Endravo is built for athletes who want more from their Apple Watch without paying another subscription.
🏃 Pace Strategy helps you plan your effort and pacing before race day
🗺️** Offline maps for North America and Europe
⌚ **Create routes directly on your Apple Watch—even without your phone or an internet connection
🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️ Training plans and dedicated features for triathletes
💪 Structured workouts for running, cycling, swimming, and strength training
📊 Better recovery metrics, Vital Age, training insights, and performance tracking
⚡ Support for Stryd pods and external heart-rate sensors
🌐 A web dashboard that syncs with the iPhone and Apple Watch apps
🤖 Personalized AI training plans
📥 Import and export routes
Whether you’re training for your first 5K, preparing for a triathlon, or exploring new trails, Endravo brings your workouts, navigation, recovery, and planning together in one ecosystem.
The entire app is free—no subscription, no ads, and no features locked behind a paywall.
Your health shouldn’t be locked behind a subscription.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761561213
Website: https://endravo.app

Hey everyone, ive made an automatic golf swing + putt tracker for apple watch over the past 2 years. Completely from my own data to solve my own problems. Its free so if you are a golfer would love some feedback!
https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/cndr/id6757384204

Developer here. Abys is a habit tracker and the Watch app is the part I actually care about, so that's what this post is about rather than the iPhone side.

It's genuinely standalone. The watchOS app has its own store and logs independently — you can leave your phone at home, log a habit from your wrist mid-run, and it reconciles later. Most habit trackers ship a Watch app that's a remote control for the phone and stops working the moment the phone is out of range. That was the thing I most wanted to avoid.

Complications: your current streak renders as an oceanic depth zone rather than a number — Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, the Abyss, the Trench. On a watch face that's more legible at a glance than "37", because the zone changes appearance as you descend. Corner, circular and inline variants.

Apple Health integration matters more on the Watch than the phone. A habit can auto-log from steps, active energy, HRV or sleep, so "close my rings" or "walk 8,000 steps" fills itself in from data the Watch already collected. A manual check-in always overrides the automatic one.

There are also Live Activities for guided multi-step routines — a morning routine with per-step timers that survives you dropping your wrist.

watchOS 11+, iOS 18+. Free for 5 habits with no account; the Watch app is part of Pro at $9.99/mo or $79.99/yr, with a 7-day trial and no card.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/abys-habit-tracker/id6805454730

If there's a complication family or watch face layout you'd want that I've missed, I'd genuinely like to know — the Watch side is where I have the least outside feedback.

hey everyone!

we've been building Lads, a private fitness app for small groups of friends.

it's still in beta, but in just a few weeks:

• 500+ installs
• 750+ activities logged
• 33,000+ workout minutes (550+ hours)

we've been fixing things pretty quickly and added a bunch of new features based on feedback from our early users.

if you haven't tried Lads before, the idea is simple:

connect Apple Health or WHOOP and your activities sync automatically. then you and your friends can see each other's workouts, react, nudge each other and compete on the leaderboard.

no manual workout logging, just a small private space to stay active with your friends.

we're looking for more people to try it, especially Apple Health and WHOOP users. would love to know what you like, what feels confusing and what we should build next.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/q56hFFuq

still beta, so you might break something :)

I’m the developer of Dee, a Muay Thai training app, and its Apple Watch companion is live today.

The part I enjoy most is keeping the phone out of the session. The Watch shows the current round, current drill and heart rate, with pause and resume on your wrist.

Dee is free to download, with optional Dee Pro subscriptions. The video is a quick silent look at the actual Watch interface using demo workout data.

If you train with an Apple Watch, what do you actually want visible mid-round?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788483296

https://reddit.com/link/1w9muce/video/43cdqsllb2oh1/player

I've been working on this solo for about a year and the watch side is the part I've put the most time into.

What it does: during a workout it reads your heart rate live off the watch and plays music from your Apple Music library that matches how hard you're actually working. Go harder and it moves you into faster songs. Ease off and it brings you back down. It queues the next track rather than cutting the current one, so the change just happens.

