Health

Overview is the first tab in Health. Open it when you want the whole picture in one place.

It pulls sleep, movement, body, nutrition and lab results into a single page. Each metric shows one resolved number, even when several sources recorded the same thing.

The page header reads "Health Overview", with the line "One resolved view across your connected health sources."

Along the top of the page sit three controls: "Refresh", "Connect a source" and "Customize".

Under them is the range pager. It sets the window that every card and chart on the page reads from.

The first time you open the page it lands on 1 Day, on the most recent day that has data.

What you see changes with the range you pick.

• 1 Day shows a timeline of the day and a sleep breakdown.
• Every longer range replaces those with a comparison chart per metric.
• 1 Week, 2 Weeks and 1 Month add a calories balance card with an "Add meal" button.
• The At a glance cards, the Bett-i insight, your activities summary, nutrition and biomarkers show at every range.

At a glance is the grid of cards near the top. There is one card per metric you switched on.

Each card carries the value, the source it came from, and a comparison. The comparison is labeled either "vs previous period" or "vs 14-day typical".

You choose which metrics appear, and in what order, in Customize.

Cards tell you plainly when a number is thin, missing or contested. They never show a blank or a guess. These are the lines you will see.

• "No data this day" when nothing was recorded on the day you are looking at.
• "Not synced yet today" when today has not arrived from your source yet.
• "Last recorded" with a date, when the card shows your most recent known value instead of one for this day.
• "Measured" with a date, on body values carried forward from an earlier reading.
• "So far today" on running totals such as steps. They get a neutral comparison instead of an arrow.
• "Sources disagree" when connected sources reported competing values. The selected source is shown without hiding the conflict.
• "More history is needed" when a reading is visible but there is not enough history behind it for a trend.
• "No data in this period" on a chart with an empty window.

If nothing is connected yet, the page shows "Connect your health data" with a "Connect a device" button.

Next to it is a link called "How this page comes alive". It opens a tour of four cards. They cover what the page does, connecting what you wear, bringing your labs in, and logging meals.

The last card hands you straight to the connect panel. The tour shows once, and that link brings it back whenever you want it.

Connect a source is how you link what records your sleep, heart, movement and body. It opens from the Health overview header, from the Activities tab, and from the options menu on Timeline.

It is the same panel in all three places, and it lists every source Betterness can read today.

These are the sources you can connect.

• Apple Health, on iPhone. Sleep, activity, body and vitals.
• Health Connect, on Android. Sleep, activity, body and vitals.
• Garmin. Sleep, activity, body and vitals.
• Oura. Sleep, activity and body.
• Peloton. Activity.
• Wahoo. Activity.
• Withings. Sleep, body and vitals.

Eight Sleep connects like the other cloud providers: tap Connect and sign in with your Eight Sleep account. Sleep arrives each morning after the night completes.

There are two kinds of card. Apple Health and Health Connect are built into your phone. Their card says "Set Up", and the connection is made on the phone itself.

Every other source is an account you own elsewhere. Its card says "Link Account", and you sign in to that account to authorize the connection.

Each card carries a status badge: Linked, Syncing, Paused or Not Connected.

Once Apple Health or Health Connect is set up, its card gives you two more controls.

• "Pause Sync" stops new data flowing in and turns the badge to Paused. "Resume Sync" starts it again.
• "Manage Permissions" opens your phone health settings, so you can review exactly which data Betterness is allowed to read.

An account you linked shows "Unlink" instead. Unlinking stops the sync and disconnects the account.

If you reinstall the app, your phone clears the health permission it granted. The card then shows an amber "Needs reconnect" badge with a button to reconnect. Data you have not allowed on this install cannot be read, so select it and approve again.

Customize opens from the Health overview header. Use it when the page is showing the wrong metrics, the wrong order, or the wrong source.

The panel is titled "Customize overview". The line under it reads "Select which metrics to feature, drag to reorder, only you see this layout."

Metrics sit in four fixed groups.

• Rest, for sleep.
• Move, for steps, distance, active calories and activities.
• Recover, for heart rate variability, heart rate, resting heart rate, blood oxygen and respiratory rate.
• Body, for weight.

A fresh account starts with sleep, steps, heart rate variability and weight switched on.

To show, hide and reorder your cards:

The same panel holds your targets. A target adds a goal to the metric, so your overview and your Timeline can show progress against something real.

Reset to default puts every metric, its order and your targets back to the starting layout.

Each row also carries a source chip naming what currently feeds that metric. Select the chip to open the source picker and choose for yourself.

