FITIV Pulse vs Load/Ready
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Heart rate zone training
- HRV and recovery tracking
- Sleep monitoring
- Workout tracking for various activities
- Strength training log
- Advanced performance metrics
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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
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.
- Personalized readiness scores
- Transparent data analysis
- Automatic training load tracking
- Sleep and recovery metrics
- Workout performance analysis
- Privacy-focused design
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | FITIV Pulse | Load/Ready |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (13K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 496 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MotiFIT Fitness Inc. | Brian Sutterer |
Customer experience
FITIV Pulse
Load/Ready
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
FITIV Pulse
- 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
- PRO Membership$4.99
- PRO Membership$9.99
Load/Ready
- 30-day TrialFree
- Load/Ready, unlocked$19.99









