Comparison

FITIV Pulse vs Simple Insights

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FITIV Pulse

This app is a comprehensive health and fitness tracker that monitors workouts, heart rate, sleep, and recovery. It provides actionable insights to help users train smarter and achieve their fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Heart rate zone training
  • HRV and recovery tracking
  • Sleep monitoring
  • Workout tracking for various activities
  • Strength training log
  • Advanced performance metrics
Features
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TRAIN. RECOVER. ACHIEVE. FITIV is the all-in-one workout and health tracker that helps you train smarter with heart rate zones, HRV, sleep, recovery, and strength. New: connect your Fitbit, including Fitbit Air, through Google Health and see everything in one place. Track workouts, heart rate, calories, recovery, sleep, stress, training load, and strength training in one powerful performance app for Apple Watch, Fitbit (including Fitbit Air), Garmin watches, Bluetooth heart rate monitors, WHOOP, Oura, AirPods Pro (3rd generation), and Powerbeats Pro 2. NEW: FITBIT AIR AND GOOGLE HEALTH • Connect your Fitbit or Fitbit Air through Google Health • Sync workouts, steps, sleep, heart rate, weight, and vitals into FITIV • Save your FITIV workouts and weight back to Google Health • Health Data Sources: see which app and device recorded each metric, turn sources on or off, and rank your sleep sources HEART RATE MONITOR & ZONE TRAINING • Live heart rate monitoring during workouts • Heart rate zone tracking for cardio, endurance, and interval training • Resting heart rate insights • Live heart rate from Bluetooth monitors, AirPods Pro (3rd generation), and Powerbeats Pro 2 • Broadcast heart rate to Peloton, Zwift, Concept2, and compatible gym equipment • Live coaching with real-time voice feedback during workouts RECOVERY, SLEEP & READINESS Recovery drives performance. FITIV helps you understand when to push and when to recover. • Sleep tracking with overnight metrics and vitals • HRV tracking and recovery insights • Stress tracking and daily strain monitoring • Training readiness, recovery score, and recovery trends WORKOUT TRACKING FOR EVERY WAY YOU TRAIN • Workout tracking for cardio, gym, intervals, and endurance sessions • HIIT timer and interval workout support • GPS workout maps with pace and heart rate overlays • Advanced workout metrics, including training load and VO2 • Live streaming workout data from Apple Watch to iPhone STRENGTH TRAINING & GYM LOG • Log reps, sets, weight, and training volume • Workout templates with folders, or start an empty session in one tap • Smart exercise search that understands shorthand like RDL • 44 new exercises and rewritten how-to instructions • Track personal records, strength progress, and progressive overload WEIGHT & GLP-1 MEDICATION TRACKING Lose the weight, not the muscle. Experts recommend strength training while on GLP-1 medications, and FITIV is built to track both. • Log doses for Zepbound, Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 injections and pills • Dose reminders, titration schedules, and estimated medication levels • Daily side effect check-ins to spot patterns • Weight trend and goals, with progress per medication, and a shareable milestone when you reach your goal ADVANCED PERFORMANCE & HEALTH METRICS • Training load tracking with TRIMP, TSS, and active calorie-based load • Advanced running metrics, including stride length, running power, and vertical oscillation COMPATIBLE DEVICES & INTEGRATIONS • Apple Watch and iPhone • Fitbit (including Fitbit Air) through Google Health • Garmin watches • Bluetooth heart rate monitors: Polar, Scosche, COOSPO, Myzone, and more • AirPods Pro (3rd generation) and Powerbeats Pro 2 • WHOOP, Oura, and other connected fitness platforms • Google Health, MyFitnessPal, Strava, TrainingPeaks, Lose It!, Peloton, Zwift, and Spotify • Support for widgets, complications, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island Upgrade to FITIV Pro to unlock advanced recovery analytics, training readiness, deeper metrics, and structured workout features. SUBSCRIPTION & TERMS FITIV Pro offers monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, charged to your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings at least 24 hours before renewal. Terms of Service: https://fitiv.com/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://fitiv.com/privacy-policy

About

Simple Insights

This app transforms your health and workout data into actionable coaching insights using on-device processing. It provides trend alerts, weekly reports, daily recommendations, and AI-powered answers to your health-related questions.

