Comparison

myCircadianClock vs Easy Sleep Diary

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

Head to head
About

myCircadianClock

This app aids research studies by tracking diet, exercise, and sleep patterns to understand their impact on health. It allows users to log food intake, sleep times, physical activity, and health metrics, with medication reminders and HealthKit integration.

Highlights
  • Log food and drink intake with camera
  • Record sleep times
  • Log physical activity
  • Monitor health parameters
  • Medication reminders
  • Integrates with HealthKit
Features
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This app is for use in research studies examining how diet, exercise and sleep affect health and healing. Our body contains circadian (circa – approximately and dian – day) or 24 h clocks that determines the time to sleep, feel hungry or get ready for physical activity. Research studies run in different locations are trying to understand the interaction between “how much” and “when” we sleep, eat or exercise for better health. You need an activation code from these research studies to download and use the app. Following are the key features: - Camera function to snap picture of everything you eat or drink - Sleep tab to record time to bed and time of waking up - Exercise tab to log physical activity - Personalized food menu - Health tab to log and monitor health parameters - Medication reminders - Feedback with the research coordinator - Integrated healthkit framework to track your health information.

About

Easy Sleep Diary

Easily record your sleep duration and quality with just a few clicks. Visualize your sleep patterns through simple graphs and list views. Share your data or create backups for your records.

Highlights
  • Log sleep duration
  • Record sleep quality
  • Simple graph view
  • List view of sleep data
  • Data sharing
  • Backup functionality
Features
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Easy Sleep Diary is a dedicated app to help you track your sleep in hours and the sleep quality - we make it extremely easy to record your sleep in just a few clicks. We also present your sleep pattern in a simple to read graph and in a list view for a given periode. You can also share your data or make a backup.

Screenshots

myCircadianClock4 screens
Easy Sleep Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Easy Sleep Diary at 68% against myCircadianClock's 19%. Easy Sleep Diary also leads on rating (3.8 vs 2.3) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). myCircadianClock's advantage is ratings volume (251 vs 15). 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

Easy Sleep Diary holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: myCircadianClock has 251 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of myCircadianClock's written reviews are positive against 68% of Easy Sleep Diary's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
myCircadianClock versus Easy Sleep Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermyCircadianClockEasy Sleep Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (251 ratings)3.8 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.1% of reviews67.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings251 — better15
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.66.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB12 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTHE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIASimon lebech Cichosz

Customer experience

myCircadianClock

All ratings251 ratings
Positive23.1%
Neutral11.2%
Negative65.7%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive19.1%
Neutral14.2%
Negative66.7%

Easy Sleep Diary

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive67.6%
Neutral14.7%
Negative17.6%

Bugs and requests

myCircadianClock

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login/registration issues
  • Incorrect sleep time recording
  • Inability to log food/activity retrospectively
  • Pending data not uploading
  • Notification issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit/delete entries
  • Better data syncing and backup
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • More customization options
  • Improved sleep tracking

Easy Sleep Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

myCircadianClock

No in-app purchases

None

Easy Sleep Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is myCircadianClock free?
myCircadianClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Easy Sleep Diary free?
Easy Sleep Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, myCircadianClock or Easy Sleep Diary?
Easy Sleep Diary is rated higher. myCircadianClock averages 2.3 out of 5 from 251 ratings, while Easy Sleep Diary averages 3.8 from 15 ratings.
Do myCircadianClock or Easy Sleep Diary have ads?
Neither myCircadianClock nor Easy Sleep Diary shows ads.

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