What the Workbench is

The Vitality Tracker Workbench is an app for your phone that reads the health data your wearable already collects, puts it in one place, and shows you what it makes of it. It looks like a health app. It mostly behaves like one. But it is not finished, and that difference explains nearly everything else on this site.

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It is a beta, not a product

The Workbench exists to answer questions we cannot answer from a desk. We are building a consumer app. Before we finish it, we need to know what real people’s setups actually look like — not what the marketing pages of watch manufacturers say, and not what a spreadsheet of ideal users would suggest. We need to see the ring that spends Tuesday on a charger, the watch that only gets worn for runs, the person who owns one cheap band and nothing else. You using it normally is exactly what we need.

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What you get out of it

This is not a one-way street. While you use it, the Workbench gives you:

• Your sleep, broken down by stage, scored two different ways
• A daily Capacity figure — roughly, how much your body has in the tank
• Training load, activity, steps and calories from whatever you wear
• Body composition, metabolic age and vascular age where your data supports it
• Glucose, if you use a continuous monitor or log readings by hand
• A place to record the things no wearable can see — what you ate, how much you drank, whether you were ill

Some of that will be genuinely useful to you. Some of it will be blank for weeks. Both outcomes tell us something, and the pages ahead are honest about which is which.

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What it is not

It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose anything, and it is not finished. Several screens are deliberately inert, and we will tell you exactly which ones and why rather than letting you find out by tapping.