Plenty of people wear more than one thing. A ring to bed because it’s comfortable, a watch during the day for workouts. A Fitbit they’ve had for years, plus the iPhone in their pocket counting steps.
Each of them records your day, so the same night, run or step can show up twice. Add them together and you’d have slept fourteen hours. Voke doesn’t. Here’s what you see instead.
One night, from one device
When two devices record the same night, Voke shows you one of them, start to finish, exactly as that device recorded it. It never stitches a bedtime from one onto a wake-up time from the other, and it never mixes their sleep stages.
Because the stages, the time awake and the total all come from the same sensor, they always agree with each other.
Workouts get the same treatment. If your ring and your watch both log this morning’s run, you see one run, not two.
How Voke picks
Voke sorts your sources with a few simple rules:
- What’s on your body comes first. A watch, ring or band beats your phone, and your phone beats something typed into an app.
- The original beats a copy. Some apps copy their data into Apple Health. If Voke can read the same night straight from where it was recorded, that’s the one it keeps.
- Ties are settled the same way every day. If two devices are still level, a fixed tie-break decides. It isn’t a verdict on which device is better. It just means your nights don’t flip between devices from one day to the next.
The order is the same for everyone, and you can’t change it in the app.
Gaps get filled, minute by minute
Heart rate and steps work a little differently, because they arrive about once a minute. For each minute, Voke takes the reading from your top device, and only that one.
So when your watch spends an hour on the charger in the evening, the steps your phone counted in your pocket fill that hour. Before and after, the watch’s steps count and the phone’s are set aside. Your day has no hole in it, and no step is counted twice.
Naps stay naps
An afternoon nap gets its own entry in your Feed, at the time you took it. It never changes your night: sleep five hours and nap for one, and you’ll see a five-hour night and a one-hour nap, not a six-hour night. If both devices caught the nap, it’s counted once too.
A night that runs from 11 PM Sunday to 7 AM Monday belongs to Monday, the day you woke up. That’s where you’ll find it, and that’s the night Monday’s scores come from. Wondering whether that nap is costing you sleep? Do naps hurt your night’s sleep? looks at the research.
What you need
Voke reads Apple Health and Google Health. A Fitbit or Pixel Watch reaches Voke through your Google account, and an Apple Watch through Apple Health. Many rings and bands write to Apple Health from their own app, and once they do, Voke reads them too. Direct connections for Oura, WHOOP and Garmin are on the list.
Voke is in beta on iPhone. If it ever picks the wrong night, or calls something a nap that wasn’t, tell us. And if you wear two devices and want to see one clear day, ask for an invite.