Changelog

What's New:

• Favorite foods: Save the foods you eat often and log them in one tap.
• Nutrient goals: Set your own goals and limits for each nutrient.
• Edit log times: Change the date and time of any food entry.
• Smarter Ness: Ness updates what it knows about you each evening from your health data, and it understands photos you send in chat more reliably.
• Improvements: Copying foods and days is more reliable, tabs load faster, and you can hold a journal entry or workout to delete it.
• Fixes: Chat nutrition now uses your time zone, water shows in mL/L for metric users, and more for a smoother experience.

Journal:

• Added the Journal tab. Log daily habits and custom entries, then compare them with each other or your health metrics.
• Your daily insight now picks up patterns from your journal, and Ness can read and log entries in chat.

Goals:

• Build daily habits or hit one-time milestones, tracked automatically from Apple Health and your journal.
• Track progress and streaks from the goal strip on Home, or have Ness set goals for you in chat.

Biological Age:

• See your biological age, pace of aging, 30-day change, and the factors driving it.

Fitness:

• Redesigned the Fitness tab with daily goals, training load, and today's workouts.
• Added workout logging with an exercise library, set-by-set tracking, and Apple Health sync.
• Added per-muscle load so you can see what you've trained this week.
• Ness can build training plans and remind you on training days.

Ness Chat:

• Ness replies with interactive cards for charts, day plans, calculators, and one-tap food logging.
• Connect your calendar so Ness can plan around your schedule.
• View and manage what Ness remembers in Settings → Memory.

Collectibles:

• Earn badges in Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond tiers, and hunt down hidden ones.
• Unlock new Ness skins, including Pumpkin and Witch for spooky season.

Widgets, Watch, and Siri:

• New nutrition, hydration, streak, and single-score widgets.
• Biological age, water logging, and new complications on Apple Watch.
• Siri Shortcuts to log meals, check your scores, and ask Ness questions.

Also in this update:

• Adaptive calories suggest changes to your calorie target based on your weigh-ins and food logs.
• Circadian rhythm in Sleep shows your energy curve, caffeine cutoff, and best time to wind down.
• Your good morning notification is now a personalized brief based on last night's sleep.
• Sleep, recovery, and strain insights are combined into one daily insight that looks at them together.
• Calendar filters for sleep, recovery, strain, journal, meals, hydration, and workouts.
• Ness now speaks Japanese, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

New Features and Improvements:

• Weight and Apple Health: Height and weight now sync with the Health app — changes you make in Ness show up in Apple Health, and vice versa.
• Usage Reset: Hit a weekly limit? Purchase a Usage Reset in Settings → Usage to start your AI limits over right away.
• Redesigned Settings: Updated account and billing screens with cleaner cards for height, weight, birthday, units, and more.
• Personality Selection: Choose the personality that fits you best. Ness now adapts its tone and style in chat.
• Ness Reactions: Ness reacts to your messages in chat with expressive new reactions.
• Chart Rendering: Ask about your health data and Ness renders charts right in the conversation.
• Voice Waveforms: See a live waveform in chat while you're recording a voice message.
• Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Faster, more reliable chat and smoother navigation throughout the app.

New Features and Improvements:

• Apple Health Records in Chat: Connect your health records and ask about labs, medications, conditions, and more. Ness cites the institution and date for every record it analyzes.
• Smarter Insights: Upgraded insight and chat models, with a refreshed health insight design and clearer wording.
• Usage Section: See your weekly Fast, Pro, web search, and food-logging usage at a glance in Settings.
• Food Logging Fixes: Editing an entry now updates it instead of creating a duplicate, and logging again or quick-logging water refreshes your entries immediately.
• Performance and Stability: Faster screen loading and more reliable chat, insights, and nutrition logging.

New features and improvements:

• Energy Level: See how much energy you have available throughout the day, based on your recovery, stress, workouts, and rest.
• More Powerful Chat Models: Get smarter, more helpful responses with upgraded AI models powering Fast & Pro modes in Chat.
• Redesigned Apple Watch Experience: Explore refreshed score screens, new health metrics, and detailed metric history from your wrist.
• Custom Notifications: Ask Ness to create personalized reminders, then manage them from Settings.
• Bug Fixes: Resolved issues throughout Ness for a smoother, more reliable experience.

New features and improvements:

• Chat Threads: Revisit previous conversations, start new threads, and keep multiple chats organized.
• Fast and Pro Chat Modes: Choose between quicker answers and deeper, more thorough responses.
• Hydration Tracking: Log water in a few taps and monitor your daily progress.
• Custom Nutritional Targets: Set calorie and macronutrient goals with a clear visual breakdown.
• Improved Metrics: Explore redesigned cards with sparklines, daily changes, and cleaner charts.
• More Web Search: Ask current questions with a higher weekly search allowance.
• Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Improved score accuracy, chat responsiveness, stability, and overall performance.

