If you wear a Whoop band, your sleep and recovery scores can now go on show to other wearers. The company launched Whoop Humans on Thursday, 12 November, a social network built into its app, and members get to pick exactly what appears on it.
Members can share Recovery and Strain scores, Sleep, HRV (heart rate variability) and their resting heart rate. Anything the user has flagged as sensitive stays hidden unless they change that. Photo posts called Moments can be set to private, and a “Stealth Mode” pulls health and performance figures from view for a while, leaving the sharing choices as they were.
Whoop’s launch release sells the feed as free of bots. CEO Will Ahmed calls it “the most verifiably human network ever launched”, adding that every account represents “a real person with a verified heartbeat”. Whoop says other platforms are “saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and manufactured content”.
The feed borrows from Instagram Stories. Activity posts can include route details. Reactions and comments come from other members, and the Community tab lays out score cards for the people you follow.
Moments are story-style posts, so they carry a photo and a caption rather than long text, and the feed’s other pieces are reactions and comments from members you follow. Each shared score appears on the poster’s card for others to see, which is why the sharing choices matter.
Whoop’s older Teams feature is not being replaced. It stays for group leaderboards and for sharing strain, recovery and sleep inside a team. Humans appears in the Community tab of the app.
