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Your Apple Watch knows the numbers. Ori knows the day.

Apple Health quietly records your sleep, steps, and heart. Ori reads those signals beside the few lines you wrote and writes you back each evening — not another ring of charts, just your day understood. Free, and your journal is stored only on your iPhone.

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No Apple Watch? Ori still works with just your words — free.

Apple Health measures. Ori means.

Your iPhone and Apple Watch already gather more about your days than you ever look at — sleep stages, activity, resting heart rate. Ori reads that quietly, sets it beside the few words you wrote, and writes you back in plain language each evening: not a dashboard, not a score, just the day you actually lived, read back to you.

What Ori adds to Apple Health

  • Plain words, not more charts. Your sleep and activity, turned into a sentence you'd actually say out loud — what the night gave you, and what it didn't.
  • Your body next to your day. The night you barely slept, beside the day you called hard — finally on the same page.
  • Every number shown, nothing invented. Ori never guesses past your data, and it is not a medical tool — it makes no clinical claim.
  • Free and on-device. No subscription, and your journal — and your Health history — are stored on your iPhone, not in our cloud.

Exactly what Ori reads — the complete list

This list comes from the app's source code, not a marketing summary, and every item is read-only — Ori requests no write access to Health. (Checked against the shipping app, July 2026.)

Sleep
Sleep analysis with stages — core, deep, REM, awake, in-bed — and, on newer Apple Watches, sleeping wrist temperature.
Heart
Heart rate, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability, walking heart-rate average, one-minute heart-rate recovery, VO₂ max, and blood pressure if something records it to Health.
Activity
Steps, workouts, exercise minutes, active and basal energy, distance (walking, running, cycling, swimming, snow sports), flights climbed.
Breath & more
Respiratory rate, blood-oxygen level, body temperature, mindful minutes.

Cycle data is separate. Period start dates are read only if you explicitly turn on Cycle & change — iOS asks for that permission separately, at that moment, never at setup.

What Ori doesn't read: your location, workout GPS routes, clinical records, medications, lab results, reproductive data beyond period start dates, or identity details like date of birth. And it's read-only — Ori doesn't write to or change anything in Health.

The iOS permission screen says it in one line: “Ori reads sleep, heart rate, activity, and related signals to understand how your body shapes your day.” The privacy page explains where each signal goes, and the privacy policy is the binding version.

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A meaning-layer on top of your iPhone.

Reads your sleep & activity

With your permission, Ori reads the Apple Health signals you already collect and reflects them back in words — gently, and only what's there.

Writes the evening letter for you

No blank page. A short, honest note composed from your day and your body, waiting each night.

Works without a watch too

No Apple Watch? Ori still works with just your words — and with an Oura ring if you'd rather. Always free.

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Apple Health questions, answered.

Does Ori work with Apple Health and the Apple Watch?
Yes. With your permission, Ori reads your Apple Health sleep and activity and reflects them back to you in plain words each evening, so the numbers your watch collects finally mean something for your day.
Do I need an Apple Watch to use Ori?
No. Ori works with just your words. An Apple Watch or iPhone simply adds your sleep and activity to the picture — but it is never required, and Ori is always free.
Does my Apple Health data leave my iPhone?
Your Health history and your journal are stored on your iPhone — not in our cloud. If you use the mode that includes your body's signals, a short summary of recent days is sent once to compose your evening letter and isn't kept. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers, and you can turn any data source off at any time.
Is Ori a medical or fitness-coaching app?
No. Ori is for reflection, not treatment — it never makes a clinical claim and never tells you to hit a target. It simply mirrors what your day held back to you, in plain words.
Is Ori free with Apple Health?
Yes. Ori is completely free — no subscription, no account, no ads — whether or not you connect Apple Health.
Is there a journal app that works with Apple Health?
Yes — Ori. With your permission it reads your Apple Health sleep and activity and writes them into a short evening letter beside your own words. Free, no account, and your journal is stored on your iPhone.
What exactly does Ori read from Apple Health?
Sleep (with stages and, on newer watches, wrist temperature), heart signals (heart rate, resting rate, variability, recovery, VO₂ max), activity (steps, workouts, energy, distance, flights), respiratory rate, blood oxygen, body temperature, and mindful minutes — all read-only. Period dates are a separate permission you'd turn on yourself. It never reads location, clinical records, or medications, and it writes nothing to Health. The complete list on this page comes from the app's source code.
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