Calories, simplified. All workouts now use HockeyTracker's skating-specific calorie calculation like it did in the past, so the Apple Calorie Tracking setting is no longer needed. Apple's estimate is built for step-based workouts and ran too low for skating. Your full total still counts toward your Apple Move ring. Curious how we calculate calories? There's a new Calories topic in Learn More. Your VO2 Max, your choice. New setting: Write VO2 Max to Apple Health. Turn it off to keep VO2 Max inside HockeyTracker - and out of your Apple Health Cardio Fitness trend. Your VO2 Max readings and Trends chart keep working in the app either way. Ice time next to calories. Game, Pick Up, and Pond workouts now show your ice time right beside your calorie total - only your shifts burn calories at game intensity, and now you can see both numbers together. (Pro) Better exports. Workout exports now include VO2 Max and Max Heart Rate - with an option to fill them in for your entire workout history. (Pro) Know when something's wrong. If your Watch records heart rate but no skating data - usually a permissions issue - the workout now tells you exactly what to check, instead of just showing missing speed and shifts. And if your Watch app falls behind your iPhone app, the dashboard will let you know, with steps to update it. Improvements and fixes. - Workouts recorded on your Watch now appear on your iPhone right after syncing with delay. - Refinements to editing, trimming, and adding stats, and Exercise ring credit now catches up automatically when Health data syncs late - Steadier Hockey Fitness Level and Skating Efficiency readings - Fixed a rare bug where speed could read low on long distance samples - Individual shift calories now use your session type, effort level, and weight - matching the workout total - The share card now matches the workout detail screen's numbers - General stability improvements See you on the ice! Jaclyn

What's New in 26.9 NEW: Track multiple pairs of skates! Add your goalie skates, backup pair, or figure skates in the Gear tab - each pair gets its own sharpening tracker, hollow, and blade setup. Your sessions route hours to the right pair automatically (goalie sessions wear your goalie skates), with nothing to log after a skate. Your existing sharpening data carries over untouched. - Fixed an issue where a workout saved on your Apple Watch could take a while to show up on your iPhone. - More reliable calories with Apple Calorie Tracking. If the Watch's energy stream drops data mid-workout, HockeyTracker now double-checks Apple Health at save time and recovers the missing calories. Workouts also save faster when using HockeyTracker's own calculation. - Effort Level is consistent and more accurate. The detail screen, heart-rate zones, and share card now always show the same value, and a bug in heart-rate estimation between samples has been fixed - scores may shift slightly, especially on workouts with sparse heart-rate data. - Your Watch tells you when it needs an update, so both apps stay in sync.

- Fixed an issue where workouts could fail to save if certain Apple Health sharing permissions were turned off (such as Cardio Fitness). Your privacy choices now only affect that specific data - the workout itself always saves - Major weight & calorie fixes: weight syncs correctly between devices, deleted Health entries are respected, and a new Body Weight setting in the More tab lets you see - and set - exactly what your calories are calculated with.

Calorie accuracy: - Fixed a bug where some users' body weight became corrupted by older versions, causing calories to be calculated drastically low. The app now re-reads your weight from Apple Health and protects it from bad synced data - New Body Weight setting in the More tab — see the weight being used for your calorie calculations, and set it manually if you don't track weight in Apple Health Heart rate improvements: - Workouts now use your complete heart rate data even when it's recorded by another device, like AirPods Pro or a chest strap. This fixes VO2 Max, Effort Level, and other metrics that could calculate from incomplete data - More reliable workout saves with additional safeguards New for Pro members: - Export any workout as a CSV right from the share screen — choose a quick summary of your stats, or the full raw data with timestamped heart rate, speed, and shift data (great for video editing and analysis tools)

What's New in 26.8.4 Calorie accuracy fixes: - Fixed an issue where workout calories could be calculated with the wrong body weight, causing inflated or deflated calorie totals - Your weight and calorie settings are now locked in when the workout starts, so mid-workout syncs can't skew the results - The Watch now pulls your latest weight directly from Health, with your phone as a backup - The Apple-calorie setting now syncs reliably to the Watch every time you open the watch app Workout improvements: - The end-workout reminder now fires after set minutes of inactivity, even if heart rate data is missing - Hockey Fitness Level and Skating Efficiency now show "not enough skating data" instead of a misleading 0 when a session is too short to measure - Fixed personal max speed syncing between devices General: - Fixed background sync and activity ring credit that could stall until the app was force-quit and reopened - More reliable weight syncing across iPhone, Watch, and iCloud

26.8.3 - Fixed custom calorie calculations for users whose body weight is stored in kilograms. - Improved Apple Watch syncing for body weight and calorie preferences. - Improved calorie consistency between workout summary and shift details. - Added better calorie diagnostics to help validate Apple Calories vs HockeyTracker calorie estimates. - Stability and reliability improvements for workout saving and post-workout processing. Please email any issues to hockeytrackerapp@gmail.com Thanks! Jaclyn

Fixed an issue where Hockey Fitness Level and Skating Efficiency could appear blank or show as zero for some workouts. Improved reliability of metric calculations when heart-rate or distance samples are limited. Improved display of older workouts with missing or invalid saved fitness metrics.

