Most apps give you one switch for sharing. Turn it on and the other person sees everything, or close to it. Leave it off and they see nothing.
That isn’t how people want to share. I want my partner to see last night in full. My dad only needs to know I slept fine. A running group cares about runs and nothing else. And nobody needs my weight.
So in Voke you don’t share your data as a whole. You share each category of it, at a level you pick, with circles you make.
Four levels
The categories are readiness, sleep, heart, vitals, activity, workouts, nutrition, mind and cycle. For each one you pick a level:
- Off. Nothing is shared, and the category doesn’t show up for them at all.
- Score. Scores only. Share Sleep at Score and they see that your sleep score was 82, but not how long you slept or when.
- Summary. Scores and daily totals. Sleep at Summary adds that you slept 7 hours 26 minutes. Heart at Summary shows your resting heart rate and heart rate variability for the day. Activity at Summary shows 13,414 steps.
- Detail. Everything, including charts and sessions. Sleep at Detail shows the night itself: asleep at 12:01 AM, awake at 7:47 AM, and the stages in between. Add Heart at Detail and they can see your heart rate minute by minute.
A few things follow from that. Only readiness, sleep and activity have scores, so Heart at Score has nothing to show. Workouts are sessions, so they appear at Detail. And each part of a score follows its own category: share Readiness and Sleep at Summary but keep Heart off, and they see how your sleep fed into your readiness, but not the heart rate variability part.
This is enforced on Voke’s server, not just hidden on their phone. Data above someone’s level is never decrypted for them, and every time another person reads your data, Voke logs who, which categories and at what level. How Voke keeps your health data private goes further into that check.
Setting levels for a circle
Levels belong to a circle: your family, a partner, a running club. You don’t get one by default, and Voke works fine without any.
Each circle has a “What you share” screen with one menu per category. Change a level, tap Save, and everyone in that circle sees the change.
When you join someone else’s circle, every category starts at Off and you choose what to turn on before you’re in. There’s a “Scores only” shortcut, which Voke asks you to confirm. The one exception is the circle you make or join while first setting up Voke: there, sleep in full, heart as daily totals and your readiness score start ticked, and you can untick any of them before you go on.
You can be in more than one circle with the same person. If your partner is in your family circle and in a circle of just the two of you, they see the higher of the two levels for each category.
Sharing more with one person
In a family circle you might want your partner to see more than your cousin does. The app doesn’t have a screen for that yet: a level applies to everyone in the circle. Until it does, a separate circle with just the two of you does the same job, since they see the higher of the two levels.
Letting their AI see it
The “What you share” screen has one more switch: “Let their AI see this too”, or “Let Maya’s AI see this too” in a circle with just Maya. It’s off unless you turn it on, and it covers everyone in that circle. With it on, their Ask Voke and the AI apps they’ve connected can read what you share in that circle, and nothing more. To let one person’s AI in and not another’s, give that person a circle of their own.
What’s never shared
- Body and heart rhythm events. Weight, body measurements and heart rhythm readings like an ECG show as Private on the sharing screen. The server holds them at Off for everyone but you.
- Your devices and accounts. People can see what kind of source your data comes from and when it last synced, not which device or account.
- Your Feed. It’s only yours. Other people never show up in it, and you never show up in theirs.
- Your chats and morning summaries. They’re only ever shown to you.
When you change your mind
Lower a level or turn a category off, save, and Voke tells the phones of the people whose view of you changed. Nobody else hears about it. Within seconds, their app reloads what it shows of you:
- A category goes to Off. It disappears from your page on their phone. If they were looking at it, they see “Nothing shared here” and a line saying you aren’t sharing anything on that screen with them.
- A level goes down. If Sleep drops from Detail to Summary, the chart of your night goes away and the daily totals stay.
- Nothing is left. If every category is Off for them, or you leave the circle or remove them, you disappear from their People list. If they had your page open, the app takes them back to the list.
There’s no notification or message about it. Their app just shows less. And if their AI can now read less of your data, Voke deletes the parts of their Ask Voke chats that used it.
Two limits are worth knowing. If you share the same category with them in another circle, they still see it at that circle’s level, so check both. And what they already saw, they saw. Voke can stop showing your data, but it can’t take back a screenshot.