Getting Started with Bevel

Welcome to the Bevel community! This is a short guide on how to get started with Bevel and a list of Frequently Asked Questions.

Bevel is a holistic health & fitness tracker that works with Apple Health to help you track key metrics and biomarkers from your body, delivering personalized trends and insights tailored to your health journey.

Bevel works best when you wear your Apple Watch 24/7 (excluding charging time). This allows Bevel to continuously record data and provide up-to-date trends and insights about your health.

While not required, it is recommended to turn on AFib History on your Apple Watch so your watch can record more heart rate samples during sleep. However, please note that turning on AFib history could potentially disable high heart rate alerts on your Apple Watch, so proceed with caution.

🏋️ Strain

Strain measures your activity level throughout the day. It includes your recorded exercises and passive movements such as walking. Depending on your Sleep and Recovery from the previous day, Strain will recommend a target range you should hit for the day.

Strain ranges from 0% to +100% and increases logarithmically — the higher your Strain, the harder it is to increase. You can think of a 100% Strain score as a very intense workout day. We intentionally refrain from capping it at 100% since you can theoretically exercise/move more, but increasing it from 100 to 101 will be very hard.

🌱 Recovery

Recovery uses a combination of different metrics, such as HRV, RHR, and Sleep, to measure your body’s readiness to perform physical activities for the day. Recovery ranges from 0% to 100%, with higher scores indicating better recovery.

🌙 Sleep

Sleep Score is a measure of your sleep quality throughout the night. It includes everything about your sleep, such as time asleep, time awake, time in sleep stages, and more.

Sleep Score ranges from 0% to 100%, with higher scores indicating better sleep. Sleep and Recovery are both objective ways to quantify your body, so some days, you may feel that your Recovery Score is more accurate to how you feel, and on other days, you might find that the Sleep Score is more indicative of that.

💢 Stress

Stress is a measure of your daily physiological response to external factors such as drinking alcohol, arguing with your spouse, etc.

Stress ranges from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating higher stress. When you exercise, you might find that Stress and Strain increase similarly since they both rely on heart rate. However, Stress also includes another measurement such as HRV and respiratory rate, so there will be times when Stress will go up and Strain might not (i.e., being sick and sitting around).

If you have a feature request, the best way to suggest it is by adding it to our feedback board here. There, you will find posts from other users and can upvote posts you resonate with. While not always, we will prioritize posts with higher votes first.

Similarly, if you encounter a bug, you can post it here. If the bug involves personal data, email us at hello@bevel.health.

The public roadmap can be viewed here.