- Improved pause/resume tracking so paused time is handled more reliably. - Tuned End Workout Reminder so bench/rest time is less likely to trigger unwanted prompts. Thanks! Jaclyn

26.8 This update focuses on workout reliability, distance accuracy, Activity ring syncing, and smoother post-workout summaries. We also added new Workout Reminders through Shortcuts, so you can schedule wrist-tap reminders to start or end a workout before/after ice time. Activity rings may still take a few minutes to update after a workout. That delay is on Apple’s syncing side, but this version improves how HockeyTracker saves and re-processes workouts to play more reliably with Move and Exercise rings. **Detailed Notes** New: - Added Workout Reminders through Shortcuts. - Create reminders to start or end HockeyTracker workouts by time, location, or your own Shortcut automation. - These reminders do not auto-start or auto-end workouts because watchOS does not allow that. Improved: - More reliable Watch workout saving, including clearer save state and retry support. - Better Activity ring compatibility after workouts save. - HockeyTracker custom calorie calculations and the “Use Apple Calorie Tracking” setting are now respected more consistently. - Shift calories display more consistently with the saved workout calorie source. - Share cards now wait for metrics and better match the workout detail screen. - Recent workout distance, detail distance, and distance cards are more consistent. - Trends loading should no longer get stuck indefinitely. - Skate sharpening tracking now excludes Dryland and Figure Skating sessions. Fixed: - Some crashes around trimming/deleting workouts. - Heart Rate Recovery ordering issues that could produce incorrect recovery values. - Possible hangs from HealthKit heart-rate query failures. - Watch start/end guardrails to prevent duplicate or invalid workout sessions. - Widget and cache refresh issues after workouts are deleted or edited. See you on the ice! Jaclyn

What's New in 26.7.2 Bug fixes and stability improvements: - Resolved a crash that could occur during workout summary editing - Fixed crashes on iPad when sharing or exporting workouts - Improved Apple Watch stability and reliability Thanks for using HockeyTracker!

Version 26.7.1 VO2 Max - Better Guidance - When VO2 Max can't be calculated for a workout, you'll now see a clear explanation instead of "0" - and a pointer to the new manual setting New: Manual Resting Heart Rate - If you don't wear your Apple Watch overnight, you can now set your resting heart rate manually in the More tab so VO2 Max can still be calculated - The setting also displays your current resting heart rate from Apple Health (last 30 days) so you can see what value would be used by default - Minor bug fixes & improvements

What's New in 26.7 Apple Activity Ring Fixes - Apple's Exercise ring should now get credit. If you do not see it automatically, open and view the workout in the HockeyTracker app and then the ring will update. Thanks for your patience on this and please email if you do not see the credit. - Editing a workout (changing session type, adding stats, etc.) no longer removes calories from some users Move ring New Feature: Data Export (Pro) - Export all your workouts to a CSV file you can open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets — great for backups, coaches, or spreadsheet analysis - Find it under the More tab → Data Export Calorie Display Fixes - Games, Pick Up, and Pond sessions that were occasionally showing 0 calories now display a calorie estimate based on workout duration when shift detection falls short

HockeyTracker 26.6 Added "Use Apple Calorie Tracking" option in the More tab. HockeyTracker uses a hockey-specific calorie calculation based on MET values for ice hockey, adjusted for your session type, effort level, and body weight. However, this custom calculation is not compatible with Apple's Move ring. If you want your workouts to accurately count toward closing your Activity rings, we recommend enabling this setting to use Apple's native calorie tracking instead.

HT Version 26.5 - Fixed an issue where some workouts were not contributing to Apple's Exercise and Move rings. Your workout calories and exercise minutes should now properly count toward closing your Activity rings during an HT workout. Note: Apple credits Exercise minutes based on your heart rate and movement intensity during the workout, not workout duration alone.