Highlights
  • AI-powered health coaching
  • Trend anomaly alerts
  • Weekly intelligence reports
  • Daily morning briefings
  • Natural language AI queries
  • Apple Health integration
  • On-device processing
Features
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Train with clarity, not guesswork. Simple Insights uses Apple Health and Apple Intelligence to turn your health and workout data into clear coaching answers for recovery, training, movement, and performance — processed on device, no cloud required. Start with a 7-day free trial with full access. No account. No cloud processing. No data selling. Ever. NEW: Coach-Ready Workout Details Open any workout and read a plain sentence about it — “A hard 45-minute ride — one of your bigger workloads in the last 14 days” — before a single number. Then the figures a coach would ask for: • Training Load (TSS) and Intensity Factor, on every activity type • Zone 4+ efforts, longest effort, and dominant zone • Elapsed, active, and paused time • Heart rate drift, time to peak, average as a percentage of max • A comparison against your own recent sessions, not a population average Tap any figure for a plain-language explainer. Share the session as an image, or export the heart rate data as a spreadsheet. The last 7 days are free; subscribers get full history, sharing, and export. Ask AI (Powered by Apple Intelligence) Ask natural-language questions about your health and performance, answered from your own Apple Health trends, on device. • “How much did I train this week vs last week?” • “Show my HRV trend over the last 30 days.” • “Tell me about Morning Briefing.” • “Is my data private in Simple Insights?” Subscribers get unlimited prompts. Free mode includes 2 per day. Ask AI requires an Apple Intelligence compatible iPhone. Heart Rate Data Export Your workout data belongs to you. Export any workout’s heart rate readings to a CSV spreadsheet for Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets — every reading in order, with elapsed time, zone, and percentage of max. Built on device, nothing uploaded. Morning Briefing Start each day with a proactive recommendation — Push, Steady, or Recover — plus a confidence score and the key drivers behind it. Tap through for how each number was calculated. Trend Anomaly Alerts Simple Insights watches your trends for you. When resting heart rate spikes, HRV drops, sleep declines, or activity falls off, you get a clear alert before you feel the impact. Workout streaks and new personal bests are flagged too. Every alert says what changed, why it matters, and what to do — then clears itself when the trend recovers. Weekly Intelligence Report A weekly report that answers one question: “Am I improving?” • Training, Recovery, Movement, and Sleep sections • Confidence-aware interpretation • Driver lines and practical next actions • Shareable PDF export for coach check-ins Built for Apple Health users Works with what you already track — Apple Watch, compatible heart rate monitors and exercise machines, and other Apple Health sources. No manual syncing. Recovery Intelligence • HRV trends • Resting heart rate patterns • High and low heart rate monitoring • Recovery behavior over time Training Intelligence • Per-session Training Load (TSS) and Intensity Factor • Heart rate zone distribution, Zone 4+ efforts, and drift • Weekly and monthly training comparisons • Workout trend summaries Movement Intelligence • Steps and movement trends • Active calorie patterns • Weekly and monthly consistency signals Intelligent Dashboards • My Dashboard and Coach Dashboard • Modular tile layouts you can reorder and personalize Privacy First by Design • On-device processing • Your data is exportable as a spreadsheet • No logins, no accounts • No ads • No cloud processing • No tracking Exports, dashboards, weekly reports, and detailed alerts are subscriber features. Free mode remains fully usable. Subscription Information Auto-renewing monthly and annual subscriptions. Pricing varies by region. Renews unless canceled in App Store settings. Privacy Policy: https://simplespinapp.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://simplespinapp.com/eula If you train with intention, analyze with intention.

Screenshots

FITIV Pulse4 screens
Simple Insights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Insights at every 2 days against FITIV Pulse's fortnightly. Simple Insights also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). FITIV Pulse's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 5) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. FITIV Pulse sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Simple Insights sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Insights holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FITIV Pulse has 13K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FITIV Pulse ships an update fortnightly, Simple Insights every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
FITIV Pulse versus Simple Insights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFITIV PulseSimple Insights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (13K ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings13K — better5
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size495 MB56 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMotiFIT Fitness Inc.SV Disrupt LLC

Customer experience

FITIV Pulse

All ratings12,677 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews1,564 reviews
Positive75.8%
Neutral7.1%
Negative17.1%

Simple Insights

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

FITIV Pulse

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent disconnects from Apple Watch during workouts
  • Inaccurate calorie tracking and data reporting
  • Issues with GPS tracking and mapping, including incorrect distance and route recording
  • Syncing problems leading to data loss and inconsistencies
  • Crashes and performance issues following recent app updates

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add support for more workout types (e.g. rowing, CrossFit)
  • Improve customization options for workouts and data displays
  • Implement a more robust and reliable GPS tracking system
  • Add the ability to edit workout details and duration
  • Improve syncing and data integration with other fitness apps
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  • Provide more detailed sleep and recovery tracking
  • Implement a more intuitive and streamlined user interface
  • Reduce the frequency and intrusiveness of review prompts

Simple Insights

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

FITIV Pulse

Subscriptions7
  • FITIV (1 Month)$1.991 Month
  • FITIV$4.991 Month
  • FITIV2 variants$9.991 Year
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  • FITIV Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • FITIV7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • FITIV1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • FITIV Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • PRO Membership$4.99
  • PRO Membership$9.99
4 purchases

Simple Insights

Subscriptions4
  • Simple Insights Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Simple Insights Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Simple Insights Annual$29.991 Year
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  • Simple Insights Premium Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is FITIV Pulse free?
FITIV Pulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Insights free?
Simple Insights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FITIV Pulse or Simple Insights?
Simple Insights is rated higher. FITIV Pulse averages 4.6 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Simple Insights averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do FITIV Pulse or Simple Insights have ads?
Neither FITIV Pulse nor Simple Insights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FITIV Pulse or Simple Insights?
FITIV Pulse ships an update fortnightly, and Simple Insights every 2 days. Most recently, FITIV Pulse was updated on October 18, 2026 and Simple Insights on October 3, 2026.

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