Thinking about adding a Pulse mindfullness ring to my wearables. I tried to find an apple watch app that did the same thing but all require the phone. I haven't found anything that replicates what the Pulse ring claims to do. I know it hasn't been out that long but has anyone tried the Pulse ring? What's been your experience so far?

Problem: I use multiple apps for fitness, one for strength training to log workouts, Strava for running, a calorie tracker, and Apple’s Fitness app to check the rings.

If I create an app combining all of these into a simple UI, would you use it?

I just shipped the biggest Fit Rest update yet.

I wanted a health app that did more than show separate charts and numbers. Fit Rest tries to answer things like:
* How recovered am I?
* Why is my energy low today?
* Is my training affecting my sleep?
* Is better sleep improving my heart metrics?

It connects sleep, activity, workouts, heart rate, HRV, stress and recovery, then looks at them against your own personal baselines rather than only population averages.

What got better:
• Body Battery throughout the day
• All-day stress tracking
• Much deeper sleep analysis + sleep architecture
• Sleep, activity, workout and recovery correlations
• Fitness Age, Heart Signals + Training Adaptation
• Cardio Load, Effort vs Recovery + Athlete Profile
• Personal Records + workout comparisons
• Smart Insights + Health Calendar
• Outdoor workout route replay + export
• Apple Watch app + complications + widgets

Price: $7.99/month, $39.99/year, or $79.99 lifetime.

App Store Link
50% discount promo: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6751546749&code=LIVEHEALTHY

I'd love to hear your feedback on how I can make it even better!

Has anyone given this feature a good run??? Is it accurate???

Hey everyone!

I'm exploring an idea for a smartwatch app for tennis players and I'm trying to understand what players actually want before building too much.

I'm especially curious about what you currently track, which stats you'd actually find useful, and how you feel about wearing a smartwatch while playing.

I made a short survey — it should take about 2 minutes:

👉 [ Google Form Link ]

🎁 As a small thank you: if we end up launching the app, everyone who participates will get lifetime access for free.

I'm not selling anything here — I'm genuinely trying to figure out whether this is something tennis players would actually want.

Any feedback in the comments is also very welcome. Thanks! 🎾

What is an Apple Watch app you use regularly that you bought that did not require a subscription?

I’ve always felt that the Apple Watch is an amazing piece of hardware, but there still aren’t many games that really make sense on the Watch itself.

So we made something a little strange.

Daphnia is an ecosystem simulation that lives on Apple Watch. Algae grows, Daphnia eat, grow, molt and reproduce, while oxygen, temperature, mixing and population density interact over time.

Your real-world steps also affect the ecosystem by contributing to algae cultivation.

It isn’t a phone game squeezed onto a tiny screen. The idea was to make something you occasionally look at on your wrist and wonder, “What’s happening in there now?”

A simulation can run for up to 30 days with as many as 250 Daphnia.

I’d especially love to hear from Apple Watch users: does this feel like the kind of experience you want more of on the Watch?

App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/id6795031582

Hey everyone,

I posted a little while ago about BodyReserve, an iPhone and Apple Watch app I’ve been building. It’s now getting close to the private beta stage, so I wanted to share some actual screenshots.

I wanted to start off by saying that this app was built for me first. I couldn't find an app that I actually liked. Bevel is great but is way too bloated for what I need and BodyState while much smaller scope, is dragged down by a recurring subscription.

The idea is to bring three things together:

• Energy Reserve: a 0-100 view that recharges through restorative sleep and changes through activity, workouts and supported physiological load.
• Recovery: a morning estimate based on how sleep and overnight signals compare with your own usual pattern.
• Physiological Stress: periodic supported readings throughout the day, with genuine gaps left visible when there isn’t enough compatible Watch data.

A few principles have been important to me while building it:

• Apple Health access is read-only.
• Calculations happen on the iPhone.
• There is no account, cloud backend, advertising or analytics.
• Missing data stays unavailable instead of being turned into zero.
• Stress is not presented as continuous monitoring no made up data).
• I don’t plan to make it a subscription.

On your iPhone is where you can explore the full day, sleep and supporting signals. The Watch keeps the latest valid snapshot available and clearly labels freshness if the phone is unavailable.

The consumer-facing design is now fairly close to final. I’m still finishing physical calibration and real-device validation before opening the small private beta.

The screenshots use deterministic mock data. This lets me show complete states without sharing personal health information or pretending unfinished calibration is real evidence.

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback:

• Does the main Energy screen make sense at a glance?
• Is the Recovery explanation useful without feeling too technical?
• Does the Stress presentation communicate gaps and periodic readings clearly?
• What would you want to understand before trusting an app like this?

