Some warnings 7 users report ads that misrepresent the app; 7 users report the basics being behind a paywall and 1 more report. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 7.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 7.5, updated 2026-10-15.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Try the best app for monitoring your stress, activity, sleep, and health!
Your Apple Watch tracks multiple heart data during the day when you just wear your Apple Watch. Stress Monitor App is designed especially for Apple Watch users. The App processes your heart data and shows your current stress and capacity to perform at your mental, emotional, and physical best.
As our stress and performance are influenced by various factors, such as daily activity and sleep, it is very easy to track in the App what and to what extent influenced your performance, stress, and health.
YOUR BODY FEEDBACK SCORE, HRV, RESTING HEART RATE
Stress, recovery, and fitness level show up in your body’s signals.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 71 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 83 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 71 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Misleading advertising — This is a completely paid app masquerading as a free app. Nothing else to say about it, as everything is paywalled.
Annoying — Wasted 3-5 minutes on answering question and at the end requested to pay annual fee. It’s a bait and switch technique that I hate so much that I immediately deleted the app. Either ask for payment in advance or have a free…
Bait and switch — The app appears to be free or at least have a free tier. Instead, upon launching you are asked to answer a lot of questions, read a bunch of dialogs, configure notifications, etc only to discover that this is a paid app…
You have to buy everything — I used this app for a couple of days, and the first day it tracked but then it didn’t anymore and kept asking me to pay. I hate how I have to spend my money just to track my anxiety and stress which is…
Stress Gauge — This app has been the perfect stress gauge for me daily. It helps me to monitor my stress and work to manage it. When I’m reaching higher levels, I get notifications to get me to pay attention and help to manage my stress…
SCAM!!! — First off, you need a subscription to access the app. Yes, you need to pay $70 UP FRONT just to access the app. And on top of that, and what I find most concerning, you give all of your health data BEFORE it prompts you to pay…
Payment required. Terrible. — I wanted to get this app just to find out you have to pay to do anything
Waste of money — There is a sneaky model, whole app is behind a paywall, and subscription is damn expensive. I forgot to cancel trial and now I have most useless and ugly app for a ton of money. Not recommend, mostly raw data, doubtful…
Not worth it — Everything is locked behind a paywall all the features it advertises aren’t available unless you pay a monthly subscription so completely not worth it save the space on your phone for literally anything else
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 7.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 7.5, updated 2026-10-15.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Dear Stress Monitor Users, Thank you for using Stress Monitor! In this update, we improved language support across the app and refined many small details to make your experience even smoother. We also fixed bugs and improved stability. If Stress Monitor helps you manage stress, we would really appreciate your review on the App Store. Your story inspires us and helps others discover the app. Have suggestions for improvement? Email us at: [email protected] Your feedback is invaluable and helps us make the app better. Best regards, Stress Monitor Team
Appworthy
stress-monitor-for-watchAssessed 2026-10-27 from 500 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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