For people who love getting outside. Outside their comfort zone.
The Outsiders includes hand-picked metrics to help you improve performance with informed training. Built for self-coached athletes driven by data and planning.
This isn’t another “do more” fitness app. The Outsiders balances intensity with recovery. If you train with intent, want clear feedback, and treat training as your main side project, this could be the tool for you.
*Created by the team behind Apple Watch App of the Year & Apple Design Award Winner*
For cyclists, runners, swimmers, and performance-focused athletes who know what they need.
▶ TODAY – KNOW YOUR READINESS
Start each day with a Training Readiness score based on the ratio of acute to chronic training load, combined with body metrics and sleep quality. It shows how your recent effort balances with what your body can handle, including short-term trends.
This helps you:
• Choose the right effort & intensity for the day
• Build steadily towards your goals
• Avoid injury and overtraining
All factors affecting your Readiness appear in interactive charts (Sleep, Training Load Ratio - TLR, Training Form, Body Metrics).
Your body metric history shows how training affects recovery and adaptation. View data across 7 days, 4 weeks, or 6 months. Each view shows avg, max, and min values.
See sleep quality, duration, stages, and consistency over 14 days. Longer periods are coming.
▶ PROGRESS – TRACK YOUR PERFORMANCE
See how your training load stacks up across training cycles.
• Balance hard training phases and recovery weeks
• Training Goals: set short- and long-term targets and track progress over time
• Training Focus: pick the right guidance style for your goals - Polarized, Pyramid, Threshold
• Track your Endurance Fitness (CTL), Cardio Fitness (VO2 max), and cycling FTP with clear trends.
Coming later:
• Running FT Pace
• Cycling Power Curve
▶ WORKOUTS – GET FULL INSIGHT
All your HealthKit workout history in one place.
Garmin Connect supported. New workouts import automatically.
Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends with detailed charts, including training load, duration, energy, distance, elevation, and number of sessions.
Detailed in-workout analysis with:
• Key stats
• Zones (aerobic & anaerobic, traditional 5 HR zones, and cycling power zones)
• Splits
• Charts
• Power-based advanced metrics: Efficiency Factor, Aerobic Decoupling, Relative Intensity, and Variability Index.
▶ APPLE WATCH APP
Key stats at a glance: Training Readiness, TLR, Sleeping Heart Rate, HRV, Wrist Temperature, Respiratory Rate, Blood Oxygen, and recent Sleep.
Watch app complications:
• Training Readiness
• Training Load Ratio
▶ WIDGETS
Check Training Readiness, Body Metrics, Training Load Ratio, and Endurance Fitness on your home screen.
▶ LOCALISATION
Available in 10 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Korean.
▶ PRIVACY
The app reads HealthKit data only on your device and never stores it elsewhere.
▶ DISCLAIMER
The Outsiders uses your HealthKit data and works best with >90 days of training history. If you’re new to Apple Watch or workout logging, it will need time to learn your patterns. Limited data means limited insight.
Crafted with attention to detail, by real, air-breathing humans.
Terms of Service: https://gentlerstories.com/theoutsiders/terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://gentlerstories.com/theoutsiders/privacypolicy
I love this app, I started with gentler streak and it wasn’t enough. As a competitive bodybuilder this app helps me to focus on my recovery and my over reaching. It gives easy to understand data and a great visual. It also helps me to stop doing more than I should be. So I love this app and how helpful it is!
Crooks. Should be banned
BryanMethot
Forcing people who paid the subscription to pay for another one. Gentler streak had all the features but they wanted more. So, now you have to pay two subscriptions.
I’m loving The Outsiders!
Mattyeahoo
This app has really focused my training. With Training Load, Focus and Readiness plus my Endurance Fitness markers I can really determine how I’m doing and how I should be training everyday. Now with customization to lay out the design as you want it is so good. Plus there are Training Goals to really keep you heading in the right direction. Everything about this app is intentional without any fluff but it is strikingly beautiful at the same time.
No nonsense tracking
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I stated out using Gentler Streak, this company’s first tracking app. It was (and still is) a useful and supportive app that encourages healthy habits. The Outsiders is more objective and data-driven. No flowers or rainbows, just actionable numbers. It is still encouraging, though, which is good. It runs only off the data from my Apple Watch and doesn’t store anything itself. That’s a nice feature. Overall a really useful app.
Presenting our biggest upgrade since launch, hope it brings joy (and a great use case) to a broader cycling and running community! From Garmin Connect™ integration, FIT file import, to Home Screen widgets, Training Form for race prep, Activity Statuses, and more. Yes, more.
HERE COME HOME SCREEN WIDGETS
A much-requested feature. Have your most important fitness data right in front of you:
Training Readiness, to see if you’re up for a hard session
Training Load Ratio, to keep recent effort in balance with your baseline
Endurance Fitness, to track where your aerobic base is heading
Body Metrics, single or grouped, for HRV, resting heart rate,...
GARMIN AND FIT FILE IMPORT
The Outsiders is made for serious athletes, and… we like our gear, right? Your Garmin workouts now import automatically, bringing all the data your device recorded into the app. Those on Zwift, Wahoo, COROS, Karoo, Amazfit, and other devices that export .FIT files to Apple Health, can now manually import their data.
This was by far one of the most consistent requests we have received, and we’re glad to expand further into the relevant community.
NEED A WEEK OFF? GOT SICK? INJURED? WE GOT YOU
Four new states for the parts of training that don’t look like training, but are part of it nonetheless: Active Recovery, On a Break, Injured, and Sick. Pre- and post-workout descriptions adapt to where you’re at, so the same session reads differently during an active block than it does during sickness.
BE RACE-READY
Follow Training Focus to build a solid fitness base, then switch to Training Form to arrive at the starting line in your best shape. Perfect for race days and chasing personal bests.
NEW METRIC: NUMBER OF SESSIONS
Progress and Workouts charts now include a sixth metric: number of sessions. One more way to track consistency over time.
REDESIGNED BODY METRICS
Individual cards make browsing and comparing your data easier, with a layout that leans into the liquid glass visual style.
NEW WORKOUT TYPES
Now supporting 161 workout types! Latest additions: Dog Running, Kettlebell Workout, Swimming Tethered, Gravel Ride, Outdoor Hand Cycling, Bouldering, Windsurfing, Beach Volleyball, Hockey Inline, Surfskate BMX, Freestyle BMX Racing. You can make full use of it when tracking with Gentler Streak Apple Watch workout tracker.
NEW APP ICONS
The first batch of icons is here with more to come.
If you like what we’re building, we’d be grateful if you dropped us a rating and/or a review on the App Store. Helps the like-minded athletes find us on the App Store, and it gives us extra boost and motivation to keep creating.
For info, chat, and community, join us on:
Reddit: r/theoutsidersapp
Got feedback? Let us know - we read and reply to every email.
support@theoutsiders.app
Enjoy the outside!
Version 1.7
The developer, Gentler Stories LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Gentler Stories d.o.o.
Size
165.1 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 9 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese