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2026 · 11 updates
The web app now shares the look of the marketing site and the iOS app: a deep forest green dark mode, a new sidebar with Log and Search, a redesigned Today, and a matching refresh across Trends, Goals, Biomarkers, Profile and the rest.
Turn on a nudge for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks at the time you choose, and pick what a tap opens: the camera, voice, saved meals, the meal composer or your meal log. Find them in Preferences, Notifications.
Signing up on web now asks whether you prefer imperial or metric, pre-selected from your region, as iOS does. Before this, every web signup was saved as imperial, even for metric members.
On iOS, Apple Health now syncs the first time you open the app, even if it had been running in the background for days, so Today shows the latest data without tapping Sync now.
If Oura also writes to Apple Health, its extra active calories no longer inflate your totals on iOS. Your Apple Health history is re-imported once without them, so past days read more accurately too.
Free accounts get a daily allowance of AI meal estimates from photos and text, with a count of what is left and an easy way to go unlimited. Manual entry, food search, barcode lookups and saved meals stay unlimited for everyone.
Page back through past weeks in This week on iOS, as you can on web. Workouts and Zone 2 now show their result on the weekly grid, and a dot marks every day that added Zone 2 minutes.
Logged a saved meal under the wrong meal, like breakfast landing in Dinner? Use the new Move to menu on the saved meal in your Meal Log to shift the whole thing to breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks in one tap.
The Biomarkers empty state and Lab imports now list popular blood test providers, including Function Health, Superpower, Quest and Labcorp OnDemand, with how to get each one's results out and into Protocol.
Drag your Trends charts into the order you want, on iOS and web, and the time range picker now stays on screen as you scroll so you can switch ranges anywhere on the page.
Dark mode on iOS is now a deep forest green that matches the web app, with refreshed ring colors, week strip, quick log button and coach charts. Light mode is unchanged.
2026 · 21 updates
Give your AI coach a name from the Coach tab or Profile on iOS, or Settings on web. It answers to that name in chat, signs your daily brief and weekly review, and shows up in the chat box. It will still tell you it is an AI if you ask.
Today now groups your metrics into one card per ring: Move, Fuel, Recover and Body. Each leads with its key number and a Hit, Miss or Smashed chip. Log a meal or water from the Fuel card, check off supplements, see your week day by day, and use Edit Today to reorder sections and star the metric that leads.
Every member now gets the morning brief by email: last night's numbers, your streaks, and the opening of your coach's read on the day, with the full coaching on Pro. A free weekly recap comes too. On iOS the morning notification greets you by name and leads with last night's sleep. Choose when it lands from the card on Today or in Settings.
Fixed an Oura sync failure that stopped scorecards, workout counts, streaks and last synced from updating for members who use Oura tags. Your tags are now saved and your coach reads them in plain words, like a sleep aid or a work trip, when they help explain a number.
On iOS your coach chat history now opens instantly, a meal you log shows up right away, and Today loads in one calm step instead of jumping. Today also no longer flashes a goals need a target banner while your goals are loading.
A brand new account's first email sign in link no longer shows as expired, and when a link fails you can get a code instead. Signing up with a code now takes you into onboarding. Streaks you already had when you joined are no longer celebrated as new, and coach chat replies are readable in dark mode on web.
On days when Oura reports hours of activity your steps do not back up, Protocol now ignores Oura's active calories and Zone 2 minutes and uses your other sources instead. Oura calories copied into Apple Health no longer inflate your total on those days. Recent days correct themselves on the next sync.
Unsubscribe from any email in one click, from your mail app or the link in the footer. On iOS, turn the morning brief, midday check-in and streak reminder on or off one by one in Preferences. Turning off the daily brief now offers a weekly recap instead, and the welcome email waits until you have confirmed your email.
If your wearable finishes syncing last night's sleep after your daily brief was written, or the sleep changes by half an hour or more, the brief now rebuilds itself. Until sleep arrives, the brief tells you so and offers a Retry instead of guessing.
Connecting Oura or WHOOP now explains how your data is used for coaching before you sign in. Disconnecting asks you to confirm, then revokes access and removes the data Protocol got from that source. WHOOP data now arrives in real time instead of once an hour, and a new connection syncs your history sooner.
If you also log food in another app that syncs to Apple Health, like MyFitnessPal, a meal you log in both places now counts once in your totals, briefs and emails. It is marked as counted once in your Meal Log, and if two meals really are different, tap These are different to keep both.
Biomarkers on web opens with headline tiles, a Needs attention card that ranks out of range markers by how far off they are, and a range bar on every marker. Insights now cite your value and range, and older results are called out as old. The same marker named differently by two labs now shows as one trend, and your newest draw counts as latest, not your newest upload.
