TIDES and WHOOP
A WHOOP alternative that keeps your WHOOP.
WHOOP is excellent at one thing: recovery, strain and sleep from your wrist. TIDES is not another band to replace it. TIDES reads across your whole system, and it happily takes WHOOP recovery as one of its inputs.
What WHOOP does well
- A strong recovery, strain and sleep read from continuous wrist sensing
- Good heart-rate and HRV data across the day and night
- A simple daily readiness number
What TIDES adds
- Reads Body, Fuel, Mind, Skin and Protocol together, not recovery alone
- One Tide Score across five pillars, weighted, not averaged, all five feed the same score, a pillar counts only when there is real evidence behind it
- Signal, an AI that explains what changed and what changed with it
- Tells you honestly what it does not yet know, instead of guessing
- Keeps your WHOOP: your recovery becomes one input, not a replaced device
WHOOP and TIDES, side by side.
| WHOOP | TIDES | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A wrist wearable | An iPhone app that reads across your data |
| Recovery + strain | Its core strength | Reads it (from your wearable) as one of five pillars |
| Nutrition + fuel | Not a focus | A dietitian-grade plan, read against recovery |
| Mind + stress | HRV only | A mental-capacity read and a stress score in context |
| Skin | Not covered | A weekly scan and routine, read over time |
| Supplements + protocol | Not covered | Tracked, timed and understood, never dosed |
| One connected read | Recovery number | The Tide Score, built around five pillars |
| Hardware needed | The WHOOP band + subscription | Your phone; your wearable deepens it |
WHOOP reads your body. TIDES reads what happened around it.
Choose WHOOP if
You want a dedicated recovery and strain band on your wrist.
Choose TIDES if
You already have a wearable and want your sleep, recovery, fuel, mind, skin and protocol read together, with an AI that tells you what changed.
Use both if
You like WHOOP’s sensing and want a broader read on top. TIDES reads your WHOOP data through Apple Health.
The honest version
TIDES is not a wearable and does not measure your wrist. If you love your WHOOP, keep it. TIDES connects it to the rest of you.