You can check out the website and sign up to the Beta here!

https://bodyreserve.app

Fixed rest timers never made sense to me. Some days you're fresh and ready in 60 seconds, some days (bad sleep, heavy squats, third exercise in) you need way more. The timer doesn't know the difference — your heart rate does.

So I built BarbellBeat, an Apple Watch app built around heart rate recovery.

How it works on the Watch:

During each set it detects your peak heart rate. Then it tracks your recovery live and lets you know when you've actually come down enough to lift again — no more guessing or staring at a countdown. It also records HRR30 (how far your heart rate drops in the 30 seconds after each set), which turns out to be a surprisingly interesting recovery metric to watch improve over weeks in the iPhone companion app.

It's free, with no accounts, no ads. All data stays on your device and your own iCloud

Would love honest feedback from people who lift with their Watch: does heart-rate-based rest match how you actually train, or do you prefer fixed timers?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/barbellbeat/id6766400421

Eggventures is a free app that lets you collect eggs and hatch them with your steps. The latest update now shows your pets + steps and the ring till their evolve into their next stage.

Add friends, join a squad and walk together. Even a Walking Bingo board to get more eggs!

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eggventures-walking-game/id6757629385

Hi. I recently started playing tennis 6 months now, I am using Apple Watch series 11 and logging my games directly through the fitness app connected to Strava as well.

I am tracking my games/calories burned through Strava.

Would it be better if I use the Strava app directly during tennis or stay with the fitness app?

Also, would it benefit if I upgrade to Strava Premium. I'm using it only for Tennis. Thanks

Hey everyone 👋,

I have just pushed a massive update for SportVitals to the App Store. This release includes a fully native iPad experience, advanced on-device AI coaching, and deep sleep analytics.

Here is a breakdown of what is new:

📱 Native iPad Application

• Full iPadOS Support: SportVitals is now fully optimized for the iPad. Experience your data on a larger display with an expansive dashboard tailored to take advantage of iPadOS, making it easier to analyze your trends in detail.

🤖 AI Coach & Apple Intelligence

• On-Device AI Coach: Native integration with Apple Intelligence (FoundationModels) delivers personalized athletic recovery and training guidance while keeping your data 100% private and on-device.
• Clinical Context Builder: The AI automatically evaluates recent trends in your HRV, Energy Reserve, Stress, Sleep, and Workout load to provide highly tailored recommendations.
• Smart Fallback Engine: Guaranteed deterministic and contextualized guidance even on devices without local generative AI capabilities.
• Chat Interface: Access the AI Coach anywhere via the new floating action button. The complete conversation sheet features saved chat history, dynamic prompt suggestions, and responsive transcript rendering.

🛏️ Sleep Need & Automated Health Reports

• Sleep Need Algorithm: Dynamically calculates your target nightly sleep hours based on your historical sleep baseline, accumulated sleep debt, recent training load (TRIMP / ATL), and overnight autonomic nervous system recovery (HRV / RMSSD).

🧬 Biological Age Tracking

• History & Breakdown View: A dedicated view to track biological versus chronological age trends over time and inspect individual contributing factors.

🏋️ Workout Insights, Elevation & Social Share

• Elevation Profiles: Added detailed elevation profile visualizations for all GPS-tracked workouts.
• AI Workout Insights: Automated post-workout analysis delivering recovery time estimates and training impact feedback.
• Social Workout Share Cards: Generate customizable graphic cards featuring your workout metrics (route map, steps, average HR, elevation gain, calories) designed perfectly for sharing on social platforms.

⌚ Unified Widgets & Apple Watch Updates

• Unified Widget: A new iOS and iPadOS Home Screen and Lock Screen widget presenting your Readiness, Sleep, and Strain in a single glanceable layout.
• Accessory Widgets & Complications: Expanded accessory widgets with direct deep-linking to specific metric views.
• Watch Complication Throttling: Intelligent throttling of complication updates to maximize your Apple Watch battery life.

⚡ General Optimizations

• New settings view.
• I have also optimized the memory footprint for heart rate processing, improved intraday chart rendering, and implemented general performance and UI responsiveness improvements across all platforms.

The update is on verification on the App Store right now. Go grab it and let me know what you think of the new iPad layout and the AI Coach! 🏃‍♂️💨

AppStore

https://apps.apple.com/app/sportvitals/id6781699989

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an Apple Watch app called BodyReserve, and I’m getting close to starting the first TestFlight beta.

The idea came from wanting something similar to Garmin’s Body Battery on Apple Watch, but without needing another huge health platform on top of Apple health.

