Incredible vs Livity: Training Context, Recovery, and Body Battery

Incredible is a free training app combining daily training context, strength logging, and Fitness on Apple Watch. Livity is a freemium recovery and training app with premium tiers up to $9.99/month that positions itself as a Whoop alternative. Both are privacy-focused and include strength training, but only Livity presents a Recovery Score and Body Battery. The differences are more nuanced than they first appear.

At a Glance

Feature	Incredible	Livity
Price	Free	Freemium: $9.99/mo, $59.99/yr, or $3.99/wk
Daily training context	Sleep, vitals, and recorded training	Recovery Score
HRV tracking	Yes (Apple Watch)	Yes (24/7 via Apple Watch or Garmin)
Sleep analysis	Yes	Yes (Sleep Score)
Strength training	Yes	Yes (programs + custom sessions)
Fitness	Training built over time from recorded workouts	Fitness Age
Body Battery	No	Yes
Training Load analysis	Recorded cardio + strength workout load	Yes
Body temperature	Yes	Yes
Blood Oxygen displayed	Yes, as a separate vital	Limited
Respiratory rate	Yes	Limited
Account required	No	No (free tier)
On-device processing	Yes	Yes (strong privacy stance)
Platforms	iOS	iOS and Android

The Core Difference

Livity has grown significantly since earlier versions. It now includes strength training with ready-made programs and custom sessions, real-time workout metrics, a Body Battery feature, Fitness Age, Training Load analysis, and 24/7 HRV monitoring via Apple Watch or Garmin. It also works on both iOS and Android, which Incredible does not.

But Livity is not free. Its freemium model gates full features behind a premium subscription at $9.99/month, $59.99/year, or $3.99/week. The free tier gives you a taste, but the complete experience -- Recovery Score details, full historical trends, Body Battery, and advanced analytics -- requires paying.

Incredible is genuinely free. Every feature -- daily training context, strength training, Fitness, all six vitals, and full historical trends -- is available to every user without paying anything. No subscription, no premium tier, no ads.

Both apps process data on-device and take privacy seriously. The question comes down to what you get for free versus what you pay for, and which feature set better matches your training.

Daily Context and Recovery Metrics

The apps frame daily training and recovery context differently.

Livity offers a Recovery Score, Sleep Score, and a Body Battery feature that estimates your remaining energy throughout the day. The Recovery Score draws from 24/7 HRV monitoring, resting heart rate, sleep quality, and training load. Body Battery is a nice addition -- it provides an intuitive, Garmin-style readout of how much you have in the tank at any point. Livity also calculates Fitness Age, an estimate of your biological fitness relative to your chronological age.

Incredible does not provide a Recovery Score or Body Battery. It brings sleep and overnight vitals together with recent training and workouts recorded today. Logged cardio and strength sessions contribute through recorded workout load, and an optional check-in adds personal context.

Livity has more named recovery and energy metrics (Recovery Score, Body Battery, Fitness Age). Incredible instead connects recorded workout load with sleep, vitals, and Fitness in its daily training context.

Strength Training

Both apps now include strength training, which makes this comparison much closer than it was a year ago.

Livity offers ready-made training programs and custom workout sessions with real-time workout metrics. You can follow structured programs or build your own sessions. The training experience is solid and the real-time metrics during workouts are useful.

Incredible includes an exercise library, reusable workout templates, and Apple Watch set logging with wrist-based controls. You start a template, log each set on your watch (reps, weight), and the completed work contributes to recorded strength workout load. That shared load appears in the daily training context and contributes to Fitness.

Both apps handle strength training. Incredible goes further in connecting logged strength work to its shared recorded-workout training state.

Fitness Modeling

This is where the approaches diverge most clearly.

Incredible models recorded cardio and strength workout load with faster and slower averages. Fitness is training built over time from recorded workouts, not a complete measure of physiological fitness or everyday capacity.

Livity offers Fitness Age and Training Load analysis instead of CTL/ATL. Fitness Age estimates your biological fitness relative to your age -- a useful motivational metric but a different kind of measurement. Training Load analysis helps you understand recent training stress but doesn't model the chronic-versus-acute relationship the way CTL/ATL does.

Neither approach is wrong. Incredible's Fitness describes recorded training history. Livity's Fitness Age gives users a different, more intuitive benchmark.

HRV Monitoring

Both apps take HRV seriously, with slightly different approaches.

Livity offers 24/7 HRV monitoring and supports both Apple Watch and Garmin devices. The cross-device support is a genuine advantage -- if you switch between an Apple Watch and a Garmin, Livity can maintain a continuous HRV picture.

Incredible reads HRV data from Apple Watch via HealthKit. It's continuous and passive -- no manual measurements needed. But it's Apple Watch only. No Garmin, no other wearables.

For Apple Watch users, the HRV experience is comparable. For anyone with a Garmin or who might switch wearables, Livity is more flexible.

Vitals Coverage

Incredible tracks six vitals with historical trend charts: HRV, Sleep Score, Resting Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Blood Oxygen, and Respiratory Rate. Blood Oxygen is displayed separately.

Livity covers HRV, sleep, resting heart rate, and body temperature well. Blood Oxygen and respiratory rate coverage is more limited. However, Livity adds Body Battery and Fitness Age -- metrics Incredible doesn't offer -- which provide different perspectives in Livity's product.

Privacy

This is where both apps align strongly and both deserve credit.

Incredible processes Apple Health data on-device for insights. No account required, and health data is not sold or used for advertising.

Livity also emphasizes on-device processing and has a strong privacy stance. No account is required for the free tier. Livity's privacy approach is genuinely good -- this is not a company that monetizes your health data.

Both apps are privacy-first. On this dimension, they're essentially equal.

Pricing

This is where the gap widens.

Livity operates on a freemium model with three pricing tiers: $9.99/month, $59.99/year, or $3.99/week. The free tier provides basic metrics, but full Recovery Score details, historical trends, Body Battery, advanced analytics, and complete training features require premium. Over two years, you're looking at $120-$240 depending on your billing cycle.

Incredible is completely free. No subscription, no account, no ads, no feature gates. A voluntary tip jar exists, but nothing is locked behind it. Every feature in this comparison is available to every user at zero cost.

When Livity was fully free, this comparison came down to features alone. Now that Livity charges for its full experience, the value proposition shifts. You're comparing Incredible's complete free offering against Livity's complete paid offering.

Platform Support

Livity supports both iOS and Android, which is a meaningful advantage for Android users or households with mixed devices.

Incredible is iOS only, requiring an iPhone and Apple Watch. If you're not in the Apple ecosystem, Incredible isn't an option.

Who Should Choose What

Choose Incredible if you want a free experience with daily training context, strength training, Fitness built from recorded workouts, and six displayed vitals. If connecting recorded cardio and strength workout load with sleep and vitals matters most, Incredible is the stronger fit.

Choose Livity if you want Body Battery and Fitness Age metrics, need Android support, use a Garmin alongside or instead of an Apple Watch, or prefer Livity's training programs over building your own workouts. Livity is a capable app that's worth the premium for users who value its specific feature set -- just go in knowing the full experience costs $60-120/year.

Try Incredible first. It's free with no commitment. If you find yourself wanting Body Battery, Fitness Age, or Garmin support, then evaluate whether Livity's premium is worth it for those specific additions. There's no reason not to start with the app that gives you everything at no cost.