iOX vs Hands Up Therapy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iOX
This app helps manage your personal health by noninvasively tracking blood oxygenation, heart rate, and perfusion index. It features a plethysmograph display and programmable alarms for health alerts. Data can be easily exported for review.
- Noninvasive SpO2 tracking
- Heart rate monitoring
- Perfusion index tracking
- Plethysmograph display
- Programmable alarms
- One-click CSV data export
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iOX’s new integrated mobile app brings our products to life. It is designed to fit your lifestyle and assist in everyday health management. The iOX allows you to noninvasively track and trend blood oxygenation(SpO2), heart rate(HR), and perfusion index(PI) for sports and aviation use. iOX’s new integrated app empowers you to manage your personal health in an intuitive way, while keeping up with your busy life. This app features a plethysmograph display and programmable alarms to let you know when values are too high or too low. One-click export of the recorded data into a CSV file.
Hands Up Therapy
This app teaches users to confront and manage difficult emotions rather than avoid them, promoting long-term mental well-being. Developed by a psychotherapist and individuals with lived experience, it offers practical techniques for emotional regulation and achieving inner peace.
- Diffuse strong emotions and physical symptoms
- Increase awareness of feelings and associations
- Adopt a non-judgmental approach to emotions
- Identify thoughts linked to emotions
- Integrate new thoughts for lasting peace
- Consider actions for desired life
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From an early age society teaches us that some emotions are bad and that we should avoid these at all costs. As a result, we learn to avoid certain emotions which can cause them to endure and mental health problems to arise. Hands Up Therapy app teaches us how to stop avoiding emotions and deal with them in a healthy way, allowing us to achieve more peace and good mental health in the long term. Hands Up Therapy app was developed by a qualified UK-based Psychotherapist and ordinary people experiencing depression and anxiety disorders and so is easy to understand and apply in your everyday life. Hands Up Therapy app will help you to: - Diffuse strong emotions and the associated physical symptoms allowing you to feel more peace/relaxed. - Be more aware of what you are feeling and the associations between your emotions and physical symptoms. - Achieve a ‘successful present moment’ or ‘non-judgmental’ approach to your feelings. - Be more aware of the thoughts associated with your emotions. - Consider and integrate new thoughts which can stop emotions re-firing and therefore create a more lasting feeling of peace/relaxed. - Consider actions you could take to help you live the life you want to live. People who use Hands Up Therapy regularly report: -More peace / relaxed feeling -Reduction of depression and anxiety feelings -Reduction or ending of addictions -Reduction or ending of self-harm / violence -Less anger -Less panic -Better sleep -More energy -Improved relationships -Improved mental clarity / focus -More confidence and acceptance of body image -Reduction and/or more acceptance of pain -Stronger immune system and less physical illness -A life and behaviour more in line with values
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: iOX at 15 against Hands Up Therapy's 1. iOX also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Hands Up Therapy's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hands Up Therapy holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iOX has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iOX | Hands Up Therapy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (15 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Safe Heart USA, Inc. | Kelvin Snaith |
Customer experience
iOX
Hands Up Therapy
In-app purchases
iOX
No in-app purchases
Hands Up Therapy
No in-app purchases