HT Version 26.3 - Goalie workouts now show game score: The game score is now displayed on goalie workout rows on the home tab alongside saves and goals against. - Fixed calorie duplication in Apple Health for some users - All workout analytics now calculated on Watch - Shifts, speed metrics, heart rate recovery, effort level, VO2 max, and all other stats are now calculated immediately when the workout ends on the Watch, rather than waiting for the iPhone to process them. Workouts appear fully populated as soon as they sync. - Recovery score color update: Adjusted recovery score colors for improved readability.

HockeyTracker 26.2 Release Notes - Major Updates! Lots of New Features - New cockpit-style dashboard with Month / Year / All Time stat summaries with Smart Coaching Insights! - Gear tab to track your Skate Sharpening, Hollow Preferences, and Skates - Work:Rest Ratio in Shifts card (ice time vs bench time) - Trim Workout: trim the end time of any workout from the detail view. Tap the scissors icon, slide to your desired end time, and save. Duration, distance, and heart rate charts all update to reflect the trimmed workout - Personal Max Speed Cap: new setting in More > Max Speed Cap to filter out GPS speed spikes. Set your realistic max skating speed and any readings above it will be filtered from your stats, trends, personal records, shift analysis, and AI coaching summaries - Custom photo backgrounds for Share cards: tap Photo to select a background image, then pinch to zoom and drag to reposition - Interactive Recovery charts (press + drag) - End Workout Reminder: your Apple Watch will nudge you with a haptic tap if it detects your workout may have ended (enable in Watch app Settings) - New workout type: Figure Skating - Appearance setting: choose Dark Mode, Light Mode, or System Improvements - Faster app launch and load times - Charts now use Apple's native Charts framework - Share cards auto-format to IG Story size - Score tracking: "No score entered" is now distinct from 0-0; scores start blank and can be cleared - Personal stats display on workout list rows: Goals/Assists for players, Saves/GA for goalies - Game scores display inline with a win/loss/tie color indicator - Edit button on workout detail toolbar replaced with a cleaner + icon - Water Lock now automatically returns to the stats screen before locking, so your metrics stay visible - Session type ordering preserved after Watch app updates - Major under-the-hood modernization for iPhone and Watch app Bug Fixes - Fixed shift speed accuracy; shift speeds now use the same calculation as the Speed card - Shift deletion should now work correctly! - Fixed potential crash in Recovery chart when a day had no HRV/RHR samples - Misc. Fixes Thanks for your support! Jaclyn

Quick update to fix an issue some users were having seeing the new iOS 26 App Icon. See you on the ice! Gary

Quick update to an issue where the restore purchase might of required force quitting and reopening....now if you have an active subscription, restore purchase should automatically unlock for you. See you on the ice! Gary

BIG HockeyTracker 26 fall update just in time for the start of hockey season! (1) Skate Sharpening Reminder! HockeyTracker will now keep track of your skate sharpening and hours on the ice to let you know when your blades are due for sharpening! You can customize how often you want them sharpened, the default is 15 hours. You can find Skate Sharpening below Recovery on the the home screen. Only available to HockeyTracker Pro users. (2) Post Workout Insights powered by Apple Intelligence! If Apple Intelligence is available on your iPhone and enabled, you will now see a summary analysis at the top of the screen when you tap on a workout, and can tap on the More Workout Insights button to get an even deeper analysis of your workout. Note Apple Intelligence is only available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer iPhones. Note also that the AI coaching will consider any notes you make (notes are located at the very bottom of the workout screen), so I encourage you to add notes to your workout (e.g. "missed scoring on a breakaway, hit the post" so they can be considered in the analysis. Also HockeyTracker Pro users only. See you on the ice! Gary

Quick update to fix a bug when the new share cards were in dark mode. See you on the ice! Gary

Some updates to get you ready for fall hockey!      ⁃    Updated all charts in Trends to use Apple Charts and to toggle between 30 days, 1 year, and all time     ⁃    Updated to Apple system fonts - this should also help with accessibility settings     ⁃    Updated share card to a singular share card with a resizable Instagram sticker     ⁃    The VO2 max scale is now personalized to you using your age and sex. See you on the ice! Gary

Quick update to fix a crash that might occur if you tapped on the Support button in the More tab. Now if you do not have the mail app set up, it won't cause a crash but will alert you to this and give you the hockeytrackerapp@gmail.com email to contact. See you on the ice! Gary

All new Dark Mode App Icon! Also fixed an issue that was preventing the iPhone widgets from displaying correctly. See you on the ice! Gary

Quick update to some of the subscription logic under the hood. If you are having any issues with your subscription, please let me know asap at hockeyTrackerApp@gmail.com. See you on the ice! Gary

Quick update to fix the iPhone widgets in iOS 17. See you on the ice! Gary