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Your Apple Health history, in a file on your Mac

Pulsebridge keeps your Apple Health history in one SQLite database on your Mac: records, workouts, sleep and Activity rings, as far back as Health goes. A free iPhone app sends new data over your own network. There's no account and no cloud.

Available soon Compare with Health Auto Export

macOS 14 or later. iPhone app free, iOS 17 or later. Open source, MIT.

Dashboard
Steps
Daily average
Latest 4 Nov
Sleep
7h 24m
Average asleep per night
Last night 7h 30m4 Nov
Resting Heart Rate
56 bpm
Average
Latest 55 bpm4 Nov
9:41
Pulsebridge
Up to dateSyncing
Last synced 52 minutes agoSending 214 steps
Last sent 96 items 52 minutes ago. 1,204,311 sent since pairing.You can leave the app; the sync continues for a while in the background.
Sync Now
Mac
Paired with 192.168.1.20:8787

Health Auto Export works while its iPhone app is open. Pulsebridge works from your Mac.

Both have a Mac app, dashboards and an MCP server. Here's the rest, row by row.

Pulsebridge Health Auto Export
Price 1 $15 once $24.99, or $6.99 a year
Exports included in the price 1 From $2.99 extra
Open source 2
Mac app with dashboards 31 Mac app is Premium
Full history in one database on your Mac 4 Files in iCloud Drive
Syncs to your Mac without iCloud 4
Exports and AI keep working with the iPhone app closed 56 Runs while the app is open
MCP server for your own AI 6 Premium
JSON, CSV, REST, MQTT, Home Assistant 1 Automatic with Premium
Strength training and muscle fatigue 3
Running best efforts and race estimates 3
No account, no tracking 7
Dropbox, Google Drive and email exports 1 Premium
ECG, State of Mind and medications 8
  1. HAE pricing
  2. GitHub
  3. healthyapps.dev
  4. Sync to Mac docs
  5. Automations docs
  6. MCP announcement
  7. App Store listing
  8. Supported data

Health Auto Export details come from its own documentation, App Store listing and GitHub, checked on 3 November 2026. US prices. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

Pages built for how you train

Every page charts your whole history from the database on your Mac.

Ten cards over a week, a month, a year or your whole history. Open one for its chart and a table of daily values.
Dashboard cards for a year of steps, active energy, exercise, heart rate variability, VO₂ max and weight
Reads the sets your gym app writes into Strava: one-rep max estimates, volume, and how fatigued each muscle is.
The Strength Training page: a body map of fatigued, recovering and ready muscles, and a card per muscle
Your three fastest times at 14 distances, found inside your runs in Health, with race-time estimates.
The Running page: distance per week, pace per run, and a top-three podium for each race distance
A goal calendar, records and streaks. A walk your iPhone and Watch both counted counts once.
The Steps page for October: daily average, days at goal, a goal calendar and steps per day
Deep, core and REM sleep for every night, charted by week and listed in a table.
The Sleep page: deep, core and REM sleep per week for a year, and a table of every night

Screenshots of the Mac app with made-up data. Coming next: cycling, food tracking and more connections, as free updates.

How it works

Two ways in, one database. Use either, or both.

  1. 1

    Import your history

    In Health on the iPhone, choose Export All Health Data and AirDrop the export.zip to your Mac. Drop it on Pulsebridge. A million records import in about 30 seconds on Apple silicon.

  2. 2

    Pair the iPhone app

    Turn on Live Bridge on the Mac and scan its pairing code with the iPhone's Camera. The app finds your Mac on the network, over Wi-Fi or Tailscale.

  3. 3

    New data follows

    When Health has something new, iOS wakes the iPhone app in the background and it sends only what changed, including deletions. Nothing is read while the iPhone is locked; it catches up after you unlock it.

Your history lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Pulsebridge/health.sqlite. It's plain SQLite, so any SQLite tool can query it, and so can the pulsebridge command-line tool.

Bring your own AI

Pulsebridge has no AI model built in. It ships a read-only MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client can answer questions from your own data.

