Getting started
Pulse opens to the Bladder Log so the most common diary actions are immediately available. The other main areas are Workouts, History, and Settings.
- Bladder Log is for quick diary entries, day-by-day review, and marking how completely you tracked a day.
- Workouts contains the Guided Program, quick-start workout choices, workout plans, and today’s checklist.
- History shows bladder trends, daily summaries, and workout history.
- Settings controls reminders, the personal overnight reporting window, and full backup/restore.
Bladder diary
Log a pee
Choose Log Pee, enter the stream duration if you measured or estimated it, optionally record urgency, and save. Stream duration is the number of seconds you urinated; it is not a measured urine volume.
Log a drink
Choose Log Drink, select a beverage type and amount, then save. Fluid totals are shown in ounces.
Log leakage or urgency
You can record leakage severity and an optional activity context, or add an urgency-only event when there was no void.
Mark a day complete or partial
Pulse does not assume that a day with entries is a complete diary. For any day, you can explicitly mark the day Complete or Partial and choose which categories you were actively tracking, such as voids, fluids, leaks, or urgency.
A Complete declaration means you believe you consistently tracked the selected categories for that local calendar day. It does not mean every optional measurement was recorded and it is not a clinical conclusion. You can edit or undo the day status without deleting the underlying diary entries.
Edit or delete an entry
Tap an existing bladder-diary row to edit it. Swipe to delete when you want to remove a record. Editing keeps the same underlying entry identity instead of creating a duplicate.
Overnight reporting window
Pulse uses a configurable personal overnight reporting window, defaulting to 11 PM–7 AM, to separate daytime and overnight events in summaries. This is a reporting preference, not a clinical diagnosis or nocturia assessment.
Understanding trends
History can compare your recent logging period with the immediately preceding period. You can switch among 7-, 14-, and 28-day comparisons and review measures such as recorded voids, average interval, average stream duration, recorded leaks, and urgency signals.
Rate-based trends use only days you explicitly marked Complete for the relevant category. A confirmed complete day with zero events can therefore count as a real zero, while partial or undeclared days stay out of that denominator. Optional measurements such as stream duration or urge remain unknown when you did not record them and are excluded from those measurement averages.
The trend chart supports multiple time ranges and grouping levels. Use it to look for changes in your own routine rather than as a diagnostic result.
Pelvic-floor workouts
The Guided Program provides structured progression. Standard, Quick, and custom workouts are also available when you want a different session.
Near the top of the Workouts screen, Quick Start lets you start the Quick 2-second or Standard 10-second workout immediately. Choose More to start the Guided Program or a custom plan without scrolling to Workout Plans. Workout Plans remains the place to create, edit, or delete custom plans.
- Follow the on-screen HOLD and RELAX phases.
- Completed workouts contribute to normal history, streaks, and weekly goals.
- Only completed Guided Program sessions advance Guided Program progression.
- If you intentionally stop early, Pulse records the intended incomplete state rather than treating the session as fully completed.
If a workout is interrupted
Pulse checkpoints confirmed foreground workout progress. If the app is terminated while a workout is active, reopening Pulse offers recovery choices to resume from the saved checkpoint, save the confirmed progress as a partial session, or discard it.
Time that passes while Pulse is not running is not silently counted as workout progress. This prevents an interrupted session from becoming a completed workout just because the app was closed for a while.
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch companion can receive workout plans from your iPhone and send completed workouts and supported bladder-log entries back to the phone.
If your iPhone is temporarily unreachable, Pulse keeps supported records queued until the iPhone confirms they were saved. Reopen the apps and bring the devices back within normal connectivity range if a record has not appeared yet.
Workout reminders
Workout reminders are scheduled locally on your device. In Settings, choose a Default Workout for your normal sessions. Each reminder time can optionally choose a different workout; reminder times without an override continue to use the default.
The workout assigned to a reminder is also used when you start the matching slot from Today’s checklist, so the checklist and notification stay aligned. If notifications are denied, Pulse remains usable; you can change notification permissions later in iOS Settings.
Exporting, backing up, recovering, and deleting data
CSV export
History exports are created only when you request them. iOS then presents the standard share sheet so you can choose where the CSV goes. The CSV is intended as a human-readable history/report export and is separate from full app backup. After sharing, the destination you selected is responsible for that copy.
Full backup and restore
In Settings → Backup & Restore, choose Export Full Backup to create a versioned Pulse backup file. The backup contains the app records needed for restoration, including workout plans and history, bladder-diary entries, diary-day completeness declarations, and behavior-relevant app preferences.
Choose Restore Backup to select a supported Pulse backup. Pulse validates the file first and shows a preview of what would be added. Restore is non-destructive: matching records already on the device are kept unchanged, and missing records are added. App preferences are applied only after the saved-data transaction succeeds.
Full backup is a user-managed local file workflow, not cloud sync. Archive version 1 intentionally does not include an unfinished workout’s transient recovery checkpoint or iOS notification authorization. Resolve an interrupted workout before relying on a backup, and keep backup files somewhere private and secure.
Database recovery copy
If Pulse cannot open its local database, it shows a recovery screen instead of silently replacing or deleting your saved data. You can retry opening the database or prepare a recovery copy of the database files.
Recovery files may contain private workout and bladder-diary information. Keep all files together, save them somewhere you trust, and do not post them to a public issue. A database recovery copy is for troubleshooting and is different from the supported full backup-and-restore file in Settings.
Delete data
You can delete individual records or use the available Clear All controls for workout history or bladder logs. Deleting the Pulse app removes its locally stored app data.
Troubleshooting
A workout was interrupted
Reopen Pulse and use the recovery prompt. Choose Resume to continue from the last saved foreground checkpoint, Save Partial to preserve only confirmed progress, or Discard if you do not want to keep the interrupted session.
A Watch record has not appeared on iPhone
- Confirm the iPhone and Watch are paired and have normal connectivity.
- Open Pulse on both devices.
- Allow a short period for Apple’s background transfer to complete.
- Avoid creating a duplicate entry for the same event while the original may still be queued.
Notifications are not appearing
Check the notification permission shown in Pulse Settings, then verify Pulse is allowed to send notifications in iOS Settings. Reminder scheduling is local and does not use a Pulse push-notification server.
Pulse says it cannot open saved data
Use Retry Opening Data first. If the problem continues, choose Prepare Recovery Copy before seeking support. Do not delete and reinstall the app as a troubleshooting step when the data matters, because deleting the app removes its local data.
The app looks stale after a change
Force-quit Pulse and relaunch it. If the issue persists, restarting the affected device can help clear transient Apple-platform state.
Contact
For private support, email pulse-app@motobear.dev.
The website lives in the public Pulse site repository. If you found a site or app bug that does not include sensitive personal information, you can cut an issue.
Please do not put bladder, pelvic-health, backup/recovery files, or other medical details in a public GitHub issue.
Medical note
Pulse is a personal tracking and exercise-guidance tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnose medical conditions, or replace care from a physician, pelvic-health professional, or other qualified clinician. If you have pain, blood in your urine, inability to urinate, new loss of bladder control, or another urgent concern, seek appropriate medical care.