# Aera: Sleep & Running Tracker — Loop Route Planner & HRV > Loop Route Planner & HRV (iPhone/iPad app by Gergo Varga.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aera-sleep-and-running-tracker/id6762456252 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Gergo Varga](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894205274) - Category: Health & Fitness, Navigation - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 100 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-04-21 - Data updated: 2026-10-07 ## What is Aera? Aera plans running loops from your door, replays your recent runs in 3D over the real ground, and reads your sleep and recovery against your own usual, on iPhone and Apple Watch, with no account. Aera reads Apple Health on your iPhone. Every run, walk, ride and night is read against your own usual, and every number opens the article behind it. TODAY: HARD, EASY OR REST Your recovery, sleep, stress and recent training decide the call, free for everyone. With Premium, Aera writes today's session: how long and how hard. PICK A DISTANCE. AERA DRAWS THE LOOP. Up to three loops that start and end where you stand: one on ground you know, one new to you, and one off-road, or along cycleways on a ride. Size them by distance or by minutes. Where there is enough to see, a Sights loop passes the best-known places, and a loop past a viewpoint can be timed for the sunset. DRAW YOUR OWN Tap and the line keeps to real paths, or drag to draw freehand. The distance counts as you draw. Open a GPX file and it is ready to follow. EVERY TURN, BEFORE IT COMES Turn by turn on your iPhone and Apple Watch, spoken if you want it, with a word when you leave the route and when you are back on it. EVERY WORKOUT, EXPLAINED Splits, heart rate zones, climb and the effort the session actually cost you, against your own usual. Fly back over any run from the last seven days. READ AGAINST YOU, NOT AN AVERAGE Recovery, stress, strain and sleep are scored against a baseline learned from your own nights and sessions. While your history is thin, Aera says so instead of guessing. YOUR NIGHT, IN ITS OWN SHAPE The stages as they happened, the hours you slept, and how far that sat from the need Aera learned from you. EVERY NUMBER, EXPLAINED The Field Guide explains how each read is built, the research behind it, and where it stops being reliable. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets in every size, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. FREE Recovery, stress, strain and your sleep score, every day. Hard, easy or rest. Loops, the route planner and turn by turn. Every workout read, every personal best and your recap films. Flyover for the last seven days. Twelve months of history, and your raw data out as JSON or GPX. PREMIUM Today's session. Your sleep reserve. Your places. Flyover for older routes. Every route you draw kept (the first one is free). History past twelve months. Reports and every export format. Monthly, yearly, or once and yours for good. PRIVACY Health numbers stay on your iPhone. No account, no sign in. Your scores are computed on your iPhone, and there is no language model anywhere in the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Aera Premium Monthly | $7.99 | per month | | Annual | $39.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Aera Premium Lifetime | $99.99 | one-time | ## Is Aera safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Aera. ## Is Aera legit? Aera: Sleep & Running Tracker has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Aera is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.2 — 2026-09-29 Hello, autumn! While you were out running, walking and sleeping (hopefully in that order), I kept teaching Aera one thing: getting you out the door. Here is what 3.2 brings. PICK A DISTANCE, GET A LOOP Open Plan on the Map and pick Loops. The loops you already run come first. Ask for a new one and Aera draws up to three from where you stand: Familiar, New to you and Off-road, or Cycleways on a ride. Size them by distance or minutes, or press and hold the map to start somewhere else. Loops lean onto waymarked trails and signed cycle routes, keep off ground too hard for your sport, and show their climb. A Sights loop passes the best-known places, numbered, with photos, and a viewpoint can be timed for the sunset. EVERY TURN, SPOKEN Follow a route with directions read aloud, on the Lock Screen too, even with no signal. Take a wrong turn and Aera says so. YOUR ROUTES, YOURS Drag the small ring on any stretch to bend a route, pull a corner, or tap a point to turn around there. A loupe shows the ground under your thumb, with Undo and Redo close by. Hold a route to rename it or give it another activity. Walks you repeat become routes of their own. RUNS FROM YOUR WRIST Record on your Apple Watch alone, with auto-pause, and feel each turn of a route. Your watch now opens on today's plan, then