Kovura FAQ: Questions people actually ask
No. Kovura works from logged workouts alone, with graceful confidence tiers. If you do have HRV or sleep data in Apple Health, it factors that in automatically. No watch? Turn on the camera HRV scan (beta): a 60-second fingertip scan over your phone's camera in the daily check-in. It's opt-in, free, and only counts on days without watch HRV. Sleep-adjusted muscle recovery (beta) uses the sleep times in Apple Health.
Yes. You don't need to know how to build a program. Pick a goal in Starter Plans (Get Stronger, Get Fit, Stay Healthy or Sport Season) and Kovura sets up a week of workouts sized to your training experience. Or tap Generate Workout for a single session built around your most recovered muscles. Setup and a short tutorial explain logging and RPE, the app starts simple and reveals more as you log, and the body map shows which muscles are ready to train, with typical recovery times and gentle stretches for sore ones. There are no built-in video tutorials yet. Each exercise has a button that opens a YouTube search for form videos.
Yes. Kovura is local-first. Your data lives on your phone, with optional iCloud sync. No account to create, no server that sees your training history.
They answer different questions. An estimate of what your body can do today. An estimate of how hard you've worked it recently. Blending them into one number hides which one is actually driving the answer.
Premium adds recovery for every muscle (like Quads 30%, not just one number for your body), a pick of which routine fits your recovery today, the CNS reaction test, 30 and 90 day trends, and injury-risk warnings when your training load climbs too fast. The free app keeps the workout logger, the daily readiness score with its WHY? explainer, today's advice, the body map colours, Apple Health sync and the last 7 days of trends. Kovura is in open beta on TestFlight for iPhone. It's free to download. Beta testers keep Premium free for good. After launch, Premium is $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan.
Kovura is in open beta on TestFlight for iPhone. It's free to download. Beta testers keep Premium free for good. After launch, Premium is $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Get it from the Join the beta page, or join the email list for app updates.