Question 1

What does WellPal actually do?

Accepted Answer

You choose one habit you want to change. WellPal reads the Apple Health history already on your iPhone and tells you plainly what it can and can’t measure about that habit. Then Pal walks you through a few short steps at the time the habit usually happens. Once the habit sticks, Pal helps you choose the next one.

Question 2

Do I need an Apple Watch?

Accepted Answer

No. WellPal works with iPhone alone. If you wear an Apple Watch, WellPal can also read your sleep stages and overnight heart rate. But nothing in WellPal requires one.

Question 3

What if there’s nothing in my health history yet?

Accepted Answer

Then WellPal starts with what you tell Pal each morning. That first estimate looks different, so you can always tell it apart from a measured one. Pal tells you it’s still learning your usual, and the picture fills in over the next few nights. WellPal never puts a number on a week it couldn’t measure. It tells you instead.

Question 4

How long does it take?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the habit. The plan for sleeping earlier runs 66 nights. That number comes from the best-known study of how habits form (Lally and colleagues, 2010), where 66 days was the middle result. Some people took far less time and some far more, so it’s a guide, not a promise about you. The other plans run from 21 days to 42 sessions. When a plan is as short as 21 days, it’s because the change is small and specific — not because habits take 21 days to form.

Question 5

What if I can’t face it one night?

Accepted Answer

Do the short version. 20 of the 24 steps have one, and most take two minutes. A few take one. The other four are nearly all one quick action already, like turning out the lights. If you do miss a night, your streak holds. In the best-known study of how habits form, missing one day didn’t measurably slow people down, so WellPal never punishes you for it.

Question 6

What does WellPal cost?

Accepted Answer

We’ll share the price with the App Store listing, before the app arrives this fall. Nothing is sold on this website. Joining the waitlist is free and doesn’t commit you to anything. Once the app is out, Apple takes the payment and handles any refunds. Our refunds page explains how that works.

Question 7

Is WellPal a medical device?

Accepted Answer

No. WellPal is a general-wellness product for changing an everyday habit. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease or condition, it is not FDA-cleared or CE-marked, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified health professional. It reads your Apple Health history to describe what already happened; it does not interpret it as a medical finding.

Question 8

Is Ai4RD a medical device?

Accepted Answer

No. Ai4RD is a research preview for differential reasoning — diagnostic support only, never treatment guidance, and never a substitute for clinical judgment. It is not cleared or approved as a medical device, and it does not diagnose.

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