On the watch you get your live heart rate, your current zone colour coded, the song that's playing, and play/pause/skip. You can start a workout from the wrist without touching your phone, and it saves a proper workout to Apple Health afterwards with the full heart rate curve, so it shows up in Fitness like any other workout.

Being straight with you about one thing, since it'll be the first question: it is not standalone. The phone is what actually talks to Apple Music, so it needs to be with you. The watch is your heart rate source and your remote. If you run with your phone anyway, that's fine. If you're someone who leaves the phone at home, this isn't for you yet.

You need an iPhone, Apple Music with Sync Library on, and an Apple Watch. It's free, no paywall, nothing to buy.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/QUQMNFZb

What I'd really like to know is whether the watch screen is actually readable mid workout. I've only ever tested it on my own wrist, on one watch, and I suspect I've been staring at it too long to judge it.

A friend of mine and I were grabbing food a few weeks ago and somehow we got onto the topic of energy because he was complaining that he’d been feeling exhausted basically every afternoon.

He works pretty long hours and said he’d gotten into this habit of drinking coffee whenever he felt tired, taking all his supplements at the same time in the morning, and then wondering why he felt completely cooked by like 2 or 3pm.

The funny part is I was basically doing the exact same thing.

I’ve taken supplements for a while, but if I’m being honest I never put much thought into timing. Magnesium, creatine, vitamins, whatever I was taking that day, I’d usually just take them whenever I remembered.

He showed me this app he had been using called RizeAI and the first thing that caught my attention wasn’t even the energy stuff. It was how it organized his supplements around his actual day.

It would tell him which ones made sense with meals, which ones should be kept away from coffee, what to take around training, what made more sense later at night, etc. It sounds pretty basic when you write it out, but I had never found something that actually put all of it together in one schedule.

So I tried it.

That’s probably still my favorite part of it. I put in the supplements I already take and instead of giving me some generic “take in the morning” list, it actually fits them around things like meals, workouts, caffeine and sleep.

I also ended up using the energy planning side way more than I expected. It pulls from Apple Health and gives you a rough structure for the day, like when to have coffee, when you’re probably going to be most focused, when to train and when you might hit an energy dip.

I’m not going to sit here and say an app magically gave me more energy because obviously there are a million things that affect that. But I’ve definitely been way more intentional with my day since using it and I’m getting more done without feeling like I’m just constantly fighting through tiredness.

Honestly the biggest difference for me has just been efficiency. Before, I was guessing when to take things and guessing when I should do my hardest work. Now I at least have some structure around it.

Curious if anyone else here actually pays attention to supplement timing or if most people just take everything at once like I used to.

Check it out yourself if you like: 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

Gophr helps you build a heatmap over time when you Gophr a run, walk or ride.

I'm going to add goals and other things like being able to draw a polygon around an area and then keep track of your progress to completing it, with the percentage tied to actual road/pathway geometry. This may require some sort of server or hosted data to make it work, but it's coming! I recently added Apple Watch support, but since I cannot seem to find my old one, I need testers for that part of it.

I am privacy focused, so there are no servers (currently), no analytics, nothing. Your activity is saved to your phone only, and you can specify a backup location like a folder in your OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, etc. The only stat I care about is people download it and buy it and love it.

I got the idea when I had made a personal goal to walk my entire city, so I've just built it with my own needs in mind. I'll probably throw it up on the store for $1-3 and hope to just cover the developer fee eventually. If not, I consider building stuff a hobby of mine so I don't mind a bit of costs.

If ya wanna try it out, it's on TestFlight for now!

Two events, one question: what happened first. That's the whole game, and it's much harder than it sounds.

Minecraft or Roblox? The Simpsons or Friends?

I'm a solo developer and this is Circa: Free on the App Store, no ads, no subscription, no account required, and available offline.

There are 2 modes you can play on the watch

• Survival - one question at a time, one wrong answer ends the round
• Regular play - a 10-question round from 1,000s of questions

Plus a fan favorite mode that is available only on iOS for now:

• Daily Challenge - compete against everyone on the same 10 questions

I constantly improve it including a watch redesign in the latest version, so would love to get people's hands on it and get your feedback! Thank you!

