Apple Health
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 10, 2025first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Saving my data in Apple Health is the *primary* reason I bought those devices.”
“List of recommended ones:”
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“It's e2ee and only part of your icloud backup if you enable it.”
“I just silently log data to Apple Health and use it for medical histories”
Caveats and dissent
“Apple's built-in export gives you a giant XML blob that chokes most tools”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications 2 mentions
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- What I Learned Making an App for My Family 1 mention
Data: apple-health.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“Saving my data in Apple Health is the *primary* reason I bought those devices.”
“You can export all data in xml”
“auto-logged based on Apple Health history”
“List of recommended ones:”
“It's e2ee and only part of your icloud backup if you enable it.”
"Notifications are like alarms other people set for you" Naval Ravikant said this years ago and it stuck with me. Taking a page from your book, I have 0 notifications. I practice notification 0 and have done it for about a half decade now, and it's absolutely liberating and freeing. I found I needed to remove the apps from my phone Home Screen to feel this, as otherwise even their icon presence when opening my phone
The worst are apps that bundle genuinely urgent notifications with maketing brain-manipulation promotional crap. Uber is a notorious example. I do genuinely want Uber notifications for when I use Uber. I do not care about whatever promotion it pushes at me.
“I used 'inhaler usage' on apple health app as a proxy for cigarette counter.”
“You can also load your hearing test results”
“Apple's built-in export gives you a giant XML blob that chokes most tools”
“I just silently log data to Apple Health and use it for medical histories”
“Strava and Apple Health integration is cool!”