Moving from Health Auto Export
If you use Health Auto Export today, here’s how its pieces map onto Health Data Relay. The two apps aren’t related.
Bring over an automation
Section titled “Bring over an automation”If you have an automation link (com.HealthExport://automation?...), copy it. In Health Data Relay, tap +, then Use a copied link. You’ll see the settings and where the data would go before anything is saved, along with anything that couldn’t be carried over.
How things map
Section titled “How things map”| Health Auto Export | Health Data Relay |
|---|---|
| Automation | A pipeline, shown as a card |
| Data type | Data, under What it reads. One pipeline can carry several. |
| JSON v2 | The Metrics JSON v2 template |
| Markdown | The Health Report Markdown template |
| GPX | The Workout Routes GPX template |
| REST API | A REST API destination |
| Time grouping | Grouping |
| Summarize data off | Grouping: Every sample |
| Default date range, Today, Yesterday | How much |
| Since Last Sync | Since the last run |
| Manual Export | Export, at the top of the Pipelines screen |
| MCP server | Settings › Server |
What’s different
Section titled “What’s different”Receivers that read JSON v2 should mostly just work. Its fields and nesting follow what that app writes, but four sections are based on its documentation rather than real output: heart rate notifications, state of mind, cycle tracking and medications. Check those if you use them.
The legacy v1 format and its CSV layout aren’t supported. A link asking for v1 is refused, since a receiver expecting v1 couldn’t read v2. CSV here has its own columns.
Deletions can reach your receiver. With Days that changed, a whole day is sent again when anything in it changes, so a receiver ends up with what your iPhone has.
You can change the output. Every format is a template you can copy and edit.
iCloud Drive isn’t supported yet, while Apple’s rules on health data in iCloud are checked. Use a folder on your iPhone or another destination. Dropbox and Google Drive are coming soon.
It’s free, with no account.
Both are limited by iOS
Section titled “Both are limited by iOS”iOS decides when background work runs, and keeps Health data locked while your iPhone is locked. A schedule is the earliest something can run, in any app.