The best Garmin health and wellness apps
The best health app this week is Walk With Frodo by RoboleoApps (Free, score 8.4/10). Walk with Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom: your daily steps carry you 2,896 km (1,800 miles) along the journey, with 66 milestones from the books and movies and information about each place.
Apps for sleep, breathing, hydration, stress, cycle tracking and everyday health on Garmin watches.
Walk With Frodo
Walk with Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom: your daily steps carry you 2,896 km (1,800 miles) along the journey, with 66 milestones from the books and movies and information about each place.
HYROX Tracker: ROXZONE
A dedicated HYROX app: a true race simulation on your wrist with running legs, station paces and transition times split cleanly in one saved activity. Plan your race on your phone; one-time purchase, no subscription.
WHM breathing+
A breathing exercise tracker in the style of the Wim Hof method. The paid version adds a warning vibration before the end of breathing, detailed round info, adjustable vibrations and sounds, and a touchscreen lock.
Hydration PRO
Stay hydrated with a beautifully crafted widget: track water, coffee, soft drinks, alcohol and more in colors you choose, and show your hydration on selected popular watch faces. A free basic version exists.
CGM Connect Widget
A free widget that shows your glucose values (mg/dl or mmol/L) from Freestyle Libre, Dexcom, Medtronic, Nightscout, xDrip and other CGM sources on your watch.
Meditation and Breathwork
A meditation and breathwork app that shows how your body responds in real time, combining guided sessions with heart rate and other biometric data, so you can watch your nervous system settle as you practice.
HYDRATE+
A free hydration tracker app and widget: log drinks from two sets of three container sizes with one tap or swipe, undo mistakes and get hydration reminders as a pop-up message or right on supported watch faces from the same developer.
Training Readiness
A widget with a daily readiness score from 0 to 100, calculated from Body Battery, recovery time, resting heart rate against its 7-day average and blood oxygen, with clear levels from Go hard to Rest. The score can also sync to Intervals.icu.
Sauna Timer
A simple sauna timer that counts your sauna rounds on the wrist. The developer advises leaving the watch outside the sauna and using it only as a timer, since high heat and moisture can damage it, so you use it at your own risk.
OurBackyard
The official OurBackyard app for Backyard Ultra races and training: a 60-minute loop clock with colour cues, start-corral alerts before every loop, live loop distance, pace, heart rate and rest margin, and battery-saving GPS for multi-day events.
Hiker App
A hiking app for your watch from an experienced Connect IQ developer who answers feedback personally and keeps improving it. Records your hikes with the data that matters on the trail.
Baby Log
Keep track of feeds and everyday baby care from your Garmin watch. Baby Log times breastfeeding and pumping, logs bottles and nappies, and helps you see what happened last without reaching for your phone.
GoPolar: Cold Plunge & Sauna Tracker
GoPolar is the best app for tracking your cold plunge and sauna activities on your Garmin watch. Track every ice bath, cold shower, steam room, hot tub, red light therapy, salt room, cryotherapy, PEMF, and sauna session with detailed metrics, including duration, temperature, heart rate, and...
Nordic Walking PRO
An app built for nordic walking everything you need with poles in your hands, from start to summary. Heart rate target zone: pick zone 1 5 on the start screen. If your heart rate goes above it, the watch vibrates and shows SLOW DOWN ; if it drops below (after warm-up) SPEED UP .
Treadmill
Main screen: workout time, current pace, heart rate in zone colour, cadence (steps/min), calories, heart rate chart for the whole workout, and stamina with a bar and the time it will last at your current effort.
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