InnerPulse thrives on minimalism: you capture your mood in a few moments, without working your way through menus and screens first. That is not going to change. So version 7 brings hardly any new screens. It is an update for how the app feels in use: animations, haptics and many small decisions that barely stand out on their own and together make the app feel more coherent. LOGGING AN ENTRY - The mood slider clicks into place on every value. When you let go, a stronger tap confirms your choice. - Quick picks always offer five open factors. What you pick stays in place, and the next suggestion moves in at the end. - For feelings, three dots show how many you have picked. At the limit, a fourth feeling bounces back so you can feel it. - Tap a writing prompt and it glides straight into the note field. New: “Other prompts” shows more suggestions. - When you save, the editor takes on your mood color, a checkmark draws itself, and the ring of the new row fills up to your score. Every entry gets this confirmation, however your day went. JOURNAL - The chart draws itself when you open it, as a line, columns or ribbon. - After you delete an entry, the list closes the gap smoothly. The first time you delete, InnerPulse shows that shaking your device brings the entry back. - Tap plus shortly after deleting, and InnerPulse offers once to bring the deleted entry back. A restored entry glides back into its old place. QUESTIONNAIRE - A ring at the top right shows which question you are on. Swipe back and forth between questions. - After your last answer, a short thank-you appears, then your result with the trend of your recent results. InnerPulse acknowledges that you filled it in, never the score. The result stays a screening, not a diagnosis. ANALYSIS - The “Factors” tile opens with your first insight. A dot on the tab and on the tile shows where something new is waiting. - Numbers count up, impact bars grow, and the curve reshapes when you switch the time range. - “Year in pixels” fills up day by day. If you have an entry today, today’s pixel settles in last. MILESTONES AND SHARING - At 30, 100 and 365 recorded days, InnerPulse shows a milestone. It counts days with an entry, not a streak: gaps never count against you. - Share milestones, your “Year in pixels” and insights as an image. InnerPulse creates a separate card for this, without notes, factors, feelings or the data of single days. You choose with switches what it shows. - Take a screenshot of one of these, and InnerPulse offers to turn it into a shareable image. APP LOCK - A new lock screen in the look of your theme. While the app is locked, nothing of your entries shows through. After unlocking, a mosaic reveals the app. MORE RELIABLE - Insights are stricter: InnerPulse compares days instead of single entries and only reports a connection once it stands clearly apart from chance. Across 1,000 test datasets with no connection at all, the share of false insights dropped from 100% to at most 5%. Instead of a percentage, you now see the strength of evidence: high, medium or low. - When you travel, every entry counts toward the day you logged it, even after a time zone change. - Entries you delete while device sync is paused no longer come back when you turn it on again. - Choose the unzipped export folder when importing, and InnerPulse restores your photos too. - “Delete All Data” now also resets learned suggestions and your changes to factors. - VoiceOver describes your charts as Audio Graphs. On iPad with a keyboard: ⌘N for a new entry, ⌘F to search. FOR EVERYONE - Every animation follows the “Reduce Motion” setting: you then see the result right away or a simple cross-fade. - Longer animations play once per session, so they never hold you up the tenth time you open the app.

DEVICE SYNC - If device sync fails, the sync page now shows the error code from iCloud. Until now the status just kept spinning in that case. - If a device can't decrypt entries from another device yet, it now says "Waiting for the key" instead of "Up to date" and points you to iCloud Keychain. Once the key arrives, the entries appear without restarting the app. - If you set up sync on two devices at the same time, they now agree on a shared key even if InnerPulse was closed when the key arrived. - Below "Sync now" you'll now find what to do if entries don't show up: sync needs "Passwords & Keychain" turned on in iCloud on every device, even if you otherwise use a different password manager. - While syncing, the status now reads "Syncing…". Until now it read as if syncing had already finished. - If the same entry exists on two devices and only one copy has photos, the copy with the photos now always stays. Until now, with photo sync turned off, sync could remove the copy with the photos. - "Send feedback" adds the sync status and error code to the email, so we can find the cause without asking back.

