WAREABLE
Best Apple Watch apps 2026: Our editors’ picks
January 12, 2026 By Conor Allison
Athlytic will track sleep, recovery, readiness, training load, health trends, and HRV and allow you to keep a journal of your health habits, all in one place. The app’s design is bang-on.
BGR
5 Of The Best Free Apple Watch Apps You Should Always Install First
January 5, 2026 by Nichols deCourville
Athlytic: AI Fitness Coach from MyndArc, LLC is an app for anyone looking to improve their fitness tracking. An Apple Watch is already an excellent choice for anyone tracking their exercise, even while running a marathon, so a comprehensive fitness app can only make it better
UPGRADIES
2025 UPGRADIES Winners
December 29, 2025 by Myke Hurley and Jason Snell
Best Newcomer iOS App Winner: Athlytic
It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories!
MACSTORIES
MacStories Selects 2025: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
December 16, 2025 by MacStories Team
If you’re interested in delving deeper into your fitness and health statistics, Athlytic is a valuable app to have on your wrist, and it well deserves this year’s MacStories Selects Award for Best Watch App.
Athlytic was also named App of the Year Runner-Up: There are many great fitness-tracking apps on the market, but Athlytic is head and shoulders above the others in both its breadth of information and its actionable utility.
Muscle & Fitness
The Most Important Training Apps Every Gymgoer Should Be Using
December 2025 by Jarrod Nobbe
Athlytic uses Apple Watch data to estimate recovery, exertion, and readiness without requiring additional hardware. It’s a strong option for lifters already using Apple Watch who want recovery insights tied directly to daily activity and training.
MKBHD
November 26, 2025 by Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee reveals his 2026 phone setup, along with the apps he’s currently loving.
MKBHD
Sports Tech I Actually Use (As a Professional Athlete)
August 14, 2025 by Marques Brownlee
Yes, I am a professional ultimate frisbee player. Here's the sports tech I actually use.
RUNLOVERS
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Training?
June 18, 2025
Platforms like Athlytic (paired with Apple Watch) use machine learning to detect fatigue patterns, sleep variations, heart rate or heart rate variability (HRV) shifts that could signal trouble ahead. In other words: they tell you when to hit pause, even if you *feel* like a beast.
WAREABLE
Turn your Apple Watch into Whoop – apps for strain, recovery and sleep
May 12, 2025 By James Stables
Athlytic is essentially a Whoop alternative and offers analysis of sleep, HRV recovery, trends, and workout performance. It also combines sleep and recovery data in one place—so if you’re seeking a one-stop shop for Whoop functionality, Athlytic does the job.
WAREABLE
The best Apple Watch running apps tried and tested
April 23, 2025 By Kieran Alger
When I originally wrote this list, it consisted of apps that tracked runs and workouts. However, as wearables have changed, I’ve now incorporated apps that runners can use to focus on recovery and readiness, and Athlytic is one of the best.
WAREABLE
Best Apple Watch apps 2025: Our editors’ picks
February 26, 2025 By Conor Allison
Athlytic will track sleep, recovery, readiness, training load, health trends, and HRV and allow you to keep a journal of your health habits, all in one place. The app’s design is bang-on.
Tech Radar
50 best Apple Watch apps: From health apps to games and everything inbetween
January 26, 2025 By Stephen Warwick
While Apple is doing more for workout recovery these days, it lacks a dedicated feature akin to Garmin's Body Battery or Fitbit's Readiness Score. Enter Athlytic, an app that measures heart rate variability and resting heart rate to give you a recovery score and tell you how ready your body is to train.
WAREABLE
The best Apple Watch running apps tried and tested
December 19, 2024 By Kieran Alger
If you’re pumping in serious mileage and you want a holistic overview of how well you’re recovering, this (Athlytic) is probably the best option for Apple Watch going.
WAREABLE
Best Apple Watch apps 2024: Our editors’ picks
November 5, 2024 By Conor Allison
I found this app while I was searching for a series of Apple Watch options that would replicate the functionality of Whoop. And while you can use three or four different ones for the *best* experience, Athlytic will do most of it all in one place.
SlashGear
12 OF THE BEST APPLE WATCH HEALTH & FITNESS APPS (ACCORDING TO USER REVIEWS)
October 26, 2024 By Jordan Wirth
Athlytic is about data, taking every conceivable, measurable aspect of your fitness, crunching the numbers, and serving you an actionable game plan.
iMore
The 50 best Apple Watch apps in 2024
July 25, 2024 By Britta O’Boyle
Athlytic’s Watch app is not only gorgeous to look at, but there are plenty of features on board from workout options, exercise intensity and heart rate zones, to your readiness to train.
Tech Radar
This app turns my Apple Watch into a Whoop band
June 30, 2024 By Richard Sibley
Homescreen heroes: Athlytic gives you all those recovery and sleep scores that Apple have been holding back
Geeky Gadgets
15 Awesome Apple Watch Apps For Health, Productivity and More
March 5, 2024 By Roland Hutchinson
Get personalized health insights based on data from your Apple Watch. Focusing on recovery metrics, Athlytic helps optimize your training readiness, ensuring you’re always at your best.
MyHealthApple.com
The best Apple Watch alternatives to Body Battery and other recovery features
March 4, 2024 By Mike Peterson
Athlytic is an app that tracks various data points to give you actionable insights.
GymShark
The Best Apple Watch Recovery Apps: Track Recovery, Exertion, Sleep and more.
December 29, 2022 By Chris Beck
This is the most comprehensive Apple Watch recovery app on our list, with an incredible UI providing visibility across a wealth of data.
TidBits
How I Finally Embraced the Apple Watch as a Fitness Tracker
February 7, 2022 By Josh Centers
Of all the apps I’m using, if I could only go with one, it would be Athlytic.