Apple is set to introduce a new Apple Watch app called Readiness at its “Surprise and Shine” event Wednesday, adding a daily recovery score that could bring the company closer to fitness-focused competitors such as Whoop and Oura.
The app will build on Vitals, which Apple introduced with watchOS 11 to give users a morning snapshot of overnight health measurements.
Readiness will use those readings to produce a single assessment of how prepared a user is for physical activity.
The move would give Apple Watch a feature that has become central to Oura and Whoop. Both companies use sleep and other biometric data to generate daily recovery scores that help users decide how hard to train.
Vitals already tracks metrics including average heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and sleep duration.
The app appears to take those measurements and turn them into a more direct assessment rather than simply displaying the underlying data.
Readiness will arrive alongside the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. Both models are also expected to introduce continuous heart rate sensing, allowing the watches to collect heart rate data throughout the day rather than primarily during workouts. That could give Readiness more data for its daily assessments, particularly during sleep.
Apple has not said whether Readiness will replace Vitals or operate as a separate app. The company is expected to detail the feature at Wednesday’s event.
