Verve 1.6.3 — the Guide, the weekly dose, and honest numbers from any device THE GUIDE • The AI Coach is now the Guide. Each week it compares your last completed week with the one before and says in two lines what improved and the one thing to do next. The numbers are free; one written read a week is free on any period; Pro reads as often as you like. • The Guide can keep a memory of its reads, per account, with your consent; a switch under Settings → Your data → Backup. TRAINING • Weekly dose: your week in MET-minutes against the ACC's 500 to 1,000 band, on the Activity tab and in the Monday card; a tap lists the sessions behind the number. • Zone 2 from a test: a lactate or CPET band from Settings → Profile replaces the estimate. • Session RPE on strength workouts; two devices recording one run leave one session. STEPS, MOVEMENT, ENERGY • A Steps page: today by the hour, this week day by day, your median by week, month and year, against the cited tiers. • One count a day from any mix of devices: Health's own merge where the phone wrote, a band's daily block counted whole on the day it ends, or the device you choose under Settings → Apple Health → Preferred device. The page says where each count came from. • Physical activity level: Day, Week, Month and Year, each day on its own denominator; a day's PAL and energy listed for the week. A band that shares workout energy only (WHOOP) gets no PAL, with the reason, and its kilocalories are labelled workout energy. SLEEP • Efficiency (asleep over your device's own in-bed window) and wakes, with those over five minutes counted, against the National Sleep Foundation's marks, for any device. • A night without stages says why, naming the device. The Sleep page reads heart rate and breathing while asleep against your 30 nights. • Night HRV: Day and the last four weeks, a 7-night mean, one writer per night, named. BODY • TG/HDL and ApoB/ApoA1 ratios on the Triglycerides and ApoB cards, with their bands. • Date of birth in the profile; your age updates itself. • Blood pressure from Apple Health's cuff log. ACCOUNT • Sign-up confirms by a six-digit code on the screen. • An email the first time your account is opened on a new phone; "Sign out everywhere" in Settings. • Crash reports, with nothing personal in them, so the next crash is fixed faster.

Verve 1.6.2 — Trends, Body and Sleep, rebuilt. TRENDS, REBUILT • Snapshot: four tiles — fitness, sleep, resting heart rate, sitting — and each opens its own page. • Over Time: one lens for the week, four weeks, months and years. Every period opens its ledger. • Prior Weeks: each week's minutes, strength sessions, sleep, resting heart rate and recovery, side by side. • The Route: your fitness tests, your tier, what moved it, and when to retest. • The Guide replaces Field Notes, the coach card and AI Compare: the last completed week against the one before, with your body markers woven in. Pro compares any two periods. HEART RATE RECOVERY — NEW • Verve reads the minute after each workout truly ends and derives your recovery, with Apple's own reading beside it and your median as the line. A page per day, and a dot strip across the Trends lenses. SLEEP • A full Sleep page: each night as one bar with its stages, every night on the clock, a Sleep section in every Trends lens, two calendar years back. Naps count. • Sleep timing: bedtime average with its drift, bedtime spread two ways, and a Sleep Regularity Index read against your own months, not a population. BODY, REBUILT • Three dials for metabolic, heart and muscle health. Each section is a page; the lab timeline reads by year. • Every marker draws its own history against its bands. Back-date a reading by scrolling. Readings prefill from Apple Health, with provenance. • New: HbA1c, hip circumference, waist-to-height and waist-to-hip, whole-body lean mass, and the SPPB score. FFMI folds into Body fat; ALMI is judged by EWGSOP2. Duplicate readings are now impossible. • Blood pressure: read from Apple Health's own cuff log, averaged honestly, judged by AHA or ESC (your choice), tagged home or office. • Lab values read on the website's My health page arrive in the app unchecked, and ask for a look before they count. FITNESS TEST FLOW • ACSM 2015 screening, five checks, one recommendation from your recorded training. A retest outlook says whether the number will actually have moved. An 8-week window; detraining flagged after 2 quiet weeks. ACTIVITY • Today's four tiles first, then CRF, the Ascent, and a Workouts card for aerobic and strength. A workout is a page in Verve's own terms: MET-hours, band split, Zone 2, the trace and the recovery. • Physical Activity Level with a trend, backfilled from Apple Health. • Movement Balance opens as a page; the day's nap is recorded. • Background movement is split by its own heart rate, not the day's mean. THE WORKOUT PAGE, IN FIGURES • Every card is a number and its unit. The calorie estimate, the band notes and the captions are gone; how each figure is read now lives at verve-app.health/science, one tap from the foot of the page. • The last card says what this session was of your week's moderate and vigorous minutes, as a share. MOVEMENT BALANCE, TIGHTER • Sitting today as the one headline, your usual beside it. Standing, longest sit, sits over 30 minutes and hours moved as four tiles. The week as a table of numerals; Prior Weeks carries the same table with a longest-sit row. THE LEDGER, ONE UNIT STYLE • min, h, kcal, km, spm and bpm written the same way in every cell. Steps and energy as whole numbers: 246,000 steps, 18,000 kcal. SLEEP STAGES, ONE DEVICE • When an Apple Watch and a ring both write stages for the same night, Verve used to add them together and double every bar. Now one writer is chosen per night, and the bar says whose stages it shows. SETUP • Height, weight and resting heart rate fill in from Apple Health. Ethnicity and smoking are asked at setup, one Health permission sheet instead of two. ALSO • Onboarding in three cards, and a setup that says what to do this week. • Settings in six groups, an honest Pro page, backup for everyone, and a Wearables page. • The Activity page loads once and paints from cache while Apple Health answers. • The medical disclaimer lives in Settings.

