FivePointFive vs Spire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FivePointFive
Enhance athletic performance and recovery with science-backed breathwork exercises. This app offers guided sessions to improve focus, reduce stress, and deepen sleep, with real-time heart rate monitoring and personalized coaching insights.
- Guided breathwork sessions
- Live heart-rate monitoring
- AI Performance Coach
- Performance and recovery tracking
- Stress reduction
- Improved focus
- Deeper sleep
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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/
Spire
This app combines breath training with strength and conditioning exercises to boost athletic performance, recovery, and well-being. It offers guided sessions, personalized coaching, and community support for athletes.
- Breath Training Calendar
- 1:1 Coach Interaction
- Community Forum
- Guided Breathwork Sessions
- Breath Protocols
- Respiratory Muscle Training Guidance
- Educational Resources
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Spire is the premier performance platform built to integrate precision breath training with strength and conditioning. Engineered for athletes, coaches, and high performers, Spire provides the data-driven tools and protocols required to optimize respiratory mechanics, accelerate recovery, and shatter performance plateaus. KEY FEATURES: • Breath Training Calendar: Structure your respiratory training exactly like your strength work. Plan, organize, and track your daily breathwork sessions with an intuitive training calendar. • 1:1 Interaction with Your Coach: Direct pipeline to personalized coaching. Refine your breathing mechanics, review your biometrics, and get custom adjustments to maximize your athletic output. • Community Forum: Train alongside a dedicated collective of serious athletes. Share data, exchange training insights, ask questions, and engage in high-level breathwork discussions. • Guided Breathwork Sessions: High-utilization guided audio and visual paces designed specifically for physical stamina, cognitive focus, and rapid autonomic nervous system down-regulation. • Advanced Breath Protocols: Access structured, target-driven protocols—including Box Breathing, CO2 tolerance training, and apnea tables—to maximize gas exchange efficiency and respiratory control. • Respiratory Muscle Training (RMT) Guidance: Target the diaphragm and intercostals. Learn specialized exercises to strengthen your respiratory musculature, delay metaboreflex fatigue, and increase structural lung efficiency. • Elite Educational Resources: Access a premium library of expert-led educational content breaking down the physiological intersections of respiration, strength development, and mindset. Whether you are a competitive athlete hunting for a cardiovascular edge or a coach looking to optimize your client's recovery, Spire delivers the metrics, protocols, and expert support needed to command your physiology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spire at none against FivePointFive's 5. Spire also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). FivePointFive's advantage is ratings volume (4.9K vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. FivePointFive sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per 3 months. Spire asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FivePointFive has 4.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FivePointFive ships an update every 5 days, Spire every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FivePointFive | Spire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.9K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #108 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 825 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fivepointfive | Trinity Strength LLC |
Customer experience
FivePointFive
Spire
Bugs and 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
Spire
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FivePointFive
- 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
Spire
No in-app purchases









