Meet ReCold
Track your sauna and ice bath sessions
The simplest way to record, time, and share your sauna and ice bath sessions. Camera on. Timer running.
Just breathe!
Meet ReCold
The simplest way to record, time, and share your sauna and ice bath sessions. Camera on. Timer running.
Just breathe!
Trusted by cold plungers and sauna lovers worldwide
"Finally an app that just works. Camera on, timer running – no distractions."
"I use it every morning for my cold plunge. The motivational messages actually help."
"Perfect for tracking my sauna sessions. Love that it records video too."
Multi-round sauna and ice, timed hands-free, camera rolling, temperatures logged – and recap designs when you finish.
Know who's close by, share your sessions with the ones you choose, and see theirs back. Visible only on your terms.
Streak count, monthly averages, trends and records across heat and cold – and a weekly health goal to keep you on track.
See where your practice stands, from your city to the world – and watch your place climb as the practice deepens.
Milestones and hard-won records, minted as collectibles you can attach to sessions and look back on for years.
Commit to a multi-week plan, perfect to get started or deepen your practice – go the distance, claim the finisher card.
Identity settings – basic on purpose, yours to customize. Privacy switches decide what's visible to other people.
5TH CENTURY BC
Spartan boys were raised on cold baths in the river Eurotas – warm bathing was scorned as softening, and Athenian comedy mocked it as the habit of cowards. Cold water wasn't comfort; it was training.
~2,000 YEARS AGO
In Finland, the sauna came before the house – families raised the smoke sauna first and lived in it while the farm went up. Births, cures and seasons all passed through its heat. In 2020, UNESCO added Finnish sauna culture to its list of humanity's intangible heritage.
1ST CENTURY
Roman bathers moved in circuits: the caldarium's heat, then the frigidarium's cold plunge. Contrast wasn't a biohack – it was public life, with architecture, politics and philosophy sharing one pool.
8TH CENTURY
In Japan, misogi – ritual purification in cold water – was already written into the Kojiki's founding myths. Practitioners still stand under mountain waterfalls in midwinter, breathing through the shock.
12TH CENTURY
Russian chronicles were already describing the banya's ritual by the year 1113: birch branches, thick steam, then snow or river water. Across the north, a hole cut in lake ice – the avanto – turned midwinter swimming into a habit that never left.
20TH CENTURY
Emigrants packed the sauna with them, the electric stove moved it into cities, and winter-swimming clubs from Helsinki to Coney Island kept the cold alive through a century that mostly preferred comfort.
TODAY
The ritual turned science: Finnish cohort studies tie frequent sauna use to lower cardiovascular mortality, and cold-exposure research maps what the plunge does to mood and metabolism. The practice now revolves around protocols and social gatherings.
Hey there,
There's a good chance we know why you're here.
You've found the heat and the cold – maybe a sauna habit, maybe an ice barrel in the yard – and you've noticed what everyone notices: you come out different than you went in.
The hard part was never one session. It's all the ones after. Motivation fades, weeks blur, and the practice that changed your mornings quietly disappears.
That's why we built ReCold. A timer made for wet hands. A camera that records while you breathe. A record of every round – so showing up leaves a mark, streaks make skipping harder, and your hardest minutes become proof you can look back on.
No feeds. No hacks. Nothing to scroll. Connect with yourself, connect with the ritual. It's not only the sweat and the shivers – it's the laughs and chats with the people you meet along the way.
Thanks for checking us out. We'd be honored to be part of your longevity practice.
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