Apple Health first
Strava and Oura now bar sending their data to AI models, and Fitbit’s legacy Web API shut down this month. Apple Health is where every watch already writes, so Lane reads only that.
Four apps open
before a 6 am run.
Your watch records everything. Turning that into what to wear, what to swim and what to play still takes a weather app, a swim app, a music app and a recovery app. I’m building Lane to make those three calls in one place, from what Apple Health already knows.
The problem
Tracking is solved. Deciding isn’t.
Apple gives away the tracking: runs, swims, sleep and HRV. What’s left are three small decisions a day, and each one lives in a different app that can’t see the others.
Before a run
Short sleeve or long? Is it too humid to push the pace?
Today you ask a running-weather app. It knows the dew point, but not that you slept badly or that you always run warm.
Before a swim
What set do I swim tonight, and how hard?
Today you ask a swim-coaching app or a printed plan. Neither knows you ran this morning or slept five hours.
On the way out
What music keeps me at my cadence?
Today you ask a BPM music app set to one fixed tempo, or the same playlist as last week.
The workaround
Four apps, none of them talking.
Each of these is good at its own job, and most do more than Lane does there. But to get all three answers you pay for and open all of them, and none knows what the others know. The weather app can’t see your sleep; the swim app can’t see this morning’s run.
Listed App Store prices, November 2026. Most have free tiers, with the useful parts behind the paywall.
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Running weather and what to wearRunPrep, RunWeather | Freemium |
| Swim sets and techniqueMySwimPro | $99 / yr |
| Music at your cadencePaceDJ | ~$24 / yr |
| Sleep and recoveryAthlytic | $29.99 / yr |
| LaneWear, swim and play, iPhone and Apple Watch | $4.99 once |
Who it’s for
Everyday runners and swimmers, not pros.
People who train most weeks, already wear a watch, and want a quick answer on the way out the door rather than another dashboard to read.
Lane is for you if
- You run, swim, or both, most weeksLane learns your usual times, paces and cadence from recent runs and pool swims in Apple Health.
- Your watch already records everythingAn Apple Watch, or a Garmin that syncs to Apple Health. Lane reads what’s there and adds nothing to track.
- You run where summers are humidDew point, more than temperature, is what slows you down. Lane turns it into a verdict and a pace adjustment.
- You’re tired of subscriptionsYou already pay for Apple Music, maybe Strava, maybe a coaching app. Lane is one purchase.
Look elsewhere for
- A training planLane doesn’t plan your marathon block. Use a coaching app for that and let Lane handle the day.
- A recovery scoreWHOOP, Oura and Athlytic do that well. Lane uses sleep and HRV as inputs, not as a number to chase.
- Android or the webLane is built on Apple Health, WeatherKit and Apple Music, so it’s iPhone and Apple Watch only.
Why one price
$4.99 once. No free tier, no subscription.
The usual advice for a health app is freemium with a $30–40 a year Pro plan. I went the other way, for four reasons.
- 01Nothing runs on a serverHealth data stays on the iPhone, the forecast comes from WeatherKit, and there’s no account. One more user costs close to nothing, so there’s no monthly bill to pass on.
- 02The three answers are the productA free tier would have to hold one of them back. Wear without swim, or swim without music, is just another single-purpose app.
- 03The category is tired of paywallsReviews of swim and running apps keep calling the paywalls aggressive. One-time apps like AutoSleep and HealthFit have kept loyal users for years.
- 04It’s small on purposeLane doesn’t ship new workouts every week or a coach to chat with. A subscription would promise content it isn’t built to make.
The trade-off is slower revenue, and every update has to be worth shipping for free. Family Sharing covers your household, and the launch-week price is $2.99.
How it’s built
Shaped by closing APIs.
The fitness data world got smaller over the last two years. That pushed Lane onto what Apple ships, which is also what keeps it private. The details are in Lane’s privacy policy.
Tempo without Spotify
Spotify cut off song tempo for new apps in November 2024, and Apple Music’s API doesn’t expose it. Lane looks tempos up in a public song database, caches them, and lets you tap one in when it’s missing.
Weather from WeatherKit
The hourly forecast comes from Apple under the developer membership. That keeps the cost per user near zero, which is part of why a one-time price works.
Try Lane.
Free in TestFlight now, on the App Store in spring 2027. The full tour of what it does is on its own site.
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