The daily email opens with your coach's headline and Move, Fuel and Recover tiles, followed by your scorecard grouped under each ring. Fuel only appears if you log food. On Mondays workouts and Zone 2 are judged against last week, and the featured article now matches the area you most need.
The weekly review email now leads with how many goals you hit, with compact rows and a legend, and arrives Monday morning so it covers the week that just closed. Prefer Sunday? Change it in Settings. Days where you got within 85 percent of a goal show as almost on This week, and weeks with nothing tracked send no email.
Page back through up to twelve past weeks in This week on web. Each past week shows its day by day grid along with that week's review headline, win and plan, so you can see how a stretch actually went.
Your first two weeks now come with a short series of Did you know emails: logging meals, Quick Log and widgets, rings, your coach, goals and intentions, streaks, and what Protocol can track beyond your wearable. Turn them off with Welcome Tips in Settings or the link in any email.
Download everything Protocol holds about you as a zip of CSV files, one per dataset, from meals and workouts to sleep, body composition and biomarkers, with a README explaining each file and its units. Find it under Your Data in Settings on web. Free and Pro.
A card on Today asks if there is anything your coach should plan around, like an injury, a race you are training for, or a health condition. Tap a quick start, finish it in your own words, and every brief and chat takes it into account. Change it anytime in About your health (Settings on web, Profile on iOS).
New to Protocol? A Getting started card on Today, on web and iOS, walks you through setup one step at a time: connect your health data, pick your brief time, tell your coach what to work around, choose one plan or several, and log your first meal. Each step ticks itself off as you go.
If you have a menstrual cycle, Protocol can read your period days from Apple Health (Profile, then Cycle tracking). Your coach reads HRV and resting heart rate in the context of your cycle, and those charts shade its second half, when HRV often runs lower. It is opt in and reads period days only.
Give a weight, body fat, lean mass or VO2 max goal a date to reach it by. Goal cards show the date, the detail view shows how many weeks away it is and the weekly pace it takes from here, and your coach plans its advice around it.
2026 · 14 updates
Weight, body fat, and lean mass now draw a smoothed trend line over your scale readings, so one heavy morning does not move the story. Each card shows your monthly rate of change and, when the trend is heading toward your goal, roughly when you will get there. Log a DEXA scan from the weight or body composition detail to anchor the line and calibrate the readings that follow.
Set a cardio fitness target and track it against your latest Apple Watch estimate. A new VO2 Max card on Today shows where you stand, the goal editor shows your current reading, and the measured date now reflects the day your Watch actually produced an estimate, not the last day it synced. Your coach weighs in on the trend too.
Tell your coach once about injuries, conditions, and constraints (Settings on web, Profile on iOS) and every daily brief and chat accounts for it. If coaching is ever paused on our side, the coach now says so instead of showing an error.
The streak-at-risk push now fires in the evening when a streak is about to break and you have not hit today's goal. Zone 2 tracking works without a birth date on file, and the Zone 2 goal editor asks for your age only when it needs it.
When the same workout arrives from two sources, it is now shown once with an also in Apple Health note instead of one copy disappearing. A tiny duplicate record can no longer hide a real workout from your week.
Tapping a supplement checks it off the moment you tap, with the save happening in the background, and Mark all as taken updates instantly too. Long supplement names no longer overlap the mark-all button, and Today scrolling stays smooth after returning to the app.
If your wearable has not synced, the daily brief now says so up front, with the steps to fix it for your device, instead of sending a normal-looking email. The coach sits out when there is nothing new to coach on rather than guessing at numbers, and a long coach summary can be expanded in place with Read more.
The Log to date picker now marks every day with a logged meal. A saved meal logs as one group with its own header, totals, and a single delete, while each food keeps its own edit. When a barcode is not found, the scanner reads the front of the package too, and low-calorie products and drinks no longer get a false numbers warning.
Apple Health syncs when you return to the app, so the day catches up without a manual refresh, and Protocol now wakes the app in the background when your data has gone stale. Pull-to-refresh is quicker and shows updates as they arrive.
Contact Support is now in the iOS app under Profile, and both it and the web support form accept up to five screenshots. Attach them from your photo library, drag and drop them in, or paste them into the message.
Open Biomarkers and tap Ask Coach about these results to start a conversation about your whole panel. Your coach already has every marker, so you can ask what matters most, why something is out of range, or what changed since your last draw.