• YOUR MINUTES STOP MOVING. Your Zone 2 range is calculated from your resting heart rate, which Apple Health recalculates as it learns more about you. When it shifted, every past workout was quietly re-measured against the new range — so Monday's 40 minutes could read 39 on Tuesday. Each session is now scored against the range that applied when you did it. A finished day is finished. • Background movement is no longer recalculated for days that have ended, and a workout's heart-rate detail is recorded once rather than replaced on every sync. The weekly climb, renamed and extended: • BASE CAMP (150 min) · your goal · HIGH CAMP (300 min) · SUMMIT (610 min). • The summit is new. Research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (2026) followed 17,088 people wearing activity trackers: 560–610 minutes a week was associated with over 30% lower risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation — against 8–9% at the familiar 150. It appears once you pass high camp, so a typical week still fills the chart. • The lines no longer carry organisation names, because those published targets count vigorous activity twice and Verve counts your minutes as measured. Same numbers, honestly labelled. Clearer throughout: • The card is now "Aerobic Activity This Week" — which is all it ever showed. • Tap ⓘ for one panel with this week's breakdown at the top and the explanations folded beneath, instead of a long scroll that pushed the card off screen. • Weekly figures read in minutes and monthly in hours, so the Trends tab agrees with the Activity tab. • NEW SETTING — Activity Units. Choose minutes or MET-hours. It existed but was unreachable; now it's in Settings and applies across Trends. Also: • Two years of Apple Health history imported on first sync, up from three months, with heart-rate detail filled in for the whole of it. • Training by Year — a full breakdown of volume and intensity per year. • Password reset works. The link previously opened the app on a "page not found" screen, leaving no way back into an account. • Distance and calories on the Expedition Ledger now say they cover your whole day, not just your workouts.

Heart Health is entirely new: ApoB, LDL-C, Lp(a) and hs-CRP with cited screening bands, Lp(a) classified in the unit you entered, and hs-CRP above 10 mg/L flagged for re-test rather than reported as risk. Body page capture was reworked from panel-editing to per-marker logging — the change that fixes the copy-forward bug where adding today's triglycerides re-dated last month's glucose. Worth fixing before Phase 2 draws trend lines over those points. Post-meal glucose and HOMA-IR joined Metabolic Health, using the ADA self-monitoring target rather than the diagnostic OGTT bands. The Grade and resting-HR baselines landed on Trends. Strength stopped counting as aerobic intensity, and Flags to Watch grew from four body-composition markers to fourteen.

