One session a day, planned around your day.
Ambient is a training and recovery coach for iPhone. Each morning it gives you a single card: what to do today, when to do it, and why.
What Ambient does
- Builds your session. You tell Ambient your goal, the days you can train and where you train. It keeps a plan and chooses each day's exercises from its own exercise library.
- Adjusts to how you are recovering. If you allow it, Ambient reads a daily summary of your sleep, heart rate and activity from Apple Health, and eases off or pushes on accordingly.
- Fits around your commitments. If you allow it, Ambient looks at when you are busy and places the session where there is room.
- Listens. Tell it in plain words that you are short on time, that a knee hurts, or that you are travelling, and it replans.
Ambient is for general fitness. It is not a medical service, it does not diagnose or treat anything, and it is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or physiotherapist.
What Ambient uses, and why
Every source below is optional and is off until you turn it on. Ambient works with none of them: you can simply tell it about your day.
| Source | What Ambient reads | What it is used for |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Health | A daily summary: sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, steps and activity. The detailed readings stay on your phone. | Deciding how hard today's session should be. |
| Calendar | The times you are busy. Not the titles, places or people. | Placing the session where you have room. |
| Gmail | Booking emails from the last 14 days. See below. | Knowing about flights, hotel stays, reservations, appointments, tickets and classes. |
How Ambient uses Gmail
If you choose to connect Gmail, Ambient asks Google for permission to read your email and nothing more. It cannot send, change or delete anything in your mailbox.
- Ambient searches for booking emails received in the last 14 days: travel, hotel stays, restaurant reservations, appointments, tickets and class bookings.
- From each one it keeps only the kind of booking, its dates and times, and a scrambled form of the booking reference. It does not keep the sender, the subject, the text of the email or any attachment, and it never opens attachments.
- It uses those dates and times for one thing: planning your own sessions around them. A flight or a dinner becomes busy time. A hotel stay becomes a question – Ambient asks whether to plan those days for a hotel gym, and changes nothing unless you say yes.
- You can see everything Ambient found, and delete any of it, in the app.
- Disconnecting Gmail in the app deletes everything Ambient derived from your email and withdraws its permission at Google.
Ambient's use of information received from Google Workspace scopes will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Nobody reads your email. What Ambient learns from it is not sold, not used for advertising, and not shared. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Availability
Ambient is in private testing on iPhone, by invitation.
Contact
Ambient is operated by Ambient Agentic Technologies Inc. For questions, including anything about your data, write to privacy@ambientagentictech.com.