RESIV vs thumbfulness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RESIV
This app is a comprehensive wellness, fitness, and career management tool designed for first responders. It offers profession-specific workouts, mental wellness tools, and career planning features in a secure platform.
- Profession-specific workout programs
- Custom workout builder
- Mental wellness check-ins
- Shift scheduling
- Career record storage
- Apple Health integration
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RESIV Stay Ready. Stay Resilient. RESIV is the all-in-one wellness, fitness, and career companion built specifically for first responders. Whether you're a police officer, firefighter, EMT, paramedic, dispatcher, corrections officer, military member, nurse, or other emergency professional, RESIV helps you stay prepared—both on and off duty. From demanding shift schedules and physical training to mental wellness and career management, RESIV brings the tools you need together in one secure platform. Fitness & Performance • Profession-specific workout programs • Custom workout builder • Exercise library with hundreds of exercises • Weekly workout planning • Personal record tracking • Recovery and readiness insights • Progress analytics Health & Recovery • Apple Health integration • Sleep and recovery tracking • Heart rate insights • Hydration and nutrition planning • Shift-based recovery recommendations • Wellness trends and history Mental Wellness • Daily wellness check-ins • Private journal • Stress and mood tracking • PHQ-9, GAD-7, and PTSD self-assessments • Therapist finder • Wellness progress tracking Shift & Career Tools • Shift scheduling • Overtime estimator • Payroll exports • Pension planning tools • Certification tracking • Secure career record storage Premium Features • Unlimited history • Face ID / Touch ID protection • Cloud sync • Offline access • Premium themes • Smart reminders • Early access to new features Built for: Law Enforcement Firefighters EMS & Paramedics Dispatchers Corrections Nurses & Healthcare Professionals Military Other Emergency Responders RESIV was created with one mission: to help first responders improve performance, protect their health, and build resilience throughout their careers. Whether you're preparing for your next shift, recovering after a difficult call, tracking your fitness progress, or planning for retirement, RESIV gives you the tools to stay ready every day.
thumbfulness
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thumbfulness is a stillness timer. Rest a finger on a maximally darkened black screen and hold it for as long as your mind is quiet. The moment a thought arrives, lift. A huge pixel clock counts the hold; the lift drops it to zero and lands the time underneath as a lap. The practice is to make the laps longer — inside one sitting, and across the calendar. That is the whole app. There is nothing to configure before you start and nothing to read first. TWO MODES Two thumbs — the phone lands in your lap, held in landscape, both thumbs resting on the glass. One finger — the phone in portrait, on a table or a bed, any posture you like. They differ only in how many fingers the screen is waiting for. WHAT IT KEEPS Every sitting ends on a summary: the laps as a chart, the longest, the total held, and how much of the sitting was contact rather than thought. Give it a title and a note if you want one, or don't. History keeps every sitting. Progress draws the trend across a day, a week, a month, or all of it — a day you didn't sit is drawn as a gap rather than a zero, because a day off is not a failure. Your longest lap today and your longest lap ever sit under the clock while you hold. Passing either one is a single quiet haptic. Nothing else interrupts a sitting: no sound, no per-lap buzz, no notification. An app that congratulated you on a lift would be commenting on your thoughts, which is the one thing this one refuses to do. TWO THINGS IT DOES ON PURPOSE While a sitting runs, the screen goes to minimum brightness and will not auto-lock. Your brightness comes back when you lift, when you leave, and at the next launch if the app was killed before it could hand it back. While a sitting runs, the first swipe from a screen edge does not leave the app — a thumb resting near the bottom edge for ten minutes would otherwise send you home mid-sitting. A second, deliberate swipe leaves normally. FREE, AND STAYING FREE Everything above is free. There is no trial, no subscription, no locked mode, no history limit, and no ad. Nothing is ever unlocked by paying, because there is nothing to unlock. If you want to leave a tip, Settings has a jar. It buys nothing — no feature, no cosmetic, no removed limit — and it changes exactly one sentence of thanks. The app never asks; you have to go looking for it. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and nothing sent to us. Your sittings sync between your own devices through your private iCloud database, which we cannot read. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Support: https://www.w3-digital.com/apps/thumbfulness/support/ Privacy: https://www.w3-digital.com/apps/thumbfulness/privacy/
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Verdict
RESIV and thumbfulness are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. RESIV sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and thumbfulness sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | RESIV | thumbfulness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Leone | W3 Digital |
In-app purchases
RESIV
- RESIV Premium$9.991 Month
thumbfulness
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$2.99
- Large tip$4.99
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- Generous tip$9.99