On days you log meals, the daily brief gains a Fuel section: your coach reads yesterday's meals, names the one that fell short, and tells you what to eat next. The weekly recap adds one eating pattern to change next week, the Fuel ring links straight into a conversation about today's fuel, and fiber is now saved for every meal you log.
Apple Watch daytime HRV and resting heart rate are no longer presented as last-night data or scored against overnight goals. When an Oura ring goes quiet for a week, Apple Health fills in Zone 2 minutes so a long hike still counts toward your weekly goal, and the recovery row says Protocol estimate when it is one.
Set a target for the muscle you are carrying and track it on Today, with your FFMI shown beside it. Lean mass now fills in for every scale reading that reports body fat, including older ones, and cards whose goal you have not set yet show Set target instead of a default number.
2026 · 5 updates
Biomarkers now have a full iOS experience: lab imports, marker detail pages, related markers, Today card visibility, screenshot and PDF import support, and smoother navigation to results after import.
Meal logging on iOS is more flexible and resilient, with barcode fallback label reading, product correction from logged meals, photo attachment after logging, saved meal handling, and fewer backend-field failures.
Lab imports now handle longer PDFs, avoid full-size panel timeouts, support iCloud and Files-provider picks on iOS, and reject unsupported flattened Function Health exports instead of creating bad results.
Daily brief emails now hide overnight metrics when a source has not reported yet and avoid misleading streak language when a streak spans more than the current week.
Coach now remembers useful facts, preferences, and commitments across conversations, draws charts more reliably when it references trends, counts workouts across every source, and handles model or tool failures more cleanly.
2026 · 1 update
Protocol is now approved in the App Store and live as a native iOS app, with the homepage updated so visitors can download it directly from the App Store.
2026 · 3 updates
The calorie setup wizard got a full overhaul: cleaner 3-step flow (basics, activity level, goal and result), corrected Mifflin-St Jeor formula, persistent TDEE profile, and a manual entry option for anyone who already knows their numbers.
Coach chat now supports editing an existing meal log entry. If you forgot an ingredient or made a mistake, just tell the coach and it updates the entry instead of creating a duplicate.
The protein goal wizard now includes a manual entry option, so you can skip the calculation and enter your target directly — matching the calorie wizard experience.
2026 · 1 update
Protocol content is now accessible as plain text for AI tools and developers. Full-site content at /llms-full.txt, plus individual .md endpoints for every article and glossary term.
2026 · 1 update
Two new tools in the calculators section: a weekly calorie budget that spreads your target across the week with flexible day-by-day adjustments, and a mid-week progress check that shows exactly where you stand and how to finish the week on target.
2026 · 3 updates
Daily brief emails now queue a retry when sleep data is not available at send time, attempting again later in the morning rather than sending without it.
Metrics that exceed 110% of your goal now earn a Smashed badge in the app and in your daily email, shown in distinct green. Coach commentary also reflects when you have crushed a goal, not just hit it.
Baseline evaluators now recognize when you are within 2ms (HRV) or 2bpm (RHR) of your threshold. Almost shows in amber so you can see you came close without the binary hit or miss.
2026 · 1 update
Workouts logged in the Ladder app are now synced into Protocol automatically. Your weekly workout count and daily brief both reflect Ladder sessions alongside your other tracked workouts.
2026 · 1 update
You can now set a specific number target for HRV (for example, HRV >= 55 ms) or RHR (for example, RHR <= 58 bpm) instead of tracking relative to your baseline. The goal editor has a new mode toggle between baseline-relative and specific number. Baseline-relative stays the default and is recommended for most users.
2026 · 1 update
New visitors can now answer a few questions about their goals, wearables, and health focus before signing up. The quiz lives at /start and is linked from the homepage. A better first step into Protocol.
2026 · 1 update
Your daily brief now includes a recommended Protocol article matched to what you're working on. One more reason to open the email.
2026 · 1 update
Your coach now has full context on your lab results. Ask it what your out-of-range markers mean, what to prioritize, or what your numbers suggest about your training and recovery. Biomarker-specific suggested questions included.
2026 · 1 update
Upload a PDF from Function Health (or any standard lab panel) and see all your markers in one place — status-coded optimal, sufficient, or out of range, with trend sparklines over time, category filters, and a summary on your home screen.
2026 · 2 updates
Product thumbnails now show in food search results, search quality and speed improved, and the language throughout nutrition logging is cleaner.
AM/PM auto-flip when setting times, full day names in recurring schedules, hover tooltip showing which days are selected, and a dot menu with calendar export and delete on each intention.
2026 · 3 updates
Real food search with typeahead when logging meals. Macros are auto-populated from the Open Food Facts database so logging is faster and more accurate.
