ARMS Athlete vs PISON
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ARMS Athlete
This app facilitates secure data sharing between athletes and coaches through custom forms and push notifications. It offers a touch-optimized interface for efficient data entry, connecting to the ARMS Performance platform.
- Custom form responses
- Touch-optimized interface
- Push notification reminders
- Secure data sharing
- Connects to ARMS Performance platform
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ARMS Athlete connects with the ARMS Performance platform, offering a fast and secure way for athletes to share data with their coaches. • Respond to custom forms sent by performance staff • Touch-optimised interface for fast and efficient data entry • Push notification reminders ARMS Athlete is free to all athletes who are members of a client organisation. To use the app you must be setup by an admin, for help please contact support. The EDGE10 Group supplies ARMS Performance (Performance & Analytics) and Athlete RMS (Sport Medicine) solutions to 750+ teams across sport, armed forces and corporate wellness, leading to better informed decision-making and so supporting high performing teams and athletes to meet their ultimate goals. ARMS PERFORMANCE is a performance and analytics solution that allows organisations to centralise, analyse and visualise data regardless of source, in order to gain valuable insights through the use of next generation analytics.
PISON
This app provides insights into your cognitive and physical performance using data from compatible smartwatches. It helps you understand readiness, mental agility, and focus, with advanced metrics for sleep, stress, and health available through membership tiers.
- Cognitive performance metrics (Readiness, Agility, Focus)
- Sleep and fatigue tracking
- Stress and health monitoring
- Fitness metrics (respiratory rate, calories)
- Community leaderboards and groups
- Insights from neural sensor technology
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Unlock Your Mind. Unleash Your Potential. Pison helps you reach new heights of human performance and health. The Pison app enables you to improve your whole self. It works in tandem with smartwatches or fitness trackers that are powered by Pison sensors to give you unprecedented insights into your mind, body, fatigue, health, and safety. Note - a Pison-powered wearable and a Pison membership are required. Innovative Sensor Technology Your unique performance and health insights are possible because of Pison’s innovative sensor technology. Unlike other wearables, all Pison-powered wearables include Pison’s novel neural sensor which decodes signals from your mind and nervous system, discreetly collected at the wrist, and gives key insights about your mental state that were never before possible. Some Pison-powered wearables also include other sensors that monitor vital signals such as your heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing frequency, pulse rate, and stress. When this information is blended with the insights from Pison’s neural sensor, you get richer information about your sleep, fatigue, fitness and health. Measure. Understand. Excel. The Pison app enables anyone with a Pison membership, including Pison READY and Pison PERFORM memberships, to monitor three critical cognitive performance metrics: - Readiness - A real-time indication of your ability to mentally perform. It can reveal impairment from fatigue, head injury, diet and disease. - Mental Agility - How quickly you process information, make decisions, and react. In competitive sports or high-stress professional scenarios, Mental Agility is crucial to success. - Focus - A reliable indicator of your ability to maintain attention. This is the gold standard measurement for fatigue testing. If you have a Pison PERFORM membership, you can also monitor additional metrics, including: - Sleep/Fatigue - Sleep time, sleep stages (REM, light, deep, and awake), sleep quality, sleep debt, circadian rhythm - Stress - Emotional reactions - Health - Heart rate, resting heart rate (RHR), heart rate variability (HRV), skin temperature - Fitness - Respiratory rate, calories burned - Safety - Sustained attention (PVT-B) In addition, all Pison memberships allow you to engage with the Pison community through leaderboards and personal groups where you can share and benchmark your performance scores with elite performers, friends, family, and peers. Revolutionary insights drive success Pison helps you measure and track your cognitive performance and physical performance metrics so you can improve your performance. Pison can help you improve cognitive and physical performance: - Optimize training programs. - Adjust diet, sleep schedules or other lifestyle factors. - Understand your circadian rhythm to optimize your preparation schedule. - Detect decreases in performance that may indicate impairment from head injury, fatigue or lifestyle choices, such as drugs or alcohol use. Get focused. Play smarter. Think clearer. Whatever your challenge, wherever your opportunity, Pison delivers unprecedented awareness of your mental and physical state. Realize your full potential—on the field, in the boardroom and beyond.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PISON at 5.0 against ARMS Athlete's 3.0. PISON also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). ARMS Athlete's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PISON holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively.
ARMS Athlete ships an update every 2 months, PISON every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ARMS Athlete | PISON |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EDGE10 (UK) LIMITED | Pison Technology |
Customer experience
ARMS Athlete
PISON
In-app purchases
ARMS Athlete
No in-app purchases
PISON
No in-app purchases








