A daylight tracker
The daylight
you gathered.
Your Apple Watch already records how much time you spend in daylight. Brightened is a calm place to see it.
Download on the App Store$3.99, one time. No subscription, no account, no cloud.
Seven-day average
The idea
Time in Daylight is one of the quietest measurements Apple Watch takes. It sits in the Health app, updated every day, and almost nobody looks at it.
It deserves better than a row in a list. How much light you got is the kind of thing you want to know at a glance, on the way out the door, without doing arithmetic.
So Brightened does one thing. It reads that single number, averages it across the last seven days, and paints it as a gradient that brightens as light accumulates. You can tell how the week has gone from across the room, before you read a word.
The app
Also
The day's arc
A quiet band showing when your daylight fell across the day. Morning on the left, evening on the right. It describes your day. It does not grade it.
A goal that is yours
Set a daily goal that fits the life you actually have, and change it whenever it stops fitting. Brightened uses it to shade the gradient and nothing else.
No streaks
No badges, no notifications asking where you have been, no red. A quiet week is just a quiet week, and the app says nothing about it.
Entirely on your device
Brightened reads one measurement from Apple Health and nothing else. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Nothing leaves the phone it is on.
What you need
Time in Daylight is recorded by Apple Watch, Series 6 and later. Brightened reads it from Apple Health. Without a paired Apple Watch there is no daylight data to show, so the app will tell you so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.