sleep, body and fitness, one crown turn at a time, with your sleep score and stages. The Smart Stack shows last night in the morning and bedtime in the evening. Start today's plan with Siri, Control Center or the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra. Every route carries its own map with contour lines, even with no signal. TODAY'S SESSION, AND WHERE Fitness Today picks the place as well as the session, and the coach opens the Map on loops sized to it, the best fit first, with a saved route that fits. Part of Premium. ARE YOU GETTING FITTER? Progress reads cardio fitness, pace at the same effort, resting heart rate and heart rate recovery as Fitter, Holding or Easing. Set your own max, resting and threshold heart rate, and every zone follows. EVERY WORKOUT, IN ONE PICTURE One chart for the whole session: pace with every split, heart rate shaded by your own zones, every hill, and pauses clearly named. Splits and interval reps show cadence, and elevation shows your real altitude and the true summit. FLYOVER, AS A FILM Flyover is now a short film of your workout that pauses at your photos, your fastest split and the top of the climb. Free for the last seven days, older workouts with Premium. MAKE THE CARD YOURS Edit a share card the way you edit a widget: rewrite any word, pick any colour, and every size still fits. A new Effort look shows how hard you worked. EXPORT AND YOUR WHOLE HISTORY Pick who a file is for. With Premium, a clear report for your doctor, with only the readings a doctor can use. Your map, routes and personal bests reach back through every workout, and years of workouts from another app's export come into Apple Health from Settings, with no duplicates. SLEEP, IN ONE WORD Sleep opens on a word for the night, then your score and time asleep, weighed the way the published studies do. Naps count, and never merge into last night. FREE FOR EVERYONE Recap films for your weeks, months and year, every personal best, and twelve months of every chart. LIGHT, AND TEN LANGUAGES Aera follows your phone into light mode and speaks ten languages, each now read by a native editor, with words on widgets, the watch and charts kept whole. STEADIER Aera opens in about a quarter of a second and page tops draw at once. No freeze after a sync. Steep climbs keep the clock running, and a day your watch missed stays empty instead of getting a recovery score. Aera is made by one person, and a review on the App Store is the best way to help others find it. Questions or ideas? https://vargagergo-git.github.io/aera-site/. I read everything. Every change, the fixes too, is in Settings under What's new. ### 3.1.1 — 2026-09-26 Hello, autumn! While you were out running, walking and sleeping (hopefully in that order), I was teaching Aera one new thing: getting you out the door. Here is what 3.1 brings. PICK A DISTANCE, GET A LOOP Aera draws up to three loops from where you stand: one on ground you know, one on new ground, and the quietest. EVERY TURN, SPOKEN Follow a route with directions read aloud, on the Lock Screen too, even with no signal. Take a wrong turn and Aera says so, then tells you when you are back on it. Got a GPX file? Open it from Files or a message and it is ready to follow. YOUR ROUTES, YOURS Hold a route to rename it, reshape it or give it another activity. Walks you repeat become routes of their own, named after the neighbourhood they start in. Routes point out the sights they pass, and you choose which ones. RUNS FROM YOUR WRIST Record on your Apple Watch alone, with auto-pause. Follow a route on your wrist and feel each turn, with the next corner on a complication. TODAY'S SESSION, AND WHERE Fitness Today now picks the place as well as the session: your usual loop on a good day, a shorter one when your body asks for it. Part of Premium. ARE YOU GETTING FITTER? Progress answers honestly: cardio fitness, pace at the same effort, resting heart rate and heart rate recovery, each reading Fitter, Holding or Easing. Predictions show whether your race times are getting quicker. You can now set your own max, resting and threshold heart rate, and every zone follows. EVERY WORKOUT, IN ONE PICTURE One chart for the whole session: pace with every split marked, heart rate shaded by your own zones, and every hill on the route. Start a workout from Home, Fitness or the Map. SLEEP, IN ONE WORD Sleep opens on a word for the night, then your score and time asleep. The score now weighs things the way the published studies do, so your numbers may shift a little. Naps count, and never merge into last night. NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE Recap films for your weeks, months and year. Every personal best. Flyover for anything from the last seven days. Twelve months of every chart. LIGHT, AND TEN LANGUAGES Aera follows your phone into light mode, and now speaks German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) and Traditional Chinese. Reduce motion, higher contrast and colour-blind friendly colours are in Settings, Accessibility. STEADIER Aera opens in about a quarter of a second, down from three. The map stays smooth with thousands of trails on it, and a run survives the app closing. 