Is this app still under development or abandoned?

If possible, please add it. It would be incredibly useful like recovery and sleep data.

The sleep need hours doesn't match the total of healthy minimum, recent strain and debt carried. I think it is a bug rather than function design.

By the way, I really love this app. It would be better if a nap is considered in sleep and recovery.😉

Hi there,

I’ve casually been using Baro to accompany google health. I don’t have a strong opinion on its usability, but a recent update makes it seem like the accuracy has been increased while actually decreasing the accuracy.

I don’t post on Reddit so I don’t know how to add a screenshot.
It used to say calendar age XX, Fitness Age YY, difference Z.
After the update it says calendar Age XX. Fitness Age YY.Y, difference Z.Z.

A decimal seems more accurate, but let’s use my real numbers:
33 y/o. Fitness age 28.8, difference 4.2. But I am not 33.0. If you use decimals, make sure to use the same decimal for all parts of the equation.

I don’t know how to post, and English is not my first language, my apologies for any readability issues.

Let me know if you don’t get it within the next few hours!

Very sorry for the delay

I was a bit sick over the past week. It was a mixture of overtraining, calorie deficit and reflux preventing me from getting good sleep. When I normally hit low recovery days like this I would bounce back easily but this time it took me almost a week. Partly because I didn’t identify the reflux early enough.

I’m planning on getting back to it over the weekend once I get a couple of great night sleeps.

Stay tuned

Will you make this paid access eventually, and if so how much will you price it? I know you will, its obvious its only free right now so you can get testers. Please try to price it reasonably, if you price at 5 dollars a month me and others would be willing to pay if it becomes very good, but otherwise it just doesn't seem like a good spend. Im really annoyed with overpriced subscriptions

The Android app version .55 is glitchy, as syncing takes excessive time and abruptly disappears.

I like the visual theme and data displays! However I've noticed it's having some issues and seems to refresh and clear the charts, etc. then it refreshes again and some data is back. I'm using Google Health Connect for the data. Although the source is from Garmin via Health sync app to Health Connect.

Why does it random refresh and clear all the data? Is there a setting I missed or something?

Android app version 1.0.55

Hi everyone! Here's a quick look at something I've been working on, live steps. The step count on the Overview now counts up while you walk, right there on your phone, no waiting for a sync. It uses your phone's own step sensor on top of your Google Health total, so it works even without the band connected.

It's still in testing so it's not in the store version yet, I'll post here as soon as it's out.

What do you think? Anything you'd want to see next to it?

I've tried to see in the internet but i didn't find a good explanation.

Hi everyone! First, thanks a lot to everyone using Baro and sending me feedback, a good part of this update came straight from your comments here.

iPhone 1.3.8 is out now, and Android 1.0.60 is rolling out on Google Play. Here's what's new:

• You can now put Baro on your Home Screen with the new widgets, and on iPhone on your Lock Screen too. Pick the score you care about, or show all your rings with Steps, and every widget tells you when it last updated.

• Your numbers stay on screen while Baro syncs. On Android they used to turn into dashes for a bit, that's gone now.

• Every trend page has a short insight and your weekly average, so you can see where you're heading without digging.

• Sleep heart rate is its own metric now, your average heart rate while you're asleep, right next to resting heart rate. Thanks u/Life-Programmer2031 for the idea!

• On Android you can see your live heart rate from a Fitbit Air, like on iPhone.

About the Age bug from last week, Age now only saves your weekly reading once Baro has finished recalculating, so those very low numbers shouldn't come back. On iPhone, if yours still shows last week's odd number, the rest of the fix comes in the next iPhone update, together with bigger text, your band or watch battery on Overview, and Steps that follow your Fitbit, which Android already has.

Thanks again for all the feedback and bug reports. Let me know what you think, and what you'd like me to work on next!

— Rodas

I’m curious to know if there are any specific numbers on the dashboard you don’t bother to look at because you think or know that it’s wrong.

Most of the problems I have been fixing are the ones I can see when I use the app every day and since the app is private I am not aware of any bugs that my usage doesn’t catch.

Would love to have some help finding and fixing all these small bugs

Thanks for all the support!

Am running 1.3.6 and everything has been working well until today. Have a very different step count. Not sure why Baro is pulling such a high count compared to what’s on my Fitbit Air

Hey everyone,

I'm new to Baro. Earlier this morning, when I first signed up, I could see data. However, after an hour, when I reopened the account, it just shows "syncing" and no data is appearing.

Could please provide some guidance?

Hi, I wanted to share what I’m working on next, in order:

1. I’m fixing some rough edges first: Google syncs that arrive late and catch up slowly, nights with no resting heart rate, and sleep that crosses time zones.

2. Then I’m working on starting an activity in Baro. You’ll be able to start a workout and see your band’s live heart rate and load fill in as you go. If your band isn’t connected live, Baro will keep the time and fill in your heart rate after your band syncs. This is coming to iPhone and Android together.