Create, deactivate, or review your active intentions in conversation with your coach. Ask what intentions are active and your coach will pull them up.
The Supplement Finder has moved to /calculators/supplement-finder and been relaunched as a proper guided flow. Four intake steps narrow your profile, then results show category pills and collapsible breakdowns with symptoms per category. The /calculators page is now called Health Tools.
2026 · 5 updates
No wearable? No problem. Fully track goals and use Protocol without a device connected. Workouts, meals, hydration, and supplements all work in manual mode.
New connect-first flow puts device setup front and center. Goal locking filters available goals based on what device you have — or lets you go fully manual if you have none.
Hydration is now tracked end-to-end. Log water intake from the FAB and see your progress update instantly on the scorecard tile. Hydration data now flows into your daily email brief and coach context so every part of Protocol knows where you stand.
Log weight and body composition via coach chat or directly from the expanded metric cards on your Today tab. Source preference is saved per metric.
Add, remove, and manage your personal supplement stack. No more hardcoded defaults — your stack is yours to configure.
2026 · 3 updates
Build scheduled or reactive if-then plans, view them on your Today tab, and get them surfaced in your daily email. Google Calendar sync included so your intentions live alongside your schedule.
Talk to your coach hands-free. Voice is transcribed and submitted automatically so you can log meals, workouts, and more without typing.
An 8-digit passcode delivered via branded Protocol email is now available as a PWA-friendly alternative to magic links.
2026 · 1 update
Log workouts via coach chat or the FAB. The new Workout Log page shows all sessions from Protocol Fit, Oura, and WHOOP in one place.
2026 · 1 update
After your first real data sync, Protocol sends a one-time email revealing your 60-day baseline patterns. Includes an AI narrative, metric cards, and personalized feedback the moment your data lands.
2026 · 3 updates
Hit a streak milestone and Protocol marks it with a toast and modal. Celebrations fire across all tracked goal types, including dietary calories, so no win goes unrecognized.
Oura and WHOOP OAuth now happens during onboarding, so your dashboard has real data from day one. The Set Targets step has been removed to get you to your first sync faster.
The coach block in the daily email is rewritten around action. It drops the redundant focus headline and shows up to three concrete action bullets, each addressing a different lever. Less overlap with the narrative, more signal per email.
2026 · 2 updates
Choose which workouts count toward your weekly goal. WHOOP and wearable workouts now correctly count alongside Oura, so your progress reflects what you actually did.
Nutrition metrics now display relative to your daily goals directly in the meal log. The meal edit modal adds a servings stepper for fast quantity adjustments without retyping.
2026 · 3 updates
A new Zone 2 card tracks weekly minutes with color-coded progress bars, a coach insight, and Oura MET-based sync. Set a target and see exactly where you stand each week.
When your Oura or WHOOP connection needs re-authentication, Protocol sends an automatic email so you never miss a sync without knowing why.
The daily coach and email narrative now skip metrics you are not tracking. No more advice on data that does not exist for you.
2026 · 5 updates
You can now track HRV and resting heart rate against your personal baseline instead of static thresholds, including dashboard and brief behavior that adapts while baseline is still building.
Full-text search across Protocol content is now live at /search, with a Cmd+K overlay and search icon in the nav. Find protocols, learn articles, and glossary terms instantly.
Setting a protein goal is now guided with a two-step wizard. You can calculate a target, choose tracking source, and edit the goal cleanly without manual guesswork.
Daily emails now handle more real-world scenarios, including a clear success state when all goals are hit, better in-progress states, improved rounding, and fuller goal visibility in the scorecard.
Coach responses now use richer wearable context and make clearer distinctions between available and unavailable metrics, so guidance is more accurate to your connected data.
2026 · 4 updates
The coach now has a dedicated chat tab with continuous conversation — no more starting fresh each time. Responses render with full formatting. A separate Reports tab holds your structured coaching analysis. Hit Enter to send on desktop.
Protocol Premium is now available. Upgrade to unlock the AI coach, daily and weekly email briefs, coaching insights, and trend analysis. Beta pricing available for early members.
Early access to Protocol Fit, the companion app for strength tracking, is now available. Log workouts, track personal records, and get progression guidance that connects to your recovery data in Protocol.
Four new tools are live at /calculators: Caffeine Window Calculator, Sleep Cycle Calculator, Zone 2 Heart Rate Calculator, and Macro Calculator with full TDEE breakdown.
2026 · 1 update
All past coach conversations are now flattened into a single continuous thread with date dividers, timestamps on every message, and a load-earlier button at the top. No more isolated sessions.
