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Guides on seeing your fitness history day by day: GitHub-style heatmaps, workout streaks and getting your data out of Apple Health.
Wall of Truth vs Apple Fitness: heatmaps or activity rings?
Compare Wall of Truth with Apple Fitness for daily goals, activity history and Apple Health heatmaps. Find out when to use one or both on your iPhone.
Read October 3, 2026 · 4 minWall of Truth vs Streaks: fitness heatmap or habit tracker?
Streaks tracks custom habits; Wall of Truth visualizes Apple Health history. Compare automatic tracking, daily goals and which app fits your routine.
Read October 3, 2026 · 4 minWall of Truth vs Gentler Streak: history or daily guidance?
Compare Wall of Truth's Apple Health heatmaps with Gentler Streak's activity guidance. Choose a history view, workout guidance or both.
Read September 11, 2026 · 6 minHow to export your Apple Health data and actually see it
Apple lets you export everything Health knows about you. The file it hands back is unreadable. Here is what is inside it, and how to turn it into a picture of your year in one step.
Read July 24, 2026 · 5 minWhy a GitHub-style heatmap is the best fitness graph you’re not using
Line charts hide your gaps. A contribution-graph heatmap shows every single day of training — here’s why that changes how you exercise.
Read July 24, 2026 · 6 minDon’t break the chain: the science of workout streaks
The “don’t break the chain” method turned Jerry Seinfeld into a punchline machine. Applied to exercise — with honest tracking — it’s the simplest habit system that actually works.
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