Where Apex Health: Sleep & Recovery stands today
A development note rather than a release note. Apex Health: Sleep & Recovery is version 1.0, it is not on the App Store yet, and this is what is actually built and running on our own wrists. It needs iOS 17 or later and watchOS 10 or later.
The core of the app is five daily scores: Strain, Recovery, Sleep, Stress and Energy. A Daily Brief pulls them into a short read of the day, and you can regenerate it whenever you want a second look. Apex Age sits next to them as a longer view, with history, a month view, personal bands and a comparison against your calendar age.
Sleep took most of the effort. There is a sleep score, a 14 night sleep debt balance, and a sleep debt plan for clearing what you owe. Around it: sleep stages, a sleep calendar, trends, sleep factors, your sleep window, a learned sleep need, bedtime consistency and social jetlag.
Overnight vitals are the other half of the picture. HRV, resting heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature and heart rate dip are each shown against your own baseline, not against a population average, so a normal night for you reads as normal. On the fitness side there are heart rate zones, cardio load, VO2 Max trend and workout effort, all read from workouts you have already recorded.
Hydration lets you log a drink, scan the drink or its label with the camera, or measure a container, and it writes back to Apple Health as water. The journal carries tags, pinned tags, streaks and iCloud backup. Cycle phases cover menstrual, follicular, ovulatory and luteal, with LH and estrogen surge and ovulation test logging. Days can be marked as travel, vacation or sick.
The app reaches into the system too: watch complications, Home Screen widgets, Control Center and Lock Screen controls, Siri shortcuts and Live Activities. The on-device AI coach runs on Apple Foundation Models, which means the writing happens on your iPhone and not on a server.
That is the privacy model in one line. Every score is computed on the device. The only outbound call sends coarse coordinates to Open-Meteo for weather, and only if you grant location. App Lock sits behind Face ID or a passcode, and there is an itemised inventory of everything stored on your device with a one tap erase, plus export as JSON or CSV.
Join the TestFlight beta, or read the full story on the Apex Health: Sleep & Recovery product page.