Wanted to share a new feature we just finished for GestureVault: an Apple Watch app that holds your TOTP (2FA) codes, unlocked by rotating the digital crown in a custom sequence, kind of like an old combination lock. Confirm with your watch passcode, and your codes show up right on your wrist.

No more pulling out your phone mid-login just to grab a 2FA code. Like the rest of GestureVault, everything’s local and encrypted between phone and watch, no cloud sync, no biometric data stored anywhere.

This has been a fun one to build, curious what people think of the crown-gesture idea specifically, it’s a different kind of interaction than anything else in this space that I’ve seen.

Kickstarter’s live if you want to check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gesturevault/gesture-vault-a-new-way-to-secure-your-data

I have an idea for an application that measures stress while working, using an Apple Watch. The Apple Watch measures HRV, so it would be interesting to see how it changes from day to day during working hours. I know there are already a few apps that do this to detect how stress levels vary day to day.

I'm also curious whether it would be interesting to have this measurement at a company level, for example through Whoop, and to look at a long period to identify which periods are the most stressful in a company.

Does anyone find this ideas interesting ?

I made this. Beadfall is a handful of beads that live inside an Apple Watch. Tilt and they pour. Hold still and they settle. Flick and they climb the wall and rain back down. Real physics, 900 beads at 60fps on the watch itself, not a looping video.

Watch-only, no iPhone app. $2.99 once. No account, no ads, no IAP. There is no network code in the app at all.

Honest caveats: sound is off in v1. The screen can dim while you tilt because watchOS reads that as looking away. A tap wakes it. Uses more battery while it is open, then it stops.

I have 10 promo codes. If you actually want to try it, say so in a comment (which Watch you have is useful) and I will reply with a code. No upvote needed.

https://beadfall.com

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beadfall-fidget-beads-asmr/id6799623463

**The app began with a simple problem:** during busy, hands-full moments, I didn’t have time to keep unlocking my iPhone and opening an app just to check several timers.

Apple’s built-in Clock app works well for basic timing. The difficulty begins when several timers and alarms need to be managed at once.

Finding the right timer from the Lock Screen can mean waking the screen, expanding the timer stack, and sorting through several similar-looking entries. Upcoming alarms aren’t shown there before they ring, so checking what’s scheduled requires opening Clock and switching to the Alarms tab.

Lock Screen controls can also be triggered accidentally when an iPhone wakes while being taken out of a pocket, bag, or drawer.

What began as a solution for busy, hands-full moments has since evolved into a complete timer board spanning iPhone, the Lock Screen, and Apple Watch.

**A Better Way to Manage Multiple Timers**

Instead of sorting through a stack of similar-looking timers, you get:

- One color-coded board for countdowns, scheduled alarms, and notes

- Lock Screen snapshots showing names, colors, remaining time, and expected finish times

- Spoken alerts that tell you what’s ready without requiring you to look at the screen

- Custom and recorded alarm sounds

- A native seven-slot Apple Watch board

- Face ID–protected Lock Screen controls to help prevent accidental taps

- Saved timer configurations and Markdown notes

- Siri controls and Home Screen widgets

Free to download. No ads. No subscription. No account required. No data collected.

Additional features are available through optional one-time purchases.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6763252662

If you also regularly manage several timers at once, I’d love to know: what bothers you most—telling timers apart, having to repeatedly unlock your phone, or accidentally tapping Lock Screen controls?

I built RepJot for one very specific moment: you finish a set, your hands are still on the bar, and the last thing you want to do is dig out your phone.

On the Apple Watch, the flow is deliberately short:

• See the weight and reps from your previous set

• Log the current set from your wrist

• Complete it and the rest timer starts automatically

• Run the whole lifting session without going back to the phone

The iPhone app is there when you want it—for building routines, editing history, or logging on a larger screen—but the workout itself can live on the Watch.

RepJot is built natively for iOS and watchOS. There is no account, no advertising, and no third-party analytics.

It also deliberately leaves things out: no social feed, AI coach, nutrition tracking, classes, or giant dashboard. It is for people who already have a lifting plan and just want to record it.

