed on your iPhone. Deeper analysis on Apple's Private Cloud Compute is one switch, off until you turn it on, and every card says where it was worded. In English and Spanish. VitalCast Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it 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/vitalcast/privacy/

Screenshots

Weighback4 screens
VitalCast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: VitalCast at every 9 days against Weighback's every 3 weeks. Weighback's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Weighback sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VitalCast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Weighback against 5.0 for VitalCast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weighback ships an update every 3 weeks, VitalCast every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Weighback versus VitalCast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeighbackVitalCast
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian JacksonJC Mobile App Studio LLC

Customer experience

Weighback

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

VitalCast

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Weighback

One-time1
  • Tip$0.99
2 purchases

VitalCast

Subscriptions2
  • VitalCast Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • VitalCast Pro Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Weighback free?
Weighback is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VitalCast free?
VitalCast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Weighback or VitalCast?
Weighback and VitalCast are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Weighback or VitalCast have ads?
Neither Weighback nor VitalCast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weighback or VitalCast?
Weighback ships an update every 3 weeks, and VitalCast every 9 days. Most recently, Weighback was updated on October 8, 2026 and VitalCast on October 15, 2026.

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