Health Connect

What it is

Lots of fitness apps send your watch data to their cloud first. Kinoku does not. It uses Health Connect instead. That is an Android feature that keeps your health data in one place on your phone, and lets apps share it there. Kinoku reads what it needs from that place, on the device. No Kinoku server sits in the middle.

What Kinoku reads

You choose which of these Kinoku can read. Each one is a separate switch. Kinoku reads them for free:

• Steps. Your daily activity baseline.
• Weight and body fat. Body trends over time.
• Sleep. A recovery signal that feeds your Pulse Score.
• Resting heart rate. How calm your body is at rest.
• Heart rate variability (HRV). The gap between heartbeats, another recovery signal for Pulse Score.
• Blood pressure, blood sugar, and hydration. Health context, when you track it.

What Kinoku writes back

Kinoku can also write a couple of things back, so other apps can see your training:

• Your logged workouts, with full set data.
• Body weight, when you log it by hand.

Menstruation import (PRO)

Kinoku can read your period entries from Health Connect into your cycle history. This is a PRO feature, and it is your choice to turn on.

It is read-only. Kinoku reads your cycle data, and never writes it back to Health Connect. Your cycle data also lives in its own private store on your phone, kept out of cloud backup. See Cycle-Aware Training for how that works.

You stay in control

You pick which data Kinoku can read and write, one type at a time, in Android’s Health Connect settings. You can turn any of them off whenever you want.

Why this matters

Your watch records your sleep. Your phone counts your steps. Your scale tracks your weight. Without Health Connect, every app tries to be the one place for all of it, and each one wants you to log in.

Health Connect makes Android the one place instead. Kinoku reads what is already there, works out your Pulse Score on your phone, and hands you back the insights. There is no Kinoku account to make. No data goes to a Kinoku cloud or to a data broker. It is the gear you already own, working together, on your phone.

Free, of course.