Three badges tell you what is going on in that list. Preferred sits on your first choice. Showing now sits on whichever source the screen is displaying, which is not always your first choice.

Recommended sits on a source we suggest, because it has covered this metric more completely. A short line says how many days it covered and how recently.

Your top source is used whenever it has data. If none of your listed sources recorded a given day, you see your last recorded value. Nothing switches silently. "Your choice applies everywhere in the app, immediately."

Every card on your Health overview opens. Select one for the value in large type, a badge naming its source, and the history behind it.

On the detail you can:

• Step back and forward a day at a time with the day pager, or jump to today.
• Read the charts under the value to see how the metric moved over the days around it.
• Select the source chip to open the picker and choose which source feeds this metric.

Some notes appear next to a value to explain where it came from. They are worth knowing.

• "Shown from one source because another had no data for this period." Your usual source was silent, so a different one covered the day and is named rather than swapped in quietly.
• "Overnight value from a source’s sleep data." Resting heart rate, breathing and similar overnight numbers come from the source that won your sleep.
• On heart rate variability, a line naming the statistic and the source. Two sources can both be right and still differ by roughly three times. They measure variability in different ways, so their numbers are not a like for like comparison.

To change the source for a metric:

The Activities tab gathers the sessions from every source you have connected. It reads "Track your activity, explore trends, and discover the places where you’re most active."

Where two sources recorded the same session, it is counted once. The card tells you how many sources saw it, so you can open the activity and check each one.

Four cards sit at the top: Exercise time, Active calories, Activities and Distance. A card only appears when there is something to put in it. Select one and the chart underneath switches to that measure.

Under the chart is a permanent line: "Activity history builds after 21 days of activities." Until then the trend is still forming, and it is labeled that way rather than presented as a pattern.

The same range pager as the overview sits in the header, from 1 Day through 6 Months. There is no Custom range on this tab.

To narrow the list to one kind of session:

When a session was not picked up by any of your sources, log it yourself. "Add activity" opens a panel titled "Log a session", with the line "For a session your devices didn’t record. Duration is all we need."

The panel confirms in place with "Session saved" and "Saved. It’ll show on your timeline shortly." The session takes a few minutes to appear in your lists, and the page refreshes itself while you wait.

"Connect a source" sits in the same header and opens the same panel as the overview. You can add a source without leaving the tab.

Further down the page you get a Bett-i insight once you have sessions. Below that sit your most active places, the sessions you joined with other people, and your equipment.

Devices guess. A padel match can arrive as a generic cardio session. A walk with the dog can arrive as a run.

You can correct that, and only you can. Betterness never relabels a session on your behalf.

To correct the type:

The panel is headed with the line "Recorded as your device’s label. Choose the activity you actually did."

"Use recorded type" removes your correction and puts the original label back.

Your correction is what the app shows from then on, but it does not overwrite what your source recorded. The detail keeps a provenance line reading "Recorded as", the original activity, and the source. Both facts stay visible.

Calories are recalculated after a relabel. If you did not enter calories yourself, the number your source produced is set aside. It was calculated for the wrong activity.

The new estimate comes from your session length, your weight and your heart rate where it is available. The Calories stat carries a note saying exactly that.

From the same detail you can share the activity. Sharing is a deliberate act. Nothing about a session leaves your account until you choose to share it.

Heart rate zones on an activity are part of Elite. On the Core plan the panel is shown with an upgrade option rather than removed.

Activity places is the page for where you move. Open it when you want somewhere to go, not a number to read.

It reads "Explore parks, trails, beaches, courts, pools, and public recreation spaces. Your confirmed venues and Betterness partners stay distinct from general discovery." So you can always tell a place you have been from a place you are being shown.

To find a place:

"Ask Bett-i" sits on the page with a few starting ideas. Use it if you would rather describe what you are after than filter for it.

Saved places carry a Private label, so you can see that at a glance.

You log a meal from the Nutrition tab, or from the nutrition section of your Health overview. Do it right after you eat and it takes seconds.

"Add meal" opens a panel with the line "Photograph your meal, review Bett-i’s estimate, then confirm before it is saved."

With a photo:

Without a photo:

A tip in the panel says the same thing: "No photo handy? Just describe the meal instead."

If the estimate is off, you do not have to start again. Under it is "Something off? Tell Bett-i" with a box for your correction, such as "it was a double espresso with oat milk".

Select Update and Bett-i runs the estimate again with your correction, keeping the photo. You can do this as many times as you need.

Nothing is stored until you confirm. You review and correct everything before it saves.

After the meal is saved you get one more optional step. It asks where you ate. Pick home, a recent place, or search nearby. Your meal is already saved, and nearby uses your location only for this meal.

