My Exact Apple Health Stack After Dropping Whoop (AutoSleep + Bevel + Apple Watch)

Why I Dropped Whoop After 18 Months

I liked Whoop. I wore it for about a year and a half. Through baseball seasons, lifting cycles, and some questionable biohacking experiments.

The hardware was fine. The app was decent. The recovery scores were useful enough that I actually changed training and sleep based on them. That part matters.

The problem was the subscription. I was paying a premium for metrics that lived in a locked ecosystem and could not plug cleanly into the rest of my data stack. I am a developer and a builder. I want my data where I can query it, combine it, and ship something with it.

So I cancelled. Took off the strap. Then rebuilt the whole thing on Apple Watch, AutoSleep, and Bevel.

This post is the exact stack I run now. What it replaced from Whoop. What it did not. And the one gap that still annoys me a little, but not enough to keep paying a monthly fee.

What I Actually Used From Whoop

Most of the Whoop feature set is noise once the novelty wears off. These are the parts I actually used for decisions.

• Recovery score: The colored number in the morning that told me if I should push or pull back.
• HRV trend: Rolling HRV in context of my baseline. Especially useful around tournaments, travel, and heavy strength blocks.
• Sleep performance: Time in bed vs time asleep, plus rough staging. Helped me see how badly late screens wrecked my deep sleep.
• Strain: I used this less, but I did check it on double-practice days or when I stacked lifting after coaching.

Everything else was basically wallpaper. Nicely designed wallpaper, but not something I built habits around.

So when I went hunting for an Apple Watch stack, I had one job. Recreate recovery, HRV trend, and sleep quality in a way that felt as actionable as Whoop. Not more dashboards. More decisions.

The Core Stack: Apple Watch + AutoSleep + Bevel

The hardware is boring. Apple Watch Series 9 with the standard sports band. That is the point. It disappears into my day and doubles as the thing I use to pay for coffee.

The actual stack looks like this:

• Apple Watch for continuous HR, HRV, skin temperature, motion.
• Apple Health as the single source of truth for raw data.
• AutoSleep for sleep scoring, readiness, and nightly HRV.
• Bevel for HRV-focused readiness and trend analysis on top of Apple Health.

Nothing exotic. The magic is in how these apps compute on the same underlying data and how they present it.