StrideSafe vs HealthSync for Home Assistant

Walk more together—without turning connection into constant tracking. StrideSafe is a consent-first step tracker for two trusted people. Follow daily steps, goals and streaks, share progress with a partner, and choose when a current walk or commute includes location. WALK MORE TOGETHER • Track daily steps with Apple Health or the iPhone pedometer • Set personal daily and weekly goals • Build personal and couple walking streaks • Share step progress separately from location • Send quick encouragements to your paired partner SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Location sharing is off by default. Starting a stride never silently enables it. Choose Off, Approximate or, with Plus, Precise. Pause, Stop, Arrive and End stay close on iPhone. Your partner sees your approved location only while the pairing and current consent allow it. Stride sharing requires an active walk; continuous sharing is a separate opt-in. An optional live route during an active walk is relayed temporarily and is never saved to the server database. FREE IN STRIDESAFE • Daily walking progress, goals and streaks • One active partner pairing • Approximate location during an active stride • Pause, Stop, Revoke, Arrive, End, sign-out and deletion controls STRIDESAFE PLUS Every new download includes an automatic seven-day Plus Preview. No sign-up or payment is required, and the preview does not charge or renew. After it ends, choose a monthly or annual subscription in the app. Plus unlocks: • Precise location sharing • Full walking Insights and private on-device route history • Apple Watch app and complications • iPhone widgets • Optional continuous sharing and goal-progress notifications One active subscription also unlocks Plus for your current paired partner. PRIVACY BY DESIGN StrideSafe stores only one replaceable latest approved location on the server—not a server-side route history. Private walk routes stay on the walker’s device. Approximate, precise, paused, stale, unavailable, revoked, arrived and ended states are clearly distinguished. StrideSafe supports connection and reassurance. It does not guarantee safety and is not a replacement for emergency services. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stridesafe.app/privacy/

Turn your Apple Watch and iPhone health data into live Home Assistant sensors — automatically, privately, with no subscription. HealthSync reads the metrics you choose from Apple Health and sends them straight to your own Home Assistant instance. Nothing else, nobody else — no cloud backend, no account, no third party ever sees your data. FREE TO USE Manual sync is free forever — every metric, no limits, no trial. Tap to sync any time. A one-time in-app purchase (not a subscription) unlocks fully automatic background syncing, so data flows in without you opening the app. WHAT IT SYNCS - Steps and active calories - Heart rate, HRV, and resting heart rate - Sleep, with full stage breakdown (core, deep, REM, awake) - Workouts — type, duration, distance, calories - Blood pressure, blood oxygen (SpO2), respiratory rate, blood glucose - Weight, BMI, body fat %, lean body mass, height, VO2 max, and more — 27 metrics in total HOW IT WORKS HealthSync uses HealthKit's background delivery, backed up by a periodic refresh request, so your data syncs automatically without opening the app. Exactly when each sync runs is up to iOS — it schedules background activity based on your usage and battery state, not a fixed interval. Recovering older data? Sync History pulls in months or years of history, typically in a minute or two. BUILT FOR HOME ASSISTANT Point HealthSync at any webhook-reachable HA instance — local network, Nabu Casa, Tailscale, whatever you already use. A free, open-source companion HACS integration turns incoming data into ready-made sensors, so you're building automations in minutes, not writing YAML by hand. LOCAL-FIRST, NO EXCEPTIONS No analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, no third-party servers of any kind. Your health data goes only to the webhook URL you configure yourself. The developer never sees it, stores it, or has access to it. WHAT YOU'LL NEED A running Home Assistant instance, reachable by URL. Full setup instructions, plus the companion HACS integration, are in the app and on GitHub. Built for people who already run Home Assistant and want their own health data in their own dashboards and automations, on their own terms.