New features and improvements:

• More Personalized Onboarding: A redesigned setup now uses your goals, measurements, and activity level to calculate personalized calorie and macronutrient targets.
• New Apple Watch Complication: View your sleep, recovery, and strain scores together on your watch face.
• Improved Apple Health Nutrition Sync: Nutrition imports and exports now work more reliably, so you can use Ness in tandem with other apps.
• Faster, Smoother Chat: Enjoy lower latency, faster responses, smoother message streaming, and more efficient web searches with improved limits.
• Liquid Glass Chat Controls: Chat navigation and message controls now feature a polished Liquid Glass design on supported devices.
• A Fresh Look: Performant is now Ness, with refreshed branding, sign-in, and onboarding.
• Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Improved refresh behavior, syncing reliability, and overall stability.

New features and improvements:

• Strain Targets — See a personalized daily target range based on your recent recovery and strain, helping you gauge how much activity your body is ready for.
• Home Screen Widget — View your latest scores at a glance without opening the app.
• Lock Screen Quick Logs — Start logging food directly from your Lock Screen, making nutrition tracking faster and more convenient.
• Apple Watch Companion App — Check your latest scores and trends directly from your wrist.
• Improved Apple Health Nutrition Sync — Nutrition data now syncs more reliably between Ness and Apple Health, helping keep your meals and nutrient totals consistent across apps.
• Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements — Improved app stability, responsiveness, and overall performance throughout Ness.

• Refreshed nutrition page. New Log Food button, improved nutrient breakdowns, and a cleaner layout for tracking your meals.
• Dark mode improvements — smoother appearance across several screens in dark mode.
• Fixed issues with email sign-in. Tapping a sign-in link from your email now opens the app directly, rather than redirecting.

• Redesigned sleep timeline with easy to read sleep stages
• Fixed nutrition entries not properly showing loggedAt times in Chat
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements

New features & improvements:

### Nutrition Rework

We updated nutrition to be more accurate and thorough, with per ingredient macros, detailed daily nutrients, and more. You can favorite foods, view recent entries, and edit them easily with AI. The database got an upgrade too, so now you have more higher quality options to choose from.

### Dark Mode

We've finally added dark mode! You can enable it in the new Themes section of settings. You can select light mode, dark mode, or automatically switch based on your system colors.

### Web Search

Ness chat is now more accurate, and will dynamically search online for up to date information.

• Added custom user prompts in chat for greater customizability
• Added a way to toggle memory on/off in chat
• Added voice input to chat
• Added metric analysis and log food presets in chat
• Improved rendering of metrics when no data is present

Bug fixes:

• Fixed dithering in visual gradients throughout Ness
• Improved insight behavior when no sleep data is present
• Improved metric cache behavior

• Various bug fixes and performance enhancements
• Made recent nutrition entries more accessible and easier to use

• Refreshed Sleep, Recovery, and Strain views with richer metric cards, sparklines, breakdowns, and AI-powered insight summaries
• Improved AI Chat with better markdown/table rendering, message copying, personalized suggestions, and cleaner streaming behavior
• Updated AI Nutrition to be more stable and provide faster responses
• Updated metrics drawer and cards

AI Chat

• You can now talk with Ness about your metrics, trends, sleep, nutrition, and more!
• Daily/nutrition summaries now open up within Chat, giving you more detailed insights.

Sleep Notifications

• Get wake up, wind down, and bedtime notifications based on your sleep scores, recovery, and average wake up times.

Bug fixes

• Fixed metrics sometimes not paginating properly
• Fixed sparklines showing too many datapoints
• Fixed welcome messages not properly updating
• Fixed selected date refresh

• Added serving size and number of servings selector for nutrition inputs
• Updated birthday selector in settings
• Bug fixes and performance enhancements

• Introduced a new design for onboarding, with a cleaner, more guided first-time experience
• Added on-device dictation for food logging, so voice capture is faster and more reliable
• Improved voice logging flow and guardrails for better nutrition entry accuracy
• Fixed page transition issues for smoother movement between screens
• Added birthdays, height & weight, and other info for improved estimated nutritional goals
• Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
• Updated nutrition icons for macronutrients and goals

### Nutrition

• HUGE improvements to Nutrition!
• Added nutritional insights. Based on your currently logged foods, you'll get suggestions on what to do next.
• Additional info and follow-up questions in photo logs. Ness will ask you questions (optional) that dramatically improve estimates.
• Added voice logging for nutrition
• Redesign of food details to focus on simplicity
• Redesign of nutrition page
• Redesigned barcode scanning flow
• Improved nutrition model accuracy

### Introducing: Fitness

• Added the Fitness page, with workout summary, heart rate zone views, and more.
• Added active calorie and step tracking

### Home Tab

• Improved stress tracking and added stress notifications
• Added variable greetings in the app when you first open it

We've also:

• Redesigned the tab bar, and added new actions to the plus menu
• Brought back top blur and fade
• Added a profile button to make it easier to navigate to settings
• Added a legend and info section to metrics cards
• Slightly updated streaks
• Fixed bugs and improved performance

• Resolved layout shift when switching between pages
• Updated app icon
• Added cross-fade page transitions
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

• Improved authentication performance and reliability
• Decreased latency for page navigation
• Updated subscription view to display cancellation status
• Added version display in settings tab
• Fixed bug where existing users would briefly be shown onboarding instead of main app
• Miscellaneous bug fixes