Apple Health and Health Connect

Period tracking that works with Apple Health and Health Connect

Your watch, ring or scale already saves steps, sleep and weight to your phone's health app. Her Good Days reads them from there, with your OK, and puts a small app on your wrist for one-tap logs.

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The short answer

Her Good Days connects to Apple Health on iPhone and Health Connect on Android. With your OK it reads your steps, sleep, weight and workouts, so they sit next to what you log by hand.

Each type is asked for separately and can be refused. You can also log a hot flash, night sweats, water or your mood from your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch.

What does it read?

DataWhat you see in the app
StepsOne daily total on Today and in Track
SleepLast night's hours, next to your sleep log
WeightEach reading, in the weight trend
WorkoutsEach workout, next to your walks and sessions

Steps from an iPhone and an Apple Watch are counted once, using the health app's own daily total.

The Track screen: Symptoms 5 logged today, Sleep 6 h 25 m last night, Cycle day 38, Mood good today, Weight 158.0 lb
Imported sleep and steps sit in Track with everything you log by hand.

Connect it

Step 1

Open You

Tap your picture at the top right, then Integrations.

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The You screen: Profile, reminders, privacy and your data
Step 2

Allow what you want

Pick Apple Health or Health Connect. A card says what is read and where it goes, then Connect opens the health app's own screen.

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Connect Apple Health? Steps, sleep, weight and workouts, each with where it goes, a line that Her Good Days only reads, it stays on this phone and is never used for ads, and a Connect button
Step 3

See it on Today

Last night's sleep and today's steps land on the Today photo card.

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The photo card on Today with two chips: Slept 6 h 25 m and 4,820 steps

How does permission work?

The app asks for one thing at a time, at the moment it helps, and never during sign-up. The sleep tracker, for example, asks "Fill in your nights from your watch or phone?" with Connect and Not now. Only Connect opens Apple's or Google's own permission screen. Saying no changes nothing else.

Each type has its own switch, so you can keep steps and sleep and leave workouts off. Imported values stay on your phone and are not backed up to your account. They are read when you open the app, or when you tap Import now.

Apple Health connected: switches for steps, sleep and weight on and workouts off, last imported at 9:40 AM, Import now and Disconnect Apple Health
Each kind of data has its own switch.

What does the watch app do?

Log a hot flash, night sweats, water or your mood from your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch. Each one is a single tap, with a short buzz, and it saves to your phone.

A watch face complication only opens the app. It never shows a symptom, a count or anything about a pregnancy.

Apple Watch: 7 today, with Hot flash 2, Mood 1 and Water 4
On Apple Watch, each item is one tap.

The same on both watches

Apple Watch

Mood in 2 taps

Tap Mood, then pick from a short list: Rough, Low, Okay and more.

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Apple Watch mood picker: Rough, Low and Okay
Wear OS

The quick log

A round Wear OS watch shows the same list, with today's count beside each item.

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Wear OS watch: 7 today, with Hot flash 2 and Mood 1
Wear OS

Mood on a round face

The mood list scrolls on a round screen the same way.

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Wear OS mood picker: Rough and Low

See what the watch shows

Under You, Watch, the phone lists the items on your watch with today's count for each. Update the watch sends the list again.

The watch talks only to your phone, never to our server.

On your watch: Night sweats 1, Hot flash 3 and Mood 1, each one tap to log
You, Watch: what your watch shows today.

Typing still works

Everything the health app can fill in can also be logged by hand. Both are kept, and on a day you type a value yourself, yours is the one shown.

Related

By stage: periods, trying to conceive, menopause.

Questions

Does it work with Fitbit, Garmin or Oura?

Yes, through your phone's health app. If that device's app saves steps, sleep or weight to Apple Health or Health Connect, Her Good Days can read them from there.

Can I say no to some data and yes to others?

Yes. Each type is asked for on its own, the first time it would be useful. You can change any of them later in the Health app or in Health Connect.

Does imported data go to your servers?

No. Values read from Apple Health or Health Connect stay in the app's encrypted database on your phone, and are not backed up to your account.

Is there an Apple Watch app?

Yes, and a Wear OS one. Log a hot flash, night sweats, water or your mood from your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch. It comes with the phone app, so there is nothing extra to find.

Start with today

Free on iPhone and Android.