Verve 1.5.1 Accuracy fix for your weekly activity numbers. Your moderate and vigorous minutes — and Zone 2 — now come from your actual heart rate throughout a workout, not just its average. A run that starts easy, settles into Zone 2, and finishes hard now counts each portion correctly, instead of the whole session being labelled by one number. Zone 2 also now shows every aerobic session of your week, with a below/in/above-zone breakdown for each.

Your fitness, redrawn. Verve now has a design language all its own: • THE WEEKLY ASCENT — your week as a climb. The line rises with every moderate+vigorous minute, plateaus on rest days, and plants a flag the moment you cross WHO 150, your personal goal, or the AHA 300 summit. • SLOPELINES — 12-week trends as angled then→now lines: steeper = bigger change, colour = better or worse, goal dot on today. Biggest movers sort to the top. • DAY TERRAIN — your day as a mountain profile in Movement Balance: every hour's steps become elevation, long sits show as flat canyons. • Flags everywhere — every goal and target you hit plants a pennant. Progress rings are gone; flags climb poles instead. Smarter, more honest numbers: • Your weekly goal now counts actual moderate + vigorous minutes (WHO definition), with a full light/moderate/vigorous intensity bar and a tap-through that shows exactly what counts, what doesn't, and the MET-hours behind it. • Every strength and Zone 2 session now shows its own MET-hours — you're using a MET tracker, after all. • Zone 2 now counts only deliberate aerobic training — background movement and lifting no longer inflate it. • The 12-week CRF trend now knows when a change is a test-method difference (walk test vs maximal run) or a held-back effort — and says so instead of reporting a false decline. CRF, deeper: • Full-width CRF card with a Low→Elite position gauge for your age and sex, distance to your next tier, and the test + date behind the number. • Edit any past test with its real inputs — Cooper metres, 1.5-mile time, walk time + heart rate — and tag how hard you pushed. • New test methods: CPET (gold standard) and the 1-mile walk (Rockport). • Safety first: blood-pressure and health-screen gates before all-out field tests. Body page, cleaner: • Metabolic Health entry is now step-by-step cards with live in-range chips, matching Muscle Health. • Collapsible sections, clearer screening language, and health-context notes where results appear. Notifications, fewer and truer: • One Monday summary of your completed week, one reminder when a re-test is due (CRF every 6 weeks, body check-in every 8). The stale daily nudge is gone. Also: daily steps coloured by benefit tier, cadence zones always visible, a Free vs Pro comparison in Settings, Field Notes (our AI coach, renamed), the Expedition Ledger, in-app medical disclaimers where results appear, and a long list of accuracy fixes.

Version 1.4.0 — AI Coach, Blood Pressure & Body Health AI Coach — redesigned for clarity Your AI Coach now surfaces exactly two things: what you achieved this week (strength streak, CRF improvement) and one focused recommendation — no repetition, no walls of text. The weekly narrative uses precise numbers ("8.5 METs" instead of prose), and your body health data is now incorporated into every recommendation. Blood pressure from Apple Health The Metabolic Health card can now pull your 28-day blood pressure average directly from Apple Health — a clinically superior measure compared to a single reading. Systolic and diastolic fields auto-fill with the average from up to 50 readings. Body health history Prior metabolic and muscle health entries are now consolidated by date in the Trends page — one expandable card per day showing both markers side by side, with edit and delete controls. Fitness Snapshot Collapsed by default to reduce scroll. Expanding it reveals your activity and body paragraphs, milestone achievement, and AI-powered Improving / Lagging / On Track labels. Monthly AI allowance Free users now get 3 AI Coach uses per rolling 30 days instead of a 3-use lifetime cap. Fixes Zone 2 always displayed in minutes. Weekly notification now shows accurate MET-hours including background activity. CRF chart bands correctly anchored at zero. 27 architecture-level bug fixes.

