
Sthenos
Know Your Energy, Every Day
About
What's New in Sthenos
2.6
August 21, 2026
This is the largest update Sthenos has had. It carries 2.4 and 2.5 as well, which only ever reached TestFlight. A NEW LOOK, ON ONE IDEA Your body is a vessel, and the waterline is the reading. • The score now fills a heart that empties as you deplete and refills as you recover, with a surface that settles as you do. The number lives inside it and inverts where the waterline crosses. It beats at your measured resting heart rate — tap it to see the rate. • Sleep, Recovery, Heart and Freshness are the same vessel at a sixth the size. Tap any of them for a plain-English explanation. • Trends draws your history as a tide, with the colour running along the curve, so a rough fortnight reads warm and a good one reads cool before you've read a number. • "Fatigue" is now "Freshness" — the same figure the right way up. 100 means fully absorbed. NEW: VITALS Every reading your watch takes, each on a rail that shows your own normal range and where today sits: heart rate, resting HR, HRV, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, VO₂ max, steps, active energy, sleep, wrist temperature and weight. Drag one to the top to promote it. These are read-outs — they don't feed the score. NEW: TRAINING LOAD Fitness (42 days), Fatigue (7 days) and Form, built from the training impulse of each workout, with the raw daily load drawn underneath so the sessions behind the averages are visible. Plus the acute:chronic ratio and its sweet spot — and an honest note in About about how contested that ratio is. NEW: FITNESS AGE At the foot of Trends, four weeks of readings scored against published population reference curves. It's the one place in Sthenos that compares you with other people rather than with your own baseline, so it sits apart from everything else and About explains why. WIDGETS AND WATCH • Home-screen widgets redesigned, plus two new configurable Vitals widgets — a four-metric and an eight-metric grid, every slot your choice. Both stay readable in Tinted and Clear. • The watch app now speaks the same visual language, reads Apple Health directly, and adds Vitals and Training Load pages. • Complications: the score as a filling heart, a new Training Load complication, and a configurable single-metric one. FASTER, STEADIER • Trends now opens on what it already knows and only recalculates what has changed, off the main thread. Ninety days and six months are quick. • The score refreshes hourly in the background, so it's current when you look. • Fixed the watch and complication occasionally dropping to zero, and the false "your energy dropped" notifications that came with it. • Health permissions can be re-requested from About, for metrics you turned down the first time. Everything is still computed on your device. No account, no servers, no tracking.
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