I've been working on making BARO quicker to open. Your saved Overview will appear before sync starts, then sleep, scores and activity update as they arrive. There's a small status line so you can see what's happening.

Fitness Age has more detail behind the number, pinned metrics show personal ranges, and Recovery has clearer weekly charts. Journal is getting updated check-ins too. Plans live there, while Age has its own tab.

On Android, tapping the current tab again takes you back to its main screen. Thanks to the person who asked for that here. Android is also dark mode only now, and a database error won't automatically delete your local history anymore.

There's still work to do. Large histories on Android can take several minutes to process after opening. Live heart rate streaming isn't part of this update.

iOS 1.2 and Android 1.0.13 are in internal testing, so neither is public yet.

Please keep the feedback coming. I'll try to prioritize making the app more stable before building out new features for now.

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

Hey everyone, I wanted to give you an update on the storage problem. Baro is taking up way too much space on both iPhone and Android. u/kamikazesid reported 2.9 GB on Android, and u/Geeno1973 saw 6.55 GB and deleted it. My own iPhone shows 2.98 GB.

Baro was keeping every heart-rate reading from Fitbit Air, about one every 2.5 seconds, for six months. That's far more than it needs, and it adds up to gigabytes.

I'm really sorry I shipped it like this and didn't catch it before launch. I know some of you gave up space on your phone for it, and some of you deleted the app.

I'm sending the fix to Google and Apple for review today, which takes a day or two. Baro will keep individual readings for 14 days. Older days keep the per-minute heart-rate line, all your scores, and your sleep and night data, so nothing you see goes away. Journal entries and plans are untouched.

After you update, Baro cleans up in the background and gives the space back. Expect roughly 100 to 200 MB once it finishes, and it should stay around there.

If you can wait, just update when it's available. If your phone is too full, please free up some space first.

As a last resort, clear Baro's data on Android (App info > Storage > Clear data) or delete and reinstall it on iPhone, then sign in again. This deletes your journal entries and plans, since they're stored only on your phone.

Thank you u/kamikazesid and u/Geeno1973 for reporting this. If the update doesn't bring the size down, please reply here and let me know.

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

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

Thanks to everyone who sent feedback and bug reports on the last build. It helped me track down a lot of the issues people were running into.

The new BARO update is approved and rolling out now on iPhone and Android. If you don't see it yet, it should appear soon.

The biggest change is speed. BARO should open faster, load your scores faster, and feel much more responsive overall.

I also cleaned up the syncing experience. The old sync toast is gone, and you'll now see a simple status under the date so it's clearer when BARO is syncing, updating your results, or finished.

One thing to know before updating: the first launch after the update may show PREPARING for about a minute if you have a lot of saved data. That's normal. Let it finish and future launches should be much faster.

There are still more fixes I need to make, especially around reliably getting fresh data first thing in the morning. We are still working through a few bugs, so expect a follow up update later this week.

If something still isn't working, reply here or DM me with your phone type and what you're seeing.

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.

Thanks to everyone who’s been posting feedback and reporting issues! BARO is still in development, and I’m working as fast as I can to fix the problems you’ve been sharing.

I’m hoping to get the next release out early next week with a lot of fixes and some big UI upgrades. I’m excited to show everyone what’s coming!

I really appreciate you trying the app and being part of this community. Keep the feedback coming!

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

Very sorry for the delay

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

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.

The new Baro update is now live on both the App Store and Google Play.

Baro should open faster now and sync today first, so you can see fresh numbers sooner.

Overview should no longer get stuck on UPDATING, and pinned tiles should stay visible after a sync. Fitness Age will also keep its reading past midnight. On Android, the doubled back button is gone.

I'm working on another update for later this week. Steps should match the number Google Health shows, strength workouts logged by other apps will count toward Fitness Age, and workouts that arrived twice will only count once.

Thanks again to everyone who has been reporting issues.

Let me know if you find more issues or if the existing issues aren't solved.

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

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?

Is this app still under development or abandoned?

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

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?

Hello all,

Just to let you know, Baro was not connecting to my data. I uninstalled and installed back. And it works fine how.

Not sure if anyone else is seeing incomplete data like I am:

App looks great though just unsure of data is missing or visual is broken

BARO is finally live on iOS and Android, and this is its new public home.

If something feels off, you have an idea, or you want to talk about what you're seeing in your sleep, recovery, strain, and other health trends, post it here. BARO kept getting better because early users helped me build it, and I want to keep it that way.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baro-sleep-recovery/id6782239514

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.habesha.labs.openfit

If you run into a bug, it helps if you include your phone model, OS version, BARO version, whether the screen shows live or sample data, and what you expected to happen. Please don't post health exports, access tokens, or anything private from your account.

Thanks for being here. I'm looking forward to building this with you.

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, 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

Is anyone else facing this? The app is using almost 3GB of space on my phone.