Spot burnout a week early.
Most burnout warnings arrive too late — after the bad week, the blowup, the crash. Pulse reads the quieter signals your body and your behaviour send days earlier, and turns them into one number you can act on.
One number, and the reasons behind it
A score alone is a horoscope. Pulse always shows what is driving it, how confident it is, and what to do next.
A daily risk score
0 to 100, from Steady to Critical, recomputed every day in the background from the data you already generate.
A 7-day forecast
A projection of where your risk is heading, drawn with a confidence band that widens honestly as the horizon grows.
Ranked drivers
The signals pushing your score up today, sorted by how much each one actually contributes. No mystery weighting.
One action at a time
The single highest-leverage change for today, plus the week's biggest movers. Each recommendation cites the source behind it.
A full history
Every day on one timeline, each one openable down to the individual metric. Trends you can scroll, not just a number of the day.
Private by design
No account, no cloud sync, no analytics. The database lives on your iPhone and nothing leaves it. Ever.
Fourteen signals, measured against you
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Your baseline, not a population average
Pulse learns your own 30-day median for every signal, then measures each day against your history. Six hours of sleep means something different for you than for a stranger.
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Sleep, heart, habits, mindset
Sleep duration, efficiency and timing. HRV and resting heart rate. Activity, phone use, late-night screens, work hours. Mindful minutes, plus mood, stress and energy from a 30-second check-in.
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Thirty seconds a day
Connect Apple Health once, answer three quick questions daily. Pulse refreshes in the background and keeps a home-screen widget current.
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The method is published
Robust z-scores, weighted sum, smoothing, linear forecast — the whole computation is written out in the app, and every health claim links to its source. It is an early-warning tool, not a diagnosis.
Burnout, explained properly
What the research actually says about exhaustion, recovery and the signals that move first.
Early Warning Signs of Burnout
The signals that shift weeks before the crash, and the ones that only confirm it afterwards.
What Is Burnout? The WHO Definition
Occupational phenomenon, not a medical condition — and why that distinction changes what you do about it.
HRV and Burnout: What Your Heart Knows First
Why heart rate variability drops under chronic stress, and how to read your own numbers without panicking.
Sleep and Burnout: The Two-Way Street
Short sleep predicts exhaustion and exhaustion wrecks sleep. How to break the loop.
Burnout vs Depression: How to Tell Them Apart
Where the two overlap, where they diverge, and the point at which an app is the wrong tool.
A Realistic Burnout Recovery Plan
What recovery looks like week by week when quitting your job is not on the table.
Long Working Hours and Your Health
What the WHO and ILO found at 55 hours a week, and where the risk curve actually bends.
Can an App Predict Burnout?
What a phone can honestly measure, what it cannot, and how to judge any app that claims a risk score.
Know before you crash.
Download Pulse for free. No account, no ads, nothing leaves your iPhone.