Comparison

Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic vs StepShift

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

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About

Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic

This app helps manage blood pressure and improve overall wellness through self-monitoring and stress awareness. It tracks heart rate variability and guides users in mindful breathing exercises to reduce stress and its effects on health.

Highlights
  • Remote blood pressure monitoring
  • Heart rate variability (HRV) tracking
  • Mindful breathing exercises
  • Stress awareness and feedback
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Blood pressure and weight tracking
  • Customizable notifications
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Cardiowell is the world's first digital therapeutic to reduce the risks associated with hypertension. Enhanced to allow for self and remote patient monitoring (RPM), Cardiowell is designed to help improve blood pressure, health and wellness. It accomplishes this by allowing for the remote monitoring and management of blood pressure while allowing users to develop awareness of breathing and heart rate activity. Cardiowell measures small changes in time between each heart beat (heart rate variability - HRV) and notifies you when you are under stress. Cardiowell supports a variety of heart rate monitors and blood pressure devices to allow for self-monitoring. Use a supported heart rate monitor and blood pressure device for maximum benefit of the App. Download Cardiowell to: 1. Better manage your blood pressure 2. Improve your health and wellness 3. Become aware of stress of how stress effects your breathing We believe that through self-awareness you can be empowered to improve your health and have a longer life. Measuring and monitoring your blood pressure by itself may not reduce your blood pressure and improve your health. Cardiowell allows you to be an active participate in your health. Cardiowell encourages you to become mindful of your breathing and practice breathing at 6 breaths per minute. Breathing at six breaths per minute has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce depression, improve sleep and reduce symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome while improving wellbeing. Cardiowell helps you become aware of factors that cause you stress and with feedback, coaches you to breathe better and adapt to your situation. By setting up heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) auditory, tactile, and/or visual notifications, you become aware when your health is being affected by poor breathing and stress. Cardiowell integrates with AppleHealth so you can monitor your blood pressure, pulse, and weight, to understand how healthy breathing can improve your wellness. Cardiowell also allows you to: -Set notifications on Apple iPhone & Watch allowing you to receive subtle nudges whenever you are not breathing properly. -Track your blood pressure and set reminders. -Monitor changes in blood pressure, weight, pulse, and wellness. Important: This App requires blue-tooth low energy heart rate monitors like the Polar H7, or H10 and many other BLE heart rate monitors to allow for stress monitoring and behavioral feedback. Apple Watch only allows for receipt of Wellness nudges and reminders. Heart rate from the Apple Watch is not supported. It also supports the Cardiowell blood pressure and weight scale. But you can always manually add blood pressure values and import blood pressure data from their party Apps using AppleHealth in order to monitor your health. Please note that Cardiowell is not supported on the iPad. *Cardiowell is a general wellness improvement solution to reduce the risks associated with hypertension. The Cardiowell solution is indicated for use only as an adjunctive treatment for high blood pressure together with other pharmacological and/or non-pharmacological interventions. Cardiowell recommends that you do not modify your hypertension treatments without the advice and consent of your physician.

About

StepShift

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Treadmill desk users, rejoice. Your steps finally count. StepShift fixes the Apple Watch’s biggest blind spot: treadmill desk workouts. If your phone was in your pocket while walking, StepShift uses that motion data to rebuild a precise indoor walking workout in Apple Health — automatically. No more missing steps just because your wrist was busy typing. Key Features: • Converts any indoor walk where your iPhone was in your pocket • Uses iPhone motion sensors to restore accurate step and distance data • Re-creates Apple Health workouts with better data • 100% private — everything stays on your device • Integrates seamlessly with the Apple Health app No accounts. No tracking. No nonsense. Just your real steps, logged right.

Screenshots

Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic4 screens
StepShift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic at Free against StepShift's $4.99. Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic is free to download; StepShift costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic versus StepShift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCardiowell Digital TherapeuticStepShift
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperWellAdaptMatt Martz

In-app purchases

None

Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic

No in-app purchases

None

StepShift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic free?
Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepShift free?
StepShift costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic or StepShift have ads?
Neither Cardiowell Digital Therapeutic nor StepShift shows ads.

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