Gentled Help & Guide
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English help · Reference release 1.0.1
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Getting started
What is Gentled?
Chronic-illness-first fitness for changing capacity.
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How the Gentled loop works
Check in, move or rest, reflect, and use later recovery only when useful.
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How Gentled is different
Goals and structured exercise without streaks, rings, or fixed progression.
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Movement setup
Tell Gentled what movement is for and which boundaries it should respect.
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Accessibility and session guidance
Use larger text, assistive controls, still guidance, transcripts, or gentle haptics.
Getting started
Try Demo Mode
Explore a lived-in Gentled without changing your real records.
Today & readiness
Daily check-in
One required capacity choice, with extra detail only when it changes the plan.
Today & readiness
Why this plan fits
See what Gentled noticed, what changed, and when to stop.
Today & readiness
Stop rules
Symptoms and judgement override the plan, timer, and heart-rate number.
Today & readiness
Connected context
Apple Health and Metered can reduce re-entry without overruling you.
Sessions
Choosing a session
Use Guided, My plans, movement elsewhere, or rest.
Sessions
Starting and adapting a session
Setup comes first; timing begins only when movement starts.
Sessions
Automatic sequences and saved routines
Understand the three-movement pause and the Gentled+ routine builder.
Sessions
Your saved movement plans
Keep trusted instructions in your own words and run them through the same recovery loop.
Sessions
Movement you do elsewhere
Keep physio, walking, classes, and everyday activity in the same recovery-aware week.
Sessions
Guidance voices and on-screen cues
Choose a calm offline voice or keep every session silent.
Recovery & Insights
Reflecting after movement
Record the response and recovery need rather than judging success by completion.
Recovery & Insights
Later recovery check-ins
Use later evidence when movement affects you hours or days afterwards.
Recovery & Insights
Using Insights
Choose the question you want answered instead of reading one long dashboard.
Recovery & Insights
Movement history and corrections
See what happened, then correct a log without losing the recovery record.
Your week & reminders
Building a flexible week
Plan a rhythm and focus without turning them into a quota.
Your week & reminders
Movement invitations
Optional device reminders that always leave movement, a shorter option, and rest available.
Your week & reminders
Recovery reminders
Return to a planned later check without turning it into a deadline.
Watch & widgets
Using Gentled on Apple Watch
A small companion for check-ins, Today's plan, and active-session controls.
Watch & widgets
Live heart rate during a session
Optional context from Apple Watch, never a safety verdict.
Watch & widgets
Widgets and Watch complications
See one timely action without opening the whole app.
Data & privacy
Sources & references
Published evidence behind movement, adaptation, and recovery guidance.
Data & privacy
Where Gentled data lives
Local first, with optional Apple services and no Cocoacorn account.
Data & privacy
iCloud Sync and backup are different
Sync keeps devices aligned; backups give you a recoverable copy.
Data & privacy
Apple Health data
Read-only findings and reviewable workouts; no workout write-back.
Data & privacy
Connected apps
Separate controls for using Metered context and sharing a Gentled summary.
Data & privacy
Exporting, deleting, and restoring data
Your data controls live together in More > Data.
Gentled+
What stays free
The complete everyday movement and recovery loop does not require Gentled+.
Gentled+
What Gentled+ adds
24 more sessions plus deeper analysis, reports, filters, and routines.