Place patterns

Home days and office days often look different in your data.

daygauge compares days spent at Home and Work places with your movement, sleep and recovery readings.

The question

Start with what your own data can show.

Hybrid work has changed daily movement, and many people never see the pattern.

Your Timeline records where your day went, so you can compare home days and work days with your steps, exercise minutes, sleep and recovery.

Quick answer

daygauge uses your Timeline places, such as Home and Work, to label days, then shows them beside your steps, exercise minutes, sleep and recovery readings. You can also log a long work day as a custom habit.

Questions answered

What this guide covers.

  • Does working from home reduce movement?
  • Can location explain habits?
  • How can an app detect office days?
  • Can I log long work days?
  • How should workplace privacy work?
In daygauge

How the app handles this.

Signal
Your places stay on your iPhone, and daygauge does not track productivity.
Confidence
Missing readings lower confidence instead of creating false certainty.When a reading is not available, daygauge says so rather than filling the gap.
Weekly Review
Weekly Review shows what changed, what moved with it and whether the pattern repeated.Your first Weekly Review is free. Later reviews are part of Pro.
Illustrative example

What this can look like in the app.

Office day: 3,100 more steps than your home-day average.

Example
Confidence

Confidence rises when the same pattern repeats against your own baseline and drops when key signals are missing.

Next move

Try one small change, log it, then see whether the pattern repeats over the next week.

Example 1

Home day: fewer steps than your average, with most of the movement in the evening.

Example 2

Long work day logged as a custom habit: HRV was lower the next morning.

Research

Further reading.

These studies describe groups of people. They help explain the topic, but they cannot tell you what will happen to you.

Research context only. daygauge does not diagnose, treat, prevent or predict disease risk. Personal medical concerns belong with a qualified clinician.

Limits

What daygauge does not do.

  • It does not diagnose, treat or prevent disease, or predict your risk of it.
  • It does not claim one habit caused a result. It shows the pattern, how confident it is and what else changed.
On the App Store

Want to compare your own home and office days?

daygauge is free to download. Pro is £8.99 a month or £49.99 a year.

Download on the App Store

Personal analytics, not medical advice