Feature

Apple Health and Health Connect

Plates syncs your completed workouts and body weight measurements to Apple Health (iOS) and Google Health Connect (Android) automatically. Your strength training data shows up alongside your runs, sleep, and other health metrics without any manual entry.

What syncs

Workout sessions

Every completed workout writes to your health platform as a strength training (or HIIT for interval workouts) session:

Start and end time
Total duration
Workout name
Activity type (strength/HIIT)

Body weight and body fat

Weight and body-fat entries logged in Plates sync to your health platform. Optionally import past entries from Apple Health or Health Connect into Plates:

Log in kg, lb, or stones; Plates writes the canonical kg value
Body fat percentage, read and write
Timestamp per entry
Bidirectional (write + optional import)

Active energy

Plates estimates the calories you burned during a session using a MET-based model modulated by your volume load and bodyweight, then writes that active-energy figure to your health platform:

Estimated by Plates, not left blank
Credited to Move rings and daily activity
Available to apps like MyFitnessPal and the Fitness app

Platform support

Feature	Apple Health (iOS)	Health Connect (Android)
Write workouts	Supported	Supported
Write body weight	Supported	Supported
Import weight history	Supported	Supported
Body fat percentage	Read + write	Read + write
Sleep (for readiness)	Read (optional)	Read (optional)
Active energy estimate	Written by Plates	Written by Plates
Minimum workout length	60 seconds	60 seconds

How it works

Enable once - toggle Health Sync in Settings, grant permission when prompted
Automatic writes - workouts sync on completion, weight syncs on entry
Duplicate prevention - Plates filters out its own data when importing to prevent loops
Granular control - toggle workouts, weight, and body fat independently
No account required - health sync works in local-only mode

Privacy-first design

Plates never reads health data you didn't explicitly allow. The permission request only asks for the specific data types you've enabled in settings. Your health data stays on-device (Apple Health and Health Connect are both local-first), and Plates never uploads it to any server.

Sleep-based training readiness

If you allow it, Plates can read last night's sleep from Apple Health or Health Connect to pre-fill your pre-workout readiness check. A short night nudges the readiness rating down, which in turn makes the suggestion engine more conservative that day. It's optional, off by default, and never requires manual entry.

Why integrate?

Complete picture - see strength training alongside cardio, sleep, and nutrition in one place
Move rings and activity goals - the active energy Plates writes counts toward your daily activity and Apple Watch Move rings
Cross-app data - weight and workouts logged in Plates are available to other apps that read Health data
No double logging - log once in Plates, it appears everywhere else automatically

Pair this with the Plates Apple Watch app and Dynamic Island and Live Activity support to run a whole session from your wrist and lock screen.

Try Plates free

Health integration is free on iOS and Android. No Pro required.