Plain and Simple Health

Your iPhone has been quietly recording your health for years. This app makes it easy to look at. Apple keeps a great deal on your phone and then makes it awkward to read — there is no Home Screen widget for Health data, and no step complication. A whole category of paid apps exists to sell those gaps back to you: widgets, trend lines, history beyond thirty days, and exporting your own numbers. None of it is expensive to build, and all of it is data you already own. So it is free here, and it always will be. WHAT IT SHOWS • A Today screen with Recovery, Sleep and Exertion, and a board of metrics you arrange yourself • Thirty-six metrics — steps, sleep, heart rate, workouts, body measurements and the rest • Charts with sparklines rather than a wall of figures • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and a Control Centre tile • Your history as far back as Health holds it, not the last thirty…