- There is now an open source app available for Whoop gangs
- You can install it for free on Android and macOS
- Whoop hasn’t responded yet, but you can block access to your trackers
If you own a Whoop bracelet or have read any of our Whoop reviews, you’ll know that the premium fitness tracker comes with a monthly subscription attached. However, 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 a little work to set it up (it needs to be downloaded on Android), but instructions are provided on the GitHub page. Should work with Whoop 4.0, Whoop 5.0 and Whoop MG bands.
“I built it for a reason,” app creator Kabir Khalil said in a post on Reddit. “Reading my own data, from a strap I have, on a machine I control, without it living in someone else’s cloud. That’s the idea.”
Since Whoop’s own algorithms are not available to the developer, Khalil says he has used “my own math” based on “published methods” to derive fitness scores and data interpretations from the raw numbers obtained from the tracking device.
Positive feedback
WHOOP without subscription, without cloud, without account: now AVAILABLE. Fully open source, Mac + Android. from r/shout
While the idea of an offline, cloud-free experience will appeal to many, what will interest Whoop users most is the zero cost. Whoop subscriptions start at $199 / £169 / AU$299 per year, although the device itself is included in that cost.
And users seem interested in giving it a try: “it looks amazing,” commented one Redditor, in a thread full of positive comments (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 receive one, but it clearly won’t be happy with users bypassing the need for a subscription on their hardware. Future updates to the bands may block access to third-party apps like this one.
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 of development than Noop, and another called Whoof has apparently been running for a while, so if you want an alternative Whoop app, you now have several options.
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