What is the Firstbeat Sports: Athlete app?

The Firstbeat Sports: Athlete* app is an easy-to-use application designed for athletes. The app provides your athletes more control over their data and improves collaboration between you, the coaching staff and your athletes when it comes to data collection and analysis.

The Firstbeat Sports: Athlete app allows athletes to view training load and recovery data collected during individual workouts. Athletes can conduct the Quick Recovery Test and upload data remotely for coaches to view in the Firstbeat Sports Cloud.

Coach instructions


Athlete instructions

Learn in the next steps more about:

1. Functionality
2. Availability and downloading the app
3. Providing athletes access to the app

1. Functionality

The Firstbeat Sports: Athlete app allows your athletes to: 

• Collect and see real-time training data

• Perform an individual Quick Recovery Test (QRT) ¹⁾

• Download measurement data from the Firstbeat Sports Sensor

• Upload data to the Firstbeat Sports Cloud

• Update the Firstbeat Sports Sensor firmware

New features and improvements for the app are implemented regularly.

_{1) All athletes can conduct QRTs. A Premium/Premium+ subscription level is needed to enable QRT (on group-level) for coaches in the Firstbeat Sports: Coach app.}

2. Availability and downloading the Firstbeat Sports: Athlete app

The Firstbeat Sports: Athlete app can be installed on iOS and Android ²⁾ mobile phone devices. It is also possible to use the Athlete app on Apple iPads. Android tablets are not supported.

_{2) Android version 8 or newer is needed.}

You can download the app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 

If you are not able to find the app on the Google Play Store, check that your phone has Android version 8 or newer. 

It is recommended to keep the auto-update feature enabled to get the latest updates automatically.

3. Providing athletes access to the app

Credentials are managed by coaches (admins) using the Team Management tool in the Firstbeat Sports Cloud. If login credentials have not been created previously, they need to be added by one of the coaches. A working e-mail address is needed for receiving login credentials.

→ Detailed instructions are available in the following Help Center article
How to send credentials to athletes in the Firstbeat Sports Cloud

If you need any further assistance with this, you can contact Firstbeat Support.