Autonomic vs Welltory: An HRV app built for POTS, not for stress scores.
Welltory is one of the best known HRV apps in the world, and it now speaks to POTS and long COVID too. Autonomic was built for them from the first line. Here is how the two compare, from the reading itself to where your data goes.
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Welltory screen redrawn from Welltory’s own published screenshots.
“I’ve been through a dozen apps trying to manage my POTS and PEM. I can say without a doubt Autonomic is the BEST one I’ve tried.”
“It’s already helping me manage my health and gather data to show providers.”
“Only app that isn’t for athlete training and specific to dysautonomia.”
Autonomic and Welltory, side by side.
From each company’s own listing and help pages, checked November 2026. The numbers link to their sources.
| Feature |  Autonomic |  Welltory |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | POTS, long COVID, ME/CFS and dysautonomia | Stress, energy and wellbeing, with chronic illness among its uses1 |
| Price | $49.99 a year, or $7.99 a month | $99.99 to $119.99 a year, or $299.99 for life1 |
| Free HRV readings | Unlimited, on every device | One a day on the free plan2 |
| AI | Use Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT, included in Pro | Its own AI coach, sold as a separate $99.99 a year1 |
| Daily pacing | A budget in hours and minutes, judged on the two days after each day | A daily energy battery1 |
| Guided POTS stand test | Yes, with a watch, a strap or by hand | Not listed in its app description1 |
| Grading | Against your own normal, with thresholds written for recovery | General HRV and stress scores |
| Devices | Phone camera, Apple Watch, Garmin and Bluetooth straps | Phone camera, Apple Watch and 1,000+ integrations1 |
| Where your data lives | On your phone, with no account | On its cloud servers (Amazon Web Services and Google Firebase)3 |
| Tracking | None, and no ads | Location and contact info used to track you1 |
| App Store rating | 4.9 from 26 ratings | 4.7 from 135K ratings1 |
US prices. Welltory is a trademark of its owner; we are not affiliated. See Welltory on the App Store →
What two years cost.
Autonomic Pro has no hardware to buy, and the journal and every HRV reading are free forever.
Where Welltory is strong.
It is a good app. Here is what it does well, in its own words.
Every reading is free, every day.
Take a five-minute reading with your phone camera, an Apple Watch, a Garmin or a chest strap as often as you like, graded against your own recent mornings rather than a population average.
Welltory’s free plan includes one reading a day.2
A stand test, because POTS is a standing problem.
A guided ten-minute stand test measures your heart rate rise minute by minute, the way clinicians do, and keeps every result so you can follow it for months. No stress score can tell you that.
See how it works → It’s already helping me manage my health and gather data to show providers.
A budget that knows a crash comes later.
Your budget is set each morning and every day is judged on the two days after it, because post-exertional malaise lands 12 to 48 hours later. On a bad day it shows no number at all, so it can never read as permission.
See how it works →Bring your own AI.
Doctor summaries and full health reports are written by Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT from a prompt built on your phone, included in Pro. Nothing leaves your phone unless you paste it.
Welltory sells its AI coach separately, for $99.99 a year.1
Which one fits you?
Honestly, it depends on what you need.
- You live with POTS, long COVID, ME/CFS or dysautonomia and want an app built for it.
- You want unlimited HRV readings without paying.
- You want a stand test and a pacing budget, not a stress score.
- You want no account and no tracking.
- You want a general stress and wellbeing app for days you are already well.
- You rely on a device Autonomic does not read, like Oura.
- You want guided sleep and audio programs in the same app.
Autonomic vs Welltory: questions
Is Autonomic a good alternative to Welltory?+
If you live with POTS, long COVID, ME/CFS or dysautonomia, yes. Autonomic grades HRV against your own normal for recovery rather than stress, adds a guided POTS stand test and a pacing budget judged on the two days after each day, makes every HRV reading free and unlimited, and keeps your data on your phone, for $49.99 a year.
Does Autonomic measure HRV with the phone camera like Welltory?+
Yes. Rest a fingertip lightly on the rear camera for a five-minute reading. An Apple Watch, a Garmin or a Bluetooth chest strap work too, and a strap gives the cleanest signal.
Is Welltory good for POTS?+
Welltory now mentions POTS, long COVID and ME/CFS, and its HRV and energy tracking can help. It does not list a guided stand test, which is the measurement POTS is defined by. Autonomic has one, on a watch, a strap or by hand.
How much does Welltory cost compared with Autonomic?+
On the US App Store, Welltory Premium is listed at $99.99 to $119.99 a year or $299.99 for life, with its AI coach as a separate $99.99 a year (checked 2026). Autonomic Pro is $7.99 a month or $49.99 a year, the journal and every HRV reading are free forever, and every install starts with 14 days of Pro.
Can I move my data from Welltory?+
Autonomic reads sleep, heart rate and workouts from Apple Health or Health Connect, so anything Welltory wrote there arrives on its own. HRV comes in from Apple Health when the reading carries at least four minutes of real beat-to-beat data. Health Connect on Android has no beat-to-beat data, so on Android your HRV readings start fresh in Autonomic.
Sources
Checked November 2026- Welltory: Stress & Heart Rate Welltory Inc. App Store listing, 2026. Prices, rating, devices, camera HRV and the privacy label.
- The best pacing apps for chronic illness (2026) Juno. junocompanion.com, checked 9 October 2026, 2026. What the free plan includes.
- Privacy Policy Welltory Inc. welltory.com, 2026. Data held in cloud data centers: Amazon Web Services and Google’s Firebase database, mainly in the US.
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