GoPolar: Cold Plunge & Sauna

Name: GoPolar: Cold Plunge & Sauna
Rating: 4.7 (244 reviews)
Author: The Wellness Company, Inc.

Contrast Therapy Tracker

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone

244 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

The Wellness Company, Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

120.6
MB

GoPolar is the ultimate app for tracking your cold plunge and sauna activities. Works with Apple & Garmin Watches. Track Your Progress: Log every ice bath and sauna session with detailed metrics, including duration, temperature, heart rate, and personal reflections. Watch your resilience & mental clarity grow with our wellness tracker. Discover & Check-In: Explore the best locations for cold plunges and saunas near you. Check in, rate your experience, and add new spots for the community to discover. Join the Community: Connect with a global network of cold plunge & sauna enthusiasts. Share your experiences, exchange tips, and find inspiration from the community's stories and achievements. Challenges & Rewards: Participate in challenges designed to push your limits and keep your wellness journey exciting. Earn badges and rewards as you progress. Insights & Tips: Access a library of resources to enhance your cold plunge and sauna experiences. Learn from experts and integrate best practices into your routine. Stay cold! Privacy Policy: https://www.gopolar.app/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://www.gopolar.app/terms-conditions

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

244 Ratings

Awesome app
04/04/2025

Jrw1779
First, I have been cold plunging and winter swimming for 4+ yrs. During that time, taking pictures of water/air temperatures and writing journals etc. Volumenous pictures and notebooks. Now it's all on my wrist. Definitely a game changer. Also, recently I contacted the creator and they promptly got back to me with an answer to my question quickly. I have highly recommended this app to my friends and other cold water plungers. My only complaint is where was it 4years ago!!! Thank you for the app.

Developer Response
Thank you for the review! Amazing that you've been doing cold plunging and winter swimming over 4 years! We should add a photo log to the activities :) Thank you for the feedback!
Awesome app
04/04/2025

Jrw1779

First, I have been cold plunging and winter swimming for 4+ yrs. During that time, taking pictures of water/air temperatures and writing journals etc. Volumenous pictures and notebooks. Now it's all on my wrist. Definitely a game changer. Also, recently I contacted the creator and they promptly got back to me with an answer to my question quickly. I have highly recommended this app to my friends and other cold water plungers. My only complaint is where was it 4years ago!!! Thank you for the app.
Developer Response 04/04/2025
Thank you for the review! Amazing that you've been doing cold plunging and winter swimming over 4 years! We should add a photo log to the activities :) Thank you for the feedback!
General Comments - Sauna Data Needs Help
06/09/2025

DG2020!
The app is good for cold plunging. Nicely integrated with my Apple Watch. On the sauna centric data the app is remarkably lacking. The Apple Watch cannot withstand the heat (at higher temperature levels) of a sauna. All the sauna data is therefore entered manually. Access to one’s heart rate as example is not possible. Manual entering of the sauna data is not efficient. For example, the temperature wheel only goes from 0 degrees to say 194 degrees in one direction from low to high) so between this and not being able to leverage your past sessions inputting values (say of session time and temp) makes the UI unnecessarily cumbersome. Another app has a small sensor that can be taken into the sauna and it tracks some variables? Also I don’t care for all the community/shared activity functionality wrt my cold plunging - I wish there was a way to mute that. Expensive app for simply being a partially integrated tracker for cold plunging.

Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for this detailed feedback! Our latest update now solves for each point mentioned:1. Sauna temperature on manual activity keeping your previous time making it easier to add quickly2. You can now turn off community in the app, which will just give the solo experience of the app (which is quite nice, thanks for sharing)More updates on the way!
General Comments - Sauna Data Needs Help
06/09/2025

DG2020!

The app is good for cold plunging. Nicely integrated with my Apple Watch. On the sauna centric data the app is remarkably lacking. The Apple Watch cannot withstand the heat (at higher temperature levels) of a sauna. All the sauna data is therefore entered manually. Access to one’s heart rate as example is not possible. Manual entering of the sauna data is not efficient. For example, the temperature wheel only goes from 0 degrees to say 194 degrees in one direction from low to high) so between this and not being able to leverage your past sessions inputting values (say of session time and temp) makes the UI unnecessarily cumbersome. Another app has a small sensor that can be taken into the sauna and it tracks some variables? Also I don’t care for all the community/shared activity functionality wrt my cold plunging - I wish there was a way to mute that. Expensive app for simply being a partially integrated tracker for cold plunging.
Developer Response 06/23/2025
Hello! Thanks for this detailed feedback! Our latest update now solves for each point mentioned:1. Sauna temperature on manual activity keeping your previous time making it easier to add quickly2. You can now turn off community in the app, which will just give the solo experience of the app (which is quite nice, thanks for sharing)More updates on the way!
Go Polar Exactly What I need
04/10/2024

charlie987123
I’ve been using a notepad and/or Apple notes to track my cold + heat exposures for the past couple of years. Go Polar read my mind and with this app makes it so easy with a couple clicks to track this data and as a bonus provides insights on where I can access a sauna or cold plunge near me. It does exactly what I expected and more! Great job to the go polar team - looking forward to what’s next.
Go Polar Exactly What I need
04/10/2024

charlie987123

I’ve been using a notepad and/or Apple notes to track my cold + heat exposures for the past couple of years. Go Polar read my mind and with this app makes it so easy with a couple clicks to track this data and as a bonus provides insights on where I can access a sauna or cold plunge near me. It does exactly what I expected and more! Great job to the go polar team - looking forward to what’s next.
Solid Tracker
04/12/2024

14Connor14
I used to track my cold or heat exposure via Apple Notes but GoPolar makes my life 10 times easier. I know don’t have to go back and manually aggregate my time or get annoyed when I forget to log it in my notes. When I hit the ice bath or sauna I log it and can see how it’s helped my recovery over the past weeks. Highly recommend.
Solid Tracker
04/12/2024

14Connor14

I used to track my cold or heat exposure via Apple Notes but GoPolar makes my life 10 times easier. I know don’t have to go back and manually aggregate my time or get annoyed when I forget to log it in my notes. When I hit the ice bath or sauna I log it and can see how it’s helped my recovery over the past weeks. Highly recommend.

- Added new lifetime stats widgets for cold, hot, and red light therapy - Added new weekly goal widgets for cold and hot minutes - Fixed an issue with incorrect water temperature data - General performance improvements and bug fixes - Resolved activity sync issues with Strava - Introduced new streak tracking widgets

Version 2.3.3

Feb 6

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