Apple Health MCP
Infrastructure
mcp server for health data
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
6 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and useful for querying health data with AI
From 3 comments
This is really cool - I recently worked on a tool that I installed on my iPhone, which extracts all health data nightly to CSV and then to a cloud database. This was quite…
woodylondon on HNThis is awesome! I’ve been working on and off for the last few months on an AI running coach app. Would love to compare notes of effectively prompting Claude or O3 to analyze…
friggeri on HNCan imagine this is really useful for development too. if RubyLLM.with_tools(...).ask("Do my health metrics indicate I am stressed?") model = 'claude-4-opus' else model =…
hahahacorn on HN
Objections
Manual CSV export every week is a lot of steps
From 1 comment
Health data is sensitive and should be exported deliberately
From 1 comment
I thought this was sort of deliberate for Apple Health. People use it to track sensitive information, like reproductive and mental health data, that should only be exported very…
mattkrause on HN
Requests
Support the native Apple Health XML export
From 2 comments
Yes, the native export is the whole enchilada. Please do it!
dcreater on HNI actually started with this but the export always had the appearance of stalling unless I left it for long periods. For a first version, the CSV export app was much quicker. And…
_neil on HN
Package as a desktop extension for Claude's directory
From 1 comment
Hey Neil, this is cool! If you package it up as a desktop extension (https://github.com/anthropics/dxt) and send it to me…
felixrieseberg on HN
Add examples of chat questions and answers
From 1 comment
Can you please add examples of actual chat questions and answers so that we can understand how it actually performs?
dcreater on HN
Questions
Is any of it open source and what tools are used for the CSV?
From 1 comment
Is any of it open source? What tools for the CSV? I’d like to build a dashboard of my cycling rides?
pheeney on HN
Can arbitrary questions be asked or only predefined ones?
From 1 comment
This is SO freaking cool. I'm doing something similar for a startup, albeit in a different domain and against a massive dataset. Looking at the code (and "for the future..." note…
leguy on HN
Alternatives named
healthkit-to-sqlite
From 1 comment
Love it! For getting Apple Health data into duckdb, I’ve used this in the past: https://github.com/dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite. (You can load the SQLite database directly in…
hcm on HN
Health Auto Export app
From 1 comment
Very cool indeed. I started building something similar - relying on Auto Export [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/health-auto-export-json-csv/id1115567069] to export my health data…
monatron on HN
Fulcra Context
From 1 comment
Hey - if you're interested in prototyping with real data, we've built a platform for stuff like this -- Fulcra Context (https://www.fulcradynamics.com/). We have an iOS app that…
cstone on HN
atlas parquet tool for Apple Health XML
From 1 comment
If you are looking for a way to explore Apple Health data: I have a proof of concept here that turns the Apple Health export xml file into a timeseries .parquet that you can then…
tosh on HN