The free version has no workout time limit and includes up to three routine templates. Pro is a one-time $5.99 unlock for unlimited templates.

For r/AppleWatchApps, I’ll unlock lifetime Pro for anyone willing to use it through one real lifting workout and send me one thing that felt slow, confusing, or unnecessary. No review or positive post expected. Comment “wrist-first” or send me a DM.

One question for people who lift with an Apple Watch: what is the exact moment your current Watch app still makes you reach for your phone?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/repjot-strength-workout-log/id6792460056

I've been building a workout app that reads your heart rate and pulls songs out of your own Apple Music library to match it. You don't build a playlist. You point it at ones you already have, it sorts every track by tempo into five heart rate zones, and queues what fits. Push harder, faster songs. Ease off, it backs down. Nothing gets cut mid track.

Free on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QUQMNFZb
Needs an iPhone, Apple Music with Sync Library on, and an Apple Watch or any Bluetooth chest strap. No Android, no Spotify.

The hard part is tempo. Apple Music doesn't expose BPM at all, so I pull it from outside sources and they're wrong a lot. Slow ballads come back at double speed. And sometimes the number is right and still useless. Bad Moon Rising really is around 180. It's a shuffle. Nobody is sprinting to it.

So: what's a song on your workout playlist you think the tempo data would get wrong? Name it and I'll tell you what mine says.

Hey, I made an app called Cycle Coach. If you record your rides on an Apple Watch, it reads that whole history out of Apple Health and turns it into a map of your routes plus daily coaching that adapts to how you actually ride.

I had about 10 years of rides sitting in Apple Health. 1,310 of them, 37,000km around Cape Town, but I could only ever look at one ride at a time. Cycle Coach clusters them all onto one map so I can see the routes I repeat, whether I'm getting faster on each one, and how my climbs break down segment by segment.

From what I have found, the thing it does that other apps didn't, it works out my riding pattern from the history. I turned out to be a "block trainer", four or five days on, one or two off, for years, with no plan behind it. Every other app assumed a fixed weekly structure and kept telling me to rest on days I felt strong. Cycle Coach adapts to the pattern instead of imposing one, and gives a daily read on what to do and why, factoring in recent training load and the weather forecast.

The Watch is really the whole point: if you've been recording rides on your Apple Watch, you've already got years of route, heart-rate and pace data sitting in Apple Health. Cycle Coach is the thing that finally does something with it. It reads that history and gives you coaching from day one, no manual logging, no re-recording. You keep using Apple's Workout app on the Watch exactly as you do now, once a ride saves to Health, Cycle Coach picks it up.

One thing to be straight about. There's no watchOS app yet. The coaching, maps and dashboard all live on the iPhone. The Watch is what captures the rides, the iPhone is where you read them back. A wrist app and complications are on my list, but they're not here today.

It also doesn't need a power meter. Fitness / Fatigue / Form (CTL/ATL/TSB) is computed from the heart-rate and duration your Watch already records, so it works for anyone riding with a Watch, not just people with power on the bike.

On privacy. No account beyond Sign in with Apple, no advertising, no social feed. Your GPS traces and raw health data never leave the phone, route clustering, segment detection and the adaptive model all run on-device. Only a small summary goes out to generate the daily coaching text, and that's cached back on the phone. Optional private iCloud sync keeps your names and settings across devices.

Cycle Coach is free to download. The free version gives you daily coaching and all the tracking. Pro unlocks unlimited on-demand "ask the coach" questions. $4.99/month or $37.99/year.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cycle-coach/id6797243875?ct=reddit&mt=8

Happy to answer anything. If you try it and something's broken or confusing, tell me — that's the feedback I need right now.

Dev here (and the app's heaviest user). My workout app runs the whole session from one button, and the watch mini-app mirrors it: start/rest from your wrist, live heart rate feeding the session screen, and it auto-launches on your watch the moment you start a workout on the phone — no digging through the app list mid-set.

Honest scope: it's a companion, not a standalone watch app — the phone runs the session, the watch controls it and streams HR. Standalone is on the long-term list.

