Livity is the app you end up at after deciding you are not going to pay Whoop $199 a year to be told you slept badly. It takes the heart rate, HRV and sleep your Apple Watch already records, or the same from a Garmin, Fitbit or Oura account, and turns them into a recovery score, a readiness verdict and a pile of charts, for roughly $60 a year. We have compared it with Bevel and Athlytic before; this is the standalone review, built from what Livity documents about itself, what its users say in some 5,000 store reviews, and how the pricing actually works once you are past the paywall.
Fitcoin is our own app and reads the same Apple Health data, so we are not a neutral party in the broader "which health app" question. We have no connection to Livity, Bevel, Athlytic or Whoop, we earn nothing if you subscribe, and nothing here is medical advice.
Get it if
You own an Apple Watch and a Garmin, Oura or Fitbit and want one recovery number across them, or you want the cheapest credible readiness score on iPhone.
Skip it if
You are on Android, you want a polished app that never surprises you, or your sleep is broken into chunks that Livity will need to stitch together.
Price check
Free tier. $9.99 a month, $59.99 to $79.99 a year, or $149.99 once. Three-day trial on annual plans.
What Livity actually is
The App Store calls it "Livity: Sleep & Health Tracker", which undersells it. It is a recovery dashboard in the Garmin and Whoop mould: a morning recovery percentage built from overnight HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and the last few days of training load, with a plain-English verdict attached, push, maintain or rest. Around that sit sleep stages and sleep debt, a training load and strain view with heart-rate zones and route maps for workouts, a stress trend, an energy gauge that behaves like Garmin's Body Battery, a "fitness age" estimate, and an AI coach that answers questions about your own numbers.
Two design decisions matter more than the feature list. The first is that the core maths runs on your phone. Your recovery score is calculated locally from Apple Health, and the optional cloud features, the AI coach and the third-party connections, are things you switch on rather than things that are on by default. The second is the source list. Livity reads Apple Health and the Apple Watch like every app in this category, but it also logs into Garmin, Fitbit and Oura directly. If you wear an Oura ring at night and an Apple Watch for runs, Livity is one of the very few apps that will build one picture from both without you exporting anything.
It wants iOS 17 or later, has an Apple Watch app with complications and recovery, sleep and strain rings on the wrist, and ships Home Screen widgets. There is no Android version and no web dashboard.
What living with it is like, according to the people doing it
Livity sits at 4.7 stars from about 1,300 US ratings and 4.6 across roughly 5,300 reviews worldwide, which is high for a subscription health app, and the praise is consistent. The most repeated compliment is that it is the closest thing to Garmin's native recovery and training presentation you can get on an Apple Watch: a clean layout, a number, a sentence telling you to push or rest, and the reasoning one tap away. The second most repeated is that the core calculations stay on the device, which several reviewers say is the reason they picked it over a cloud-first competitor. A third group simply did not want to pay Whoop prices to understand HRV and found Livity answered the question for a fraction of the cost.
The onboarding indexes your Apple Health history and, by multiple accounts, produces useful baselines on day one for sleep, recovery and training load. The exception is the energy gauge. Livity's own FAQ says the Body Battery-style score needs three to five days to calibrate, and reviewers describe the early readings as erratic before they settle. Treat the first week's energy number as noise.
The complaints are just as consistent, and they are worth knowing before you start a trial. Loading is slow; one reviewer on a current iPhone and an Apple Watch Ultra 3 describes a noticeable delay every time the app opens. Interrupted sleep is handled badly: several people report that if they wake for an hour and go back to sleep, Livity records only the first block, which then drags the recovery score for the whole day while Apple Health and other apps show the full night. The fitness age figure appears to count vigorous minutes differently from the rest of the app, with a reviewer who trains two hours a day reporting it credited him with five vigorous minutes. And there are reports of the Watch complications and the phone disagreeing, 45 percent energy on the wrist against 23 on the phone in one case, which Livity attributes to sync timing and says a reinstall of the Watch app fixes.
None of those are reasons to avoid it. They are reasons to expect a small team's app that ships fast and occasionally wobbles, rather than the finished-feeling product Bevel is. Support responsiveness is the one complaint we would weigh more heavily; a minority of reviewers say messages went unanswered, and if you are paying for a lifetime licence that matters.
