# Gentler Stories

> Slovenian indie studio building health and fitness apps for Apple Watch and iPhone: Gentler Streak (2022 Apple Watch App of the Year, 2024 Apple Design Award winner for Social Impact) and The Outsiders: Athlete Tracker (2026 Apple Design Award finalist for Interaction).

Gentler Stories LLC is based in Kranj, Slovenia, EU. The company builds two apps: Gentler Streak, a simple, well-being-focused fitness and workout tracker, and The Outsiders, a data-rich Training Readiness app for runners, cyclists, and endurance athletes.

## Products

### Gentler Streak

[Gentler Streak](https://gentlerstories.com/gentlerstreak) is a fitness and workout tracker for Apple Watch and iPhone focused on consistency, personal progress, and well-being rather than generic goals. [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/gentler-streak-workout-tracker/id1576857102)

- **Activity Path:** A personalized daily activity range shown as a green zone on the home screen. It analyzes recent workout intensity, duration, and frequency, plus your manually set status (Active, On a Break, Sick, Injured), to recommend how much activity is right for you that day, helping you avoid both undertraining and overtraining.
- **Daily Workout Recommendations ("Go Gentler"):** Personalized workout suggestions with adjustable intensity and duration via a slider, filterable by activity type, and startable directly on Apple Watch.
- **Wellness dashboard:** At-a-glance cards for Sleep (duration and stages), Steps (vs. your typical average), Vitals (sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, respiratory rate, blood oxygen), and Menstrual Cycle tracking.
- **Workout summaries:** Key stats, heart rate zones, splits and charts, perceived exertion logging, workout photos and route maps, and shareable, customizable workout images.
- **Cardio Fitness (VO2 Max):** Long-term trend tracking with historical comparison against resting heart rate, steps, and activity duration/distance.
- **Monthly activity recaps** and workout history search/filtering.

### The Outsiders: Athlete Tracker

[The Outsiders](https://gentlerstories.com/theoutsiders) is a Training Readiness app for iPhone and Apple Watch built for runners, cyclists, and endurance athletes who train with intent. It combines training load with recovery data to guide daily training decisions and reduce injury risk. [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-outsiders-athlete-tracker/id6751584800)

- **Training Readiness:** A daily percentage score (Prime, High, Moderate, Low, Poor) calculated from recent training load, sleep quality, body metrics, and short-term trends, telling you when to push, maintain, or rest.
- **Training Balance (Training Load Ratio / TLR):** Compares Acute Training Load (7-day weighted average) to Chronic Training Load (42-day weighted average). A TLR of roughly 0.8-1.3 is the sustainable range; higher signals overreaching risk, lower signals detraining.
- **Training Form (Training Stress Balance):** Chronic Training Load minus Acute Training Load, used to time tapers so you arrive at a race or event both fit and fresh.
- **Wellbeing & Body Metrics:** Sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen (SpO2), tracked nightly and over time.
- **Recovery & Sleep:** Nightly sleep quality reports, sleep stage breakdowns, personal sleep goals, and long-term sleep trend analysis.
- **Workout & Activity Analysis:** Full workout history and detail screens with Training Focus and heart rate/power zones, splits, segments and intervals, plus advanced metrics: Relative Intensity, Variability Index, Efficiency Factor, and Decoupling. Supports FIT file import and perceived exertion (RPE) logging.

## Blog

Educational articles on training science and health metrics used in both apps.

- [Workouts Analysis: Understand Your Workout Summary and Key Metrics](https://gentlerstories.com/blog/20260729-workout-summary): How to read workout summaries, splits, segments, intervals, and advanced metrics like Relative Intensity, Variability Index, Efficiency Factor, and Decoupling.
- [Training Zones and Training Focus: Why Intensity Distribution Matters](https://gentlerstories.com/blog/20260720-training-focus): Explains Low Aerobic, High Aerobic, and Anaerobic training zones and the Polarized, Pyramidal, and Threshold training distribution models.
- [Getting My Day Under Control](https://gentlerstories.com/blog/20260720-getting-my-day-under-control): User story on combining Gentler Streak with the Tiimo planning app.
- [Body Metrics: What Your Body Is Telling You Overnight](https://gentlerstories.com/blog/20260716-body-metrics): Explains sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen as overnight recovery indicators.
- [Training Load Ratio: Are You Building Fitness or Breaking Down?](https://gentlerstories.com/blog/20260714-training-load-ratio): Explains Training Load Ratio (TLR), acute vs. chronic training load, and the 0.8-1.3 healthy range.

## Company

- [Newsroom](https://gentlerstories.com/newsroom): Product updates and press releases, updated regularly.
- [Media Assets](https://gentlerstories.com/mediaassets): Logos, app icons, and screenshots for press use.
- [Press Contact](mailto:katarina@gentlerstories.com): Katarina Lotrič, co-founder & CEO.

## Support

- [Gentler Streak Help Center](https://docs.gentler.app/): Documentation and FAQs for Gentler Streak.
- [Gentler Streak Help Center - full article index (llms.txt)](https://docs.gentler.app/llms.txt): Complete text of every Gentler Streak help article, covering the Activity Path, reviewing activities and workout summaries, daily workout recommendations, wellness tracking (sleep, steps, respiratory rate, menstrual cycle), body metrics (sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, SpO2), Cardio Fitness/VO2 max, and monthly recaps.
- [The Outsiders Help Center](https://docs.theoutsiders.app/): Documentation and FAQs for The Outsiders.
- [The Outsiders Help Center - full article index (llms.txt)](https://docs.theoutsiders.app/llms.txt): Complete text of every The Outsiders help article, covering the Today tab and Training Readiness, Training Balance and Training Load Ratio (TLR), Training Form, wellbeing and body metrics, sleep and recovery, workout and activity analysis (Relative Intensity, Variability Index, Efficiency Factor, Decoupling), and account/settings management.

## Legal

- [Gentler Streak Terms of Use](https://gentlerstories.com/gentlerstreak/terms-of-use)
- [Gentler Streak Privacy Policy](https://gentlerstories.com/gentlerstreak/privacypolicy)
- [The Outsiders Terms of Use](https://gentlerstories.com/theoutsiders/terms-of-use)
- [The Outsiders Privacy Policy](https://gentlerstories.com/theoutsiders/privacypolicy)

## Optional

- [Instagram - Gentler Streak](https://www.instagram.com/gentlerstreak/)
- [Instagram - The Outsiders](https://www.instagram.com/theoutsiders.app/)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gentlerstories)