Beside food, weight and vitals
A walk, a lift, a swim and a blood-pressure reading in one record, because a week only makes sense together.
Activity and movement
See movement beside the rest of your day.
Track steps, active minutes and individual activities alongside food, weight and health, instead of keeping movement in an app of its own.
Included in Loopa Basic Device sync and structured workouts are Premium.
Why it matters
Movement is not only an eraser for food
Most calorie apps treat exercise as something that buys back a deficit. People move for more than that: for a heart, for a back that stops hurting, for sleep, for the twenty minutes outside. Loopa records movement as a thing in its own right and puts it next to the rest of what you track, so you can see the week rather than one number.
Logged by you, or by a device
Type it in after the fact or let a watch fill it in. Both land in the same place.
Loopa records, it does not grade
No badges for a hard week, no scolding for an easy one. Your logs, and what they show.
Three different things
Activity, workouts and device sync are not one feature
They get used interchangeably and they are not the same, so here is the line between them.
Activity
Steps, active minutes, and individual sessions: walks, runs, rides, swims, classes. You log them, and the estimated burn shows on your day. Free on the phone and in a browser.
Structured workouts
Exercises, sets, reps, weight, RPE, personal records, routines, programs and a training calendar. A separate feature with its own page.
Workout trackingDevice sync
Apple Health, Health Connect, Withings, Oura and iHealth filling activity in on their own. Seeing and cancelling a connection you already made stays free.
Device sync
What you log
Movement, in the shape you did it
Three ways of recording the same day, depending on how much detail is worth your time.
Sessions
A walk, a run, a ride, a class
Pick the activity, say how long, and it is on your day. Loopa estimates the energy it used from the activity type and the duration and shows that beside it, labelled as an estimate.
Back-date anything inside the rolling window, so the Tuesday walk you forgot goes on Tuesday.
Free- Free on the phone and in a browser
- Duration, and an estimated burn beside it
- Back-date inside the rolling window
- Sits in the same day as your food and weight
Steps and minutes
The background total
Steps and active minutes are the part of the day you did not plan. Enter them yourself, or let a connected device fill them in with Premium.
Loopa shows steps against a 10,000 reference and active minutes against 30. They are common reference points rather than a target Loopa set for you, and neither is adjustable today.
Free to log yourself- Enter them yourself on Loopa Basic
- Arriving from a watch or phone needs Premium
- Shown against a 10,000 step and 30 minute reference
- Part of the same rolling window as everything else
What it does with the number
Your calorie target does not move because you trained
This is the thing most calorie apps do that Loopa does not, so it is worth saying plainly rather than leaving you to discover it.
Estimates the burn and shows it
A logged session gets an estimated energy figure from its type and duration, and that figure appears on your day next to what you ate.
Add it to what you can eat
Your calorie target is calculated from your own figures and your goal pace, and a logged workout does not raise it. There is no eat-back setting.
Both sides of the sum are estimates
Energy burned is calculated rather than measured, and food is self-reported. Adding an estimate to an estimate and spending the result is where a careful week quietly stops working.
Loopa shows what you did. It does not spend it for you.
Where the numbers come from
Four kinds of number on the activity screen
You entered itA session, a step count or a number of minutes you typed in. Free, and Loopa keeps exactly what you gave it.
MeasuredThe same figures arriving from Apple Health, Health Connect or a connected device. Premium, because device sync is.
EstimatedThe energy figure beside a session. Calculated from the activity type and how long it lasted, and labelled an estimate wherever it appears.
Published guidanceThe 10,000 steps and 30 active minutes a day is shown against. Common reference points, not a target set for you.
What it costs
Activity: free versus Premium
Only the movement half. There is a full comparison for everything else.
Start here
Loopa Basic
Everything you need to keep a record of how you move.
- Individual sessions: walks, runs, rides, classes
- Active minutes and steps you enter
- An estimated burn beside each session
- Back-dating inside the rolling window
- A rolling 30 days of activity history
- Activity beside food, weight and vitals
- No ads, and no card
Loopa Premium
Automatic, structured, and the whole history.
- Everything in Loopa Basic
- Apple Health and Health Connect sync
- Withings, Oura and iHealth
- Structured workouts: sets, reps, weight and RPE
- Personal records and training analytics
- Routines, programs and a training calendar
- The suggestion coach that reads what you have done
- Full history, back to your first entry
Keep reading
What to look at next
Workout tracking Sets, reps, weight and RPE, with personal records and programs. Premium.
Apple Health and Health Connect What syncs in, what syncs back, and what stays in Loopa.
Weight and progress The trend line, measurements and photos that movement shows up in.
Challenges Compete on one metric without sharing your whole diary.
FAQ
Questions about activity tracking
The ones that decide whether this is the app for you.
Is activity tracking free?
Logging it yourself is, on all three surfaces: individual sessions, active minutes, steps you enter, and the estimated burn shown on your day. Loopa Basic reads a rolling 30 days of it. Two things around it are Premium: activity arriving automatically from a watch or phone, which needs device sync, and structured workout logging with sets and reps, which is the separate workout feature.
Does logging a workout give me more calories to eat?
No. Loopa estimates the energy a logged activity used and shows it on your day, but your calorie target does not move because of it. The target comes from your own figures and your goal pace, and it stays where it is whether you sat still or ran ten miles. Some trackers add exercise calories back automatically; Loopa does not, and the number you see is the number you set out with.
What is the difference between activity and workouts?
Activity is movement: a walk, a run, a ride, steps, active minutes. You log it yourself and it is free. Workouts are structured training, with exercises, sets, reps, weight and RPE, personal records, routines and programs. That is a separate feature and it is Premium in full. Workout tracking.
Can my watch do it for me?
With Premium, yes. Connect Apple Health, Health Connect, Withings, Oura or iHealth and steps, active minutes and sessions arrive on their own. Device sync is the Premium part, and seeing a connection you have already made and disconnecting it stay free at every tier. Device sync.
Is the calorie burn accurate?
It is an estimate, and Loopa labels it as one everywhere it appears. Energy expenditure from an activity type and a duration is a calculation, not a measurement, and the same is true of the figure your watch reports. Treat it as a direction rather than a quantity.
Can I set my own step goal?
Not yet. Loopa shows steps against a 10,000 reference and active minutes against 30, and neither is adjustable today. They are common reference points rather than a medical requirement, and how many steps are right for one person is not something an app can decide.
Can I add a walk I forgot to log?
Yes. Any day inside the rolling window can be filled in, so a session you did on Tuesday can be logged on Thursday and lands on Tuesday.
Log the walk you did today
Sessions, steps and active minutes are part of Loopa Basic, beside the food and the weight rather than in an app of their own.