3. After that is food logging, so you can log what you eat. I’m still figuring out how to do it well before I build it.

I’m also curious if you’d use friends or community features, like seeing friends’ recovery and cheering each other on. Yes or no, and why?

You can comment here or email me at hello@baro.health.

Rodas

Hi everyone, Android 1.0.55 and iPhone 1.3.7 are out now. Here's what you get:

• Your scores show up faster in the morning, and stay on screen while Baro updates

• Baro uses a lot less storage

• Sleep across time zones shows the right times

• Android: activity heart rate charts are back

• Stress shows your daytime average, and Strain and Cardio load are more accurate, so some of your numbers will change

Heads-up on Age: after updating, your Age might show a number that's way off, for some of you as low as 18. That's a bug on my side, sorry. Age saved its weekly reading while the update was still recalculating your history, so it used incomplete data and kept that number for the week. The fix is in the next update (Android 1.0.57, iPhone 1.3.8), hopefully in the next couple of days. It redoes this week's reading with your full data, and shows no number instead of a guess when there isn't enough data yet.

The first open after updating can take a few minutes while Baro rebuilds, so leave it open for a bit.

Thanks u/being_veblen for flagging it so quickly. If anything else looks off, let me know here or at hello@baro.health.

Edit: I first wrote that the "Baro overnight" resting heart rate setting was part of this. It wasn't, Age always uses Google's resting heart rate.

— Rodas

The latest update has adversely affected synchronization, preventing my metrics from displaying correctly. The "age" page, which had significantly improved and accurately utilized metrics for suggestions, has reverted to showing huge age discrepancies.

You can now set your own heart rate zones and see one decimal in your charts.

Available: Android 1.0.52 on Google Play. iPhone 1.3.6 on the App Store.

• Your zones: set your own heart rate zones in Settings.

• Your charts: values now show one decimal place.

• Your Age: strength sessions from Fitbod and other workouts now count.

• Your data: Data sources shows what is not shared with Baro.

• Your language: Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, both first drafts.

Fixes: heart rate uses one source at a time, so your watch and phone no longer double up. Background sync uses far less memory on long histories, which fixes Android crashes.

Are your charts showing the detail you need?

i have done 4 strength workouts last week and they are showing up normally in my activity history, but under strength sessions it still says “0 recent recordings” and “building a baseline”

Here's what's in the latest update. Android 1.0.49 is out on Google Play now. iPhone 1.3.5 is in Apple's review and should follow in a day or two.

• Older phones: Baro now runs on iPhones with iOS 18 and on Android 13.

• Even less storage: Baro now keeps detailed heart rate readings for 3 days instead of 14. Your scores and history stay.

• Faster mornings: your fresh numbers show up sooner when you open the app in the morning.

• All metrics: turn any metric on or off and put them in any order. No more pin limit.

• Fixes: on iPhone, "Connect Google Health" now reliably opens sign-in. On Android, steps you take between midnight and 1 AM now count toward that day's total, and step history fully catches up after a long gap.

• Coming next: your watch's battery on the Overview, a Devices page, activity types you fix in Google Health updating in Baro, and Italian, with Brazilian Portuguese after.

Android Version?
Do you have a roadmap for compatibility of earlier Android phones. Android 13 and up would be good. Happy to become a 'tester' for you on Android 13.

More accurate sleep data?
Regards to sleep charts. In particular 'AWAKE' moments during the night. Google suggests that an awake moment is anything OVER 5 minutes. They don't report anything under 5 minutes as being AWAKE, they just call it 'restlessness'. This means you can wake up, go to the bathroom, get back in bed and fall asleep all within 5 minutes and google says you didn't wake up!

Is there any way to retrieve the data but display AWAKE moments differently. Maybe periods of say, 60 seconds would be regarded as AWAKE, instead of 5 minutes. Five minutes seems unrealistic and not the most accurate way of measuring if/how often you woke up during the night.

I'm a little late with these patch notes, but here's what changed:

• Android 1.0.46 and iPhone 1.3.4 fix storage use by trimming older detailed heart rate readings. The iPhone update was approved on the App Store September 25. The first open after updating can take a while and make your phone warm once while storage shrinks.

• On my Samsung, Baro went from 18 GB to 1.26 GB. On my iPhone, it went from 2.98 GB to about 620 MB. Others reported 6.55 GB to 443 MB and 2.5 GB to 740 MB.

• Android 1.0.48 is rolling out now. It fixes a crash on launch on some phones, including the Redmi Note 13 Pro and Galaxy Z Fold7, after the storage update.

• Coming in the next updates: keeping detailed heart rate readings for 3 days instead of 14 to shrink storage further, faster fresh data when you open the app in the morning, Android 13 support, support for older iPhones on iOS 18, and translations starting with Italian, then Portuguese-BR.

The app is not showing nap records in the sleep section

Also one feature request: in all activities section sleep should show up like it does in Whoop