{"slug": "show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health", "title": "Show HN: HealthAPI – hosted REST API over Apple Health", "summary": "HealthAPI, a new hosted REST API that syncs Apple Health data, launched on Hacker News, enabling any AI or agent to query health metrics such as steps, heart rate, sleep, and workouts in plain English. The service offers a 7-day free trial followed by $4.99/month (Pro) or $9.99/month (Developer) plans, with annual discounts available in the iPhone app.", "body_md": "Sync Apple Health, get a key, and let any AI answer questions about your health metrics — over a clean REST API.\n\nNo data plumbing. Install, connect, query.\n\nInstall the app, grant access once. Steps, heart rate, sleep, workouts and years of history flow up automatically.\n\nOpen the Console, copy your API key, and check your live usage against your daily limit.\n\nPoint any AI, agent, or script at the API and ask about your health metrics in plain English.\n\nPre‑aggregated, deduplicated, timezone‑aware — ready to use.\n\n```\n# Your day, summarized — one request.\ncurl https://healthapi.app/api/v1/query/daily-summary \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer hk_live_•••\"\n\n# →\n{\n  \"date\": \"2026-06-11\",\n  \"steps\": 11294,\n  \"avg_heart_rate\": 62,\n  \"workouts\": [{ \"type\": \"Running\", \"duration_minutes\": 38 }]\n}\n```\n\nSteps, sleep, heart rate, workouts, energy — already aggregated and ready to query.\n\nPaste your key into ChatGPT or Claude and ask like you'd ask a coach.\n\nrequests on the Developer plan — built for agents that poll.\n\nSteps and energy come back as one clean total across your iPhone and Apple Watch — matching Apple Health.\n\nEncrypted in transit. Export or delete in one call. Sign in with Apple so it follows you to any device.\n\nFull‑resolution raw samples plus fast daily rollups — so an AI can reason over your last workout or your last decade.\n\nEvery plan starts with a 7-day free trial, then $4.99/mo (Pro) or $9.99/mo (Developer), with annual plans available in the app at a discount. No permanent free tier. Subscriptions are purchased inside the iPhone app.\n\nDownload HealthAPI for iPhone and ask your first question in minutes.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health", "canonical_source": "https://healthapi.app", "published_at": "2026-09-07 20:33:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 21:01:30.389280+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["HealthAPI", "Apple Health", "Apple Watch", "iPhone", "ChatGPT", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-healthapi-hosted-rest-api-over-apple-health.jsonld"}}