Keeping Watch with the Widget

Without having to open the app at all, you can gently check in on your "companion of the moment" and your balance right from a Home Screen widget. Instead of launching the app many times a day, you can simply glance at how you're doing whenever it catches your eye — this feature is here for that kind of soft, caring check-in.

Feelmo isn't an app that guesses your emotions. Drawing on your Apple Watch HRV (heart rate variability / the fluctuation of R-R intervals), it's a daily companion that gently keeps watch over the balance of your autonomic nervous system. The widget is like a little window in the corner of your Home Screen that lets you know how that balance is doing right now.

How to Add It

Here's how to place the widget on your iPhone Home Screen.

1. Press and hold on an empty part of the Home Screen (the icons will start to jiggle, putting you in edit mode)
2. Tap the "+" in the top-left corner (or "Edit" → "Add Widget")
3. Choose Feelmo from the list
4. Swipe left and right to pick a size, then tap "Add Widget"
5. Drag it to wherever you like, then tap "Done" in the top-right corner to confirm

What the Widget Shows

The widget quietly lays out just the most important parts of the balance gauge from the app's Home screen.

• Companion of the moment … One of the six characters closest to your latest balance state (Lively, Calm, Steady, Anxious, Frazzled, and Worn-out). It's there to translate "how you seem right now" — something hard to convey with numbers alone — into the language of a gentle expression, set right beside the value. These aren't verdicts, just words of observation.
• Balance … The latest value of your balance (Balance score, 0–100). It's calculated from your Apple Watch HRV, centered mainly on multiple HRV-derived clues, measurement quality, and movement from your own baseline. As a rough guide, lower means you're more unsettled, and higher means you're more settled.

Tapping the widget opens Feelmo, where you can take a closer look at things like the balance gauge on the Home screen and your long-term trends.

How to Read the Numbers

Your balance is not a score for comparing yourself to others. What matters is the difference from "the usual you" — your own baseline. If it's lower than usual, that's a sign you're a little unsettled; if it's higher than usual, a sign you're settled. Try to look at it as your own ups and downs within yourself.

There's no need to feel elated or discouraged over the number itself. The reason Feelmo places the six expressions beside the score is precisely because we want you to receive it as "how you seem right now" rather than as a "grade." Even on a low day, it's nothing to be blamed for — it's enough to think of it as a gentle cue, something like, "Maybe today, let's rest a little."

When the Display Updates

The widget's contents update whenever Feelmo re-reads your Apple Watch / HealthKit data and recalculates your balance. It doesn't move in real time, second by second; it quietly refreshes at certain moments.

• In the morning, when you first open Feelmo (your overnight measurements from sleep have come together, and the day's first balance reading arrives)
• After the nightly background processing has run
• When a measurement or entry made inside the app updates your balance

Due to how iOS works, the widget update may sometimes show up a little late. When you want to check on your latest state right away, try tapping the widget to open the app.