HRV (Heart Rate Variability)

MoveTogether does not score competitions on HRV. HRV depends heavily on individual physiology, sleep, training history, and stress, comparing HRVs across people doesn't produce a meaningful leaderboard. We score on activity output (calories, minutes, steps, workouts), which is fair to compare across users.

Your HRV lives in your wearable's app (WHOOP, Oura, Garmin Connect, Health on iPhone), which is where you should read it. MoveTogether does request HRV from Apple Health, and it is registered with the background sync service, so it does leave your device. What it does not do is affect scoring: no competition or league standing is computed from it. Inside the app it surfaces only on the Data Sources screen in Settings, which counts how many apps and devices write each metric.

This comes up often enough to be worth stating plainly: HRV is a recovery signal, not an output signal. It tells you something about how ready you are, and it moves for reasons that have nothing to do with what you did, including alcohol, illness, a poor night's sleep, altitude and where you are in your cycle. Two people with identical training can sit thirty milliseconds apart and both be perfectly healthy. A leaderboard needs a number where higher reliably means someone did more. HRV is not that number. Calories, minutes, steps and workouts are, which is why they carry the scoring.