TakPulse
Private Hike, Run & Cardio
Free · In‑App Purchases
TakPulse turns the FIT, TCX, GPX or JSON files exported by your GPS sports watch into a clear, honest picture of your hikes, trail runs, and runs — entirely on your device.
No account. No cloud. No social feed. Heart rate data and GPS traces are among the most personal information a sports app can hold, so TakPulse never sends them anywhere. Everything is analyzed and stored in an encrypted vault, locked behind a passcode or Face ID / Touch ID.
WHAT YOU GET
- Import — FIT, TCX, GPX and JSON files, one at a time, or a whole folder at once on the Mac. Built-in help shows where to find them in your watch maker's app.
- Library — every hike, trail run, and run in one place, grouped by month, with distance, elevation gain, duration, and average heart rate at a glance.
- Activity detail — full summary, altitude profile with heart rate overlaid, and your GPS trace on the Apple map or on a neutral background drawn locally (the default). Showing the Apple map is your call, and the only moment map tiles are ever fetched from Apple.
- Honest cardio analysis — averages, percentiles, heart rate zones read two ways (your watch's own zones and a standard effort scale), climb vs. descent effort, a 10-minute breakdown of your effort, cardiac drift, and how your heart rate recovers during pauses, each with a plain-language explanation and its source. Manufacturer estimates from your watch (recovery time, training effect) are shown as-is, never recalculated or dramatized.
- Trends — weekly and monthly volume, and how your pause recovery evolves over time.
- Manage your library — rename, add notes and a feeling, favorite, and a trash you can restore from.
- Export a one-page PDF report, or re-export your original file, anytime.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE AND ON YOUR DATA ALONE
Yes, this is artificial intelligence, and it should say which kind: supervised learning, two small models fitted on your own outings, on this device — a linear regression and boosted decision trees. They give the heart rate your own history predicts for the effort you put in, the gap to your habit, how your form moves, and the time a route would take you again.
It is not a language model and it is not a chatbot: no third-party weights, no outside corpus, no training on anyone else's data, no network. The models are rebuilt from your data, live in the encrypted vault, and never leave it. You can read the method, its validation and its limits in the app.
YOUR VAULT, YOUR RULES
A passcode or biometric unlock protects everything. A recovery phrase is generated once, shown to you once, and never leaves your device. The vault is excluded from iCloud and Finder backups. Beyond the App Store itself, TakPulse only ever reaches the network if you turn on the Apple map, and then only to fetch tiles from Apple — no analytics, no trackers, nothing running in the background.
FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UNLOCK
The vault, your full library, and complete cardio analysis of every activity are free, with no limit on the number of activities. TakPulse Pro is a single purchase — no subscription — that unlocks the Trends screen, PDF export, and the Effort and HR block: your outing compared with your previous ones in the same sport, your form trend, and the projection of a route you have already done.
Built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
TakPulse gives you the numbers and explains what they mean — never a diagnosis, never a verdict. A training companion, not a substitute for medical advice.
— Precellence Software
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Temperature: the watch's reading is now shown "on the wrist", because that sensor, warmed by the skin and the sun, overstates the heat. You can enter the outdoor temperature on each outing, or turn on the air temperature from Apple Weather in Settings, an optional and reversible choice. The outing menu is aligned with its neighbours on Mac.
The developer, Damien Zilka, 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
- Damien Zilka
- Size
- 19.4 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, French, German, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- TakPulse Pro $9.99
- Copyright
- © Precellence Software