# Kokoro: Wellness Companion

> Kokoro: Wellness Companion (iPhone/iPad app by Eswar Venigalla.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kokoro-wellness-companion/id6756344894 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Eswar Venigalla](https://appshunter.io/developer/1821499800)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 1.0 GB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-01-21
- Data updated: 2026-06-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kokoro-wellness-companion/id6756344894/reviews.md

## What is Kokoro?

Kokoro is a quiet companion for the rhythm of your life.

It listens to your body (sleep, heart rate, movement), your time (calendar, focus blocks, free pockets), and your inner state (a one-word check-in, a weekly reflection), and offers one good observation a week — never a scoreboard, never a scold.

Everything stays on your device. There is no account to make. No cloud to sync. No data to leak. The AI companion who reads your week — her name is Hana — runs entirely on your phone.

— A QUIET DAILY RHYTHM —
- Daily check-in: how's today landing? Mood, energy, and an optional one-word feeling. Three taps, done.
- Day shape: a single ribbon shows the contour of your day — meetings, free pockets, your "now" tick — at a glance.
- Hero briefing: Hana writes a couple of warm sentences each morning. Not a dashboard. A read.

— A SMARTER TIME TAB —
- Day-first command center with what's next, your current status, and the open pockets in your day.
- Activity-first stopwatch — Walk, Run, Workout, Commute, Activity, Custom. Each session tinted to its activity. Splits sparkline shows pace, best, rolling, projected.
- Purpose-first timer — Focus (Pomodoro 25/5), Workout, Meditation, Cook · Steep, Custom. Tinted hero per type.
- Visual wake window — a 24-hour radial clock with your wake arc, sleep / HRV / calendar / meds as signal pills. Smart Wake picks the gentlest moment inside the window.
- Body-clock-first travel — a split clock face shows here-time, home-time, and where your circadian rhythm "thinks" it is. Jet-lag adjustment progress underneath.

— HEALTH IN ONE PLACE —
- Sleep, recovery, heart, movement — surfaced on Home as a four-stat dashboard with a single bell when something needs attention.
- Medications: scan a prescription, photograph the box, quick-add, or full-entry. Adherence is shown without shame.
- Vitals: log weight, BP, glucose, mood, pain, and more. Conversational logging — say "my weight is 100 kg" to Hana and she'll offer to log it for you.
- Conditions, allergies, procedures, doctor notes, consultations — your medical vault, encrypted on-device.
- Targets: pick from 12+ types (steps, exercise, sleep, weight, VO₂ max, stand hours, mindfulness, more). Tracked silently. Never gamified.
- Apple Watch: live workouts with a heart-rate ring, plus hydration, meds, alarms, and check-ins.

— THE WEEKLY REFLECTION —
Once a week — quiet, slow, on your own time.
1. Breathe. 2. Observe (Hana's read of the week, with the data she saw). 3. One question. 4. Carry a word into the next week.
The intention you carry shows up on Home as continuity, not a goal.

— HANA, ON YOUR DEVICE —
- Phi-3.5 Mini and Kokoro Starter — large-language models that run locally on iPhone.
- Companion name and personality fully customizable.
- Voice chat: tap the mic and talk — she listens, answers, and reads replies aloud. All on-device.
- Watches your patterns without judging them — sleep × schedule at odds, a protected focus block, the word you carried into the week.

— GENTLE NUDGES, NEVER BLAME —
Encouraging local notifications from your real day: a morning celebration, a mid-day invitation, an evening recognition. No scoreboards, no streak shame. Up to three a day, one warm sound.

— RITUALS THAT FIT —
Smart wake alarms with sleep stage + HRV signals. Morning and evening routines (stretch, hydrate, meditate, review). Custom focus timers. Stopwatch laps that mean something. Weekly close-out.

— PRIVACY, BY DESIGN —
- On-device AI inference. No telemetry. No analytics.
- HealthKit and Calendar reads are local. Calendar writes go through standard EventKit prompts.
- Optional Face ID lock on protected tabs.
- Bundled starter model so the app works offline from first launch.

Kokoro is for people who don't need another app to optimize their life. It's for people who want a place to notice it.

— Free to download. Pro models are an optional one-time upgrade.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kokoro Pro | $79.99 | per year |
| Kokoro Essential Yearly | $49.99 | per year |
| Kokoro Essential Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Basic Monthly | $2.99 | per month |
| Kokoro Basic Yearly | $24.99 | per year |
| Kokoro Pro Monthly | $9.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kokoro Lifetime | $49.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-06-24

Your Kokoro, now on all your devices, and still completely private.

iCloud sync. Your reflections, check-ins, journal, schedule, and medical
vault now sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own private iCloud.
Nothing is ever stored on our servers.

End-to-end encryption. Your personal and medical entries are encrypted on
your device with a key only your devices hold. Even in iCloud, your data
stays unreadable to anyone but you.

Tamper detection and an audit trail keep your records honest, flagging any
unexpected change.

iPad and Mac. Kokoro now adapts to bigger screens with a proper sidebar and
roomier layouts.

Hana got smarter. She can look things up in your real data and help you log a
check-in, set a word for the day, or jot a note, and she always asks before
she saves anything.

Bring your own AI. Optionally connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google
key for richer conversations. Off by default.

As always, your AI runs on your device by default, and your data stays yours.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-06-11

This release teaches Hana to listen, talk back, and answer real questions about your numbers, without ever leaving your phone.

