Zendō

Thanks for trying the app. Apple Watch is determines the number of minutes that count as exercise, not our app. We create a workout, but it is specifically a BodyAndMind workout, not a walk or any form of active exercise. My guess is Apple hasn’t tuned that setting yet and it is treated like a generic workout. That said, my heart rate is typically in a fairly elevated state when practicing mindful breathing, so I would expect some level of exercise credit/accounting for those workouts. We’ll add this to our set of issues to discuss with Apple.

Sorry that you are having a poor experience. We’ll go back to the support team to see where we dropped the ball answering your questions. Based on what you have written here, let me clarify a few things. 1: Apple Watch records HRV through the day, Zendō only records HRV when you explicitly start a session. 2: HRV is a computed property from heart rate. As your heart rate varies, the HRV increases. It is the variation in the heart rate that matters. When engaging in mindful breathing, you will see the heart rate graph develop a nice sine wave in sync with your inhale + exhale with an associated rise in HRV. 3: For this reason, the charts in the current version focus on displaying things that feed into the HRV calculation (heart/breath + movement) for each meditation. These are available in the Activity tab. 4: Once you complete your meditation session, we report back the SDNN in milliseconds and then add that to the Health app. 5: With this data in the Health app, Zendō provides a number of charts over the HRV dataset that can show you how you are progressing over time. If you only have one datapoint for HRV for a given time period in those chart, that is because you aren’t wearing your watch enough or correctly for it to take HRV readings when not using Zendō. Hope that helps. We appreciate the feedback and will see what we can do to make how we display information more intuitive and our support process better.