For people who like to spend time outside. Outside of their comfort zone.
The Outsiders comes with hand-picked metrics to help you improve performance in an informed way. Made for self-coached athletes driven by data and planning.
This is not another "do more" fitness app. The Outsiders balances intensity with recovery. If you train with intent, want clear feedback, and see training as your main side project - this may be the tool for you.
*Created by the team behind Apple Watch App of the Year 2022 & 2024 Apple Design Award winner*
For cyclists, runners, swimmers, and performance-driven athletes who know what they need.
▶ TODAY – KNOW YOUR READINESS
Start each day with a Training Readiness score based on the ratio of acute to chronic training load, combined with body metrics and sleep quality. This tracks the balance between recent training effort and what your body can handle, accounting for short-term trends.
This helps you:
• Select the right effort & intensity for the day
• Build steadily toward goals
• Avoid injury and overtraining
All factors affecting your Readiness appear in interactive charts (Sleep, Training Load Ratio - TLR, Body Metrics).
Body metric history shows how training impacts recovery and adaptation. View data across 7 days, 4 weeks, or 6 months. Each view shows avg, max, and min values.
View sleep quality, duration, stages, and consistency over 14 days. Longer periods coming.
▶ PROGRESS – TRACK YOUR PERFORMANCE
See how your training load is stacking up during the training cycles.
• Balance hard training periods and recovery weeks
• Training Goals: Set short- and long-term targets and track progress over time
• Training Focus: choose the right type of guidance according to your goals - Polarized, Pyramid, Threshold
• Track your Endurance Fitness (CTL), Cardio Fitness (VO₂ max), and cycling FTP with clear trends.
Coming later:
• Running FT Pace
• Cycling Power Curve
▶ WORKOUTS – COMPLETE INSIGHT
All your HealthKit workouts in one place. Customize heart rate zones per activity type for clearer effort tracking.
Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends with detailed charts, including:
• Training load, duration, energy, distance, elevation
• Heart rate zones (aerobic & anaerobic, traditional 5 HRZ)
• Detailed in-workout analysis
• Map
• Cycling power zones
Power-based advanced metrics:
• Efficiency Factor
• Aerobic Decoupling
• Relative Intensity
• Variability Index
▶ APPLE WATCH APP
Key stats always a glance away: Training Readiness, 7-day TLR, Sleeping Heart Rate, HRV, Wrist Temperature, Respiratory Rate, Blood Oxygen, and recent Sleep.
Watch app complications:
• Training Readiness
• Training Load Ratio
▶ LOCALISATION
Available in 10 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Korean.
▶ PRIVACY
The app only reads HealthKit data on your device and never stores it elsewhere.
▶ DISCLAIMER
The Outsiders uses your HealthKit data and works best with >90 days of training history. If you’re new to Apple Watch or workout logging, it will need time to learn your patterns. Limited data means limited insight.
Crafted with attention to detail, by real, air-breathing humans.
Terms of Service: https://www.theoutsiders.app/terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://www.theoutsiders.app/privacypolicy
I love this app, I started with gentler streak and it wasn’t enough. As a competitive bodybuilder this app helps me to focus on my recovery and my over reaching. It gives easy to understand data and a great visual. It also helps me to stop doing more than I should be. So I love this app and how helpful it is!
Love it
Myndz7
Great app love it… it keeps my sanity VS strava 😅
I’m loving The Outsiders!
Mattyeahoo
This app has really focused my training. With Training Load, Focus and Readiness plus my Endurance Fitness markers I can really determine how I’m doing and how I should be training everyday. Now with customization to lay out the design as you want it is so good. Plus there are Training Goals to really keep you heading in the right direction. Everything about this app is intentional without any fluff but it is strikingly beautiful at the same time.
No nonsense tracking
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I stated out using Gentler Streak, this company’s first tracking app. It was (and still is) a useful and supportive app that encourages healthy habits. The Outsiders is more objective and data-driven. No flowers or rainbows, just actionable numbers. It is still encouraging, though, which is good. It runs only off the data from my Apple Watch and doesn’t store anything itself. That’s a nice feature. Overall a really useful app.
Hello there!
Last week we introduced Advanced Metrics for runs and bike rides with power data. In the past few days we made some user experience updates:
▶ BEHIND THE METRICS
If you want to see the data behind each metric, simply tap on it and you'll get the numbers used for the calculation.
▶ TRAINING SUMMARY BECOMES EVEN MORE USEFUL
Your overview of past trainings now offers two UX additions to help you analyse your progress even more. Filter by workout types, or select a specific week to see what you did in that time.
▶ BUG FIXES
Well, you know, bug fixes.
Version 1.6.1
The developer, Gentler Stories LLC, 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.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Gentler Stories d.o.o.
Size
64.9 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 9 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese