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November 12th 2026
Gentler Streak adds "How I Feel", so personal input can steer your daily guidance
Gentler Streak, the award-winning Apple Watch and iPhone app that suggests each day whether to push, go easy or rest, introduces “How I Feel”, a quick way to add your side of the story when your data doesn’t match your day. You rate how you feel from Off to Great, add the symptoms or moods behind it, and the daily guidance adapts. Gentler Streak 6.0 is available on the App Store from 12 November 2026.
Today's Topics
Version: Gentler Streak 6.0
App Store ETA: November 12th 2026
How I Feel: rate your day and add what’s behind it
The Revamped Today tab
Wellbeing Path Replaces Activity Path for On a Break, Sick or Injured
Wellbeing Chart on the Health Tab
How I Feel in Gentler Streak
Some days, the way we feel isn’t reflected in what the data says, no matter the data quality. “How I Feel” captures the part that devices can’t grasp: personal context. And how you feel is not only a mood: it is also a sore throat, heavy legs or a poor night’s sleep. The feature was inspired by the Gentler Streak community, including people living with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, ADHD, and those not wearing their Apple Watch at night. Without overnight signals, their guidance has less to work with.
An “Anything to add?” prompt sits under the Activity Path on the Today tab and at the top of the Health tab. You rate your day (Off, A bit off, Okay or Great), then pick symptoms or moods from a short list, an extended list, or a custom tag. Your answer overwrites the estimate for that day, and guidance follows it. Swipe left on the estimate to erase it and re-evaluate.
“How I Feel” is mainly built for people often invisible to the fitness world, such as those living with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, ADHD, long Covid, perimenopause or menopause. It also serves people who don’t wear their watch at night, and anyone curious about how their behaviour affects their wellbeing. By being creative and tagging things like a sauna session, muscle soreness or a daylight lamp, people can also spot different patterns over time.
“This update is very personal for me. I keep a no-device-in-the-bedroom policy, so my guidance has always lacked overnight data, and the app can’t know I slept poorly or catch any context that lives outside a sensor’s grasp. We wanted how you feel to steer the guidance, in a way that’s easy to understand and use, without overwhelming you or demanding too much of your time.” Katarina Lotrič, Gentler Stories Co-founder and CEO.
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You decide when the prompt appears, or hide it altogether: Profile > Settings > Self-evaluation prompt.
The Revamped Today Tab
The Today tab (previously Streak) is a simple yet telling overview of what matters most right now, and how you got here, with a summary of your last month.
At the top of the page sits your daily guidance, the Activity Path, with a newly added wellbeing line. Beneath it there’s an “Anything to add?” prompt with your Go Gentler suggestions for the day. What follows is the My Day section with vitals, sleep, steps, menstrual cycle, VO₂ max and logged workouts. You can reorder these or remove any stats you’re less interested in.
Below that is a 10- or 30-day Timeline. It highlights days when your vitals or sleep were off, logged self-evaluations with their symptoms, the first day of your menstrual cycle, and your workouts.
The Revamped Today Tab
Wellbeing Path for On a Break, Sick or Injured
A Wellbeing Path replaces the Activity Path when you switch your status to On a Break, Sick or Injured, so the app keeps supporting you when life happens. When you are well, exercise is one of the building blocks for staying that way. When you are not, looking after yourself matters more, and the app’s focus shifts to reflect that. This means it becomes useful on all your days, not only the active ones.
Wellbeing path for On a Break, Sick or Injured status
The Wellbeing Chart on Health Tab
The Health tab returns with a daily health summary, and three sections: Vitals, Beyond Vitals and an Overview. The latter features a Wellbeing Chart: an interactive cumulative and day-to-day view of past wellbeing that can also be filtered by symptoms. Ratings come from you, or from your device’s estimate if you wear your watch at night.
The wellbeing chart on Health tab
What the Research Says About Wearables and Self-Reports
In a study of 657 information workers wearing fitness trackers, heart rate variability explained, on average, only 1% of the variation in how stressed people said they felt (Martinez et al., JMIR Human Factors, 2022).[1] A 2026 review of five sleep studies (Srivali and Cheungpasitporn, Sleep Medicine, 2026) found that wearables (mostly Fitbit) agreed only poorly to moderately with how people rated their own sleep quality.[2] And across 56 athlete studies (Saw et al., 2016), subjective measures of wellbeing tracked training load more sensitively than objective ones.[3]
Privacy and Medical Disclaimer
What you tell the app stays on your device: there are no accounts and no servers on Gentler Stories' side. Gentler Streak is not a medical device and doesn't diagnose or treat anything. It’s an informative log to help you keep an eye on a broader picture of your wellbeing and take your own actions. If you’re worried about your health, contact your physician.
[1] Martinez G.J. et al. (2022). Alignment Between Heart Rate Variability From Fitness Trackers and Perceived Stress. JMIR Human Factors 9(3):e33754. https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2022/3/e33754
[2] Srivali N., Cheungpasitporn W. (2026). Concordance of wearable device sleep metrics with patient-reported sleep quality: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41946254/
[3] Saw A.E., Main L.C., Gastin P.B. (2016). Monitoring the athlete training response: subjective self-reported measures trump commonly used objective measures: a systematic review. Br J Sports Med 50(5):281-291. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/5/281
