February 16th 2023
The 2022 Apple Watch App of The Year’s latest update expands its functionality beyond fitness tracking. With the new Wellbeing feature, users can now access their health data along with fitness information – all in one place.
The update reflects the developers’ mission to stimulate a self-compassionate approach to exercise and empower people of all fitness levels and backgrounds to make more informed lifestyle decisions.
No more scattered fitness and health data – Gentler Streak becoming a one-stop shop for everyday health and fitness
The new Wellbeing tab allows you to keep track of the seven key health metrics: sleeping heart rate (SHR) or resting heart rate (when SHR is unavailable), sleep duration, heart rate variability (HRV), respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and wrist temperature.
Each morning, you are greeted by a descriptive health summary. Gentler Streak learns your typical range for each metric, providing personalized context for future readings and making detecting unusual changes easier. You learn from the summary when something is amiss, and the personalized Go Gentler suggestions adjust to match your health indicators.
“We avoid putting your daily form into a score, percentage, or body battery concept. To make a healthier lifestyle more accessible and do justice to data, we communicate in simple words, as in everyday life. Our approach hopefully provides clearer insight into personal wellbeing and has the power to motivate people of all fitness levels and backgrounds.” says co-founder Katarina Lotrič.
To utilize this feature, developers recommend wearing your watch during sleep as the measurements come with the least noise and provide the most reliable data.
New data makes fitness status even more aligned with your body
By gaining new knowledge about what goes on in your body, the app can now provide an even more accurate description of your current fitness state on the Streak tab.
Apart from getting a touch up, the Gentler Streak character Yorhart now comes in more variations to cover the new conditions – lack of sleep, feverishness, exhaustion. You can check all variants in the updated iMessage stickers. Character was created by the Belgian artist Sören Selleslagh.