Use your Apple Watch with any Android phone
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Matt Sullivan

Merge - Use your Apple Watch with any Android phone

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Merge finally brings the Apple Watch to Android. Unlock Apple Watch's cutting-edge health data on your Android phone, synced to any Health Connect compatible app. Get Android notifications on your wrist, reply to messages, control media playback, and more.

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Matt Sullivan
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Hi Product Hunt community!

I've always believed the best hardware and the best platform should work together, regardless of who made them. Apple Watch has the most advanced health sensors, Android offers unmatched openness and flexibility, and there was no good reason these two couldn't coexist.

So we built Merge for Apple Watch.

Merge connects your Apple Watch to any Android phone for notifications, messaging, media controls, and brings the Apple Watch's cutting-edge health data into the Android ecosystem, to be used with any Health Connect compatible app. Also, for anyone juggling two phones, like a personal iPhone and a work Android, it's the only solution that lets you use your watch for both.

Would love your thoughts and feedback!

Matt

Rana Ahmed
Some people live apple watch but they are locked into some eco system because of that. With this they can finally try Androids. I wonder how apple will react to your app
Krupali Trivedi

This is so cool!

Actually, I never thought we would see an Apple x Android intersection because of the inherent complexity between them.

Would love to know your journey of building. How did you start? How long did it take for you to make this?

Matt Sullivan
Maker

@krupali_trivedi Hi, thanks for the question! We actually started the journey with connecting WearOS (Android) watches to iPhones, a few years ago. We only decided to do this for the Apple Watch too in the last year or so. It's admittedly complex, due to the Bluetooth communication, the various APIs, and the constraints of the two platforms, but we're working hard to overcome those challenges.

Curious Kitty
Health syncing is only valuable if downstream apps interpret it correctly (deduping, attribution, workout credit, etc.). Which health signals are you most focused on getting ‘semantically correct’ first, and how are you testing correctness across different Health Connect-compatible apps?
Matt Sullivan
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@curiouskitty Hi and thanks for the question! We do our own processing to ensure correctness, and Android's Health Connect is meant to serve as a downstream sink and is doing a decent job consolidating health data with other sources. Of course, we test this with a few Health Connect apps, Google Fit being the main one. Excellent question!