Comparison

Training Today vs BodyState

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Training Today

This app analyzes your Apple Watch health data to provide a daily readiness to train score. It helps prevent overtraining injuries and guides your training intensity, offering insights into your body's recovery and performance potential.

Highlights
  • Calculates daily readiness to train (RTT) score
  • Multi-day RTT score chart
  • Independent Apple Watch app
  • Uses HRV, workout detection, and custom algorithm
  • Automatic data outlier filtering
  • iPhone companion app with tutorial
  • Complication support for quick RTT glance
Features
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Take Readiness to Results. Understand your readiness. Choose training that fits today. Follow your progress over time. Training Today brings readiness and training together for triathletes, runners, cyclists and swimmers. Your Readiness to Train (RTT) score uses HRV readings from Apple Health and your personal baseline to help you decide when to push, keep steady or take it easy. FROM READINESS TO YOUR NEXT SESSION With Premium, explore structured swim, bike and run workouts that adapt to your RTT. Review the session, choose your options and send supported workouts to Apple Watch. Review readiness-based changes on iPhone before updating a workout on your Watch. BUILD YOUR TRAINING WEEK Shape Your Week around your training preferences. Choose sessions, move workouts and review suggestions as your week unfolds. Schedule strength and conditioning alongside your endurance training. CONNECT YOUR TRAINING Share readiness and health metrics with TrainingPeaks, with optional daily sync. Upload completed workouts separately from Workout Analytics after granting workout-upload access. Send supported cycling workouts to ROUVY. Choose power targets when configured, or free ride with heart-rate cues. Connected accounts and the relevant permissions are required. SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE Review recorded activities, readiness and HRV history. Use sleep context, Activity Intensity Score and Overall Fitness Index (OFI) trends to better understand your training. OFI is a personal HRV-based trend indicator, not a direct measurement of performance or VO2 max. START FREE. EXPLORE PREMIUM. Start with your readiness score, recent readiness chart, current sleep and resting heart rate, and recent OFI trends. Premium adds workout planning and the library, recorded activity review, deeper history, customization and integrations. Monthly, annual and lifetime purchase options unlock Premium; available options and local prices appear in the app. Training Today needs suitable Apple Health data to calculate readiness. Wear a compatible Apple Watch regularly, including overnight, and allow access to the health data you want to use. Watch workouts and other features depend on compatible devices and software. Your score supports training decisions: consider it alongside how you feel. Training Today does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy: https://trainingtodayapp.com/privacy

About

BodyState

This app provides a daily energy score based on your fitness metrics, helping you manage stress, plan workouts, and understand your body's condition. It tracks sleep, recovery, stress levels, and training load, offering personalized insights to optimize your well-being.

Highlights
  • Personalized Energy Score
  • Sleep & Recovery Tracking
  • Stress Insights via HRV
  • Acute Training Load (ATL)
  • Personalized Baseline Learning
  • All-in-One Dashboard
  • Apple Health Sync
Features
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Monitor Your Energy, Every Day with BodyState! BodyState gives you a daily energy score from 1 to 100, combining your most important fitness metrics into a single, clear signal. Whether your goal is to manage stress, plan workouts, or simply feel better, BodyState helps you make smarter choices in tune with your body. Key features: - Personalized Energy Score: Track your body’s condition with a single score, powered by sleep quality, HRV, resting heart rate, and recent physical exertion. No guesswork, just real insights. - Sleep & Recovery Tracking: Discover how restful your sleep truly was and how well your body recovered overnight. - Stress Insights via HRV & Resting Heart Rate: Monitor your stress level over time and stay ahead of burnout. - Acute Training Load (ATL): See the impact of recent physical activity on your body. Know when to push harder and when to pull back. - Know What’s Normal for You: BodyState doesn’t rely on generic health data. Instead, it learns your personal baseline over time to give context-specific insights. Understand how today's numbers compare to your standard. - All-in-One Dashboard: Get your energy, stress, sleep, and training signals all in one intuitive view. - Effortless Syncing: Works seamlessly with Apple Health to gather the metrics you already track, no extra setup needed. How It Works: 1. Sync with Apple Health to pull in key health metrics. 2. Get your daily score and see how each input affects your energy. 3. Check f you’re balanced, depleted, or primed for performance. 4. Track trends over time and adjust your habits. This App is intended for general wellness and information purposes only. BodyState does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult healthcare professionals for medical guidance. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Training Today4 screens
BodyState4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Training Today at freemium against BodyState's subscription. Training Today also leads on ads (none vs shown). BodyState's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 53%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Training Today sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.95 per month and BodyState sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Training Today against 4.6 for BodyState. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.6K and 1.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Training Today's written reviews are positive against 77% of BodyState's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Training Today versus BodyState: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraining TodayBodyState
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.6K ratings)4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.5% of reviews77.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.6K — better1.7K
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB170 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBetoli LtdFitness & Sports apps SRL

Customer experience

Training Today

All ratings2,638 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive52.5%
Neutral11.5%
Negative36.0%

BodyState

All ratings1,684 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews683 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative18.7%

User reviews

Training Today

From 2.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Sync to the workouts app is magic
  • 👍 Helpful tool for understanding when my body needs to recover and when it can push harder
  • 👍 Great visualization helps me keep tabs on my health
  • 👍 Awesome app with a ton of data and an easy to use interface
  • 👍 HRV Trend Tracking provides a weather forecast for your body

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Obscure and buggy with readiness indicators not matching other apps
  • 🐛 Inaccurate data that doesn't match how I feel
  • 🐛 Constantly showing low readiness scores even when I feel great
  • 🐛 Conflicting data between this app and other sleep/recovery trackers
  • 🐛 Calculations for readiness seem better with other apps like TrainingPeaks

BodyState

From 1.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Accurate body battery tracking
  • 💡 Helpful for managing recovery and fatigue
  • 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases
  • 👍 Clean and intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues with Apple Health
  • 🔍 Limited data history
  • 🔍 Needs more detailed explanations of metrics

Bugs and requests

Training Today

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on launch after purchasing subscription
  • Widgets not working after recent updates
  • Discrepancies between data shown on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Inability to get HRV readings without using the Breathe app

Requested features

6 requests
  • Extend the number of days shown on the chart
  • Add more data points like sleep and oxygen levels
  • Provide more detailed explanations of the metrics and how they are calculated
  • Improve the Apple Watch complication to update more frequently
  • Integrate with other fitness platforms like Garmin and Polar
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  • Add training plans that adapt to HRV data

BodyState

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to access app due to Health permissions
  • App not working after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer data history
  • Automatic Apple Watch complication updates
  • Customization options
  • Ability to manually log feelings/recovery

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Training Today

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$2.951 Month
  • Yearly subscription$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Additional charts$5.99
  • Lifetime$59.99
11 purchases

BodyState

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$4.997 Days
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  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Yearly premium$39.991 Year
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly premium$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • Supporter$4.99
  • Patron$9.99
  • Champion$14.99

Questions

Is Training Today free?
Training Today is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BodyState free?
BodyState is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Training Today or BodyState?
BodyState is rated higher. Training Today averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while BodyState averages 4.6 from 1.7K ratings.
Do Training Today or BodyState have ads?
BodyState shows ads; Training Today does not.
Which is updated more often, Training Today or BodyState?
Training Today ships an update every 6 weeks, and BodyState every 6 weeks. Most recently, Training Today was updated on October 27, 2026 and BodyState on October 27, 2026.

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