Starting Thursday, Whoop members can share their data from their wearable devices on the app’s new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and achievements visible to other Whoop users, post story-like “Moments” with photos and captions, and add comments and reactions on other members’ posts.
Whoop claims its platform is “completely human,” unlike other social media platforms that are “saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and manufactured content.”
Will Ahmed, CEO of Whoop, says Humans is “the most verifiable human network ever launched. Each account represents a real person with a verified heartbeat.” Whoop says its existing Teams social feature will “remain available,” allowing people to share stress, recovery and sleep data along with group leaderboards.
In the Community tab in the Whoop app, users can scroll through the Moments of people they follow, like tapping into their Stories on Instagram but with data from their friends’ fitness tracker. In one of Whoop’s examples, swiping up on a user’s Moments post with a photo of their run shows a map with their route and details like their pace and distance. The Community tab also shows cards of the people in your “community” with their sleep, recovery, and strain scores.
Whoop says users choose which activities, achievements and metrics they want to share in humans, including recovery, stress, sleep, HRV and resting heart rate. Activities marked as sensitive are not shared by default. There’s also an option to keep Moments posts private and a “Hidden Mode” to temporarily hide health and performance data without changing your sharing settings.
