Comparison

FITIV Pulse vs Load/Ready

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

Load/Ready

This app analyzes your personal health data from Apple Health to provide readiness scores based on your own historical metrics. It explains the data and calculations behind each score, allowing you to make informed decisions about your training and recovery. Your data remains private and on your device.

Highlights
  • Personalized readiness scores
  • Transparent data analysis
  • Automatic training load tracking
  • Sleep and recovery metrics
  • Workout performance analysis
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Most readiness apps hand you a score and ask you to trust it. Load/Ready shows its work: every number opens to the readings and the math behind it, measured against your own normal, never an average. It reads your Apple Health data (sleep, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate and workouts), tells you where you stand today, and names a session. Then it gets out of the way. You decide. YOUR NORMAL, NOT A POPULATION'S 50 is your usual. Recovery and sleep are measured against your own last 42 days, and each workout against your own sessions of the same kind. A resting heart rate of 48 means nothing on its own; two beats above your own average means something. A RECOMMENDATION YOU CAN TAKE APART Load/Ready suggests a session for today, with the values that led to it on screen. "Why this?" always opens. "Not today" is always an answer. Your own read of your body outranks the app. EVERY WORKOUT, SCORED AND COMPARED Each session gets a score against your own sessions of the same kind, and a rank you can tap through. Output vs heart rate shows whether the same speed or power now costs fewer beats than it used to: the plainest sign your engine is changing. WHAT'S INSIDE -Recovery and Sleep dials, with readiness read as recovery against training load -Automatic training load from heart rate, no logging, with this week set against the weeks before -Sleep stages, regularity and sleep debt against your own need -Workouts taken apart: heart-rate zones, route and splits -Patterns: which of your own signals move together, with the delay, the strength and whether it could be noise -Aerobic engine, HRV stability, walking heart rate, heart-rate recovery and body composition -"The Science": the method behind every card, in plain words, with the formulas and the research MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Pair a chest strap and Load/Ready finds your thresholds from beat-to-beat data instead of an age formula. Connect FTMS gym equipment (treadmills, bikes, rowers) and it records the machine's own speed, distance, power and incline. APPLE WATCH Record workouts on the watch with GPS, heart rate and time in zone on the face. Fourteen sports, indoor and out, saved to Apple Health. Complications show Recovery, Sleep or readiness, or start a workout in one tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no Load/Ready server. No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs, and nothing sent to the developer. Your data stays on your devices, not in iCloud; a backup is a file you keep. The one request the app makes is to Apple Weather, for an outdoor workout's conditions, with the location rounded to about 1 km. TRY ALL OF IT FREE A free 30-day trial of the whole app, nothing held back, then one purchase to keep it. No subscription. Load/Ready works best with an Apple Watch or another wearable that records sleep and heart rate to Apple Health. Scores need at least a week of history and the load ratio about four weeks; until then the app says so rather than guessing. Load/Ready is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition.

Screenshots

FITIV Pulse4 screens
Load/Ready4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Load/Ready at 5.0 against FITIV Pulse's 4.6. Load/Ready also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). FITIV Pulse's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 3) 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 Load/Ready sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Load/Ready holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FITIV Pulse has 13K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of FITIV Pulse's written reviews are positive against 100% of Load/Ready's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FITIV Pulse ships an update fortnightly, Load/Ready every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FITIV Pulse versus Load/Ready: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFITIV PulseLoad/Ready
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (13K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size496 MB23 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperMotiFIT Fitness Inc.Brian Sutterer

Customer experience

FITIV Pulse

All ratings12,684 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews1,577 reviews
Positive75.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative17.0%

Load/Ready

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
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

Load/Ready

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
2 purchases

Load/Ready

One-time2
  • 30-day TrialFree
  • Load/Ready, unlocked$19.99

Questions

Is FITIV Pulse free?
FITIV Pulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Load/Ready free?
Load/Ready is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FITIV Pulse or Load/Ready?
Load/Ready is rated higher. FITIV Pulse averages 4.6 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Load/Ready averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do FITIV Pulse or Load/Ready have ads?
Neither FITIV Pulse nor Load/Ready shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FITIV Pulse or Load/Ready?
FITIV Pulse ships an update fortnightly, and Load/Ready every 5 days. Most recently, FITIV Pulse was updated on November 3, 2026 and Load/Ready on October 28, 2026.

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