Version 6 brings InnerPulse to iPad, lets you name your feelings and attach photos and files. Your entries stay on your device: no account, no tracking. IPAD AND SPLIT SCREEN - InnerPulse now runs on iPad. In landscape and in the book posture of iPhone Duo, every page shows the selection on the left and the detail on the right: in the Journal, the timeline and the entry in focus on the right. - Swipe across the timeline and the detail card follows your finger; the list catches up when you let go. - New entries and editing open on the right, while the list stays in place on the left. Rotate your device and keep writing. - If you want, InnerPulse syncs entries between iPhone and iPad through iCloud, photos and files optional, end-to-end encrypted: neither we nor Apple can read them. FEELINGS - Name up to three feelings for every entry, from "Calm" to "Overwhelmed". When connected to Apple Health, they arrive there as the feelings of your mood entry. - The new "Feelings" analysis shows how often you name which ones, with which mood they appear and with which factors. PHOTOS AND FILES - Attach photos, PDFs and other files to entries, as many as you like. InnerPulse removes location data when you add them. It doesn't accept videos. - On request, the export packs the spreadsheet and each entry's media into a ZIP file. YOUR ENTRY, YOUR ORDER - Press and hold a section or tap "Customize Entry" at the bottom: arrange the sections and hide what you don't need. - Pin factors, reorder them by dragging and hide them with one tap. Pinned factors and suggestions appear together at the top of "Quick picks". - InnerPulse sets clear Apple Health values itself; uncertain ones you accept with one tap. The app reads four fewer Health data types. FASTER EVERY DAY - Shake your iPhone to bring back a deleted entry, a hidden factor or a moved section. - Swipe an entry to the left: the Delete button follows your finger from the first movement. - Press and hold an entry to see its note, feelings and factors, also in a factor's list of entries. - After saving, the entry closes right away. - Journal, Analysis and device sync now recalculate only what has changed. WIDGETS - The new "Today's Entry" widget shows a plus until you log something today, then the day's mood, factors and note, in three sizes. With App lock on, it hides note and factors. - In the Quick log widget, "Write entry" opens a new entry directly. QUESTIONNAIRES - If a result points to acute distress, it now always shows the help contacts, not just once while you fill in the questionnaire. - When you cancel, InnerPulse asks first, so your answers don't get lost. - Results describe how strong your symptoms are instead of giving a diagnosis. The crisis screen also lists the emergency number 112 (Germany) and ambulance 144 (Austria). DATA SAFETY - An edited entry replaces its entry in Apple Health instead of adding a second one. - InnerPulse deletes attachments only once the deletion of the entry is saved. "Delete all data" removes them right away. - Apple Watch no longer overwrites journal text or feelings from iPhone and keeps its entries even if iPhone can't load them once. - If an import or a deletion fails, InnerPulse rolls everything back. MORE IMPROVEMENTS - Tapping a reminder opens InnerPulse again. - The Timeline now averages all entries of a day instead of only the last one. On days with several entries, values and trend change accordingly. - For medications, factor pages no longer show statements about the effect on your mood. - "Year in pixels" also shows empty years between your first and last entry. - "At a glance" in Settings shows reminders, app lock, Apple Health, factors and storage on one page. - Numbers appear in your language's format, e.g. "6,8" instead of "6.8" in German. - The weekday chart is correct even with only a few entries.

We're continuously working to improve InnerPulse for you. This update includes minor optimizations and bug fixes for an even better experience.

Version 5.1 delivers on your feedback for version 5: sortable entries, less friction while logging, and a time filter that remembers your choice. Everything stays 100% local on your device. SORT YOUR ENTRIES - New sort menu above the journal list: newest or oldest first, highest or lowest mood first. - Find your best and hardest days at a glance. LESS FRICTION WHILE LOGGING - An accidentally selected suggestion stays in the suggestion row; tap again to deselect it. - New factors can now be created even when similarly named ones already exist. - The intensity slider can be enabled right when creating a factor. ANALYSIS - The time filter (7/30/90 days/All) remembers your choice across app restarts and applies to all analysis pages. BUG FIXES & POLISH - Several messages, including the alert after a failed unlock, now appear in your language. - With a fixed app language, the time display follows your device's 12/24-hour setting again. - Unlogged days follow the list's title personalization, including weekday and date format. - The dot separator in entry rows now only appears before the note. - The info badge while scrubbing the trend charts sits back at the top left, below the title.