New: Movement Balance — see your active, sedentary, and sleep hours broken down by day, with a full Mon–Sun week view. Apple Watch users also get standing time tracking. • Daily 8am notifications are now personalised to your actual activity • 12-Week AI Summary is now collapsible for a cleaner dashboard • Step cadence card shows your weekly average at a glance • 18 research studies now cited in Science settings

Polish & accuracy update. • AI Coach is now a single, focused recommendation each session — clearer next steps, every card backed by published research. • Zone 2 minutes display as whole numbers across the app. • "Prior 12 weeks" tab renamed to "Trends". • New on-dashboard prompt to enable notifications, so the daily check-in and Monday weekly summary actually arrive — fixes a setup-flow gap where notifications could only be turned on by digging into Settings. • Behind the scenes: cloud-sync queue race condition fixed, weekly export now uses local time zone, duplicate-activity cleanup is more thorough.

Major accuracy update. • Zone 2 minutes are now computed per-second from your Apple Watch heart-rate data, not from the workout's average. Old workouts will recompute on the next sync — no action needed. • New History layout: "Last week" and "Prior 12 weeks" tabs, with tappable Zone 2 and Strength cards that expand into a clean Mon–Sun day-by-day view. • Notifications fixed and rebuilt: daily morning check-in, Monday weekly summary. New "Send test notification" button in Settings to verify delivery. • CRF test page simplified — clearer assessment options, beta-blocker guidance always shown. • Step Cadence in History now matches the day-by-day numbers (no more phantom weekly peak). • Many under-the-hood fixes: cloud-sync reliability, week boundaries across time zones, duplicate-activity cleanup.

Dashboard Redesigned with a compact snapshot strip showing CRF, Zone 2, Steps and Strength at a glance — tap any tile to see the full detail Recent Activities now appears immediately below your weekly progress ring AI Coach collapsed to a single row — tap to expand when you want suggestions All detail content (tier ladders, Zone 2 HR ranges, step milestones, strength research) moved into clean bottom sheets Navigation Simplified to 3 tabs: Dashboard · VO₂Max · History Settings now accessed by tapping your initials in the top-right corner of the Dashboard First-time tooltip guides you to the new Settings button Cardiorespiratory Fitness Screen Screen renamed from "VO₂Max" to "Cardiorespiratory Fitness" — more accurate to what is actually being measured Results now shown in both METs and mL/kg/min throughout all testing methods Bruce Protocol and ACSM Treadmill correctly grouped together as Clinical/Supervised tests Each method now clearly explains whether it directly measures or estimates VO₂Max 6-Minute Walk Test: replaced unvalidated 800m ceiling threshold with published reference range (571–637m mean, Enright & Sherrill 1998) 6MWT accuracy label updated from "~13% error" to "~13% MAPE" — the test is not flawed, MAPE is the correct statistical term Input fields resized — placeholder text no longer clips on any device Appearance Dark mode is now the default for new installs — can be changed in Settings → Appearance Bug Fixes Fixed: VO₂Max tab occasionally showing the HR→MET calculator instead of the test selection screen Fixed: Zone 2 minutes now correctly calculated for workouts synced before heart rate enrichment was introduced Fixed: Avatar initials now correctly show your profile name initials, not your email

• 3 free AI Coach sessions — try personalised suggestions before upgrading • Faster setup — weight and resting HR auto-filled from Apple Health • Improved data accuracy — fixed weekly MET-hours calculation • Better keyboard behaviour across all input screens • Your data is now saved to the cloud before sign-out for safety • Bug fixes and performance improvements

- Guided setup wizard for new users (Apple Health, Profile, Weekly Goal) - Improved first-time user experience - Bug fixes and performance improvements