Comparison

PhysioRX vs FivePointFive

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

Head to head
About

PhysioRX

This app helps you track workouts, meals, and progress towards your fitness goals with guidance from a personal trainer. It allows for real-time messaging with your coach, scheduling, and integration with wearable devices for seamless data syncing.

Highlights
  • Workout and meal tracking
  • Progress monitoring
  • Coach messaging
  • Workout scheduling
  • Body measurement tracking
  • Wearable device integration
Features
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With the PhysioRX App, you can start tracking your workouts and meals, measuring results, and achieving your fitness goals, all with the help of your personal trainer. - Access training plans and track workouts - Schedule workouts and stay committed by beating your personal bests - Track progress towards your goals - Manage your nutrition intake as prescribed by your coach - Set health and fitness goals - Message your coach in real-time - Track body measurements and take progress photos - Get push notification reminders for scheduled workouts and activities - Connect to wearable devices like Apple Watch (synced to Health app), Fitbit and Withings to sync body stats instantly Download the app today!

About

FivePointFive

This app offers science-backed breathwork sessions designed for athletes to enhance performance, recovery, focus, and sleep. It provides real-time heart rate monitoring, AI coaching, and tracks key physiological trends.

Highlights
  • Coached breathwork sessions
  • Live heart-rate monitoring
  • AI Performance Coach
  • Performance and recovery tracking
  • Stress reduction
  • Improved sleep quality
Features
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FivePointFive: Breathwork for Athletes What is FivePointFive The world’s first breathwork app built for athletes—used by Elite Athletes and a fast-growing community of Everyday Athletes. We turn cutting-edge breathing science into short, coached sessions that strengthen performance and recovery, improve focus and stress resilience, and deepen restorative sleep. Built on science. Made measurable. Peer-reviewed research links structured breathwork with higher VO₂-max, improved HRV, lower resting heart rate, and better sleep quality. FivePointFive translates that science into sessions you can see working: - Live heart-rate in class to watch your autonomic nervous shift in real time - AI Performance Coach with post-session insights and coach tips - Trends over time across HR, HRV, resting HR, and sleep Train the full system: Mind • Body • Sleep - Mind: Downshift stress fast, sharpen focus, and rebalance the nervous system—in as little as 90 seconds. - Body: Build breathing mechanics and CO₂ tolerance to increase endurance, boost stamina, and speed recovery. - Sleep: Lower nighttime cortisol and deepen restorative sleep so you wake recovered and ready to go. Backed by the best - Patrick McKeown -#1 functional breathwork expert globally and best-selling author, scientist and founder of ‘Oxygen Advantage’. - Jay T. Wiles - Global authority in HRV biofeedback, applied psychophysiology, and performance psychology. Founder of Thrive Wellness & Performance, working with elite athletes across the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA, ATP, and MLS. - Marco Altini - World leader in HRV, Human Movement and High performance coaching. Founder of HRV4Training & Data Science Advisor to Oura. Editor of the Wearable Department of IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. Privacy Your health data stays with you. We read/write to Apple Health with your permission and never sell personal data. Subscriptions Quarterly and Yearly plans with a free trial. Auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in your Apple Account Settings. FivePointFive® — Breathwork for Athletes Not medical advice. Individual results vary. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PhysioRX4 screens
FivePointFive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PhysioRX at none against FivePointFive's 5. PhysioRX also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18.6). FivePointFive's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 20). On price, rating and ads 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. FivePointFive sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per 3 months. PhysioRX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PhysioRX against 4.8 for FivePointFive. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FivePointFive has 5.2K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PhysioRX ships an update every 6 weeks, FivePointFive every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
PhysioRX versus FivePointFive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhysioRXFivePointFive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings)4.8 (5.2K ratings)
Positive reviews—58.7% of reviews
Number of ratings205.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#93 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size167 MB873 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGMB Physical Therapy PLLCfivepointfive

Customer experience

PhysioRX

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%

FivePointFive

All ratings5,156 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews167 reviews
Positive58.7%
Neutral9.6%
Negative31.7%

Bugs and requests

PhysioRX

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

FivePointFive

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Can't log in, awful
  • Won't let me log in
  • Way too buggy
  • Faulty

Requested features

1 request
  • Record HRV measurements to Apple Health

In-app purchases

None

PhysioRX

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

FivePointFive

Subscriptions5
  • FivePointFive 3 Months$44.993 Months
  • FivePointFive 3 Months3 Days trial$44.993 Months
  • FivePointFive 1 Year Discount3 Days trial$69.991 Year
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  • FivePointFive 1 Year$89.991 Year
  • FivePointFive 1 Year3 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is PhysioRX free?
PhysioRX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FivePointFive free?
FivePointFive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PhysioRX or FivePointFive?
PhysioRX and FivePointFive are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 20 and 5.2K ratings respectively.
Do PhysioRX or FivePointFive have ads?
Neither PhysioRX nor FivePointFive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PhysioRX or FivePointFive?
PhysioRX ships an update every 6 weeks, and FivePointFive every 5 days. Most recently, PhysioRX was updated on November 3, 2026 and FivePointFive on November 4, 2026.

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