Return
Two questions. Fifteen health signals. Why some days feel like yours.
One email when Return ships. No spam, no list sharing.
What Return does
A quieter way to understand your days.
It reads what your Watch already knows.
Sleep, HRV, mindfulness, activity — Return uses the data your Apple Watch is already collecting. No extra logging, no extra wearables, no new habits to build.
Two questions. Not a questionnaire.
Rate your willingness and control in ten seconds. That's enough for a transparent model, grounded in forty years of self-determination research, to find the pattern.
See why, not just what.
Return doesn't just show a score. It surfaces the three factors — out of fifteen health signals and daily contexts — that moved your autonomy up or down.
Your Apple Watch already knows your body.
Return tells you what it means — tracking how free your days feel, not just how active they were.
Inside Return
More than two questions.
An Apple Watch app, not just a companion.
Record a check-in from your wrist with the Digital Crown — three steps, under ten seconds, no phone needed. Your autonomy estimate, today's timeline, and a seven-day trend live in complications for any watch face.
Widgets, Dynamic Island, and Siri.
Glanceable score on Home Screen widgets (small and medium), on the Lock Screen, and in Dynamic Island. "Hey Siri, record autonomy" works hands-free. Tap a widget to log or check your trend without opening the app.
A What-If simulator, grounded in your own model.
Move nine sliders — sleep, HRV, exercise, mindfulness, noise, mood — and see how tomorrow's autonomy might shift. Presets for an Ideal Day or a Recovery Day. The predictions come from your data, not averages.
On-device, end-to-end.
AES-256-GCM encryption with keys in the Secure Enclave. Records never leave your device unless you turn on iCloud sync. No accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. HealthKit is read-only — Return never writes to Apple Health.
The model behind Return draws on forty-plus peer-reviewed papers across self-determination theory, sleep science, HRV, and psychophysiology. See the sources.
Status
Closed TestFlight — currently testing with a small group.
Public launch — planned for later 2026, when it's ready.
Platforms — iOS 17+, watchOS 10+, iPhone widgets and Apple Watch complications at launch.