A health app built around reports is useful on the handful of days a year a report arrives, and inert for the other three hundred and sixty. That is why most of them are installed, used twice, and forgotten.
The ordinary day is the hard problem
On a day with no results, no symptoms and nothing to enter, what should a health product show you? “Nothing to report” is honest and useless. Manufactured urgency is dishonest and worse.
Our answer is to let you choose what you want to keep an eye on, and to have something worth reading about it — not an alert, not a nudge about your own body, but something you did not know this morning.
Nothing assumed about you
The areas you follow are picked by you. Nothing is inferred from your age, your results or anything else, because inferring what someone should be worried about is a determination we have no business making.
Data that arrives without being entered
Steps and sleep come from your phone on their own. Anything requiring daily manual entry has the same two-week lifespan as food logging, so the things that can be automatic are automatic.
Why a single value means so little
One result is a snapshot taken on one morning, after one night’s sleep, in one state of hydration. Four of them across two years is a different kind of information entirely. The point of opening the app on a quiet Tuesday is that the quiet Tuesdays are what turn isolated numbers into something with a shape.
This article explains how our technology works. It is health information, not medical advice.