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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.
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.
Every smart ring app ships your biometric data to a server before showing you your own sleep score. The cloud isn't there for your convenience. It's there for their business model.
