How it works

How ONU Works: From Scattered Data to a Daily Plan

Connect it once. Understand it every day

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The ONU app's Active Calories screen, showing a year-over-year trend and related metrics pulled from connected wearables

Getting value out of ONU takes four steps, and none of them require you to change what you already use to track your health. Here's exactly what happens from the moment you connect your first data source.

Step 01

Connect

Link Apple Health, Whoop, Garmin, or upload a lab result — no new hardware required.

Step 02

Understand

ONU's AI health engine looks for patterns across everything connected, not one metric in isolation.

Step 03

Score

Get a single daily number and a plain-language explanation of what's driving it.

Step 04

Improve

A daily, evolving plan aimed at actually moving your numbers — not a generic checklist.

Step 1

Connect what you already use — genuinely any device

ONU doesn't ask you to adopt a new wearable to get started (though the ONU Bracelet is there afterward if you want the full experience). Instead, it connects to the health platforms already holding your data.

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Apple Health

The sleep, activity, and heart rate data already collected by your iPhone and Apple Watch.

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Whoop

Recovery, strain, and sleep performance metrics.

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Garmin

Activity, training load, and heart rate data from Garmin devices.

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Effectively anything else

Most other trackers and wearables sync into Apple Health or export standard health data, so if you're coming from a competitor's device or app, ONU can typically read that history too.

You can also upload lab results directly — a PDF from a doctor's visit, a screenshot of an online patient portal, or documents from an independent testing service. Converting to ONU from whatever you used before is meant to take minutes: connect, and ONU starts working immediately. See the exact connection steps for each platform.

Step 2

ONU looks for what's actually connected, not just what's collected

This is the step most health apps skip. Once your data is linked, ONU's AI health engine doesn't just display each metric side by side — it looks for relationships between them.

  • A string of short nights correlating with an elevated resting heart rate the following days
  • A stress pattern that consistently precedes a drop in sleep quality
  • A lab marker sitting near the edge of a reference range, considered alongside activity and recovery trends rather than as an isolated number

This is the same principle behind how ONU reads a blood test — a single flagged marker means something different in the context of your broader health picture than it does sitting alone on a lab report.

Step 3

You get a score and an explanation, not just a chart

Every day, ONU compiles what it's found into the ONU Score — one number that reflects your sleep, recovery, activity, and stress signals together — along with a plain-language explanation of what's driving it. If your score dipped, ONU tells you why in a sentence, not a spreadsheet.

Step 4

You get an improvement plan, not just a chart to look at

The last step is the one that actually changes behavior — and the one that separates ONU from a tracker: a daily plan that's specific to what your data shows this week, aimed at actually moving your numbers rather than just describing them. That might mean a note about your wind-down routine if your sleep onset has been slipping, or a nudge to prioritize recovery if your training load has outpaced your rest. Whether you're training for an event or just trying to make it through a demanding work week without burning out, the plan is built from your own patterns, not a template applied to everyone.

This is the part of ONU that runs the deepest on ONU Pro, the subscription that unlocks the full improvement engine — see current pricing and what each tier includes. Subscribing itself happens inside the app once you've downloaded it.

Deep dive

Under the hood

Connect-then-understand-then-act sounds obvious, but most health apps only do the first step well. A wearable app can show you a sleep score; it usually can't tell you that your sleep score has been dropping in the same weeks your resting heart rate has been climbing, or that both started the week a new lab marker came back borderline. ONU exists specifically to close that gap — matching data across sources, timeframes, and formats that were never designed to talk to each other.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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