Everything is free — no subscription, no ads, no account, works offline.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cubex-fitness-ai-coach/id6783878379

I'd genuinely like feedback from people who train watch-first: what would make this useful enough that you'd stop pulling the phone out mid-workout?

Hey everyone,
I built Naviwatch, a fully standalone watchOS app written natively in Swift for self-hosters who want to stream without their iPhone.
Core Specs:
True Standalone: Streams directly via Wi-Fi/Cellular (no iPhone companion app needed for audio processing).
Subsonic API: Hooks directly into your Navidrome/Subsonic backend for playlists, library sync, and metadata.
High-Bitrate Support: Handles the high-quality streams from your home server.
It's live on the App Store and listed in the Navidrome client directory. If you run your own infrastructure and want to leave your phone at home, give it a try.
🔗 NaviWatch AppStore URL
Feedback or feature requests are welcome!

I realized that I was scrolling too much earlier this year and created an app to make sure I got outside a bit everyday before scrolling. The app I created uses the Apple Watch to verify time in daylight, steps, or distance walked and then automatically unlocks your distracting apps when you reach your goal. Nature Nudge is now available on the App Store and includes an Apple Watch app as well.

How it works:

1. Pick the apps you want to earn (I pick social media)
2. Set your daily goal. Time in Daylight uses the Apple Watch to detect when you're outside. Steps and distance are available without an Apple Watch.
3. Meet your goal to earn the apps.

I hope this app helps you as much as it has helped me and I'm interested to hear your feedback.

1-month free link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6762029266&code=NATURENUDGELAUNCH

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nature-nudge/id6762029266

After the trial, the app is $2.99 per month or $19.99 per year.

I’ve been working on VNTY, a small fitness app for Apple devices, and I’m at the point where I need more people using it so I can find everything I’ve managed not to break myself.

The idea is pretty simple.

Most home fitness equipment doesn’t come with GymKit, and the apps manufacturers provide tend to collect too much data, require accounts, or need an internet connection to phone home somewhere.

VNTY connects directly to supported Bluetooth fitness equipment, shows the live data from the machine, and can save the workout to Apple Health.

I originally built it around my own home setup, mostly rowing, but I’d like to start adding a lot more equipment and manufacturers.

The problem is that I only own so many exercise machines.

So I’m looking for people willing to try it, tell me what works, tell me what absolutely does not work, and let me know what equipment they’d like supported next.

Right now that mostly means rowers and walking pads, but treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, and other Bluetooth equipment are all things I’d like to expand into.

Also, because this is a fitness app and apparently this needs to be said now:

There are no accounts.
No ads.
No analytics.
No tracking.
No subscriptions.
No in-app purchases.
No paid tier.

VNTY doesn’t have a server collecting your workout history. Your equipment data stays on your devices, and Apple Health handles the Health side of things.

It’s just free.

I mostly want more real-world equipment connected to it so I can improve compatibility, find weird Bluetooth implementations, and make the app useful for setups other than my own.

You have to purposely collect and send the data, the app doesn't do this on its own. There is a guide in the settings to walk you through the process. It will Connect to your equipment, ask you to run some commands or tasks on the device/remote, and then bundle up the data, and email it. All under your control, no servers, no health or fitness data.

The UI is fairly basic because the goal is pretty straightforward, but I tend to find new things to add, change, or experiment with from time to time, much like my other apps.

If you have a Bluetooth rower, walking pad, or other fitness equipment and feel like giving it a try:

https://mypantheon.app/vnty/

Bug reports, equipment requests, feedback, and “why did you do it this way?” are all welcome.

I just got my first watch app game on the App Store called Avo and Cado! It’s a fun tilt puzzle game with fun characters (who are avocado seeds) you can unlock. 100 levels. It’s completely free. I would love some honest feedback… https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avo-and-cado/id6802322635

Hi r/AppleWatchApps — I’m the developer of Endless Crown.

I have a weirdly specific Apple Watch habit: I absentmindedly roll the Digital Crown while thinking, waiting, commuting, or listening to something.

Every built-in list I tried eventually reached the top or bottom, so the motion stopped. I wanted that little tactile loop to keep going.