2026 · 1 update
You can now view, edit, delete, and manually add meals in the Goals > Nutrition section. Meals logged via the AI coach or manually added are all editable in one place.
2026 · 1 update
Five new metabolism and nutrition terms added to the glossary, with practical food examples, range cards, and links to relevant learn articles.
2026 · 3 updates
The AI coach now draws on your recent conversation history across sessions, not just the current chat thread. It remembers context, recognizes recurring themes, and builds on what it already knows about your patterns over time.
Protocol now respects your device preferences per metric. If you use WHOOP for recovery and Oura for sleep, Protocol pulls from the right source for each one, and updates instantly when you change your preference without requiring a re-sync.
The daily brief email is rebuilt from scratch: a 2-3 sentence AI narrative synthesis leads the email, followed by a split scorecard (sleep and recovery from last night, activity from yesterday) and a single pattern-focused coaching block. Duplicate send protection is in place. Weekly emails now include a goals nudge alongside your trend comparison.
2026 · 4 updates
The dashboard no longer just shows your data, it tells you what it means. The Coached Today tab now leads with a Daily Brief card: a two-sentence synthesis of your day with a direct action, sitting above your metrics so the coaching layer is impossible to miss.
Every metric row on the dashboard now surfaces an AI-generated insight when your data is worth flagging, including low recovery trends, HRV dips, and missed protein targets. Tap the ✦ pill to expand the full story: what the pattern means, why it matters, and what to do about it.
The Reports tab is redesigned as a unified coaching document. An overall summary leads the page, each section has a focused Ask CTA, and the layout matches the visual language of the rest of the coach experience.
Everyone who signs up now gets a welcome email from Evan — what Protocol is, what to set up first, and an invitation to reply with questions. It is the first touchpoint outside the app.
2026 · 1 update
New Learn pages are live covering key health topics, from how to read your wearable data to the science behind sleep architecture and recovery. The glossary is growing weekly with terms that connect to the data Protocol already tracks for you.
2026 · 2 updates
The full Protocol library is here: Sleep, HRV, Recovery, Stress and Cortisol, Protein, Strength, Zone 2 and Cardio, Fat Loss, Whole Foods, Hydration, Daily Movement, Lab Work and Biomarkers, Temperature, and the Long Game. Each one is a deep science-backed framework built to actually change how you train and recover.
New Glossary section with searchable health and fitness terms. HRV, Slow-Wave Sleep, VO2 Max, Zone 2, and Cortisol Awakening Response are live with full definitions, mechanisms, and what your wearable is actually measuring. More terms every week.
2026 · 1 update
The coach chat is now persistent. Your conversation history is saved so you can pick up where you left off, revisit past insights, and build on what the coach already knows about your patterns.
2026 · 1 update
Get a weekly health brief in your inbox every Monday — week-over-week comparisons of sleep, HRV, steps, workouts, and protein, with AI-generated insights on what changed and why.
2026 · 1 update
Protocol now fully supports light mode, dark mode, and a system-adaptive setting that follows your OS preference. Switch anytime from settings — it updates instantly across the whole app.
2026 · 2 updates
A new Trends tab shows how your health metrics are moving over time. Sleep score, HRV, body weight, resting HR, protein, steps, and more — each with a 7- and 30-day view and an AI-generated insight to help you read the patterns.
Coach cards, trends insights, and sync results now load faster and without layout shifts. Data is cached smarter so navigating between tabs feels snappy.
2026 · 3 updates
Each metric row in the daily scorecard now expands to show deeper detail — sleep stage breakdown, HRV history, protein progress, body composition, and more. Tap any row to dig in.
Track your daily water intake directly in Protocol. Log oz in any increment, set a daily goal, and watch your progress update in real time. Delete individual entries if you make a mistake.
Get a daily brief delivered to your inbox each morning — your sleep score, recovery, key metrics, and an AI coaching insight. Turn it on from notification preferences in settings.
2026 · 1 update
WHOOP users can now connect directly via OAuth. Protocol syncs strain, recovery, and sleep data nightly — all visible in your daily scorecard alongside Oura and Apple Health.
2026 · 1 update
Direct Oura OAuth connection is live. Sleep score, readiness, HRV, resting heart rate, and body temperature deviation all sync into Protocol automatically.
2026 · 1 update
Protocol\'s AI coach is live. Ask it anything — what your sleep trend means, whether to train hard today, how close you are to your protein goal. It has full context on your data, not just the last message.
2026 · 1 update
First version live. Daily scorecard, Apple Health sync, and AI coach. The foundation is in place — now we build on it.