Stress Tracker

Stress Tracker - App Description Stress Tracker is a comprehensive stress monitoring application designed for Garmin smartwatches. It continuously analyzes your heart rate data to track stress levels throughout the day, running silently in the background every 20 minutes without requiring constant attention or interaction. How It Works: The app uses advanced heart rate analysis to classify your stress into four distinct categories: Rest (very calm state), Low Stress (engaged but relaxed), Medium Stress (elevated tension), and High Stress (significant tension). Using a sophisticated weighted algorithm, it calculates an intuitive stress score ranging from 0-100, where higher scores indicate better relaxation and lower overall stress levels. This scoring system is designed to feel natural and intuitive, giving you meaningful insights into your daily stress patterns. Visual Indicators: The app employs a color-coded gauge system for instant visual feedback. Blue (75-100) represents an excellent, calm state. Yellow (50-74) indicates moderate stress levels. Orange (30-49) shows elevated stress that may need attention. Red (0-29) signals high stress requiring relaxation or intervention. These visual cues make it easy to understand your stress state at a glance. Key Features: - LastNight View: Displays your most recent stress monitoring session with comprehensive accumulated stress data and detailed breakdowns by stress category (Rest, Low, Medium, High percentages) - Profile View: Tracks your best and average stress metrics over customizable time periods including 31 days, 12 weeks, or 6 months, helping you identify trends -Raw Data View: Inspect live heart rate sensor readings and raw stress calculations for detailed analysis - Automatic Daily Reset: Fresh collection windows begin each day at midnight for consistent daily cycles - Local Data Storage: Maintains a 180-day rolling history of all stress data completely private on your device Background Operation Philosophy: This app is specifically optimized for efficient background operation. Once installed, it runs automatically without requiring constant user attention. Simply check your stress data once or twice daily to monitor your patterns. This "set it and forget it" approach maximizes battery efficiency while maintaining accurate, continuous stress tracking throughout your day. You don't need to keep the app constantly open in the foreground. Data Privacy & Security: All stress data is stored exclusively on your device. No information is sent to external servers or cloud services, ensuring complete privacy and data security. Important Medical Disclaimer: Stress Tracker provides general wellness insights and stress pattern tracking only. It is not a medical device and should never be used to diagnose, treat, or monitor any medical condition. Always consult qualified healthcare professionals for any health-related concerns or questions. Ideal Use Cases: Track your daily stress patterns and identify peak stress times, monitor stress trends over weeks and months, understand how different activities and situations affect your stress levels, and maintain awareness of your overall wellness without active app engagement. Install Stress Tracker today and gain valuable insights into your stress patterns with minimal battery impact on your device.

Stress Tracker - Getting Started Guide V2.2.0: - Updated Chart to display two bars now for every three hour reading. One bar will be brighter, and show the daily value for the time. The darker bar to the right will be the average value for that time over 7 days. Please note numbers on top of bars is for the daily values. But there is an average values for both daily/ 7 days average below chart. V2.1.4: -Updated the 3 Hour Stress Chart to only look at data between each 3 hour marker, instead of total daily data. This will make the chart more meaningful. V2.1.3: -Updated Version Label V2.1.2 Update: -Re-named bar graph title to Wellness. V2.1.1 Update: - Fixed color issue on Bar graph. In stress Tracker higher stress scores mean better scores compared to Garmin where lower stress scores are better. Colors are now fixed so higher scores indicate better scores. V2.1.0 Update: -Added New View that displays hour stress data (Every Three Hours) in a bar graph. The View also shows average Stress, Min and Max Average HR. V2.0.0 Update: -Updated the Last Night and Profile Views, to use a new single large gauge, where displaying shaded percentages, based on type of stresss. Labels have been updated to be displayed below the guages as well. Finally, there is a version label now on the Raw Data view for the app. Installation & Setup: Download the App: Open the Garmin Connect IQ Store on your watch or smartphone Search for "Stress Tracker" Tap "Install" to download and install the app Wait for installation to complete Launch the App: Find Stress Tracker in your watch's app menu Tap to open the app The app will begin background monitoring immediately Enable App. Stress Monitoring: Go to The Sleep Tracker Settings for the App. Toggle Stress Monitoring to "ON" This allows the app to access heart rate data for stress analysis (These Setting are found on your Garmin IQ Phone App.... Select the Device Icon, then navigate to My Device Apps, from there you select Stress Tracker and then Settings...) Open Stress Tracker and access its settings menu to configure: • Collection Interval: Defaults to 20 minutes. This controls how often stress data is analyzed and accumulated. Do not change. • Display Mode: Choose "Score Only" (shows 0-100 number) or "Color Gauge" (colored visual). Pick your preference. • History Retention: Set to 180 days by default. Keeps 6 months of rolling stress data. Older data automatically purges to save space. • Data Privacy Mode: Always enabled. All data stays locally on your device—no cloud sync or external sharing. How It Works - Real-Time Monitoring: Every 20 Minutes: The app collects and analyzes your heart rate data, calculates your stress score (0-100), and updates your accumulated daily total. View Your Stress: LastNight View: See your current session's accumulated stress with category breakdown (Rest %, Low %, Medium %, High %) Profile View: Compare today's score against best and average metrics from past 31 days, 12 weeks, or 6 months Raw Data View: Inspect live heart rate readings Throughout the Day: Stress data accumulates continuously (20 min → 40 min → 60 min, etc.). Check the app once or twice daily. No need to keep it open constantly. Daily Data Collection & Midnight Rollover: During the Day: Each 20-minute cycle adds to your accumulated stress data All data is stamped with today's date and collection start time Your total grows throughout the day At Midnight (00:00): The app detects the day change automatically Yesterday's accumulated stress data is finalized and saved A new collection timestamp is created for today Accumulators reset to zero Fresh collection window begins for the new day Previous day's data moves to history and can be viewed in Profile View.