Return
Two questions. Seventeen health signals. Why some days feel like yours.
One email when Return ships. No spam, no list sharing.
Beta access
Try Return before the public launch.
TestFlight installs the beta. Telegram is where build notes, testing coordination, and feedback live.
What Return does
A quieter way to understand your days.
It reads what your Watch already knows.
Sleep, HRV, mindfulness, activity — Return uses the data your Apple Watch is already collecting. No extra logging, no extra wearables, no new habits to build.
Two questions. Not a questionnaire.
Rate your willingness and control in ten seconds. That's enough for a transparent model, grounded in forty years of self-determination research, to find the pattern.
See why, not just what.
Return doesn't just show a score. It surfaces the three factors — out of seventeen health signals and daily contexts — that moved your autonomy up or down.
The screens
Six screens, one question: how much of today was yours?
Dark follows your evenings, light follows your mornings — Return ships both, in twelve languages.
Your Apple Watch already knows your body.
Return tells you what it means — tracking how free your days feel, not just how active they were.
Inside Return
More than two questions.
An Apple Watch app, not just a companion.
Record a check-in from your wrist with the Digital Crown — three steps, under ten seconds, no phone needed. The estimate is computed on the watch itself when your iPhone is out of reach, live recording sessions mirror into the Smart Stack, and the complication learns when you usually check in — and surfaces itself around that time.
Widgets, Dynamic Island, and Siri.
Glanceable score on Home Screen widgets, the Lock Screen, and in Dynamic Island. "Hey Siri, record autonomy" works hands-free and answers with a score card — your ring, today's count, and streak — right in the Siri surface. Quick-log buttons live in Control Center too.
A What-If simulator, grounded in your own model.
Move the sliders — sleep, HRV, exercise, mindfulness, noise, mood — and see how tomorrow's autonomy might shift. Presets for an Ideal Day or a Recovery Day. The predictions come from your data, not averages, and every forecast carries an honest 80% range computed from your own history — not a wishful point estimate.
On-device, end-to-end.
AES-256-GCM encryption with a device-only Keychain key. Records stay local by default, and iCloud sync is optional. No telemetry, no Firebase, no cloud analysis.
Twelve languages, one respect for your settings.
Return speaks twelve languages — Traditional and Simplified Chinese with Hong Kong and Taiwan variants, English, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. It follows your system language by default, and your region’s date and clock formats always win.
A small circle, end-to-end encrypted.
Share a weekly pulse with a few friends. Encouragement notes travel with end-to-end encryption, you choose exactly which signals each friend can see, and nothing readable ever sits on a server.
Data boundaries
Private by design, not by promise.
Local first
Every record, mood, note, and health metric is encrypted and stored on this device by default. With iCloud sync off, your data never leaves the device.
Apple Health
Sleep, HRV, and activity require explicit Apple Health permission. Optional mood write-back to State of Mind exists, but both directions are off by default.
iCloud sync
When enabled, your records and personal model weights sync through Apple iCloud across your devices. Apple Health-origin data is excluded from iCloud sync.
On-device AI
Apple Foundation Models run on-device on supported iOS and macOS releases. Off-device cloud AI is never used unless you explicitly turn on a separate toggle.
The model behind Return draws on forty-plus peer-reviewed papers across self-determination theory, sleep science, HRV, and psychophysiology. See the sources.
Status
Current beta — Return 1.5.6 (35) is available through TestFlight.
Public launch — September 2026.
Platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, widgets, and watchOS are adapted in the current beta.