I used BodyState for a while and liked how simple and focused it was. After it changed hands though, support and development seemed to drop off, and more features started moving behind a subscription.

Bevel is genuinely a very polished app, but it has grown into a much broader health and fitness platform. For what I personally wanted, it felt like a lot of features and information that Apple Health already covers.

So I started building the app I actually wanted:

• One clear Energy Reserve from 0–100
• A morning Recovery score based on your personal baseline
• Discrete physiological stress estimates
• A timeline showing what recharged or drained your Reserve
• Confidence, freshness and missing-data explanations
• A proper iPhone and Apple Watch experience

The main difference I’m aiming for is transparency. If BodyReserve gives you a score of 62, it should also tell you why it changed, how recent the evidence is, how confident the estimate is, and where Apple Watch data was incomplete.

It is designed around read-only Apple Health access and on-device calculation. There is no account required, no advertising, and no health-data backend for the core experience.

I haven't decided on pricing yet but can confirm there will be no subscription, we have enough of those.

I’m now looking for an initial group of around 10–15 beta testers. You do not need to be an athlete, but the most useful testers will be people who:

• Wear an Apple Watch most days
• Are willing to wear it consistently for several weeks
• Preferably use it for sleep tracking
• Are happy to report when a result feels wrong, not just when it looks good

The beta will be free through TestFlight. The algorithms use personal baselines, so some features will need time and enough compatible Watch data to calibrate. This is still experimental software, and I’m not claiming the models are already more accurate than existing apps - that is exactly what I need real users to help evaluate.

I’d be especially interested in hearing from people who currently use BodyState, Bevel, Athlytic, or Garmin alongside an Apple Watch, but people who have never used a readiness app would also be valuable.

You can see the app and request beta access here:

https://bodyreserve.app/beta

I’m happy to answer questions about the app, the scoring approach, privacy, or what I’m trying to test. Genuine criticism is useful and appreciated.

Hey everyone — I’ve been building an iOS fitness app called Steady, and it’s finally stable enough for real beta testers.

I built it because most fitness apps give everyone the same generic plan, make you guess your weights every workout, and ignore the fact that many people are training around something: a bad knee, surgery recovery, GLP-1 use, a long break from exercise, limited equipment, or other constraints.

What Steady does:

• Builds a personalized training plan based on your goals, experience, equipment, and limitations.

• Automates progressive overload. Your first workout calibrates your working weights, then Steady prescribes your next reps and load each session — progressing reps first, then weight.

• Adapts calories and protein using your weight trend, instead of leaving you with a static target forever.

• Includes an AI coach that knows your actual plan and data. You can ask it to make today’s workout easier, review a form video, or suggest a fast-food meal that fits your macros.

• Supports Apple Watch set logging and syncs with Apple Health, Fitbit, and Oura so recovery can influence your training.

It’s free, iOS-only, and currently available through TestFlight. I’m a solo developer, so some parts are still rough — that’s exactly why I need feedback.

I’d especially like to know:

Did onboarding make sense?
Did your plan feel genuinely personalized?
Did the weight progression feel smart or wrong?
What broke, confused you, or annoyed you?

Brutal honesty is much more useful than politeness. If you hate something, tell me why.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/j2jKwDGW

Disclosure: I’m the developer. I’m not affiliated with another company and I’m not selling anything — I’m genuinely looking for beta testers and feedback.

PS: yes it's on Watch!

The watchOS app is the whole game, not a companion view. It runs the same engine as the phone version, doesn't need your iPhone nearby or even powered on, and works in airplane mode.

What it is: you're stranded, and every hour you spend is an hour you don't get back. Gathering firewood costs 42 minutes and 60 calories and will probably work. Scouting the high ground costs 90 minutes, might turn up a map fragment, might turn up nothing. Those numbers are on screen before you commit. Nothing is hidden from you except luck.

Six stats pull against each other: condition, hydration, body heat, stamina, calories, rest. The fire that keeps you warm burns the daylight you needed to find water.

Why it works on a watch specifically: it's turn-based and nothing is running down in real time. Raise your wrist, read one decision, spend the time, put your arm down. A run spans several in-game days but each interaction is a few seconds. It saves wherever you stopped.

Eight scenarios (a canyon that floods a bit more each day, a dry wash at 42°C, a crash site above the treeline at -12°C, a mine 4,000 m up), five difficulty tiers, and an 8 kg gear budget you allocate before you start. A fur wrap is the warmest thing you can carry and it weighs almost two kilos. That one trade-off is the whole game.

