Eight Health

Your health story, not just your numbers. Sensors are good at telling you what happened. They're not much use at telling you what it felt like. This release adds the missing half. THE JOURNAL Some things don't fit in a log. A medication taper you're twelve days into. A flare that's been building all week. A new supplement you're not sure is doing anything yet. The Journal is where those live. Create a thread for anything you want to follow over time and write as often as you like. Threads that track a number — a dose, a weight — carry that value with every entry, so you can see exactly how it's moved and when. Threads you're finished with can be archived without losing a word, and everything you've written can be exported as text or a spreadsheet when you need to hand it to someone. Your gratitude notes from evening reflections appear here too, so the whole record sits in one place. HELIX HAS READ IT This is the part that changes how the app feels. Your journal informs your morning brief, Ask Helix, and Deep Analysis — so instead of working from HRV and step counts alone, they know you're on day twelve of a taper and that you've written about stiff mornings three times this week. That means a morning brief that can tell the difference between a bad recovery number and a bad week. It means asking Helix a question and getting an answer that accounts for what you've actually been going through. The data was always only half the story. Now the other half is there too. SLEEP, PROPERLY Your sleep summary is now a screen worth opening. See duration and sleep stages across the last month, with your 7-hour target drawn right on the chart so you can see at a glance which nights cleared it. Stage composition compares your recent deep and REM percentages against your previous fortnight. It answers a question duration alone can't: are you sleeping worse, or just less? There's bedtime and wake-time consistency too, because when you sleep turns out to matter nearly as much as how long. Your wake times are listed night by night, so you can see exactly where your rhythm held and where it slipped. SMALLER THINGS THAT WERE BOTHERING US The plate scanner sometimes sees a garnish you didn't eat. You can now remove any ingredient it gets wrong before you log the meal. Several achievements weren't tracking properly, and we've fixed them. Workouts synced from Apple Health now count toward streaks — previously only manually logged sessions did. Wake-time consistency reads from your sleep data instead of requiring you to enter times by hand. And streak progress now resets when a streak actually breaks, so the bar reflects your current run rather than your best one ever. If a streak achievement drops after you update, that's the fix working.