Version 5.0 brings a dedicated page for every factor, interactions as real comparisons instead of percentages, a search that explains its results, and entry lists you can customize. Everything stays 100% local on your device. NEW FACTOR PAGES - Tap a factor in Analysis and you get its own page: balance with a trend chart, range, confidence, and the number of entries. - The "Trends" tab shows what often goes along with the factor, including the day before (-1) or the day after (+1). Every row leads to the connected factor. - The "Entries" tab collects all journal entries with this factor. - Each of the 111 default factors now has its own image. CLEARER INTERACTIONS - Instead of "300% more often", each card compares two groups directly, e.g. "With Low energy: on 12 of 14 days. Without: on 3 of 20 days." - A badge rates every connection as "Moderate" or "Strong"; weak connections are no longer shown. - As always: everything is an observation, never a diagnosis. SMARTER SEARCH - Every result shows why it was found: text snippet, factor, or date. - Factors match in every language and via synonyms; "workout" also finds "Exercised". - The chart collapses while you search, so more results stay visible. CUSTOMIZABLE ENTRY ROWS - Choose what the title and subtitle line of journal and questionnaire entries show: weekday, date, time, note, or questionnaire code, name and due date. - Reorder by dragging the handle, three date formats. Find it under Settings > General. CLEARER QUESTIONNAIRES - Every test states its topic in plain language, e.g. PHQ-9 = depression. - The reminder tells you which questionnaire is due and opens it directly. - Every questionnaire type shows when it is next due, or how long it has been overdue. - Reminders work per questionnaire type: if your GAD-7 is further back than your PHQ-9, InnerPulse reminds you about the GAD-7. - In the line chart, you now hit exactly the point you mean when a day has several entries; while dragging, the selection stays on one line. BUG FIXES & POLISH - Intensity and factor selection stay in sync: deselecting removes the value, selecting starts at "Medium". - The questionnaire reminder can be turned off completely. - "View insights" takes you directly to the factor page. - If saving fails, the app tells you honestly instead of signaling success. - Search, lists, and chart gestures respond noticeably faster, plus many small corrections. MIGRATION & PRIVACY All your data is preserved and migrated locally. No server, no account. InnerPulse stays private.

Version 4.1 refines 4.0: factor search now works in any language, the journal and analysis feel noticeably smoother, reminders are more reliable, and under the hood we made the app more stable and your data safer. Everything stays 100% local on your device. FACTOR SEARCH IN ANY LANGUAGE - You now find a factor regardless of the app language. Search in English for "Productive" and the German "Produktiv" shows up, and the other way around. - This works both when picking factors in an entry and in the journal search. A factor created in one language stays findable by its term in any language (and by synonyms). RELIABLE REMINDERS - Fixed: the journal reminder sometimes appeared even though you had already tracked the day. As soon as an entry exists, today's reminder is now removed immediately and reliably, even if you logged via widget, Lock Screen, Siri or Apple Watch. BACKFILLED ENTRIES WITH THE RIGHT TIME - When you add an entry for today after the fact, InnerPulse now uses the current time instead of 0:00. Backfilled entries for past days stay unchanged. NOTICEABLY SMOOTHER - The journal and analysis no longer recompute lists, search and charts on every keystroke or animation frame. Typing, scrolling and charts feel calmer, even with many entries. - Factor search responds without hitches. There is no more database access on every keystroke. FASTER APPLE WATCH SYNC - Incoming Watch entries are batched and processed more efficiently, and the expensive weekly and pixel aggregation no longer runs for every single entry. Rapid successive inputs are coalesced instead of slowing down the sync. STABILITY & DATA SAFETY - Save hardening: a failed save is no longer silently ignored but logged, so your entry is not lost unnoticed. - Extra crash protection in the most used display path and when reconciling background entries. IMPORT & EXPORT IN EVERY LANGUAGE - Fixed: data export and import now work regardless of the selected language. Previously the process failed in non-German languages or opened the wrong screen. MIGRATION & PRIVACY All data from version 4.0 is preserved and migrated locally. No server, no account. Optional Apple services exchange data only with Apple. InnerPulse stays private.

Version 4.0 is the biggest update to InnerPulse yet: the app leaves the iPhone. New are an Apple Watch app, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Siri and Spotlight shortcuts that let you log your mood in seconds without opening the app. On top of that come a new analysis engine that detects interactions between factors, an intensity slider per factor, journal search, a way to fill in missed days, fully editable factors, CSV import, and a new PDF report. Everything stays 100% local on your device. APPLE WATCH - Quick entry with the Digital Crown: turn the crown, set a value (1 to 10), tap, done. - Weekly stats on your wrist: average of the last 7 days, trend, and bars. - Confirm factors at a glance: matching factors (weekday, Apple Health) are preselected. - Reliable two-way sync, even offline. The iPhone stays the source of truth. - Watch face complications showing today's value. WIDGETS & LOCK SCREEN - Quick-log widget: capture your mood with one tap from the Home Screen. - Weekly pulse widget: average of the last 7 days plus trend. - "Mood in Pixels": the last 12 weeks as a colored grid. - Lock Screen widget: one tap opens a new entry directly. Optionally "hide mood score". - All widgets redesigned and always automatically up to date. INTERACTIONS AS CLEAR SENTENCES In the detail view of each factor, InnerPulse describes relationships in natural language: - Same day: "On days with exercise, you ate healthy 40% more often." - Next day: "After days with little sleep, your mood the next day is lower on average." Everything is an observation, not a diagnosis. INTENSITY For each factor you can enable an intensity slider from low to high. The analysis compares high-intensity and low-intensity days and shows the effect on your mood. FULLY EDITABLE FACTORS Every factor can be edited, including default factors: title, icon, category, and tendency. Behind the scenes, each factor keeps its stable identity, so entries and analyses stay correct. Large, searchable icon picker. JOURNAL SEARCH A search icon filters your entries live by note text, factors, and date. FILL IN MISSED DAYS Optionally, each unlogged day appears as a subtle tile with a plus. One tap creates an entry for exactly that day. No streaks, no nagging. STABILITY & POLISH Faster image rendering, a fixed crash with duplicate factor names, and consistent updates across widgets, Lock Screen, and Watch after every change. MIGRATION & PRIVACY All data from version 3.4 is preserved and migrated locally. No server, no account. Optional Apple services share data only with Apple. InnerPulse stays private.

Version 3.4 is a maintenance release focused on factors and settings. Usage counts now match how often you actually used a factor, deleted factors also disappear from past entries, the month labels in "Year in Pixels" now follow your app language, and a display bug in the intelligent factors has been fixed. On top of that, there are stability and reliability improvements under the hood. --- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION? --- SETTINGS REFLECT CHANGES IMMEDIATELY When you turned Apple Health or Weather on or off under Settings, Intelligent Factors, the overview sometimes only showed the correct status after restarting the app. The feature was already active, only the display lagged behind. In 3.4 the display updates right away. --- FACTORS: ACCURATE USAGE COUNT The number that shows how often a factor was used now reflects the actual number of your entries that use it. Until now this value could grow too high over time, for example because editing an entry was counted as well. That is fixed, and the order of factor suggestions becomes more reliable as a result. --- FACTORS: CLEAN DELETION When you deleted a factor, it used to stay visible in the entries where you had used it. In 3.4 a deleted factor is also removed from all past entries. If it is still in use, InnerPulse asks first and shows you how many entries it will be removed from. Mood scores, journal text, and all other factors remain unchanged. --- YEAR IN PIXELS: LOCALIZED MONTHS In the analysis under "Year in Pixels" the month labels now appear in your app language instead of being fixed to German. --- STABILITY AND RELIABILITY Under the hood we reworked the save and sync paths so that saving, editing, and deleting entries and factors runs more robustly. --- MIGRATION AND PRIVACY - All mood entries, factors, and questionnaire results from version 3.3 are preserved. - The cleanup of deleted factors runs exclusively locally on your device. - As always, InnerPulse stays 100% local. No data ever leaves your device.

APPLE HEALTH WORKOUTS MAPPED MORE CLEARLY Until now, InnerPulse had a separate "Functional Training" factor that bundled several workout types from Apple Health. In practice this rarely fit, since most of those workouts are conceptually closer to strength training or HIIT. With 3.3 the mapping is cleaner: - Functional Strength Training: now Strength Training - Core Training: now Strength Training - Cross Training: now HIIT The "Functional Training" factor is dropped. On first launch of 3.3, InnerPulse removes the default factor automatically and cleans up all existing entries that referenced it. Mood scores, journal text, and all other factors remain unchanged. Custom factors you created yourself with the same name are left untouched. --- FULL THEME BACKGROUND IN EMPTY CATEGORIES When you opened a custom factor category in Settings that didn't contain a factor yet, the theme background was only visible as a narrow strip in the center of the screen. The rest of the screen stayed empty or dark. In 3.3, the background fills the full width across all themes (Still Water, Paper Ink, Night Owl). --- MIGRATION AND PRIVACY - All mood entries, factors, and questionnaire results from version 3.2 are preserved. - The migration that removes "Functional Training" runs once and exclusively locally on your device. - As always, InnerPulse stays 100% local. No data ever leaves your device.

We're continuously working to improve InnerPulse for you. This update includes minor optimizations and bug fixes for an even better experience.

Version 3.1 is a maintenance release with one major focus: crisis hotlines are now available worldwide. When a questionnaire indicates acute distress, InnerPulse now shows the right hotlines for your region — no longer limited to German-speaking countries, but covering 16 countries plus an international fallback. On top of that, you get visual refinements for empty states and minor fixes. --- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION? --- CRISIS HOTLINES WORLDWIDE Until now, the crisis modal was only localized for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. With 3.1, InnerPulse automatically selects the appropriate hotlines based on your device region: - DACH: Telefonseelsorge (DE 0800 111 0 111, AT 142, CH 143) and additional contacts - USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line - United Kingdom: Samaritans 116 123, SHOUT - Canada: 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline, Talk Suicide Canada - Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue - France: 3114, SOS Amitié - Spain: 024 Línea de Atención, Teléfono de la Esperanza - Mexico: SAPTEL, Línea de la Vida - Italy: Telefono Amico, Samaritans Onlus - Netherlands: 113 Zelfmoordpreventie - Japan: よりそいホットライン, TELL Lifeline - India: Vandrevala Foundation, iCall - Hong Kong: Samaritans Hong Kong - Taiwan: Lifeline 1995 - China: Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Lifeline Shanghai For all other regions, InnerPulse displays an international fallback with Find a Helpline (worldwide directory), IASP Crisis Centres, and the European emergency number 112, which is active in many other countries as well. As before, the crisis modal only appears when the PHQ-9 indicates acute distress, can only be closed by active acknowledgment, and respects a 24-hour cooldown between displays. --- EMPTY STATES IN THE RIGHT DESIGN When you haven't logged any entries or questionnaires yet, the empty-state placeholder used to fall back to a neutral system look. In 3.1, it adapts to your chosen theme (Still Water, Paper Ink, or Night Owl): background, accent color, and typography now match the rest of the app. --- SMALLER FIXES - Onboarding: Revised capitalization in several texts for a more consistent appearance. - Various stability and performance improvements under the hood. --- MIGRATION AND PRIVACY - All entries, factors, and questionnaire results from version 3.0 are preserved unchanged. - Region detection for the crisis hotlines happens exclusively locally via the device region. No location services, no data transmission. - As always, InnerPulse stays 100% local. No data ever leaves your device.

