FivePointFive vs Card Work
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/
Card Work
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | FivePointFive | Card Work |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.9K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.9K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #89 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 825 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fivepointfive | Timothy 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
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
Card Work
No in-app purchases
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