Feature · Apple Health
A habit tracker that fills itself in from Apple Health.
Habit Pocket connects a numeric habit to one of 15 Apple Health metrics on iOS, so steps, weight, water, workout minutes, resting heart rate and the rest arrive in the grid without you typing them. Access is read-only and granted one metric at a time, Habit Pocket never writes anything back to Health, and anything you enter by hand is never overwritten. It is a Pro feature and iPhone-only; sleep is not supported yet.
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Last updated: August 2026
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The rows with a heart filled themselves in.
An example grid, not real data. Five habits connected to Apple Health sit next to two you still log by hand, in one grid, with the same streaks and charts over all of them. The heart is the same marker the app puts on a health-linked habit.
Notice the manual rows have gaps and the health rows do not. That is the honest difference the feature makes: the metrics your phone already counts stop depending on whether you remembered to open an app.
The catalogue
All 15 metrics you can connect
Pick one when you create a numeric habit and the unit is set for you. These are grouped the same way the picker groups them on the phone.
Activity
What your phone and watch already count while you go about the day.
Stepssteps
Total for the day
The classic daily target. Set 8,000 and the cell colours itself once your phone has counted them.
Walking + running distancekm
Total for the day
Distance rather than step count, which is the fairer measure if you run.
Cycling distancekm
Total for the day
Commutes and rides, counted separately from the walking you also did.
Active energykcal
Total for the day
Overlay it against weight to see whether a heavier week actually moved the scale.
Exercise minutesmin
Total for the day
Apple’s own exercise ring, as a number you can chart over a year.
Stand timeh
Total for the day
A desk-day check. Pairs well with screen time if you track that by hand.
Flights climbedflights
Total for the day
A quiet proxy for how much you took the stairs instead of the lift.
Workout minutesmin
Minutes across every workout
Every workout your watch or a fitness app recorded, summed into one number.
Body
Readings from a scale or a wearable, taken at whatever moment you took them.
Weightkg
Last reading of the day
Step on a smart scale and the grid has it. The trend line is the point, not any single morning.
Body fat%
Last reading of the day
The number that tells you whether a weight drop was fat or just water.
Resting heart ratebpm
Last reading of the day
One of the better recovery signals. Watch it climb after a bad week of sleep or drinking.
Mind
Sessions logged by a meditation app that writes to Health.
Mindful minutesmin
Minutes logged that day
Meditate in any app that writes to Health and the habit ticks itself off.
Nutrition
What you ate and drank, from whichever food or water app you already keep.
WatermL
Total for the day
If a water app already logs to Health, stop logging it twice.
Calories consumedkcal
Total for the day
Comes from whichever food tracker you already use, so intake sits beside everything else.
Caffeinemg
Total for the day
Overlay it on your bedtime to find out whether the 4pm coffee is the problem.
How it behaves
What Habit Pocket is allowed to do with your Health data.
Automatic imports are only worth having if the rules are boring and predictable. These are the four that govern every refresh.
Read-only, always
Habit Pocket asks Apple Health for read access and never for write access, so nothing it does can change your Health data. Whatever your watch, scale or food app put there stays exactly as they left it.
One metric at a time
Permission is requested at the moment you pick a metric, not as one sweeping request when you install the app. Connect steps without handing over your heart rate, and revoke any of it later in Health under Sources.
Your edits always win
Auto-fill may only create a missing entry or replace one it wrote itself. A value you typed by hand, on the phone or on the web, is never overwritten by a later refresh.
A rolling 30 days
Creating a health habit backfills the last 30 days at once, and every refresh re-reads that same window. That is what quietly fixes days you did not open the app, watch data that syncs late, and corrections you made in Health to an earlier day.
Habit Pocket also never sends your Health data anywhere it would not have sent a habit you typed. Imported values become ordinary entries in your own account, sync to the web like everything else, and leave in the same CSV or JSON export.
Honest limits
What this does not do yet.
Four things worth knowing before you decide, because finding them out afterwards is worse.
- Sleep is not supported. It is the most requested metric and it is on the roadmap, not shipped. Wake-up and bedtime are still typed in, which takes seconds and does give you a real clock time the candle chart can read.
- iPhone only. HealthKit is an Apple framework, so the import happens on the phone. Values sync to the web app afterwards, and Android has no equivalent yet.
- Pro, not free. Connecting a habit to Health needs Pro, at $3.99 a month or $49 once. The free plan still covers five habits with numbers, sync and export, entered by hand.
- Only what Health already holds. Habit Pocket reads Apple Health, so anything that writes there works, but there is no direct Whoop, Garmin or Oura integration. If your device does not sync to Health, this will not see it.
Why it matters
The metrics you would never keep logging by hand.
Steps and weight are easy to track for a fortnight and impossible to track for a year. Auto-fill is what makes the long record exist at all.
That matters because Habit Pocket’s charts overlay any habit on any other. Caffeine against your bedtime, active energy against weight, resting heart rate against the weeks you actually slept. Those comparisons need months of both numbers to say anything, and months of hand-logging is exactly where most people quit. Letting the phone fill in the half it already knows is what leaves you with something worth reading.
The other half stays yours. Mood, whether you read, when you actually got up: Health has no idea about any of it, and those rows sit in the same grid, one click each.
FAQ
Apple Health in Habit Pocket — common questions
Fifteen, across four groups. Activity: steps, walking and running distance, cycling distance, active energy, exercise minutes, stand time, flights climbed and workout minutes. Body: weight, body fat and resting heart rate. Mind: mindful minutes. Nutrition: water, calories consumed and caffeine. Each one becomes a numeric habit with the right unit already set.
No. Habit Pocket asks for read access only, and never for permission to write, so nothing it does can alter your Health data. Permission is also requested per metric at the moment you pick it, not as one broad request up front, and you can revoke any of it in the Health app under Sources.
Your edit wins and stays. Auto-fill may only create a missing entry or update one it wrote itself, so any value entered by hand, on the phone or on the web, is never overwritten by a later refresh. That rule is deliberate: the automation is there to save typing, not to argue with you.
Creating a health habit backfills the last 30 days immediately, and every routine refresh re-reads that same rolling 30-day window. That is what heals the awkward cases: days you did not open the app, Apple Watch data that syncs to the phone late, and corrections you made in the Health app to an earlier day.
Not yet, and it is the most requested one. Sleep is on the roadmap but not shipped, so wake-up and bedtime are still entered by hand today, which takes a couple of seconds and does give you a real clock-time value the candle chart can read. I would rather say this plainly than let you find out after subscribing.
Apple Health auto-fill is a Pro feature, so it needs the $3.99 monthly plan or the $49 one-time Lifetime. It runs on the iPhone app only, because HealthKit is an Apple framework. Values sync to the web app once they land, so you can read them anywhere, but the import itself happens on the phone. Android has no equivalent yet.
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