RestOrTrain Plans & Pricing
RestOrTrain's pricing is among the most accessible in the recovery intelligence space. The free plan covers the core use case — daily HRV-based readiness scores and Train/Easy/Rest recommendations — which is enough for athletes who want a straightforward decision aid without deep analytics. Premium at approximately $9/month unlocks the advanced layer: trend analysis across weeks and months, correlations between your recovery scores and training performance, training load integration, and detailed reporting that lets you identify patterns in your recovery data over time. For reference, Whoop — the most well-known HRV and recovery platform — costs $30/month for hardware and software together. Oura Ring requires a $300+ hardware purchase plus a $6/month subscription. RestOrTrain works with the wearable you already own and costs a fraction of dedicated recovery hardware ecosystems.
| Plan | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Individuals & light usage |
| Premium Most Popular | $9/mo | Most popular choice |
Is RestOrTrain Worth the Price?
The financial case for RestOrTrain is straightforward at $9/month. For athletes who already own a compatible wearable, RestOrTrain adds a recovery intelligence layer on top of hardware they've already paid for — no new device required. The question is whether $9/month of better recovery decision-making produces measurable training benefit. For athletes training seriously for a race or performance goal, the answer is almost certainly yes. A single poorly timed hard session — pushing through a high-fatigue day because you feel obligated to stick to the plan — can take a week of additional recovery to come back from. RestOrTrain's job is to catch those situations before they happen. Even one avoided overtraining incident per training cycle easily justifies the subscription cost. The free plan is worth using even if you never upgrade — it gives you your daily readiness score and recommendation with no payment. Premium is for athletes who want to understand their recovery patterns over time, not just act on them day by day.
The free plan includes daily HRV tracking from your connected wearable, automatic overnight HRV import, your personal baseline calculation (after the initial calibration period), daily readiness scores (High, Moderate, Low), and the core Train/Easy/Rest recommendation. This is the essential RestOrTrain experience and it's available at no cost. RestOrTrain Premium adds: detailed trend analytics showing your HRV patterns across weeks and months; training load integration so the app can factor your recent training stress into its recovery assessment; correlation reports identifying patterns between your readiness scores and training outcomes; historical data export; and priority support. Premium is available monthly or with a discount on annual billing. For athletes serious about training performance, Premium's trend analytics are the most valuable addition — they help you understand not just today's readiness but why your recovery patterns look the way they do across a training cycle.
RestOrTrain Free Trial — What's Included?
RestOrTrain offers a free trial of the Premium tier for new accounts. During the trial, you have full access to all Premium features — trend analytics, training load integration, correlation reports, and detailed history — without entering a credit card. The trial gives you enough time to experience the depth of RestOrTrain's analytics beyond the daily readiness score and evaluate whether the Premium layer is worth the ongoing subscription. If you don't upgrade at the end of the trial, your account reverts to the free plan and you retain access to core HRV tracking and daily recommendations.
Frequently Asked Questions
RestOrTrain Premium is approximately $9/month on a monthly subscription. Annual billing is available at a reduced effective monthly rate. The free plan is permanently free and includes core HRV tracking and daily readiness recommendations. A free trial of Premium is available for new accounts.
No — RestOrTrain works with wearables you likely already own. It supports Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop, Oura Ring, Polar, and other compatible devices. RestOrTrain reads HRV data from your existing device — no new hardware purchase is required. This makes it significantly more accessible than dedicated recovery platforms like Whoop, which require purchasing their hardware to use the software.
Whoop has its own built-in recovery scoring system that's quite good. If you're using Whoop's native recovery features, you're already getting similar daily readiness guidance. RestOrTrain's advantage in this scenario is its cross-platform approach — if you switch devices or use multiple trackers, RestOrTrain provides a consistent framework. For dedicated Whoop users, the Whoop native system may be sufficient.
RestOrTrain integrates with Apple Health, which means it can read HRV data recorded by Apple Watch through the Health app. If your Apple Watch records overnight HRV data, RestOrTrain can access it through the Apple Health integration. Ensure you've granted RestOrTrain access to Health data in your iPhone's privacy settings.
HRV (Heart Rate Variability) measures the variation in time between consecutive heartbeats, expressed in milliseconds. A higher HRV indicates your parasympathetic nervous system is dominant — a sign of good recovery, readiness to absorb training stress, and good overall health. A lower HRV indicates sympathetic nervous system dominance — often caused by accumulated fatigue, poor sleep, illness, alcohol, or high life stress. Monitoring HRV over time gives you an objective signal of how well you're recovering from training, which is more reliable than subjective feelings of fatigue or motivation.
Garmin Body Battery is Garmin's built-in recovery and readiness metric, available on Garmin devices. It uses HRV, sleep, and stress data but doesn't export well to third-party apps. RestOrTrain provides a device-agnostic recovery framework with deeper trend analytics and cross-platform compatibility — it works equally well with Garmin, Apple Watch, or other devices, and provides more detailed longitudinal analysis than Garmin's native feature.