Athlytic: AI Fitness Coach 4+
HRV Based Training & Recovery
MyndArc, LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Athlytic takes all the data that your Apple Watch collects and translates it into actionable insights.
RECOVERY: We analyze your heart rate variability and resting heart rate to calculate how recovered you are and ready to train today.
EXERTION and TARGET EXERTION: We monitor your cardiovascular load 24/7 and each day provide you with a Target Exertion range to stay in if you are training today based on your Recovery.
TARGET SLEEP: We look at your daily Recovery, Exertion, Sleep, and Sleep Debt to give you a Target Sleep recommendation or sleep goal for tonight as well as a Target Bed Time for optimal circadian rhythm.
24/7 HEALTH MONITOR: We monitor your HRV, Resting HR, Blood Oxygen, Respiratory Rate, and Wrist Temperature 24/7 and let you know if any one of them is outside of your normal range. In Settings you can even set up a notification to be alerted to any of your metrics outside your normal range.
JOURNAL: Choose from a long list of available Tags to make a note of a certain activity and see how it affects your Recovery and Sleep.
WORKOUT LOGGING AND TRACKING: Track every workout and see a color-coded HR Zone Chart, current HR zone, in-workout Effort Score and Intensity Levels, in-workout Aerobic and Anaerobic analysis and SO MUCH MORE! After the workout see an even more detailed analysis of the workout including Cardio Fitness, Heart Rate Recovery, and Training Effect on HRV. Athlytic also coaches you to tell you how far off of your PR or average the Effort was for each type of workout type!
TRENDS: Robust Trends section which includes colorful and details charts including: Recovery vs. Exertion analysis and coaching, Weekly Cardio Load, Energy Consumed and Burned, Heart Rate Recovery and Cardio Fitness.
SLEEP: Visualize every aspect of your sleep including: Sleep Performance, Sleep Stages, a Restorative Sleep Analysis, Sleep Debt, Sleep Consistency, Sleep Latency and Efficiency, Heart Rate Dip During Sleep, as well as detailed charts of HRV, HR, Respiratory Rate, and Blood Oxygen during sleep.
8+ COMPLICATIONS: Recovery, Exertion, Blood Oxygen, Net Energy, Daily HRV Chart, Daily HR Chart, Daily Energy Burned & Macros, and Stress.
11+ HOME SCREEN WIDGETS: Recovery, Exertion, Net Energy, Macros, Daily HRV Chart, Recovery Exertion and Sleep, Daily HR Chart, Daily Summary, Daily Health Summary, and Lock Screen Widgets for Recovery and Exertion!
Notes:
• Athlytic does not require an Apple Watch, however for most of the features, you will need an Apple Watch in order to collect HRV and Resting Heart Rate Data necessary for these features.
• Athlytic integrates with the Health App on your iPhone to retrieve the data it displays. It will request permission to access the relevant data types necessary to present the metrics and features in the app.
Information about Athlytic subscriptions:
- Subscribers will receive 1 week free of Athlytic
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period.
- Depending on what subscription length you choose (Monthly or Annually), so long as your subscription is active, you will have access to the entire iPhone app for these periods, respectfully.
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Automatic renewals will cost the same price you were originally charged for the subscription.
- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase.
- Read our terms of service (https://www.hockeytrackerapp.com/terms-of-service/) and privacy policy (https://www.athlyticapp.com/privacy-policy) for more information which are also located inside the app.
What’s New
Version 5.4.0
Big Fall Update! Let's Go!
New Features:
(1) Design Refresh and new Dark Mode App Icon!
(2) Added a new Recovery-Based Training chart under Recovery vs Exertion to better visualize the effect of your Training relative to your Recovery over the past 60 days!
(3) Battery iPhone Widgets and Watch Complications (both weekly and daily)
What is Battery? Think of your battery as your body's charge similar to your iPhone's battery charge. Battery is based on your HRV and unlike Recovery, it's not only measured during sleep but also throughout the day. Here is an example where you might use Recovery and Battery in tandem: you may go out with friends the night before and have a few drinks and wake up in the red. But you rest throughout the day before your workout in the evening. By that point even though your Recovery was red in the morning, checking your Battery before the workout may show that your Battery has almost fully charged since it likely has by now processed out last night's alcohol while resting, indicating that you can push it in your workout!
You will now see 2 new iPhone Widgets and AW Complications for Daily (24hr) Battery as well as Weekly Battery. Battery is designed to give you a more frequent update of your training status. As opposed to Recovery which is designed to be a single value, once you wake up, Battery is a 24/7 measurement of your body I like to compare to your iPhone's battery level.
Also to understand how it works, it works when you have a new HRV sample in Apple Health. So for example if you have not had a new HRV sample for a while, it will not update. This is a feature where having Afib History turned on for increased HRV would really make more useful.