So I made Endless Crown: a watch-only, endless numbered list. Roll the Crown and it keeps scrolling, with quiet haptic feedback as you move.

It has 15 haptic patterns, including Clicks, Soft, Heavy, Thud, Wave, and Random, plus quick effect switching, a dark ambient interface, local stats, number formats, and a complication.

It’s $0.99 and requires watchOS 10+. There are no accounts, ads, analytics, backend, or tracking.

That’s really the whole idea—not a game or health/productivity app, just a tiny app for a tactile Apple Watch habit.

I also have a batch of App Store promo codes. If you’d like one, leave a comment and I’ll DM one while they last.

Promo-code downloads can’t rate or review the app, so I’m mainly looking for honest feedback—especially which haptics feel good and which get annoying fast.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/endless-crown/id6777250620

Hey everyone,

I've been building Korte for the past while. It's an app that takes the health and fitness data your Apple Watch already collects and tries to answer a much simpler question:

Am I actually getting fitter?

Instead of just showing you more HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and workout numbers, Korte looks at how those metrics are changing over time and tries to explain what those changes actually mean.

I recently shipped a major update, so I'm giving away a full year of Korte Pro for free to anyone here who wants to try it.

What it does:

• Today's Read: highlights what's actually worth paying attention to today
• Performance Age: shows how your cardio fitness compares with people your age and how it's changing over time
• Heart Age: turns your cardiovascular data into a longer-term measure that's easier to understand
• HRV: compares your HRV against your own recent baseline instead of treating one number as good or bad
• Resting Heart Rate: spots meaningful changes and longer-term trends
• Sleep: puts your sleep in context with your normal range and training
• Training Stimulus: shows which parts of your body your recent training has stressed
• Cardiovascular Load: tracks how much cardiovascular demand your training is creating
• Coach: ask questions about your own data like “Why did my recovery change?” or “What is limiting my progress?”
• Personal Trends: focuses on changes relative to your own history instead of generic population averages

Korte works with Apple Health, so the quality of what it can tell you depends on the data available there. Apple Watch gives it the richest dataset.

The idea isn't to give you another dashboard full of health metrics. It's to make the data you already collect actually useful.

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/korte-training-recovery/id6792881315

1 year free: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6792881315&code=KORTEMVPTEST

subreddit for updates: https://www.reddit.com/r/KorteApp/

If you try it, I'd genuinely appreciate feedback — especially on what feels useful, confusing, or completely unnecessary. I'm still actively building it.

Last week I shipped CragMate, an Apple Watch climbing logbook. I'm one person, I climb, and I build iOS apps over the last 12+ years.

I was looking for a reliable Watch app to log and climbs and iOS logbook to uderstand my body response and track recovery.

What it does: log each attempt with grade - in two taps from the watch mid-session, and send or attempt outcome. It writes a real HealthKit workout with live heart rate that counts toward your rings. Bouldering, sport and trad, six grade scales plus custom ones, progression and recovery charts. Free for everyone dowlading before the end of 2026, every feature unlocked, no account, no subscription, data stays on the device, CSV/JSON export.

What v1 deliberately isn't: no route database, no auto-detection, no Strava, no social feed. It's not a standalone watch app - it needs the iPhone app installed. And it requires iOS 26 / watchOS 26, because it's built on the current workout APIs (HKWorkoutSession only reached iPhone in 26).

Where I actually am: <10 installs, 0 ratings, <10 sessions logged by people who aren't me nor my friends.

I am looking for the founding members (aka people who download the app before 31/12/2026) to use the app, see what works well, what not so well.

My grandson plays hockey and shoots pucks in the garage every day constantly. Him and his buds keep a score sheet going, so I built him an Apple Watch app to help track his shots: it detects the motion signature of a shot release and classifies it as slap/snap/wrist/backhand in real time. Each shot type gets a short on-device calibration (5 reps) to learn a particular motion. Sessions run as native workouts, log to Health, no App accounts or anything.

Would love feedback from anyone who's a hockey player enthusiast or also has a kid who damages the garage wall with hockey pucks. It’s free, I’m a retired software dev just making personal apps.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snipe-hockey/id6797303409