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Recovery coach
I tried numerous recovery apps. I almost just got a whoop to track my recovery. I was really wanting something that was cheap and I could just use my Apple Watch with. I tried the free trial of Athlytic and knew that I found that app! Best recovery app available! Works so perfect with my Apple Watch. It gives me things I should do differently (needing to sleep more was one of my biggest problems). It gives me what workouts I should do each day, how long, and what intensity to do them. It gives my typical workouts and other workout ideas. This is the perfect workout coach app in my opinion. When it gives a recommendation such as sleeping more or eating better, listen to it! My recovery went from like 30% and I felt so horrible to yesterday for example I did two of my normal workouts and I am still at 88% recovery this morning!Show lessRyFi#1847
Great App and Concept
Love it and excited to keep using it.
Please keep up the good work. I’d like to see more features to compete with whoop and oura.
Also please note on version 5.3.0 iPhone 15 pro max, the More tab needs some vertical padding or margin at the bottom of the scroll view!
I’m ready to give this app 5 stars if we see some polishing of the features and UX.
I think the Today tab could offer more content and make each piece of content larger, as well as display previews of charts.
The Trends tab is great but I also wonder why data such as “steps” among other things is found there and not in a general dashboard, like the today tab. Would it be worth having a set of recommended preset layouts on a dashboard view? Would that be the today tab?
The workouts parent view is also a bit clunky with the workouts being a scroll view occupying half of the whole view, with the chart in the upper half. The details view of the workout themselves are excellent though.
I’m not sure what the purpose is behind a workouts summary view. It’s nice, but I’d prefer to see the app focus more on health diagnostics, health status reporting, health predictions, health suggestions, etc. Browsing workouts is cool but not in isolation. It should be integrated with the health status reporting experience.
I hope this helps! I think we need more 3rd party software that can replicate these proprietary options like Oura and Whoop.Show lessCalirelius
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for your review! Would you mind sending me a screenshot of your padding issue to athlytic@gmail.com? If you email, please mention that you are the one who left this helpful review. We would also love to hear any other suggestions you have! Thank you! - JaclynLeft Garmin because of this app
I had been using Garmin for years and I hated the new connect app update, this app allowed me to get all the data I need with my Apple Watch and I was so happy to ditch my Garmin! I love this app.Starbucks91311
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.Show lessNye7
Developer Response
Thank you for the review!Detailed, comprehensive, useful
For an Apple Watch owner this fills in many of the gaps between the Apple ecosystem and Garmin’s Connect app, to the extent that I’ve stopped using my Fenix completely. It also does a lot of what Oura’s app does - so my Oura has also been retired (its battery fails to charge as well, so this was just the nudge I needed). Strongly recommended to all training-minded users.Show lessRob Rainthorpe
Good alternative to WHOOP for Apple Watch users
Athlytic is an easy alternative to WHOOP for people that like Apple Watch over other fitness trackers. I appreciated WHOOP’s presentation and analysis, but Athlytic provides much of the same information and works nicely with Apple Watch. It was quite annoying to wear two devices at once. I did it for a year to compare the two and the metrics they provided generally trended the same so I’m pretty confident in Athlytic’s metrics & will be canceling my WHOOP subscription. The other big plus for me was the lack of data collection. Everything Athlytic does is on-device, so I don’t feel like I’m the product. No one ever reads the fine print, they just click accept or use the service. With Athlytic, I can at least feel confident that blindly accepting the terms isn’t forking over my health data to be sold, used for research, etc.Show lessaureliusatreides
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a detailed review! We appreciate the support and the acknowledgement that we do not collect any data from our users. Privacy is a key principle we value deeply so you will never have to worry about this policy changing.Incorrect data and no support
A few weeks into using the app, my training load focus drastically changed and a lot of my data was missing or misrepresented on the charts and dashboards. I reached out to the developer but no real support was provided. Concept for the app is great and I want to continue to support it but I can’t trust the interpretation of the data.
Update after developer response:
There is a difference in responding to my emails and actually helping to support and fix the issue reported. To provide context for anyone reading this review, my training load drastically changed unexpectedly one day. Even though I was doing cycling and strength workouts that took me into zones 3,4 and 5. The data was completely missing from my training load. One of the developers responses was…
“The numbers are your most recent based off the last 30 days so it changes. Thank you!”
There is a bug in their program that is inaccurately reporting things like training load and other metrics. I made it clear that I would be more than happy to help them debug and figure this out because if it is happening to me, I’m sure it is happening to other users.
I’ve uninstalled the app and requested a refund. I told them the app is a great concept but has bugs that they are unable or unwilling to fix. I’ll be more than happy to increase my review from a 1 star if they do fix it. But their support still leaves a lot to be desired.Show lessbrianmcm
Developer Response
Hi! This is unfair to say there is no support as I believe we emailed back and forth about 20 times or so where I tried to explain that your training load will and does change. This is also stated in the information cards within the app. If you are missing data, try deleting the app, powering off your phone and then reinstalling. It may be a sync issue with Apple Health. I'd be happy to help further. After resolution, please consider updating your review. Thank you! - JaclynApple please buy this company
Apple these features would make owning a Garmin less tempting and allow you to extract more money from your more training load focused customersFezsha
Metrics are not always accurate
After voicing concerns about how metrics are calculated, specifically recovery, they responded with:
“You may have seen this response on reddit but if not...
We feel that Recovery should be 100% physiological, so for example if you only got 5 hours of sleep but your HRV is high and your RHR is low, your body is signaling that even with the reduced sleep, it is still ready to train. Why would we arbitrarily knock down Recovery just because of sleep then? Or to think of it another way, a good night of good restful sleep should be “baked in” to Recovery via HRV. To beat the point to death, let’s say you get insanely drunk and sleep 10 hours or are recovering from an illness, obviously you are not going to wake up being ready to train, but if you factored in sleep it would tweak your Recovery higher. But seriously though, HRV it's such a valuable metric and window into our central nervous system, that things like poor sleep etc. are likely going to be reflected in your HRV without the need for looking at external non-physiolgical factors.
Also, no ego here, we are a team of 2 🤷♀️ and Gary created the app based on a Recovery metric he had in his flagship hockey app and we thought it would be neat to have a general fitness app. I personally don't play hockey so I was using his hockey app to track all my workouts to get this score. We are happy and fortunate that many other people enjoy the app as well now as it allowed both of us to go full-time to work on it. Many users very much like that our Recovery score differs in this way from other apps, but we are always open to suggestions.”
They are useless metrics because they are not relevant to the whole body interactions. And their unwillingness to acknowledge that fact with extremely egotistical statements is not scientific. Stay away from this app!!!Show lessBendu.Ares
Developer Response
We are sorry you feel this way! It's okay if the app is not for you. Thank you! - JaclynOne of the worst
This app is one of the worst of its kind. I deeply regret purchasing the yearly subscription. Clearly the AI capabilities it utilizes doesn’t work, the numbers are all over the place and the UI is terrible. Heart Analyzer is a far superior product. Don’t waste your time.TheDar
Developer Response
Hi! I would be happy to troubleshoot or answer any questions you have. Shoot me an email at athlytic@gmail.com. Upon resolving, please consider revising your review. Thank you! - Jaclyn
