Comparison

FivePointFive vs Card Work

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided breathwork sessions
  • Live heart-rate monitoring
  • AI Performance Coach
  • Performance and recovery tracking
  • Stress reduction
  • Improved focus
  • Deeper sleep
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/

About

Card Work

Features
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Card Work turns a standard 52-card deck into a complete workout — no gym, no equipment, no excuses. HOW IT WORKS Each suit maps to an exercise of your choosing. Each card tells you how many reps — or seconds — to complete. Draw a card, do the work, flip to the next. Finish the deck, log the time. RED DECK / BLUE DECK Configure an Upper Body deck and a Lower Body deck independently. Each has its own exercises, time multiplier, and Joker challenges. Switch between them in Settings or let the app pick automatically based on your weekly plan. TIMED EXERCISES Mark any suit as timed and the card value becomes seconds. A 7 of Hearts = 7 seconds — multiplied by your Time Multiplier. Crank the multiplier up to increase intensity, dial it back on recovery days. WILD CARDS Drawing a Joker triggers a special challenge. Set your own Joker exercises in Settings. They don't follow the normal rules — make them count. WEEKLY PLAN Assign Upper Body, Lower Body, or Rest to each day of the week. Card Work auto-selects the right deck when you open it on a workout day. You can always override it for a one-off session. WORKOUT HISTORY Every completed session is logged with your time and card count. Your best full-deck time is tracked and displayed so you always know what you're chasing. Built for people who want a real workout with zero setup. Inspired by Army physical training.

Screenshots

FivePointFive4 screens
Card Work4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Card Work at none against FivePointFive's 5. FivePointFive's advantage is chart position (#89 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FivePointFive sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per 3 months. Card Work asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
FivePointFive versus Card Work: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFivePointFiveCard Work
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#89 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size825 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperfivepointfiveTimothy Myers

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

Card Work

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Card Work

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FivePointFive free?
FivePointFive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Card Work free?
Card Work is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FivePointFive or Card Work have ads?
Neither FivePointFive nor Card Work shows ads.

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