NEW · VOICE CHAT: tap the mic in chat to speak instead of type. Live transcript appears as you talk. Tap stop, message sends. Turn on Voice mode in the chat header and Hana reads her replies back aloud, hands-free. Recognition runs on-device; nothing is sent to the cloud.

NEW · DETERMINISTIC ANSWERS FOR YOUR DATA: ask "weight this week" or "how many steps to my target" or "BP this month" and you get the real number, computed from your actual readings. The chat understands 38 vital types, every HealthKit aggregate, your targets, your reflections, your medical vault, your alarms, your routines. 77 topics in all. The on-device language model only handles open-ended conversation now; it can't invent numbers because it never sees a metric question.

NEW · TARGET PROGRESS IN CHAT: "how many steps for my target", "am I on track for sleep", "calories left today" all return the live number with remaining-to-goal and a gentle suggestion.

NEW · WEATHER, IN DETAIL: tap the Outside tile on Home for a full weather screen with large temp, 24-hour forecast, real sunset time, and three windows tuned to today: when to walk, when to exercise, when to rest. The windows adapt to heat, rain, wind, and where the sun is.

NEW · FOCUS BLOCK, REWORKED: the focus block card now caps suggestions at 90 minutes (the deep-work standard), refuses to suggest blocks in the past, and "Hold this time" actually adds the block to your iCloud calendar so nothing gets booked over it.

NEW · TODAY'S TARGETS, REAL PROGRESS: daily target rings (steps, calories, mindfulness, stand hours) now read live HealthKit values. Previously they sat at 0% until you opened the Health tab.

NEW · WEEKLY VS DAILY MATH: every surface across the app now uses the correct cadence. Daily targets compare against today's actual. Weekly averages divide by 7. Sleep night counts only gate sleep displays.

NEW · BMI, WAIST, BODY FAT, IOP, FERRITIN, VITAMIN D, VITAMIN B12, SODIUM, POTASSIUM, AND 30 MORE: every vital type Kokoro tracks is now answerable in chat. Period-aware too: "creatinine past 30 days", "platelet count last month", "HbA1c trend" all work.

NEW · SMARTER CHAT SHORTHAND: "ok", "thanks", "hi", "see you" get warm one-line replies instead of going to the language model.

POLISH: Day Shape card shows your next event at a glance. Timeline rows no longer wrap "12:00 AM" awkwardly. All-day events read "All day" instead of "1,439m". Health hero chips show a quiet dash instead of disappearing when data is missing. Empty Burned stat now reads from Apple Health weekly active calories.

FIXES: chat no longer leaks raw model-template tokens into bubbles. Hana stops inventing fake step counts or app-flow language like "That's all for now." Steps display works even when sleep tracking is off. Focus block protection counter no longer double-counts on every refresh. Watch extension version aligns with the main app.

Built quietly. As always, entirely on your device.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-05-19

Kokoro has been quietly rebuilt around one idea: the day is the canvas.

NEW · ANA — the on-device companion. A new name, a new voice. She still runs entirely on your phone — no cloud, no account.

NEW · DAY-FIRST TIME TAB — the Time tab now opens to a command center. Your current status. What's next. A 17-cell day-shape ribbon (6am → 10pm) showing meetings, free pockets, and your "now" tick. Below it, the four tools (Timer, Alarm, Stopwatch, Travel) sit as quiet chips.

NEW · ACTIVITY-FIRST STOPWATCH — pick what you're timing first: Walk, Run, Workout, Commute, Activity, or Custom. The hero ring tints to the activity. After two laps, a splits sparkline shows best, rolling pace, and projected finish.

NEW · PURPOSE-FIRST TIMER — one-tap tiles for Focus (Pomodoro 25/5), Workout, Meditation, Cook · Steep, and Custom. Each starts a tuned session with a tinted ring.

NEW · VISUAL WAKE WINDOW — alarms gain a 24-hour radial clock face with your wake arc and sleep / HRV / calendar / medication signal pills. Smart Wake picks the gentlest moment inside the window.

NEW · BODY-CLOCK TRAVEL — a split clock face shows here-time, home-time, and where your circadian rhythm "thinks" it is. Jet-lag recovery written underneath.

NEW · POSITIVE NUDGER — encouraging notifications based on your real day. Morning celebration. Mid-day invitation. Evening recognition. Up to three a day. Never blame.

NEW · WEEKLY REFLECTION, RE-IMAGINED — six step ritual now includes a data panel (sleep sparkline, schedule load), a real reply field, and a carried-word picker with last-week continuity and tuned suggestions.

NEW · CONVERSATIONAL LOGGING — say "my weight is 100 kg" to Ana and she'll offer to log it. BMI commentary stays gentle.

NEW · BRAND CHIME — one warm sound for launch and every notification, replacing the system default.

NEW · CALENDAR SYNC — full iOS Calendar integration. Add events to your default calendar with one tap. Smart scheduling now respects waking hours, calendar conflicts, and your energy curve.

MERGED — Health and Medical tabs are now one place. Easier to find your vault.

FIXES — Stopwatch CPU spike resolved. Add-to-Calendar now actually adds to your iCloud calendar. Smart alarms now fire on the right weekdays. The full list of polish: too long to fit here.

Built quietly. As always — on your device.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-04-05

Bug Fix and Complete ReVamp

### 1.0 — 2026-01-21

No release notes.

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