FivePointFive vs Basis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Coached breathwork sessions
- Live heart-rate monitoring
- AI Performance Coach
- Performance and recovery tracking
- Stress reduction
- Improved sleep quality
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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/
Basis
This app provides a personalized daily fitness and meal plan based on your recovery and preferences. It offers recovery-scaled workouts with video demos and precise meal guidance, simplifying your health journey without complex tracking.
- Recovery-scaled workouts
- Personalized meal plans
- Form cues and video demos
- Weekly split planning
- Injury and equipment adaptation
- Apple Health integration
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Every morning, one question eats your willpower before the day begins: what should I actually do today? Basis answers it. Open the app and today's plan is already made — a workout scaled to how recovered you are, and exact meals with portions, built from foods you actually like. No dashboards to interpret. No logging marathon. Just today's plan, ready to execute. Basis is prescriptive, not another tracker. It reads your recovery, sleep, and body data from Apple Health, distills it into a single daily plan, and gets out of your way. The best session is the shortest one. WHAT YOU GET EACH MORNING • A recovery-scaled workout — sets, reps, and loads tuned to how you slept and trained, with form cues and a video demo for every movement. • Exact meals with portions — breakfast to dinner, built around foods you like, macros already balanced, with step-by-step cooking directions and a grocery list for the week. • One clear readout — today's plan and the reason behind it, in plain language. Depth is there if you want it, never forced on you. A REAL PROGRAM, NOT RANDOM WORKOUTS • Pick 2–6 training days and Basis builds your weekly split around them — rest days are planned recovery, not missed days. • Every fourth week is a deload: deliberately lighter, the way a coach programs it, so the next block hits harder. • Flag a shoulder, knee, lower-back, or wrist limitation and every exercise in the plan works around it. • Training somewhere else today? Switch your equipment for the day and the workout rebuilds instantly. A COACH FOR EVERY RUN • Run better — from your first 5K to a stronger 10K — or lift and run in one plan. Every plan carries a cardio day each week: a run, walk, ride, row, elliptical or swim, placed on a rest day. • Set each run by time or by distance. Distance targets come from the pace your own wearable has recorded, and the distance you covered is always what your Apple Watch measured. • Send any run to your Apple Watch, and find parks, tracks and loops of the right length with Apple Maps. BUILT AROUND YOU • Recovery-aware. Connect Apple Health and Basis scales each day to your real recovery, sleep, and strain — from Apple Watch, Whoop, Oura, and more, all through Health. • Meals you'll actually eat. Tell Basis the foods you love and the ones you avoid; every plate respects both. Ate off-plan? Log it as lighter, about the same, or heavier — the day stays honest. • Counts toward your rings. With your permission, finished sessions are saved back to Apple Health as real workouts. • At a glance. A Home Screen widget shows today's session and meals, and Siri answers "What's my workout today?" • Honest progress. Weight trend, body composition, adherence, streak, and per-lift records with charts — shown straight, never inflated, never guilt-tripping. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Basis runs entirely on your device. There's no account, no login, and no cloud database. Your health data stays in Apple Health on your iPhone — never sold, never shared, never used for advertising. Location is used only when you open Routes, on your device and by Apple Maps. The plan is computed on-device, so it's ready the moment you open the app. FOR THE MORNINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK Basis is for people who care about their health but not about researching it — who'd rather be told exactly what to do and get on with the day. Open it once, trust the plan, go live your life. Available in English and Spanish. ——— Basis Membership is an auto-renewable subscription: $1.00 per month (U.S.; prices vary by region). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.basishealth.app/legal/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions? support@basishealth.app
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Verdict
FivePointFive and Basis both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Basis's written reviews are positive against 59% of FivePointFive's. FivePointFive's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 10) and chart position (#93 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Basis sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for FivePointFive against 4.9 for Basis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FivePointFive has 5.2K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of FivePointFive's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basis's.
FivePointFive ships an update every 5 days, Basis every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FivePointFive | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.2K ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #93 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 873 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | fivepointfive | Basis Health LLC |
Customer experience
FivePointFive
Basis
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
Basis
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
Basis
- Basis Membership$1.001 Month









