FivePointFive vs FrameByDay
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/
FrameByDay
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: FivePointFive at #94 against FrameByDay's unranked. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and FrameByDay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | FivePointFive | FrameByDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #94 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 870 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fivepointfive | john jerde |
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
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
FrameByDay
- FrameByDay Lifetime Pro$29.99