3.1.1 • A route you save on your phone guides you on your watch too. • A walk started on your phone and recorded on your watch keeps its true time and distance. • Ending a workout on your phone stops it on your watch. • The coach's recommended route opens with its loop already drawn. • Suggested loops change from day to day. • Loops follow the route style you choose for each sport, and can keep off busy roads. • Ride loops reach 100 km and run loops 42 km. • Surfaces and sights appear sooner, and their photos load faster. • The Map asks for your location the first time you open it. • Bedtime and wake times show in full in every language. • Every screen, your watch and your widgets are fully translated. • Fitness and Recovery open on days with missing or repeated data. Aera is made by one person, and a review on the App Store is the best way to help others find it. Questions or ideas? https://vargagergo-git.github.io/aera-site/. I read everything. Every change, the fixes too, is in Settings under What's new. ### 3.1 — 2026-09-26 Hello, autumn! While you were out running, walking and sleeping (hopefully in that order), I was teaching Aera one new thing: getting you out the door. Here is what 3.1 brings. PICK A DISTANCE, GET A LOOP Aera draws up to three loops from where you stand: one on ground you know, one on new ground, and the quietest. EVERY TURN, SPOKEN Follow a route with directions read aloud, on the Lock Screen too, even with no signal. Take a wrong turn and Aera says so, then tells you when you are back on it. Got a GPX file? Open it from Files or a message and it is ready to follow. YOUR ROUTES, YOURS Hold a route to rename it, reshape it or give it another activity. Walks you repeat become routes of their own, named after the neighbourhood they start in. Routes point out the sights they pass, and you choose which ones. RUNS FROM YOUR WRIST Record on your Apple Watch alone, with auto-pause. Follow a route on your wrist and feel each turn, with the next corner on a complication. TODAY'S SESSION, AND WHERE Fitness Today now picks the place as well as the session: your usual loop on a good day, a shorter one when your body asks for it. Part of Premium. ARE YOU GETTING FITTER? Progress answers honestly: cardio fitness, pace at the same effort, resting heart rate and heart rate recovery, each reading Fitter, Holding or Easing. Predictions show whether your race times are getting quicker. You can now set your own max, resting and threshold heart rate, and every zone follows. EVERY WORKOUT, IN ONE PICTURE One chart for the whole session: pace with every split marked, heart rate shaded by your own zones, and every hill on the route. Start a workout from Home, Fitness or the Map. SLEEP, IN ONE WORD Sleep opens on a word for the night, then your score and time asleep. The score now weighs things the way the published studies do, so your numbers may shift a little. Naps count, and never merge into last night. NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE Recap films for your weeks, months and year. Every personal best. Flyover for anything from the last seven days. Twelve months of every chart. LIGHT, AND TEN LANGUAGES Aera follows your phone into light mode, and now speaks German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) and Traditional Chinese. Reduce motion, higher contrast and colour-blind friendly colours are in Settings, Accessibility. STEADIER Aera opens in about a quarter of a second, down from three. The map stays smooth with thousands of trails on it, and a run survives the app closing. Aera is made by one person, and a review on the App Store is the best way to help others find it. Questions or ideas? https://vargagergo-git.github.io/aera-site/. I read everything. Every change, the fixes too, is in Settings under What's new. ### 3.0 — 2026-09-20 3.0 is the release where Aera learned the ground you cover. THE MAP A fourth tab. Plan a route on real terrain, with the surface underfoot, the climb ahead and what is worth stopping for. Every path you have covered draws itself into a heat map of your own ground. Save a route and it comes with you, offline. FOLLOW A ROUTE Take a saved route and Aera navigates it: the turn ahead, the time to the top, and a word when you drift off the line. THE PHOTOS YOU TOOK Aera looks for the pictures you took while you were out, pins them where you took them on the route, and offers them back to you in a grid. Keep the ones you want with the session. THE YEAR BOOK Your months, gathered into a year you can page through and share. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Ten widgets, and not one of them prints a score. Your week and the days you moved. The gym as seven plates, one for each day you lifted. Your running as a single lap against your usual week. Today's steps. Last night in its four stages. This morning's vitals, each against its own usual range. Your last session, with the ground it covered. ASK SIRI How did I sleep. What did I do this week. How was my last workout. Your nights, days and sessions are searchable in Spotlight too. ACCESSIBILITY VoiceOver reads the charts aloud, with Audio Graphs on nineteen of them. Colour is never the only signal. Reduce Motion is honoured everywhere. Larger Text goes further without clipping. YOUR DATA, OUT An Excel workbook, FIT files, GPX tracks, JSON, and a PDF season report. Settings, Your data. REBUILT Fitness is now Today, Progress and Sessions, with personal bests in a room of their own. Heart rate zones can be drawn four ways now, and each one says where it came from. Home says one thing in plain words instead of stacking scores. Sleep pages night by night and shows your body clock. Notifications learn the hours you are actually awake. Settings is seven rows. The monthly recap is a six chapter story. Every explainer shows its sources. FIXED Drawing a route no longer crashes, and neither does the flyover replay. Naps are counted as naps instead of being folded into the night before. A readiness score of zero reads as a rest day rather than missing data. Splits, watch cards and map labels no longer clip their text. Opening a workout with a route no longer hangs. A run the app died in the middle of comes back, and the numbers your watch recorded rejoin it. ### 2.3 — 2026-08-08 This is the biggest release since Aera launched. Almost every screen has been rebuilt, and several whole areas are new. NEW: BIOLOGICAL AGE A fourth tab that reads your body's age from seven signals, including cardio fitness, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, movement and sleep. Each factor shows what it adds or takes away, with an honest account of where the estimate ends. NEW: TRAINING READINESS AND TODAY'S SESSION A clear go hard, go easy or rest call, and a session built from the week you actually had. It learns your habits, adapts after a break, and never pushes intensity when your signals disagree. NEW: YOUR ROUTES AND PLACES Aera now recognises the runs and the stretches of ground you keep coming back to, entirely on device. Every pass is timed and ranked against your own history, including whether you are moving faster at the same heart rate. Rename, merge or hide any of them. NEW: MONTHLY REVIEW A walked-through look back at the month, composed only from reads Aera already made. Steps, effort mix, sleep, your standout session and a 3D replay of it. NEW: BEDTIME WINDOW Tonight's onset window, learned from your own bed and wake times, with a calm reminder and a home or lock screen widget that counts down to it. NEW: THE FIELD GUIDE Every number in the app now has an article behind it that states the actual method, the research it rests on, and what it cannot tell you. NEW: WEIGHT A frequency agnostic weight trend on Longevity, logged to Apple Health, with real change separated from water. WORKOUTS, IN DEPTH 3D flyover replay of any route. Splits coloured by heart rate zone. Grade adjusted pace on hills. Whether you finished stronger or eased off. How your pace held against your heart rate. Running form, work and rest, heat context, personal bests and verified records. SLEEP Last night is now one instrument. Stages, vitals and restlessness on a single scrubbable band. Sleep need, reserve and debt account for what training took out of you. Your schedule read shows which end of the night drifts and what keeping your usual bedtime is worth. RECOVERY, STRESS AND STRAIN All three menus rebuilt. Recovery now says what moved with it, what a hard day usually costs you, and when you can push again. A guard was added so an unusually calm morning is not misread as a green light. HOME Rebuilt around your day rather than a dashboard. Fresh workout and sleep receipts, a rolling sleep week, hour by hour movement measured against your own typical weekday, and a background that follows the hour. WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH Lock screen and home screen widgets redrawn for readability on busy wallpapers, with tap through to the right screen. Watch complications now carry the same reads. EXPORT A rebuilt Export Center. Choose 7, 30 or 90 days, a year, all time or your own range. JSON, spreadsheet, or a polished PDF report. FASTER AND STEADIER Sync moved off the main thread and now recovers from failures on its own. A crash on very large histories is fixed, along with more than twenty other verified bugs. Cold start is lighter and the app scrolls smoothly on long histories. ALSO Onboarding rebuilt. Themes and personalization. Metric and imperial units. Every score screen retuned. The Labs tab has been retired. 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