When your numbers already live in Health
Maybe your scale sends every weigh-in to Apple Health, or a food app records your calories there. In that case the record is already on your iPhone, and Balance Point can read it so the trend begins from whatever Health holds.
What Balance Point reads
With your permission, the app reads four kinds of Health data:
- Weight
- Body fat
- Waist
- Dietary calories and macros
iOS asks about each type separately, so you can share weight and keep intake to yourself, and you can change those choices later in the Health app. Imported weigh-ins feed the same trend as the ones you log by hand, and body fat comes in as readings alongside them. When the measurements allow, Balance Point also works out fat and lean mass from what it has, and a tape-based body fat figure is always labeled as an estimate.
What it writes back
Balance Point writes to Health only what you typed: body measurements, plus daily calorie totals if you opt in. Macros stay in Balance Point. So do the trend, its range, the forecast, and the plan, along with any other figure the app computed. An app reading your Health data later will find your measurements and nothing Balance Point inferred from them.
Missed days stay empty in Health
Skip a week and Health receives no filler for it. On screen, the trend can carry across the gap, but those in-between values are worked out on demand and never saved as measurements. That keeps a guessed number from turning up in Health, where another app could take it for a real weigh-in. The guide on missed weigh-ins explains how the trend handles a gap.
Deleting a value Balance Point wrote
When you delete something Balance Point sent to Health, the deletion reaches Health before the app’s own copy goes, so the two records stay in step and a value you removed can’t linger in Health afterward. Balance Point never deletes readings or totals that other apps put into Health.
Where the data goes after it’s read
Data read from Health lands in the app’s database on your device. Balance Point has no account to sign into and no server of its own, and the app carries no ads or analytics. The privacy page lists the details, including how to export everything to a JSON archive.