Check-In gives personal observations a place alongside your connected health records. It begins with energy and mood, each on a five-point scale. Notes, descriptions, and optional body observations let you add detail without making every check-in a long form.
The role of a personal observation
A Check-In records how you describe a moment. It is separate from a measurement supplied by a wearable or connected health app. That distinction matters when comparing mood or energy with sleep, activity, or fasting history.
Context records what occurred alongside the observation. It does not establish that an activity, meal, or event caused a particular feeling.
The basic Check-In flow
- Open Check-In from the app navigation.
- Select the energy rating that describes the observation.
- Select a mood rating.
- Save the entry, or add optional descriptions and notes first.
The selected Buddy appears in the opening card, keeping Check-In connected to the rest of the app experience. Saving does not require a decoderPro subscription.
Optional descriptions and body details
Descriptions supplement the mood score. You can select the terms that apply or use custom tags. A note can record details that a rating alone does not cover. The Observed at field lets you specify when the observation occurred.
Optional body details sit in a collapsed section. They can include an area, intensity, context, and impact. The outline figure highlights selected areas while keeping the underlying figure visible. These are personal observations, rather than clinical assessments.
History and the heatmap
Saved Check-Ins provide a history of recorded mood and energy. The heatmap helps you review their distribution over time. A day without an entry means no Check-In was recorded; it is not a neutral mood or average energy score.
Use recorded times when comparing entries. Multiple observations in one day can describe different moments, and your profile time zone defines the day used by the app.
Reminders in your daily routine
Check-In reminders follow the app's awake-period schedule. Reminder delivery depends on notification permissions and platform behavior. A reminder is an invitation to record an observation, not an inferred measurement of your current state.
Review app settings and notification permissions if reminders do not appear. Keep the timing of the saved observation accurate when recording it later.
Local storage and the wider health picture
Check-Ins stay on the device. They are not written to Health Connect or Apple Health, and signing in does not turn them into a cloud-backed record. This is distinct from paid chat history, which is associated with the signed-in account.
You can review Check-Ins alongside other recorded habits, with the same limits kept in view: incomplete logging and coinciding events do not prove a causal relationship. For an overview of the app's records, see the user guide.