Fitness band maker Whoop starts a new social app built on real user data

Fitness tech company Whoop has launched a new social network called Whoop Humans, where members can share data from their fitness trackers starting Thursday. Users can make their health metrics, daily activities, and personal achievements visible to other people who wear Whoop bands. Members can also post Story-style updates called Moments with photos and captions, while leaving comments and reactions on posts from friends. Company CEO Will Ahmed states that Humans is the most verifiably human network ever launched, adding that every single account represents a real person with a verified heartbeat. Whoop says the platform is entirely human, unlike other social media sites that are full of artificial intelligence, automated accounts, bots, and manufactured content. Meanwhile, the company's older Teams social feature will still stay available for users to share strain, recovery, and sleep data alongside group leaderboards. Inside the app's Community tab, users can scroll through Moments from people they follow in a way that resembles Instagram Stories but features fitness tracker numbers. Swiping up on a run post with a photo, for instance, shows a map of the route along with details like pace and distance. This tab also displays cards for community members showing their sleep, recovery, and strain scores. Users keep control over their privacy by choosing which activities, achievements, and metrics they want to share, such as Recovery, Strain, Sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate. Activities marked as sensitive do not get shared by default. People can also keep their Moments posts private or use a Stealth Mode to temporarily hide health and performance data without altering their regular sharing settings.

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Fitness tracker companies increasingly add social and community features to keep users engaged with their devices daily. By linking raw health data directly to photo sharing and social feeds, platforms try to turn private workouts into shared group experiences.