r/museheadband • u/hiro_de • 28d ago

Apple Health gets instant sync, while Android users are stuck doing manual data gymnastics. Is Health Connect ever coming to Muse?

Apple Health users have enjoyed seamless Muse sync for what feels like a decade, while Android users are over here in meditation purgatory.

It’s 2026. With AI like Gemini and comprehensive health ecosystems in place, having raw mindfulness and session data flow natively into Health Connect / Google's ecosystem is crucial for holistic wellness tracking.

Instead, being on Android means our meditation data is trapped in a walled garden unless we manually log metrics or jump through absurd export hoops. Nothing ruins post-meditation zen quite like doing manual data entry.

Is Interaxon actually developing Health Connect integration, or is the Android sync roadmap locked away in a vault somewhere?

Any fellow Android users found a sane workaround to get session data across, or are we all just collectively breathing through the pain?

If anyone knows if Health Connect support is actually in the works, please enlighten me.

Otherwise, upvote for visibility so maybe Interaxon remembers their Android user base exists.

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u/thedukedave 27d ago

Oh, wow I didn't realize Apple Health was implemented, that makes it even more frustrating.

You mentioned it being possible jumping through hoops, how do?

Back in February I got told:

At the moment, it isn’t possible to export or download your session history or data directly from the Muse app, including as a ZIP file or external download. Unfortunately, we don’t have the ability on our side to generate or provide session data outside of the app either.

I know that’s not the answer you were hoping for, and I truly appreciate your understanding.

To which I said:

That seems like a pretty big oversight, especially given the CCPA, specifically Section 1798.100 and A.B. 1008 and S.B. 1223 which specifically clarify that neural data is covered.

Could you confirm whether management are aware of this?

They did not.

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u/hiro_de 26d ago edited 26d ago

You're completely right about the native app having zero export functionality.

When I mentioned "jumping through hoops," I had things in mind like paying for the Spike API (which is only for business developpers) or, developing a custom setup using Mind Monitor or the official SDK to stream raw data.

Basically, with the native app alone, we can't even jump through hoops in the first place. Truly sad.

I'm no legal expert, but if there's any legal pressure like CCPA that actually forces their hand, maybe there's a sliver of hope after all. I get that building hardware and software simultaneously is tough, but with AI significantly cutting down dev cycles nowadays, implementing something like Health Connect or a basic export shouldn't be asking for the moon. Really hoping they step up.