Rest Day Tracker
Mark rest days by hand, on a schedule, or by auto-detection. They carry across streaks, Pulse, achievements, and Coach, so a real rest day never breaks your record.
Proof surface
What this feature looks like in the app
Rest without penalty
Mark a day as rest and the whole app agrees. Your streak holds, Pulse skips the day, and Coach adjusts its recap.
Tier shape
How access changes by tier
Tap a day to mark it rest. Unmark it if you change your mind. It carries to Wear OS.
Plan rest days into your week or training block ahead of time.
Readiness signals like HRV, sleep, and recent load can suggest a rest day.
What it is
Rest is part of training. It is not a gap in it.
Kinoku treats a rest day as real. Mark a day as rest, and the whole app agrees. Your streak stays intact. Pulse skips the day instead of scoring it a zero. Coach adjusts its weekly recap. Most of your achievement progress keeps going.
This replaces the old Steps-only “Pause today” toggle. Now one rest day flows through every part of the app.
Three ways to mark a rest day
Manual (FREE)
Tap a day in the calendar or on the Log screen to mark it rest. Tap again to undo. Nothing is deleted, so you can always change your mind. The change shows up on your Wear OS watch right away.
Scheduled ahead (PRO)
Plan rest days into your week or training block before they arrive. A Sunday off each week. A lighter mid-block week. A planned easy stretch. Each one shows up in the calendar with its own chip, so your plan stays clear.
Auto-detection (ELITE)
Readiness is a daily sense of how recovered you are. It comes from your sleep, your heart-rate signals, and how hard you have trained lately. When that signal trends low, Kinoku can ask: “Your readiness looks low today. Take it off?” You say yes or no. If you accept, the rest day is tagged so Kinoku can clear it later (see below).
What a rest day changes
Mark a day as rest, and it flows through:
- Streak counter: rest days are skipped, so a steady program with planned rest stays a streak
- Pulse Score: the day is skipped, not scored as a zero
- Coach screen: the weekly recap and Today’s Focus adjust how they read
- Achievements: “in a row” checks count the rest day as part of the run
- Social Bets: streak bets respect the rest day too
- Zone Training: weekly zone balance skips the day instead of counting it as missing
- Training Calendar: a rest chip shows up in the week view, so the plan stays honest
- Wear OS: the rest state shows on your watch face and tiles
What happens if you train on a rest day
Say a day is marked rest, but you log a workout anyway. Kinoku asks if you want to clear the rest flag or keep it.
If Kinoku set the rest day for you, it clears the flag by default. The signal was off, you trained, so the record should match. If you set it by hand, Kinoku keeps the flag and logs the workout next to it. A short mobility session on a rest day is more common than you might think.
Achievements
The Rest Day tracker has its own achievements in the RECOVERY group:
- Your first marked rest day
- 10, 50, and 100 rest days logged in total
- A full month where Kinoku found every rest day for you (ELITE)
Why it matters
In most fitness apps, a smart rest day looks like a missed day. A careful program ends up looking like a broken streak. Kinoku flips that. Rest is shown, saved, and respected. The app stays honest about your whole training, not just the loud parts.
Related
- Readiness: the recovery signal behind auto-detection
- Pulse Score: your daily state score, which skips rest days
- AI Coach: the Coach surface that adjusts for rest days
Try it for yourself.
Available on Google Play. Core access starts on the free tier.
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