The price question
Livity's pricing is confusing because there are several overlapping products on the App Store listing, some marked deprecated. As of 1 November 2026 in the US, the live options reduce to this:
| Plan | US price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Core scores and a limited history. Enough to decide if the recovery number makes sense for you. |
| Weekly | $3.99 to $4.99 | Exists mainly to make the annual look cheap. Avoid. |
| Monthly | $9.99 | Fine for a two-month trial of the AI coach before committing. |
| Annual | $59.99 to $79.99 | Two bundles; the dearer one includes the AI and extra features. Three-day trial, sometimes seven. |
| Lifetime | $149.99 | One payment. Only shows on the paywall when you have no active subscription, so cancel a trial first if you want it. |
For context, Bevel Pro is listed at $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, Whoop starts at $199 a year and requires its own hardware, and Oura's membership is $5.99 a month on top of a ring. Livity at $60 is the cheapest of the serious recovery apps, and the lifetime option is the only one in this group where you can stop paying at all. Whether lifetime is a bargain depends on whether you trust a small team's app to exist in three years; the regular update cadence is a reasonable sign that it will, but it is a bet.
One warning that comes up in a lot of one-star reviews: the three-day trial converts to the annual charge quickly, and people who installed it on a Friday and forgot were billed on Monday. Set a reminder when you start the trial. Cancelling is through Apple's subscription settings, not inside Livity.
Livity, Bevel or Athlytic
These three use the same vocabulary, recovery, strain, sleep, and the same iPhone, so the choice is about temperament as much as features. We have head-to-heads for Bevel vs Livity and Athlytic vs Livity if you want detail, but the short version:
Bevel is the one that looks like a magazine. Calmer design, Energy Bank instead of a strain number, and the deepest Apple-only integration. It costs more and does not talk to Garmin or Oura. Pick it if you only wear an Apple Watch and you value polish over breadth.
Athlytic is the longest-running of the three and the most Whoop-like in its training focus. It is the choice for people who want prescriptive strain targets and do not care about the lifestyle extras.
Livity is the broadest and the cheapest, with multi-device support none of the others match and a lifetime price, at the cost of occasional roughness. Pick it if you have more than one wearable or you simply want to pay least.
Settings worth changing in the first week
- Set the sleep source explicitly (Profile, Preferences, Health Preferences, Sleep Data Source) rather than leaving it on automatic, especially if more than one device writes sleep to Apple Health. Livity's FAQ points here first when sleep looks wrong or incomplete.
- Grant every Apple Health category Livity asks for, particularly Sleep, Heart Rate and Activity. A refused category produces blanks rather than an error.
- If you also use Oura, connect it and let Livity use the ring for sleep and the Watch for workouts. That split is the setup Livity's multi-device support was built for.
- Ignore the energy gauge for the first five days and the fitness age indefinitely.
- Do not compare Livity's HRV to the Apple Health figure and assume one is wrong. Livity measures during the sleep window; Apple shows the whole day. They are different numbers on purpose.
Verdict
8
Recovery insight
9
Device support
6
Polish and speed
9
Value
Livity does the important thing well. The recovery score is the part users trust, it explains itself, and it does so for a fraction of what the hardware-plus-subscription products charge. It is let down by speed and by a few metrics that do not yet hold up, and the trial-to-annual conversion catches people out. If you can live with an app that feels like a work in progress from a small team, it is the best value in iPhone recovery tracking right now, and the only one worth considering if your data lives on more than one brand of device.
Where Fitcoin fits: we do not try to replace Livity's recovery analysis. Fitcoin reads the same Apple Health workouts and steps, scores the effort, and pays it back in partner rewards and weekly Leagues, with Sleep, Recovery and Energy summaries that are deliberately simpler than Livity's. Plenty of people run both. If that sounds useful, it is free to try.
Four quick answers
How much does Livity cost?
There is a free tier. In the US App Store the paid plans run $3.99 to $4.99 a week, $9.99 a month, and $59.99 to $79.99 a year depending on the bundle, with a three-day trial on the annual plans. A one-off lifetime purchase is listed at $149.99 and only appears on the paywall when you have no active subscription.
Does Livity work with Garmin or Oura?
Yes. Alongside Apple Health and Apple Watch, Livity connects directly to Garmin, Fitbit and Oura accounts, which is the main thing that separates it from Bevel and Athlytic.
Why does Livity's HRV not match Apple Health?
Livity measures resting heart rate and HRV across your sleep window only, which it treats as the cleanest recovery signal. Apple Health shows whole-day figures, so the numbers will differ. Livity says this is expected.
Is Livity available on Android?
No. Livity is iPhone and Apple Watch only, requiring iOS 17 or later. Android users with Garmin, Fitbit or Oura data have no Livity option.
Prices and features were checked against the US App Store listing (id 6498938838) and Livity's own FAQ on 1 to 4 November 2026. User-reported strengths and issues are drawn from App Store reviews published between late 2025 and November 2026. Scores out of 10 are our editorial opinion, not measurements.
More in this corner of the blog: Bevel vs Livity, Athlytic vs Livity, apps like Bevel, Apple Watch recovery apps without Whoop.
About the author: Harris Khan is the co-founder and CTO of Fitcoin, a UK fitness-rewards and health-insights app that reads Apple Health and Health Connect.