
The Outsiders: Athlete Tracker
Progress = Training + Recovery
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
For people who like to spend time outside. Outside of their comfort zone.
The Outsiders comes with hand-picked metrics and a clear goal: to help you improve performance in an informed way. It is made for athletes who are highly motivated on their own, often self-coached, and driven by data and planning. Methodical, analytical, and, let’s be honest, already deep down the fitness data rabbit hole. We know this, because we are one of them.
This is not another “do more” fitness app. The Outsiders balances intensity with recovery, so progress keeps moving forward. If you train with intent, want clear feedback, and see training not as a hobby but as your main side project - this may be the tool for you.
**Created by the team behind Apple Watch App of the Year 2022 and a 2024 Apple Design Award winner**
For cyclists, runners, swimmers, and other performance-driven athletes who know what they need from their training app.
▶ TODAY – KNOW YOUR READINESS
Start each day with a Training Readiness score. Training Readiness is based on the ratio of acute to chronic training load, combined with body metrics and sleep quality. That ratio helps track the balance between your recent training effort and what your body is currently adapted to handle. Readiness also accounts for short-term trends, giving you context that makes the score more relevant.
This helps you:
• Know what kind of effort your body is ready and select the right intensity for the day
• Build steadily toward races, marathons, or personal goals
• Respect your limits, avoid injury and overtraining
Body metric history shows how training impacts recovery and adaptation. View data across 7 days, 4 weeks, or 6 months - scroll back as far as your history goes. Each view shows your avg, max, and min values for that period.
View your sleep quality, duration, sleep stages and sleep consistency over 14 days. Longer time periods to come.
▶ PROGRESS – TRACK YOUR PERFORMANCE
See how your training load is stacking up during the training cycles.
• Balance hard training periods and recovery weeks.
• Training Focus: choose the right type of guidance according to your goals - Polarized, Pyramid, Threshold
• Heart Rate Zones and Cycling Power Zones: Observe your training distribution across the zones throughout your training cycles & seasons and adapt accordingly.
• Track your Endurance Fitness (chronic training load), Cardio Fitness (VO₂ max), and cycling FTP with clear trends.
View your data across 4 weeks, or 6 months - scroll back as far as your history goes. Each view shows your avg, max, and min values for that period.
Coming later:
• Running FT Pace
• Cycling Power Curve
▶ WORKOUTS – COMPLETE INSIGHT
All your HealthKit workouts in one place. Chance to customize your heart rate zones per activity type (running, cycling, swimming, other) for a clearer overview of your efforts.
Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends with detailed charts, including:
• Training load, duration, energy, distance, elevation
• Heart rate zones (aerobic & anaerobic, traditional 5 HR zones)
• Cycling power zones (7 zones model)
• Detailed in-workout analysis
• Map
Coming later:
• Efficiency Factor
• Aerobic Decoupling
• Intensity Factor
• Variability Index
▶ APPLE WATCH APP - COMING SOON
A perfect performance complement to your Apple Watch or AW Ultra with key stats always a glance away.
▶ PRIVACY
The app only reads HealthKit data on your device and never stores it elsewhere.
▶ DISCLAIMER
The Outsiders reads your data from HealthKit, and works best with at least 90 days of training and health data. If you’re new to recording workouts or wearing Apple Watch, the app will need some time to learn your readiness, but it will catch on. If you don’t log workouts or wear your AW at night, you won’t get the full experience.
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
Events
Hello Outsiders! Time for an update as loaded as your quads. Well, almost. For those who love to spin the pedals, we’ve got something sweet: Cycling Power Zones now just a click away. That, and lots of smaller perks. Dig in.
▶ CYCLING POWER ZONES (CPZ)
Yes, cyclist, we see you, we feel you, we are you! CPZ are now available in both the Workout Summary and the Progress tab.
In the Workout Summary, you’ll see your Power Zone distribution next to Training Focus and Heart Rate Zones for every logged ride. In the Progress tab, you can track your 4-week and 12-week Power Zone distribution under Intensity Distribution, plus your Long-Term Overview displaying weekly CPZ distribution for all your recorded history.
To see this feature, you’ll need cycling power data - which means a power meter. If you’re new to tracking power, this feature will appear after your first cycling power data log in Health.
▶ BODY METRICS
The small charts on the Today tab now have an updated visualisation and transition between ranges. If you went far outside of your normal range with any of the metrics, this should now be clearly visible even when this measurement is already in the past.
▶ WORKOUT SUMMARY
Each Heart Rate Zone and Power Zone now displays the minimum and maximum range value on the right side next to duration. This one doesn’t show up in the Progress tab, because your zones might change over time.
▶ TRAINING FOCUS ZONES
Training Focus Zones are now displayed for all the workouts with at least one minute of your heart rate measurements above the bottom threshold. You can adjust your Training Focus Zones in The Outsiders > Profile > Personal & Fitness Details > Training Focus Zones.
▶ PROGRESS TAB
Fitness cards (Endurance Fitness, Cardio Fitness, Cycling FTP) now display a date of your last logged value, to provide a better overview of your values at a glance.
▶ BUG FIXES
With this version we also introduce the following set of bug fixes:
・ HR zones not saving > should now be saving correctly.
・ Body metrics (overnight vs. all-day) confusion > resolved. If you sleep with your watch, we’ll use overnight data. Keep in mind that if you miss tracking some nights, there will be a gap in your trend. If you don’t, we’ll take daytime measurements. This (data source choice) applies retroactively to your full history.
・ Wrist temperature chart now makes sense for Fahrenheit users > it used to show Celsius limits, yikes.
If being an Outsider feels like home, don’t keep it a secret hideout - help more lost athletes find their way to the front door! A 5-star rating and a positive review on the App Store is like dropping breadcrumbs on the trail (we started with a metaphor, and, in classic Outsider fashion, we’re going all in on it): it helps others discover the app, grows our community, and supports the indie team behind it so we can keep building.
Got feedback? Let us know!
Email: support@theoutsiders.app
Reddit: r/theoutsidersapp
Instagram: @theoutsiders.app
X/Twitter: @TheOutsidersApp
Appreciate you pushing forward with us!
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 .
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Information
- Seller
- Gentler Stories d.o.o.
- Size
- 41.8 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Outsider Absolute Yearly $24.99
- Outsider Absolute Monthly $3.99
- Outsider Absolute for Life $79.99
- Copyright
- © 2025 Gentler Stories LLC