INNERPULSE 3.0: RELEASE NOTES --- IN SHORT Version 3.0 is the biggest step InnerPulse has ever taken. You experience a completely redesigned analysis tab with much more depth, including a new "Year in Pixels" view. You get four selectable design themes, an optional Apple Health connection, weather as a factor, and new ways to export your data as PDF or bring it back in via CSV. InnerPulse stays 100% local and a one-time purchase without subscription. --- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION? --- COMPLETELY REDESIGNED ANALYSIS TAB The analysis tab was rethought from the ground up and is now a standalone hub with much more depth across 5 detail views: - Factors: Each factor can now be opened individually and shows its course, frequency, and effect on your mood. - Weekdays: Made visible on which weekdays you typically feel better or worse. - Trend: Your mood with trend lines over time. - Questionnaires: All clinical screening tests (PHQ-9, PHQ-4, GAD-7, K10) are visualized together and comparable over time. - Year in Pixels: A new view shows your entire year as a colored pixel grid. Ideal for spotting phases, patterns, and changes across long stretches of time. --- FOUR NEW DESIGN THEMES InnerPulse now adapts visually to your taste. You choose between four themes with their own color palette, typographic accents, and material style. The old legacy style remains available and is joined by 3 additional design modes in light and dark. --- APPLE HEALTH (OPT-IN) With your permission, InnerPulse pulls in data from Apple Health and turns it into matching factors: - Workouts: Training sessions are recognized and either automatically activated or suggested as a matching factor. - Sleep: Sleep data flows into your entries as a factor. - Cycle: Cycle and PMS phases are picked up as a factor. - Hydration: Drinking behavior is taken into account as a factor. The logic deliberately distinguishes between automatic activation (when the data is clear) and suggestion (when a quick confirmation makes sense). You stay in control at all times and can grant or revoke each data category individually. Your data stays with you and is not stored elsewhere. --- WEATHER AS A FACTOR (OPT-IN) You no longer have to enter the weather manually. As soon as you enable it in settings, sunny and rainy days are automatically suggested as a factor. An elegant way to make the impact of weather on your mood visible over time. Same principle here: your data stays with you and is not stored elsewhere. --- PDF EXPORT You can now create a PDF report of your data, suitable for printing, archiving, or sharing with therapists. The report contains mood timelines, a factor overview, and questionnaire results in a clear, readable layout. --- CSV IMPORT For the first time, data can be brought back into the app. With the new CSV import, you restore entries from an earlier export, another source, or after a device switch, including validation and a preview before anything is written. --- SETTINGS SCREEN COMPLETELY REWORKED The settings have been completely restructured: clearer grouping, new sections for HealthKit, Themes, Privacy, and Data Management (Export/Import), as well as its own Privacy Center that transparently shows which data is processed where. --- FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS - Improved factor confidence logic: The smart suggestion engine has been overhauled and now suggests factors significantly more accurately. - General improvements to performance and speed. --- MIGRATION AND PRIVACY - All existing entries, factors, and questionnaire results from version 2 are preserved and migrated automatically. - Apple Health and the weather connection are strictly opt-in: nothing is read without your explicit consent. - As always, InnerPulse stays 100% local. No data leaves your device.

We're continuously working to improve InnerPulse for you. This update includes minor optimizations and bug fixes for an even better experience.

We're continuously working to improve InnerPulse for you. This update includes minor optimizations and bug fixes for an even better experience.

We're continuously working to improve InnerPulse for you. This update includes minor optimizations and bug fixes for an even better experience.

We're continuously working to make InnerPulse better for you. This update includes minor improvements and bug fixes for an even smoother experience.

Bug Fixes & Improvements - Journal: Editing now saves correctly — The "Done" button (checkmark) when editing an entry now actually saves your changes (date, mood, factors) instead of just toggling edit mode - Insights: Time range filter fixed — Time ranges (week/month/quarter) now start from the beginning of the day and count inclusively (7/30/90 days instead of 8/31/91) - Insights: Better hints for empty factor correlations — When no base or influence factors exist in the selected time range but do exist in other ranges, a helpful hint is now shown instead of nothing - Localization: Added two new strings for factor correlation hints

New Features & Improvements - Create new factors directly from search — no need to leave your journal entry - 3 new built-in factors: Social Media Pause, PMS, and Cycle Week with synonyms in all 7 languages - Search results no longer show unrelated active factors - Tapping the factor count badge now scrolls to the first active category

Improvements and bug fixes - Mood timeline now shows gaps for days without entries for a more honest overall picture - Streaks are calculated correctly for backdated entries - Factor suggestions and insights respond more smoothly with optimized recalculations - Notification toggle works more reliably - Fixed chart display issues with clipped values at edges and Y axis scaling - General stability and performance improvements