Also note if its been a while and you want to check in on your current Battery level, you can do a Breathe session in the Mindfulness App to trigger a new HRV reading and update your Battery level.
(4) Support for Naps!
**Note that this only applies to users who use Apple Watch for sleep tracking.** Since Apple doesn't have a Sleep Stage for a nap, it's impossible to differentiate sleep vs naps from 3rd party apps. Note also that an Apple Engineer told us "The system only tracks sleep periods that are one hour or more, so you won’t get a sleep analysis sample for a nap less than one hour."
Here are all the updates related to taking a nap:
-You Will See a new Nap Card above the Sleep Debt Card if Athlytic detects any naps in Apple Health
-Naps will no longer cause the Sleep Stage and Sleep Consistency Charts to be broken as they will not show the nap periods.
-Naps will now be displayed on the Stress and Battery Charts (including Widgets and Complications).
-Naps WILL impact your Sleep Debt (i.e. taking a nap will make it go down) which will also have downstream effects on your Target Sleep and Target Bed Times.
-Your Sleep Duration and Quality WILL NOT be affected as they are only related to overnight sleep.
-Naps will be Auto Tagged!
(5) Added the current day's step count to the rectangular watch Steps Complication/Widget.
(6) Added Core Training as a workout type...can you tell I've been checking out SolidCore! =)
Fixes:
Macro percentages on pie charts now represent % in terms of 9 grams for fat and 4 grams for carbs and protein.
Fixed an issue where some users Resting Heart Rate may not update in the morning.
Fixed an issue in the Journal where if you tagged something it would show an error that it's already been tagged.
Fixed an issue when you trim a workout's length, everything would trim correctly except the duration value in Apple Health.
Fixed an issue where if your Training Goal was Injured or Resting you would still see the Target Exertion Zone on the Recovery vs Exertion chart.
Fixed overlapping of labels on the Target Sleep vs Actual Sleep chart.
Added sorting to heart rates to fix a bug that some RunGap users were experiencing.
Ratings and Reviews
Provides the essential metrics in a very accessible format
Another 12 months on and ALL that was said below still applies. I love the way the developers clearly care about this app and the way they keep evolving and improving on what is already an indispensable tool for training - without compromising reliability or usability in any way.
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Update after 12 months use. This app isn’t just good, it’s essential for proper training. After 12 months of daily use I can honestly say its been 100% reliable, it ‘feels’ accurate (recommendations from the app seem in line with how body feels), the developer has been quick to answer queries, the app continues to evolve in the right direction. This one of just a handful of apps out there that is truly ESSENTIAL. —— I’ve been using this app for a few weeks now. What a brilliant app it is - it provides the essential, informative metrics that Apple Health, Strava, TrainerRoad etc should do but don’t. And does so in a clean accessible format. Its wonderful. IMHO this app is up there with the best of them.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the review!
I tried Whoop! I use Athlytic
I tried Whoop and sent it back… if you’ve already got an Apple Watch (or any other smart watch that is sending data to Apple Health) then you probably don’t need a Whoop.
This app puts all that data you’re gathering into a sensible and easy to make understand format. At £3 a month for the premium features it’s well worth it, especially compared to a Whoop band and subscription at ~£30 if you don’t buy a years subscription in one go. The trouble with Whoop is that it also needs over 30 days of data to get to know you, but the trial is only 30 days. Athlytic can look through the history of data you’ve already gathered in Apple Health and you’re up and running with good levels of insight from the off.
I like it overall but…
I found the how hard to push yourself information inconsistent. The bit that threw me and made me describe not to subscribe was this unclear inconsistency with the recommendation on how to train.
One day it told me I was well rested and to push myself. I was hoping to do that but it just so happened I had a long day stuck at the desk working. Quite a lazy day in the end from an effort point of view.
The next day, it told me to take it easy as if I’d had a tough workout the previous day.
Considering there isn’t much explanation around why it’s telling me this I found this to be inconsistent. I was expecting it to tell me to push myself as I’d now had two days of rest from exercise (due to work). But it was telling me the opposite.
Currently I’m giving Gentler Streak a try. It’s less detail oriented (which I miss but I can get from the Apple Health app) but it shows a fitness time line and gives informative suggestions on how hard to train to keep the fitness momentum up. From a push myself training point of view, Gentler is clearer. Being clear is the whole point of these apps. To bring some clarity to the wealth of data from Apple Health.
Overall, Athlytic is actually a really good app. I will definitely give it a revisit in the future. Just not right now as I think the effort page needs a bit more informative information to make it that but more consistent (at least from a being able to understand what changed point of view).
App Privacy
The developer, MyndArc, 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
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Information
- Provider
- MyndArc, LLC
- Size
- 52.3 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Myndarc, LLC 2021
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Athlytic Pro (Monthly) £3.49
- Athlytic Pro (Yearly) £26.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.