Comparison

FivePointFive vs FrameByDay

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, recovery, and focus with science-backed breathwork exercises. Track your progress with live heart-rate data and AI insights. Train your mind, body, and sleep for optimal results.

Highlights
  • Coached breathwork sessions
  • Live heart-rate monitoring
  • AI Performance Coach
  • Performance and recovery tracking
  • Stress reduction
  • Improved sleep quality
  • Mind, body, and sleep training
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

FrameByDay

Track your weight and visualize your physical transformation with progress photos. Set goals, log daily check-ins, and monitor trends in a private journal. Visualize your journey with customizable widgets and detailed recaps.

Highlights
  • Weight and goal tracking
  • Progress photo logging
  • Daily check-ins
  • Trend analysis and charts
  • Customizable widgets
  • Private journal
  • Data export
Features
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Your progress is more than a number. FrameByDay brings your weight goal, daily check-ins, and progress photos together in one private journal. PLAN YOUR JOURNEY Set a starting weight, goal weight, and timeline. See daily targets as a planning guide, record actual weigh-ins, and adjust your plan when life changes. Choose pounds or kilograms. CHECK IN YOUR WAY Record a weight or choose On Track or Not Today. Undo a quick check-in, edit past entries, and set reminders around your preferred weigh-in days. Encouragement is optional. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS Explore recorded weights, trends, weekly recaps, and a dated chart values list. Find a calendar date quickly and distinguish saved readings from planned targets. See your total weight change and remaining distance to your goal. SEE THE CHANGE Keep dated progress photos with their recorded weights. See Before and Current together, correct photo dates, and choose whether photos appear on your home screen in the app. Photo widgets are optional. KEEP YOUR GOAL CLOSE Add Home Screen widgets for targets, the latest recorded weight, weight change, and progress toward your goal. Medium and large daily widgets support quick check-ins. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No FrameByDay account, advertising, or third-party analytics. Your journal stays on your device unless you choose to share, export, or back it up. Optional app lock and light or dark appearance help make the journal your own. Manual backups can be saved to Files or iCloud Drive; they are not automatic cloud sync. FREE FEATURES Unlimited weight tracking, goal editing, daily check-ins, calendar, charts, weekly recaps, reminders, widgets, basic data backups, and four progress photos. LIFETIME PRO An optional one-time purchase unlocks unlimited progress photos, comparisons between any two dates, progress videos and shareable cards, multiple journeys and goal history, photo-inclusive manual backups, PDF reports and CSV exports, optional Apple Health body-weight syncing, monthly insights, and body measurements. No subscription or automatic renewal. Explore illustrated examples before purchasing, and restore your purchase with your Apple Account. Daily targets are a planning guide, not medical advice or a prediction of weight change. Weight naturally fluctuates. FrameByDay is a personal wellness journal, not a medical service.

Screenshots

FivePointFive4 screens
FrameByDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: FrameByDay at 100% against FivePointFive's 59%. FrameByDay also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). FivePointFive's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 1) and chart position (#175 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FivePointFive sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per 3 months and FrameByDay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FrameByDay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FivePointFive has 5.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of FivePointFive's written reviews are positive against 100% of FrameByDay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FivePointFive ships an update every 4 days, FrameByDay every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
FivePointFive versus FrameByDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFivePointFiveFrameByDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#175 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size873 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerfivepointfivejohn jerde

Customer experience

FivePointFive

All ratings5,214 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive59.2%
Neutral9.5%
Negative31.4%

FrameByDay

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

FrameByDay

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

FivePointFive

Subscriptions6
  • 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 Annual Paid Trial1 Month trial$89.991 Year
  • FivePointFive 1 Year$89.991 Year
  • FivePointFive 1 Year3 Days trial$89.991 Year
1 purchases

FrameByDay

One-time1
  • FrameByDay Lifetime Pro$29.99

Questions

Is FivePointFive free?
FivePointFive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FrameByDay free?
FrameByDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FivePointFive or FrameByDay?
FrameByDay is rated higher. FivePointFive averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while FrameByDay averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do FivePointFive or FrameByDay have ads?
Neither FivePointFive nor FrameByDay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FivePointFive or FrameByDay?
FivePointFive ships an update every 4 days, and FrameByDay every 5 days. Most recently, FivePointFive was updated on November 14, 2026 and FrameByDay on October 31, 2026.

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