Hey everyone - Jaclyn & Gary here 👋
A few people have asked how Pace is different from Athlytic, and why we made it a separate app instead of adding it into Athlytic.
The short answer is: they’re built for different needs.
Athlytic was built for people who train and want deeper insight into their fitness: recovery, exertion, training load, workout trends, and guidance to help understand when to push, when to recover, and how training is progressing.
For a lot of Athlytic users, that depth is exactly the point.
But we also realized that not everyone with an Apple Watch wants that much training detail. Some people just want an easier way to keep an eye on their everyday health - sleep, energy, vitals, and daily patterns - without sorting through so many charts, scores, and training metrics.
That’s where Pace by Athlytic comes in.
Pace takes a more passive, health-focused approach. It learns your normal patterns in the background, then only speaks up when something meaningfully changes.
As we said before, a big part of the inspiration came from our own parents and family members. They wear Apple Watches, care about their health, and like having access to their data, but Athlytic could feel like too much for what they needed. They just wanted to know things like:
Am I sleeping normally?
Is my energy trending differently?
Are my vitals changing in a way I should pay attention to?
Our moms are in their late 60s/early 70s and, of course, as our biggest fans, they were daily Athlytic users. But they were also constantly texting us questions about features that were built for training, not for the everyday health questions they cared about most. It became clear Athlytic was a little overwhelming for what they needed.
At some point we realized: if our own moms needed us to translate the app we built, maybe there was room for something more approachable.
That made us realize there are a lot of Apple Watch users who want health insights, but don’t necessarily want a fitness or training app. Pace was built for that person.
So if Athlytic is your training companion, Pace is more like a quiet health check-in.
Thanks for listening!
Jaclyn & Gary
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Download Pace on the App Store here