An Apple Health app for Mac

There is no Apple Health app for the Mac. Health lives on the iPhone, and Apple gives you two ways to see the data elsewhere: the Health app's own charts on the phone, and a one-time "Export All Health Data" archive. Health to Mac is a Mac app that reads that data and keeps your whole history in one local SQLite file you own. It is not made by Apple, and it is not affiliated with Apple.

What the Mac app holds

The database at ~/Library/Application Support/Health to Mac/health.sqlite stores health records, workouts, sleep, ECGs, State of Mind, medications and Activity rings. On top of it the app shows a dashboard and separate pages for steps, running and strength training. The Strength Training page reads your sets from Strava activities through an API application you create yourself; everything else, Running included, comes from Apple Health. One honest gap: workout routes, the GPS maps, are not kept yet — the import stores a route's GPX file name, not the map itself.

Two ways to get your data in

1. Import an archive. In Health on the iPhone, tap your profile picture and choose Export All Health Data, then AirDrop the resulting export.zip to your Mac and drop it on Health to Mac.app.
2. Pair the free iPhone app. Turn on Live Bridge in the Mac app and scan its pairing code with the iPhone's Camera. When Health has new data, iOS wakes the iPhone app in the background and it sends only what changed, including deletions, over your Wi-Fi or Tailscale.
3. Keep both running. Nothing is read while the iPhone is locked; it catches up when you unlock it. Re-importing a newer archive later is safe, because records already in the database are skipped.

What it costs and what it needs

The Mac app runs on macOS 14 or later; the companion needs iOS 17 or later. The signed, notarized Mac app is $10 once (early-bird, $15 later), plus tax where applicable, with every feature and free updates for life. The iPhone app is free. If you would rather not pay, the Mac app is free to build yourself from the MIT source — that repository goes public at launch.

What you can do with the file

Because the history is one plain SQLite file, any SQLite tool can query it, and so can the healthtomac command-line tool shipped with the app. The Mac app exports on a schedule to folders, email, REST, MQTT and Home Assistant, and it includes a read-only MCP server so an assistant you choose — Claude, Cursor or another MCP client — can answer questions from your data. There is no account, no subscription and no server of ours receiving your health data.

If you just want your Apple Health history to live on a Mac, in a file you can open, back up and query, this is what Health to Mac is for.