Record with HighFive
These capture GPS, heart rate and splits directly — nothing else needed.
Everything else, through Apple Health
HighFive doesn't ask you to connect each account separately. If your watch's own iPhone app saves workouts to Apple Health — and nearly all of them do — HighFive picks them up automatically and they appear alongside everything else.
That means a Garmin ride, a Polar run or a COROS hike lands in HighFive with its map, splits, heart-rate zones and segment matches, exactly as if you'd recorded it here.
- Garmin Connect
- Strava
- Nike Run Club
- Polar Flow
- Suunto
- COROS
- Wahoo
- Runkeeper
- Fitbitno map
- Pelotonno map
- Zwiftno map
- WHOOPno map
- Ourano map
- Zepp / Amazfitno map
Apps marked “no map” save the workout to Apple Health but not its GPS trail, so those activities arrive with distance and duration but no route. That's a limit of what the app writes, not of HighFive. Anything not listed here will very likely still work — the list is what we've confirmed, not a whitelist.
Not yet
Being straight about the gaps, so you don't go looking for a button that isn't there.
Troubleshooting
In rough order of how often each one turns out to be the answer.
My watch workouts aren't showing up at all+
HighFive reads workouts from Apple Health, so it needs permission first. Open iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → HighFive and make sure everything is switched on — particularly Workouts and Workout Routes. Then check the same for your watch's app (Garmin Connect, Fitbit and so on): it needs permission to WRITE to Health, or there's nothing for HighFive to read. Open HighFive afterwards and pull to refresh on Home.
The activity is there, but there's no map+
Two things cause this. Either the app that recorded it saves the workout to Apple Health without the GPS trail — see the “no map” tags above — in which case there's nothing to import. Or HighFive didn't have permission to read routes when it imported. That permission is newer than the rest, so a workout that came in before you granted it stays without a map even afterwards. Grant it in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → HighFive → Workout Routes; new imports will have maps from then on.
Only my recent workouts came in+
The first sync reaches back 90 days. That's deliberate — importing years of history all at once would bury your feed and take a long time on first launch. If you have older activities you want in, email us and we'll tell you where that stands.
The same activity appears twice+
This happens when two apps record the same session — HighFive and your watch's own app, for example — and both save to Apple Health. HighFive already skips anything that starts within a minute of an activity it knows about, so exact duplicates are filtered. Two recordings that started a couple of minutes apart look like two separate workouts and both come in. Delete whichever you don't want; there's no penalty for it.
The distance doesn't match what my watch says+
For anything imported from Apple Health, HighFive now shows the distance your watch reported rather than recalculating it from the GPS points. Your watch measures better than a GPS trail can — it has a wheel sensor, a footpod, or its own calibration. If you're seeing a mismatch on a recent import, it's worth telling us — that's the kind of thing we want to know about.
My Apple Watch isn't syncing+
On the watch: Settings → General → Background App Refresh, and make sure HighFive is on. On iPhone: open the Watch app → HighFive and check it's installed and up to date. If activities still don't appear, sign out and back in on the watch — that rebuilds the connection between the two apps, which is the usual fix after a reinstall.
My phone recording stopped partway through+
Almost always Low Power Mode or the phone suspending the app in the background. Turn off Low Power Mode before a long session, and make sure HighFive has Location set to “Always” in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services. If a session did get cut short, the part that recorded is still saved — HighFive keeps the track on disk as it goes, so a crash or a force-quit doesn't lose what came before it.
An activity imported but has no heart rate+
HighFive reads heart rate from Apple Health separately from the workout itself, matching it to the workout's time range. If the recording app saved the workout but not the heart-rate samples, there's nothing to match. Check that app's Health permissions and confirm Heart Rate is set to write.