Comparison

Steth IO vs INSIGHT HEART Lite

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

Head to head
About

Steth IO

Record and visualize biological sounds using specialized hardware. This application transforms your device into a tool for capturing and analyzing bodily acoustics.

Highlights
  • Record biological sounds
  • Visualize sound data
  • Compatible with Steth IO hardware
  • Analyze bodily acoustics
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When used with the Steth IO hardware, the Steth IO app allows you to record and visualize biological sounds.

About

INSIGHT HEART Lite

Explore the human heart in augmented reality with detailed 4k visuals and spatial sound. This app offers interactive medical education for students, physicians, and patients, allowing exploration of various heart conditions and simulations.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality heart exploration
  • Detailed 4k heart model
  • Spatial sound and haptic feedback
  • Interactive visualizations of heart conditions
  • Multi-user WIFI connectivity
  • Virtual assistant guidance
Features
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INSIGHT HEART Lite - The human heart expedition - Platinum at the 2021 MUSE Creative Awards - German Design Award Winner 2019 – Excellent Communications Design - Apple Keynote 2017 (Demo Area) – USA / Cupertino, Sept 12 - Apple, BEST OF 2017 – Tech & Innovation, Australia - Apple, BEST OF 2017 – Tech & Innovation, New Zealand - Apple, BEST OF 2017 – Tech & Innovation, USA LITE version of INSIGHT HEART: This is the first augmented reality App to be rolled out in a series of Apps created and designed for medical education purposes. Our goal is to make medical education fascinating, explorable, and fun for students, physicians as well as accessible to patients - anywhere and anytime, in or out of the classroom, lecture hall or living room. We have committed ourselves to take medical education one step further and have developed visually stunning and highly interactive content based on real life medical and scientific specifications. **************************** If you like the lite version of INSIGHT HEART then you´ll love the full version! The full version includes: - Explore 'Myocardial Infarction' including the mode of disease of 'Coranary Artery Disease' - Explore Arterial Hypertension - Explore Atrial Fibrillation including the mode of disease of 'Atrial Fibrillation' and 'Stroke' - Connect the app to your Apple Watch - Access all filter functions - Enable the annotations and more... Have you ever wondered what your heart looks like during a workout? No problem, you can either use our live heart rate function with Apple Watch (Companion App) or the integrated Health app support to let your last workout data drive the heartbeat in realtime! Using ARKit, INSIGHT HEART let's users easily scan their physical surroundings and place the three-dimensional heart without the need of predefined markers. Our virtual assistant ANI will guide you through various states of the heart. Explore the human heart like never before with up to 8 users at the same time, connected via WIFI. Rotate and scale the high-resolution heart floating in front of you and feast your eyes on highly detailed 4k textures. Trigger impressive visualizations of various conditions, such as normal heart rate, myocardial infarction, arterial hypertension, atrial fibrillation and dive into the detailed mode of disease of coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation. Some of these conditions could never be experienced live! Explore this spatial application. As you walk towards the heart, the heartbeat becomes louder, due to the integrated spacial sound and to make this experience even more engaging you can also feel the heartbeat on the palm of your hand using haptic feedback on iPhone. Dive into the amazingly detailed model of the heart and explore the new blood flow simulation. Tap on the spatial annotations to get more dedicated information for each region of the heart from every angle. And there is a lot more to come - so stay tuned! This and the other following apps in the INSIGHT-series will take medical education to a whole new level - no one has ever seen the human heart in this way before.

Screenshots

Steth IO4 screens
INSIGHT HEART Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steth IO at 80% against INSIGHT HEART Lite's 0%. Steth IO also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). INSIGHT HEART Lite's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

INSIGHT HEART Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 41 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Steth IO's written reviews are positive against 0% of INSIGHT HEART Lite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steth IO ships an update every 2 months, INSIGHT HEART Lite every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Steth IO versus INSIGHT HEART Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteth IOINSIGHT HEART Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (13 ratings)4.6 (41 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1341 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB654 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStratoScientific, Inc.ANIMA RES

Customer experience

Steth IO

All ratings13 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

INSIGHT HEART Lite

All ratings41 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Steth IO

No in-app purchases

None

INSIGHT HEART Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steth IO free?
Steth IO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is INSIGHT HEART Lite free?
INSIGHT HEART Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Steth IO or INSIGHT HEART Lite?
INSIGHT HEART Lite is rated higher. Steth IO averages 4.2 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while INSIGHT HEART Lite averages 4.6 from 41 ratings.
Do Steth IO or INSIGHT HEART Lite have ads?
Neither Steth IO nor INSIGHT HEART Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steth IO or INSIGHT HEART Lite?
Steth IO ships an update every 2 months, and INSIGHT HEART Lite every 9 months. Most recently, Steth IO was updated on October 13, 2026 and INSIGHT HEART Lite on October 24, 2026.

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