Saved meals list on the Nutrition tab under Meals. Your overview lists the same day under "Today’s meals". Select a meal to open its own page with the full breakdown.

With a nutrition program available, three pills appear at the top of the tab: Today, Program and Places. Without a program, Today and Places are still there and the pills do not show.

The Nutrition tab shows a day at a time by default. Range chips cover 1 Day, 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 1 Month, 3 Months and 6 Months. Arrows move you between them.

"Set targets" sits next to "Add meal" in the summary card. The editor is headed "Nutrition", with the instruction "Select a nutrient to set its daily target."

There is a reset that clears every nutrition target at once. Opening a single nutrient gives you "Set target" or "Edit target" on that nutrient alone.

The tab also carries a card for the places you eat, with a map and a list. You can search, browse nearby and open a place the same way you do for activity places.

A water card tracks what you have drunk. A body context card carries your weight and body mass index, next to the intake it belongs to.

On a single day you also get a chart comparing what you consumed against what you burned. A Bett-i nutrition insight appears once there are enough days behind it.

The Biomarkers tab holds everything from your blood work. Open it when a result comes back, or when you want to see how a marker has moved.

Three sub-tabs sit inside it. Biomarkers holds your values. Documents holds the lab reports behind them. Buy Labs takes you to Labs to order a new panel.

To find a marker:

If nothing matches you get "No results found", with "Nothing matches your current filters or date range". So you know it is the filters and not your data.

Your overview groups markers into body systems. Each system shows how many markers are in range out of its total. Selecting one opens the tab already filtered to it.

Each marker chip says "Inside optimal" or "Outside optimal" and shows which way it is moving. Select a marker to open its own page, with its history and what the value means.

Before your first results are in, the tab reads "No Biomarkers Yet". It explains that your biomarkers appear here once you upload or complete a lab test. It offers "Browse Available Tests" and "Upload My Lab Results".

"Add Biomarkers" is the primary button on the Biomarkers tab. It opens a panel asking "How would you like to add biomarkers?" with two options.

• "Upload My Results". For a test you already took, so everything stays in one place.
• "Browse available tests". For a new test that fits your goals. This leaves Health and opens the Labs section.

To upload a report:

Once approved, the values join the rest of your biomarkers. The report itself stays in the Documents sub-tab. Results from a lab you ordered through Betterness arrive the same way, without an upload.

The biological age card sits in the biomarkers section of your Health overview. It compares your biological age with your calendar age at each lab panel you have.

The card is captioned with the date of your latest panel. Under the number, a plain line tells you where you stand: younger than your calendar age, older, or the same.

The estimate is worked out per lab panel. So the chart shows how the comparison moved from one panel to the next, rather than day to day.

It is calculated from 9 blood markers.

• Albumin, a protein made by the liver.
• Creatinine, filtered by the kidneys.
• Glucose, your blood sugar level.
• C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation.
• Lymphocyte percentage, part of your white blood cell count.
• Mean corpuscular volume, the average size of your red blood cells.
• Red cell distribution width, the variation in red blood cell size.
• Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme found in the liver and bones.
• White blood cell count.

Together they cover immune function, liver health, kidney function, metabolism and inflammation.

The card carries its own explanation, so you never have to take the number on trust.

Timeline is the day view. Where the overview resolves a range into cards, Timeline lays out a single day and shows you everything in it.

The pager here is a day pager. You get a strip of the week with the month above it. Arrows step a day at a time, and a Today button brings you back. Days in the future are switched off.

One filter bar sits above the list.

• Search, over the rows of the day you are on.
• Source, to show only what came from particular sources. The chip carries a count when it is active.
• Type, to show only certain kinds of entry. It carries a count too.
• An All dropdown for narrowing further.
• Refresh, and pull to refresh on a phone.

"Connect a source" is in the options menu on this tab as well.

A day gathers three things together.

• Every metric that was resolved for that day, not only the ones you feature on your overview.
• Your activities, one card per session. Distance, calories, average heart rate, steps and elevation fold into the card rather than scattering across rows.
• Your meals.

Rows are grouped into times of day and read newest first. The most recent thing that happened is the first thing you see.

Each row says when it happened. That is a span of time, a reading at a moment, or a value from when you woke up.

Above the list are summary pills for the day. A pill only gets a progress ring where a real target exists. Where the target is a general default rather than yours, it says so.

Heart rate variability deliberately gets no ring, because there is no honest target to draw one against.

Everything on the list opens. A metric row opens that metric for the selected day. An activity row opens the activity, and a meal row opens that meal.