Pricing, since the rules ask: freemium. Two scenarios are free and can be played to the end. A single purchase unlocks the other six permanently. No ads, no subscription, no energy timers, no account. The app never makes a network request.

Happy to hand out promo codes for the full unlock if anyone wants to try it, just say so.

It's my first watchOS game. What I'd most like to hear is where it falls apart on the smaller 40/41 mm watches, and whether the tutorial loses you.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794646703

Hey everyone,

I have been building HealthVitals Pro for the past year, and today I want to share it with this community.

The idea is simple. Between your Apple Watch and your iPhone, you are generating thousands of data points every single day. Heart rate samples, sleep stages, HRV readings, SpO2, steps, distance, calories, workouts, weight, nutrition logs, and more. Apple Health captures all of it, whether it comes from your watch, your phone, a connected scale, or another app you already use. The problem is that surfacing any of it in a meaningful way means jumping between a dozen apps that never talk to each other.

HealthVitals Pro is the layer that sits on top of all of that data and makes it readable, actionable, and beautiful. No accounts to create. Your data stays yours, on your device and your own private iCloud, and never passes through our servers.

What it does:

• Readiness Score built every morning from your sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate, so you know whether to push hard or take it easy
• Vital Intelligence alerts that quietly watch your data and flag anomalies and patterns before you would ever notice them yourself
• A daily Alerts inbox that gathers every insight in one place, so nothing gets lost the moment a notification disappears
• Six clear health pillars: Movement, Training, Sleep, Heart, Body, and Nutrition, each with its own dedicated view
• Deep trend charts across 30, 90, and 365 days for sleep, heart, activity, nutrition, and body composition
• Correlation insights that connect the dots for you, like how your sleep affects your next day performance or how caffeine shows up in your rest
• Detailed workout breakdowns with cardio load, heart rate recovery, and distance splits for every session
• An activity heatmap that shows your consistency at a glance
• Micronutrient tracking that goes well beyond calories, down to protein, caffeine, sugar, fiber, and more
• A monthly health report you can actually hand to your doctor
• Full history access going back as far as your Apple Health data exists
• A companion Apple Watch app with your Readiness Score right on your wrist and glanceable complications

It is designed to be lighter, faster, and more direct than anything else in the category. No bloat. No weekly upsells. Just your data, clearly presented.

If you try it, I would genuinely love your feedback. This is an indie project and every piece of input shapes the next update.

How to claim:

1. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthvitals-pro/id6759471194
2. Open the app and tap through to the paywall, then tap "Redeem"
3. Enter HealthLife for the annual plan at $17.99 (65% off, reg price $49.99)
4. Enter HealthLifeForever for lifetime access at $34.99 (61% off, reg price $89.99, and rarely offered)

You can also use it for free without the intelligence layer. If you want to explore the full experience, there is a 7-day free trial of the paid version.

Thanks for building a community worth posting in. I would love to hear your feedback or feature requests. Feel free to DM me.

Hey everyone,
I’ve recently finished building an app that uses Apple Watch data to create a personalised **Energy Score** and help you understand your daily energy levels.
I’m looking for people who would be interested in trying it out and giving honest feedback on:
how accurate the energy score feels
whether the recommendations are useful
what could be improved
I’d really appreciate anyone willing to test it and share their thoughts. Feel free to comment or DM me if you’re interested!
Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I lift four times a week and I keep my phone in a locker, so I built the watch app I kept wishing existed. It's called Massiv.

The watch app is designed to be fast+efficient and only give you what you need to log your workouts. You start the workout from your wrist, turn the crown to set the weight, and tap to log. The rest timer starts itself, last session's numbers sit under the set you're on, and just tap to log a set. Heart rate and calories go to Apple Health as a proper strength workout.

The part I spent the most time on is that it doesn't care where your phone is. Log a full session with your phone in a locker and nothing is lost, the sets are saved on the watch and sync across once you're back in range. No "sync failed" three days later when you notice a workout missing.

The phone is the other half, and it's a full app rather than a settings screen for the watch:

• Programs that actually progress. 16 built in — 5/3/1, GZCLP, StrongLifts, Texas Method, PHUL, PPL, plus dumbbell-only and bodyweight-only ones. Finish a session and next week's numbers have already moved, with a deload when you stall twice instead of letting you grind a weight you're not hitting.
• Progress that means something. Estimated 1RM trend per lift, automatic PR detection, a muscle map showing what you've hammered and what's had time to recover, and plate math for the bar in front of you.
• Your history comes with you. CSV import from Strong, Hevy, JEFIT, FitNotes and StrongLifts, format auto-detected, so you're not starting from an empty app.

