Apple will unveil a new app today. Yes, it competes with Oura and Whoop

When we think we know everything about today’s event, a last-minute rumor suggests that Apple has a surprise in store for the Apple Watch. The company will unveil Readiness, as far as we know, a new app centered on our daily recovery and on how ready we are to handle a certain level of physical activity. A new feature for the upcoming Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 that, let’s hope, won’t be exclusive to those models. 

Readiness will tell us how ready we are

Readiness will be different from the Vitals app we already have, according to Mark Gurman on X. The idea behind the app is to compete more directly with Whoop and Oura by giving us a much clearer reading of our recovery using data from our heart rate, breathing, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and sleep.

More sensors for a more useful app

We know about the app thanks to the watchOS 27 code (currently in beta), which also includes references to new training features. According to the rumors, the Apple Watch Series 12 could include continuous pulse monitoring, an improvement that would improve the app’s calculations and that, together with more sensors in the next generation of watches, raises a question: will the app be exclusive to the Series 12 and the Ultra 4? 

To answer that question, we’ll have to wait for this afternoon’s presentation. In the meantime, everything points to the wait being more than worth it with an app that promises to be truly interesting.