The newest Gyroscope V9.5 is now available for download in the App Store.
This update focuses on the part that matters most: making Gyroscope easier to use every single day. We have cleaned up the food upload flow, expanded the Health Camera, added more meditation customization, and made daily routines, rewards and reporting faster and more flexible.
We have also fixed a long list of bugs and rough edges from the last few versions. Special thanks to everyone who sent in screenshots, bug reports and feedback to help us tighten things up.
The secret was mint
Did you brush your teeth today? Probably.
But even about 100 years ago, this was still not a fully locked-in daily habit for most Americans. The toothbrush itself was already old by then. The first U.S. toothbrush patent was issued in 1857, and by 1885 toothbrushes were being produced widely. So for roughly 60 years, the tool existed, people generally knew clean teeth were a good idea, and yet the habit still had not fully taken hold.
What was missing was not the brush. It was the reward. One of the turning points came in 1915, when Pepsodent launched and started making the routine feel good in the moment. The mint, the foam, the polished feeling after brushing. It turned a chore into something satisfying enough to repeat, and that helped push brushing into daily life.
That is where health still is today. People know they should be healthy. They know they should sleep well, eat well, exercise, and review what is happening in their body. But for most people, it still is not a real daily habit yet.
Today we are fixing that.
If the reward only comes months later, most people drift. If the routine feels good right now, and you get a small payoff today, the habit has a chance to become automatic.
We think health apps need the same thing.
Gyroscope can already automate a lot in the background. Your steps sync, sleep syncs, heart data can sync, workouts can import, and more. We can automate the collection of data better than ever before.
But we cannot automate the part where you actually pay attention to your life.
That is the part we cannot do "for you," because the benefit is not just having data collected somewhere. You need to be the one who really sees it and responds to it. That is how the awareness turns into action, and action turns into results.
Some parts still need to be done by you if you want the real benefits. You cannot hire someone to go to the gym for you and expect to get stronger. In the same way, you cannot outsource the few minutes of attention required to review yesterday, see where you stand, and steer today in a better direction.
That is why this is a firm rule now: if you want the full benefits of Gyroscope, you need to open the app daily.
The daily review is not just admin or busywork. It is the moment where the system actually becomes useful. Instead of just showing you a passive dashboard, Gyroscope now guides you through yesterday with your coach: your focus area, your targets, what went well, what slipped, and what to do next.
V9.5 is built around making that moment better. The routine is faster. The flow is more customizable. The reporting is clearer. And the new daily rewards give you an immediate payoff for showing up.
Every day you get bonus tokens based on how close you got. The more targets you hit, the more you earn. That is our version of mint toothpaste for health: a small immediate reward that helps the habit lock in.
What daily use should feel like
Once the habit clicks, using Gyroscope should only take about 5-10 minutes total across the day.
1. Morning review - open the app, check yesterday's score, review today's targets and move through your routine. About 2 minutes.
2. Meals - snap a photo of each meal. About 10 seconds each.
3. Evening glance - see where you landed, check your report, and review your reward progress. About 1 minute.
The rest stays automatic: steps sync, sleep syncs, workouts log themselves.
The hard part is the first week. After that, it should start to feel natural, which is exactly what the new rewards system is designed to help with.
Changes in V9.5
Every major change below supports that same goal: make Gyroscope easier to trust, easier to open, and more rewarding to use every day.
- Fixes for food photos not showing after upload
- Better handling for iCloud photos and additional image formats
- Automatic retrying when food uploads or analysis get stuck
- New unfiltered photo view showing all food in a simple 3-column grid
- More Health Camera controls, including light, macro mode and flipped camera
- New meditation customization options
- Saved meditations so you can repeat the ones you liked
- Faster and more customizable daily routines
- New daily rewards and improved reporting tools
- Many other bug fixes and reliability improvements
Food tracking should not fight you
One of the core principles of Gyroscope is that tracking your food should be fast enough to do in real life, not just in theory. If the flow breaks, gets stuck, or loses your photo, then the habit collapses.
In V9.5 we focused heavily on the reliability of food uploads and processing. This includes fixes for photos not showing correctly after upload, better handling for iCloud photos and tricky file formats, and smarter retry behavior when the upload process stalls.
We have also added an unfiltered photo view that shows all your food in a clean 3-column layout, making it easier to scan back through everything you actually logged.
The goal here is simple: once you take the photo, the app should do the rest reliably and get out of your way.
More control in the Health Camera
The Health Camera is designed to be simple by default, but sometimes you need more control to get the shot right.
Now there are a few more camera options built in, including turning on the light in darker situations, macro mode for extreme closeups, and a flipped camera mode for face photos and similar cases.
These are small additions, but they make a big difference when you are trying to quickly capture the exact thing you want without fighting your phone.
Meditation that can be customized and repeated
We have also continued improving the meditation system.
There are new customization options, giving you more control over how the session feels and fits into your day. And if you find a meditation that really works for you, you can now save it and come back to it later instead of rebuilding it from scratch every time.
This is especially useful for people who are trying to build a stable morning or evening routine and want a few reliable sessions they can repeat.
Faster routines, better rewards, clearer reports
Your daily routine is the backbone of the whole system, so in this update we have made it faster to move through and easier to customize around how you actually live.
The review is clearer, the reporting is more immediate, and the rewards are more explicit. Instead of just looking backward at what happened, you can quickly see how close you got, what improved, and what still needs attention.
This is what turns Gyroscope from a passive archive into a guided daily operating system for your health.
Bug fixes
As always, this version also includes many smaller fixes and polish updates across the app. We are constantly working to make Gyroscope faster, more stable and more reliable across the daily actions that matter most.
Ready to get started? Just download the new update in the App Store and start building the daily rhythm that makes the whole system work.