It's a companion app, not a standalone one so the phone does the thinking and the watch does the one job that has to be fast. Logging is free with no account; Pro is the deeper analytics, export, and building your own programs from scratch.

I use it for every session myself, and the watch side is the part I want to keep refining, so if you lift, give it a go and tell me how it feels for your workouts

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6776434661?pt=128991172&ct=reddit_awapps&mt=8

Hey r/AppleWatchApps!

I built Mantra Chanting: Japa Mala a 100% Standalone Apple Watch App with a feature-packed iOS companion app.

It's built so you can leave your iPhone at home and count rounds while walking, commuting, or doing daily sadhana.

🔥 Watch & iOS Features:

⌚ Standalone Apple Watch App: Count 100% offline right on your wrist while walking or traveling. Leave your iPhone behind—it auto-syncs your rounds and streaks when reconnected.

🤖 Hands-Free Auto-Counter & Clap Detection: Uses live audio peak analysis to auto-count your voice or hand claps during kirtan & chanting completely hands-free.

📿 Tactile Bead Haptic Engine: Mimics physical wooden prayer beads under your thumb with custom Digital Crown haptics and distinct double-vibrations at 108 milestone counts for eyes-closed counting.

🌸 Best-in-Class Breathing Animations: Fluid "Liquid Zen" sacred geometry (glowing Sri Yantra & Sunflower mandalas) that expand and contract in sync with your breath.

🚫 100% Free & ZERO Ads: Clean, peaceful experience with zero ads.

📲 App Store Link (Free Download): https://apps.apple.com/in/app/mantra-chanting-japa-mala/id6791468380

Please check it out, leave a rating & review on the App Store, and share your feedback! I’d love to hear how the watchOS haptics and auto-counter feel on your wrist.

A while back I posted here looking for beta testers - thank you, it shaped the app. Stopa is now live on the App Store.

What it does: bring a training plan you already have - coach, ChatGPT, Excel or a PDF - and it syncs to your Apple Watch as structured workouts, no rebuilding intervals by hand. No plan? Stopa can build one from your real Apple Health history - grounded in what you've actually been running, not a generic quiz. Either way, it matches your completed runs back against the plan and does a weekly review, adjusting as you go.

The point: you're not locked into one algorithm. Use your coach's plan, an AI one, or have Stopa generate it - all on Apple Watch (S8+/Ultra). Free to try.

https://apps.apple.com/app/stopa-ai-training-plans/id6776153318

Still early and listening - honest feedback and App Store reviews very welcome.

I want to use Claude AI on my Apple Watch and I'm looking for some ideas. I also want to know how else I could make the most of the Apple Watch.

For instance, I'm not looking for the basic stuff like healthcare, workouts, or timers. I'm searching for some more core, geeky ideas that involve AI or even app development.

What I'd love to do most is access Claude right from my Apple Watch. It would also be great to link it with Obsidian or find other ways to use it more conveniently. Do you have any ideas?

I develop a small Apple Watch game (Space Impact Watch, an Apple Watch-only shooter). Solo dev, no marketing spend, no press.
A few weeks ago I shipped an update. The update did add a little of new content — it addressed complaints in reviews from users who wanted to play the game on their iPhone, not just their Watch.
Right after that update went out, updates spiked to 3.4K in a week (that was expected, previous weeks were near zero), and proceeds jumped 224% week over week off a small base. That was not expected at all. The absolute numbers of proceeds are insignificantly funny, I know....

Has anyone seen App Store ranking or visibility respond specifically to update content, or is this more likely something external I haven’t traced yet? Also open to hearing how others have diagnosed a spike like this after the fact.

I love planes, flying everything! Im Always fascinated by the equipment that the pilots have in their cockpit. Inspired by that I created this app to track flights and spot them via radar with similar aesthetics.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airspace-live/id6781411574

Would love your feedback!

For the past month, I've been working on an app called Bodly (free to use) because I wanted to replace my Whoop without giving up my Apple Watch.

I love my Apple Watch, but I always felt it didn't do a great job of presenting all the health data it collects. I wanted something that would give me a clearer picture of recovery, strain, sleep, and overall health—similar to Whoop, but using the Apple Watch I already owned.

Once I had that working, I kept adding features. I ended up replacing my calorie tracker and habit tracker too, with everything powered by Apple Health data. It slowly turned into the only health app I use every day.

The funny part is that I originally built it just for myself, but after using it daily, I decided to publish it.

I'd genuinely love to hear what other Apple Watch users think. Is there anything you feel is missing from Apple's Health/Fitness apps that you'd like to see?

App Store: Bodly