- There is now an open source app available for Whoop bands
- You can install it for free on Android and macOS
- Whoop has not yet responded, but may block access to its trackers
If you own a Whoop band or have read any of our Whoop reviews, you’ll know that the premium fitness tracker comes with a monthly subscription attached. But thanks to the efforts of an independent developer, you can now access your Whoop data without paying anything.
The app is open source, available for Android and macOS, and is called Noop (via Android Central). You need to do some work to get it set up (it needs to be sideloaded on Android), but the instructions are on the GitHub page. It should work with the Whoop 4.0, Whoop 5.0 and Whoop MG bands.
“I built it for one reason,” said app creator Kabir Khalil in a post on Reddit. “To read my own data, off a strap I own, on a machine I control, without it living in someone else’s cloud. That’s the whole idea.”
Since Whoop’s own algorithms aren’t available to the developer, Khalil says he’s used “my own math” based on “published methods” to come up with fitness scores and data interpretations from the raw numbers pulled from the tracker device.
Positive feedback
WHOOP no subscription, no cloud, no account — it’s OUT today. Fully open source, Mac + Android. from r/whoop
While the idea of a cloud-free, offline experience will appeal to many, it’s the zero cost that Whoop users will be most interested in. Whoop subscriptions start at $199 / £169 / AU$299 per year, although the device itself is included in this price.
And users seem eager to try this out: “it looks great,” commented one Redditor in a thread full of positive feedback (as well as some requests for technical help from those having trouble getting the app to work).
We’ve reached out to Whoop about the app and will include the company’s response here if we get one, but it clearly won’t be happy about users bypassing the need for a subscription on their hardware. It’s possible that future updates to the bands will block access to third-party apps like this.
However, Noop seems to be part of a small trend. A similar app called Goose has also just appeared, although it’s at an earlier stage in its development than Noop, and another called Whoof has apparently been running for a while now – so if you want an alternative Whoop app, you now have more options.
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