CalmTide: Cortisol Tracker
Stress, HRV & Recovery Score
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
CalmTide 1.5: see what actually moves your cortisol — morning-after patterns, a weekly "what moved your score" readout, Watch check-ins and a smarter Practice hub.
Lower your baseline cortisol. CalmTide reads the Apple Health data you already have — sleep, HRV, workouts, resting heart rate, mindful minutes — and turns it into one clear picture of your stress biology: an HPA Balance Score today, and an estimated baseline-cortisol trend over 8 weeks. Not another meditation timer. A measurement layer for calm.
Everything runs on your device. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Your health data never leaves your phone.
SEE TODAY CLEARLY
• HPA Balance Score (0–100) from a named, citation-backed model — tap any number to see the research behind it
• One smart recommendation, chosen for today — not a generic list
• A daily protocol checklist: breathwork, Zone 2, sleep, morning light
• Recovery signals at a glance: HRV, resting heart rate, sleep, respiratory rate
• Where you sit against normative ranges for your age — free, on every metric
FIND YOUR PATTERNS (new in 1.5)
• Morning-after insights: what caffeine, alcohol, late meals and hard workouts did to your HRV, sleep and readiness — read the next morning, when the biology actually lands
• What your check-ins reveal (Pro): whether how you feel actually tracks your sleep, HRV and training, compared across your own days
• Your strongest cortisol link, from your own data — suggestive, not causal, and always explained
• Personal records: longest streak, best HPA week, calmest morning
UNDERSTAND YOUR WEEK (new in 1.5)
• A weekly retrospective that ranks exactly what moved your score — sleep, morning light, HRV, mindfulness, training load — in points, this week versus last
• Every workout scored for its cortisol effect: reducing, neutral, or spiking
• Training-load intelligence: acute-to-chronic ratio, monotony and strain (Pro)
ACT ON IT
• Practice hub: cyclic sighing (Balban 2023) and resonance breathing (Steffen 2020), in 2, 5 or 10-minute doses, suggested by situation — evening wind-down, post-workout, elevated load
• Completed sessions save to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes
• Morning-light coaching to anchor your cortisol awakening rhythm
• Smart, quiet notifications that arrive when they help — never to interrupt
WATCH YOUR BASELINE FALL
• An 8-week estimated baseline-cortisol trend with your life events pinned to it — illness, travel, deadlines — so shifts make sense
• A 7-day cortisol forecast from your training and sleep (Pro)
• Check in from your wrist with the Apple Watch app (new in 1.5)
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• On-device analysis, including the optional Calm Coach explainer
• Export or restore your data any time — it's yours
• App Privacy label: Data Not Collected
CalmTide is free to use daily. CalmTide Pro (full 8-week trend, extended 60- and 90-day history, the cortisol forecast, score & forecast widgets, scores on Apple Watch, advanced training-load analytics and Calm Coach) is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. New subscribers get a 1-month free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; the price and any trial are shown before you confirm.
CalmTide is a wellness tool. It estimates — it does not measure cortisol, and it does not diagnose or treat any medical condition.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• What your check-ins reveal (Pro) — after a few weeks of check-ins, see whether how you feel actually lines up with your sleep, HRV and training. Compared across your own days, never presented as cause and effect.
The developer, Michael Smith, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Michael Smith
- Size
- 8.2 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.6 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, German, Japanese, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $4.99
- Lifetime $19.99
- Annual $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Twisted Data Studios
