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When Intel shut down Basis in 2016, the devices did not break. The servers did. The cloud model turns your health history into a loan, and the company owns the vault. Pulsyn stores everything on your phone because your phone is the only hardware you actually own.
Your fitness tracker data is not protected by HIPAA. The FTC, Congress, and 20 states are trying to fix that, but legislation only regulates what companies can do with data they already possess. Pulsyn removes the server entirely.
Most health apps start with a login form because their business model requires your email before their product requires your data. Pulsyn starts with a heart rate graph because the app stores everything locally on your phone and has nothing to authenticate against.
In a post-Dobbs United States, fertility data from wearables has entered criminal prosecutions. Oura stores cycle data on AWS. Whoop stores it on their own servers. Pulsyn stores it on your phone, encrypted, with no cloud account.
Your fitness tracker records everything. That data lives on someone else's server, and in at least one murder trial, it was the evidence that convicted the killer. Here's how health data ends up in courtrooms, divorce filings, and subpoenas — and why Pulsyn's local-first architecture makes the difference.
On-device AI means your health data never leaves your phone. Here is the architecture, the constraints, and why it makes subscriptions unnecessary.
Oura filed for IPO. RingConn got pulled from Amazon. Ultrahuman and Luna are banned in the US. A Reddit user asked if the no-subscription smart ring dream is dead. It is not. But the remaining options are smaller, founder-led, and built on economics that venture capital hates.
Most wearable APIs are not built for you. They are built for partners who build features that keep you subscribed. Here is how the data lock-in actually works, and how Pulsyn does the opposite.
Most health trackers treat your phone as a dumb pipe to their cloud. When you turn on airplane mode, the app becomes a brick. Pulsyn's architecture assumes the opposite: your phone is the computer, the database lives locally, and the cloud is an optional extra.
