Runnerd vs HealthSync for Home Assistant

Runnerd is a running coach and a serious analytics app in one. It builds a plan around your goal, explains every recommendation and works with the runs you've already logged. No subscription. No account. No compromises. HOW IT WORKS Connect Apple Health and Runnerd reads your past runs, whether they came from your Apple Watch, your iPhone or another running app. No blank slate: Runnerd knows where you stand from day one. Keep tracking with whatever you use today. Set a goal, like your next half marathon, and pick a coach. The Patient One builds up carefully, The Ambitious One pushes harder, and The Balanced One sits in between. The difference shows up in your plan, not just in the tone. Runnerd maps out every week until race day and schedules more of the run types you enjoy. You can add your own runs whenever you like. Each morning, your coach checks the plan against your readiness. After each run, it reviews how it went. Ahead of your goal? It'll tell you. Goal asking for more than your coach allows? It'll tell you that too. FOR NERDS WHO RUN Fitness, fatigue and form, running economy, intensity, training load: Runnerd shows whether your training is working and explains every term along the way. It's all built on proven sports science, not AI: Banister for fitness and form, Daniels VDOT for training paces and predictions, Karvonen for heart rate zones. IPHONE AND MAC Check in on your iPhone, dig deeper on your Mac with a native Mac app. Your data syncs through your private iCloud. Runnerd collects nothing and runs no servers. AND THE DETAILS Shoe mileage with a heads-up before a pair wears out. Personal bests, spotted automatically. Running partners. Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Share runs, weeks and personal bests as images. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE Runnerd is free to use. Pro adds race predictions, running technique analysis, GPX export and The Ambitious One. One purchase covers iPhone and Mac.

Turn your Apple Watch and iPhone health data into live Home Assistant sensors — automatically, privately, with no subscription. HealthSync reads the metrics you choose from Apple Health and sends them straight to your own Home Assistant instance. Nothing else, nobody else — no cloud backend, no account, no third party ever sees your data. FREE TO USE Manual sync is free forever — every metric, no limits, no trial. Tap to sync any time. A one-time in-app purchase (not a subscription) unlocks fully automatic background syncing, so data flows in without you opening the app. WHAT IT SYNCS - Steps and active calories - Heart rate, HRV, and resting heart rate - Sleep, with full stage breakdown (core, deep, REM, awake) - Workouts — type, duration, distance, calories - Blood pressure, blood oxygen (SpO2), respiratory rate, blood glucose - Weight, BMI, body fat %, lean body mass, height, VO2 max, and more — 27 metrics in total HOW IT WORKS HealthSync uses HealthKit's background delivery, backed up by a periodic refresh request, so your data syncs automatically without opening the app. Exactly when each sync runs is up to iOS — it schedules background activity based on your usage and battery state, not a fixed interval. Recovering older data? Sync History pulls in months or years of history, typically in a minute or two. BUILT FOR HOME ASSISTANT Point HealthSync at any webhook-reachable HA instance — local network, Nabu Casa, Tailscale, whatever you already use. A free, open-source companion HACS integration turns incoming data into ready-made sensors, so you're building automations in minutes, not writing YAML by hand. LOCAL-FIRST, NO EXCEPTIONS No analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, no third-party servers of any kind. Your health data goes only to the webhook URL you configure yourself. The developer never sees it, stores it, or has access to it. WHAT YOU'LL NEED A running Home Assistant instance, reachable by URL. Full setup instructions, plus the companion HACS integration, are in the app and on GitHub. Built for people who already run Home Assistant and want their own health data in their own dashboards and automations, on their own terms.