What's New in Pust Focus 1.2: Save Your Way, and Log How You Feel

Most of what's in this update started in our inbox.

You run a breathing session. You finish. And then it shows up in the wrong place in Apple Health, filed as a Workout when what you wanted was a Mindfulness entry. For some of you, it wouldn't save at all unless you turned on a Health permission you didn't think breathwork should need.

That's a fair complaint. Breathwork that fits your day should fit your data too. Pust Focus 1.2 fixes it, and adds one thing we think you'll like.

The part you told us about

When you save a session to Apple Health, Apple cares about the category. A Workout shows up next to your runs and rides, counts toward your Activity rings, and carries heart rate and your walking route. A Mindfulness entry shows up under Mindful Minutes, quiet and separate from your exercise.

Both are valid. The problem was that Pust Focus picked for you. If you breathe while you walk, a Workout makes sense. If you do a seated Resonant Breathing session at your desk, you probably want it filed as Mindfulness, not sitting in your exercise history pretending to be a workout.

So now you choose.

Three ways to save

Open Settings and find "Save sessions as." You get three modes.

Workout is the recommended option, and the default. Your session saves as a Mind and Body workout with heart rate, your walking route, active energy, and Activity ring credit. This is the right pick if you breathe on the move.

Both writes a workout and a Mindful Minutes entry. Two records in Apple Health, so the data is wherever you look for it. In your Pust Focus history it stays a single session with both icons, so nothing looks duplicated on our side.

Mindfulness only saves as Mindful Minutes and nothing else. No heart rate, no route, no distance, no active energy, no Activity ring credit, no location prompt. This is the quiet option for seated practice. It still reads back into your Pust Focus History and Progress exactly like any other session.

One detail that matters: each mode only asks for the Health access it actually needs. Choose Mindfulness only and Pust Focus will save your sessions even with Workout writing turned off. That was the real bug behind the original complaint, and it's gone.

Also new: log how you feel

Here's the one we added because we wanted to, not because anyone asked.

After a session, Pust Focus can ask how you feel and write it to Apple Health's State of Mind. It's a two-step check-in. First you pick where you land from pleasant to unpleasant. Then, if you want, you add what describes it and what's affecting your mood.

Why bother? Because one of the hardest parts of any practice is knowing whether it's working. Heart rate tells you part of the story. How you actually feel afterward tells you the rest. Log it for a couple of weeks and the pattern shows up on its own.

It works on iPhone and Apple Watch, it needs iOS 18 or watchOS 11, and it runs for every save mode. It's on by default. If it's not for you, turn it off under Settings, Health, "Log your mood."

Here's where it lands. A seated session, saved as Mindful Minutes, with your mood attached and nothing your exercise stats didn't ask for.

Also fixed

A few smaller things in 1.2:

• Mindfulness only now hides heart rate everywhere it used to leak through, including the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity.
• Mindfulness only no longer tracks or shows walking distance and route, and won't ask for location.
• No more surprise prompt for Workout access in the middle of a session.
• The Apple Watch Ultra Action button no longer shows a broken entry or stumbles on the first press. One press, opens Pust Focus.
• Mindfulness entries now carry full technique details, so Apple Health can group and filter them the same way it does the workouts.

Get the update

This is breathwork that fits your day and now fits your data the way you want it filed. Pust Focus is free to start with Box Breathing and Resonant Breathing, full tracking, no account. Everything else is $4.99 once, no subscription.

If you already have it, the update is waiting. If you don't, get Pust Focus on the App Store.

And if something still isn't right, tell us. That's where 1.2 came from.