It has 19 tools covering metrics and daily values, period comparisons, sleep, Activity rings, workouts, steps, running best efforts, strength training and muscle fatigue. It reads the Mac's database, so it works while your iPhone is asleep.

The server can't change your data and never contacts the internet itself. Whatever the assistant reads is sent to that assistant's model provider.

The app's AI Assistants screen copies the setup for your client. For Claude Code:

$ claude mcp add pulsebridge -- /Applications/Pulsebridge.app/Contents/MacOS/pulsebridge-mcp

Then ask it, for example:

  • How did my resting heart rate change after I started running in March?
  • Which muscles haven't I trained in two weeks?
  • Compare my sleep this month with the same month last year.

Exports that run by themselves

Included in the one-time price. Set them up under Exports in the app, or run them from the command line with cron or launchd.

JSON and CSV
Into any folder: one JSON document, or one CSV file per section.
REST
JSON POST requests with a bearer token or your own headers, sent in batches and retried after network errors.
MQTT
One message per record to any broker, with TLS and QoS 0 or 1.
Home Assistant
Sensors for steps today, active energy, exercise, distance, resting heart rate, HRV, weight, last night's sleep and the latest sync. They appear automatically through MQTT Discovery.

Choose the data types, daily values or raw samples, and a date range. Exports run when new data arrives, every few hours, or daily at a set time. Each destination remembers where it left off and sends only what's new. Passwords and tokens stay in the macOS Keychain.

Your data stays on your devices

No account, no servers of ours, no analytics and no ads. We never see your health data.

  • The iPhone app reads Health and never writes to it. It sends only to the Mac you paired.
  • The Mac app sends data only where you tell it to: your Strava account, your exports, your AI assistant.
  • Its automatic update check shows our web host your IP address and app version, and no health data.
  • It's open source, so you can check all of this in the code.
  • Read the privacy policy

$15, once

For the Mac app, with every update free for life. The iPhone app is free.

Available soon

$15 one time, plus tax where applicable. Checkout by Polar, with Apple Pay. Or build it yourself from the source for free.

Included

  • Dashboard, Steps, Running, Strength Training and Workouts
  • MCP server for your own AI
  • Automatic exports to JSON, CSV, REST, MQTT and Home Assistant
  • The pulsebridge CLI
  • Updates through Sparkle, for life

Coming

  • Cycling
  • Food tracking
  • More connections

Questions

Does the iPhone app need to stay open?

No. When Health has new data, iOS wakes the iPhone app in the background (about once an hour at most for each kind of data) and it sends only what changed. iOS decides exactly when. Exports and AI access run on the Mac with the data already there, so they never wait for the phone.

Does it sync while my iPhone is locked?

No. iOS doesn't let any app read Health data while the iPhone is locked, so syncing resumes after you unlock it. That applies to every Health app, this one included.

Can I use it without the iPhone app?

Yes. In Health on the iPhone, tap your profile picture and choose Export All Health Data, then AirDrop the export.zip to your Mac and drop it on Pulsebridge. Repeat it whenever you like: records already in the database are skipped.

Is the connection between iPhone and Mac encrypted?

Not yet. The bridge uses plain HTTP with a token. The token keeps other devices from writing to your database, but the traffic isn't encrypted, so someone on the same network could read it, token included. Use it on your home network or over Tailscale. HTTPS is on the roadmap.

What does the AI assistant see?

Pulsebridge has no AI model of its own. Its MCP server lets an assistant you choose read your database; it can't change or delete anything. Whatever the assistant reads goes to that assistant's model provider, under their privacy terms.

Do I need Strava?

Only for the Strength Training page, which reads your sets from Strava activities. Everything else, Running included, comes from Apple Health. The connection uses a Strava API application you create yourself, so Pulsebridge has no server in the middle.

Why pay if it's open source?

You don't have to. The code is MIT-licensed and builds with Xcode. Buying gets you the signed, notarized app with automatic updates and pays for the work.

Is there a subscription?

No. $15 once, and updates stay free for life. The iPhone app is free.