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Nila launches full Apple Health and Health Connect integration — with a firm rule: your data gets shown, never scored

Victoria, BC — August 28, 2026 — Nila, an evidence-graded menopause support platform and member of Femtech Canada and The Menopause Society, today announced its Apple Health and Health Connect integration is fully live across iOS and Android — bringing sleep, steps, resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), and cycle days into the app — alongside a product-wide commitment never to convert imported wearable data into a score, grade, or verdict.

The update comes as Apple rolls out native perimenopause tracking in iOS 27 and as more of the menopause-app category leans on wearables to power symptom insights. Alongside the launch, Nila is opening conversations with employers, benefits providers, and potential partners interested in bringing evidence-based menopause support to the people they serve.

Nila is built and run by a single founder, Erin Beattie, who shipped this launch eleven months after finishing active treatment for breast cancer — and while in the middle of her own surgical menopause.

Built through diagnosis, surgery, and menopause — not before it, or after it

Erin lived with undiagnosed endometriosis for nearly twenty years before she was diagnosed with hormone-positive breast cancer in September 2023. Treatment — including Tamoxifen and Zoladex — deliberately suppressed her estrogen, inducing chemical menopause. She had a bilateral mastectomy in February 2024 and reconstruction in February 2025. In September 2025, her gynecologist and oncologist recommended a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) — prompted by continued endometriosis suspicion and an MSH2 gene flag — and the surgery confirmed stage 3 endometriosis that had gone undetected for two decades. The BSO put her into full surgical menopause on top of the chemical menopause already underway. Because her cancer is hormone-positive, systemic HRT remains a genuinely open question for her care team; eleven months out from surgery, the menopause is acute and all-consuming some days. She manages it with local vaginal estrogen and the same Nila tools she built for everyone else: workouts, nutrition, and research.

She built Nila the entire time — through diagnosis, two major surgeries, reconstruction, and the acute menopause she is living through right now. Nila is not a product she built after her health crisis, informed by hindsight. It is one she built inside it, in real time, without outside funding or a team.

What one founder built, and why

This week, Nila’s full Apple Health and Health Connect integration went live — on both iOS and Android, pulling in sleep, steps, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and cycle days. Nila has one non-negotiable: your data shows up exactly as your phone or watch reports it, never twisted into a score or a verdict. Balance, the market-leading menopause app used by over a million people, still does not have this on either platform — and Erin does not know of another menopause-specific platform pairing full cross-platform wearable integration with a hard no-score policy.

That gap is the product of a specific point of view: Erin built Nila because she spent nearly twenty years not being believed about what was happening in her own body, then had to become her own advocate through a cancer diagnosis and a surgical menopause in real time. Nila exists so that other people can walk into a doctor’s appointment already informed — with their own data, in plain language, backed by graded sources — instead of starting from zero the way she had to.

What’s live

Members on any account tier can now bring in five core Vitals from Apple Health (iOS) or Health Connect (Android):

• Sleep
• Steps
• Resting heart rate
• Heart rate variability (HRV)
• Cycle days

This is the full integration Nila has been building toward — not an incremental add-on, but the complete set of Vitals launching together across both platforms at once.

Members choose exactly what to bring in, one metric at a time. Nila stores a single daily total per measure — never raw, minute-by-minute readings — and any of it can be deleted at any time. A dedicated explainer, Where your numbers go, walks through the full data path before anyone connects anything.

Bring in the wearable you already have

Members using Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, Withings, or Whoop can bring their data into Nila today — routed through Apple Health or Health Connect, the same path as every other metric. No separate account, no extra setup: if a wearable already writes to Apple Health or Health Connect, Nila can read it.

Why the “no score” line matters

Nila’s core promise is that its research library only carries evidence with a named source and a visible grade — A through D — so users can check the underlying study themselves. The same discipline now applies to the numbers a phone or watch estimates about a body: sleep hours, resting heart rate, HRV, and so on are shown exactly as the device reported them, with a standing note that these are estimates, and that how a night actually felt should outweigh what a device says about it. Nila does not convert this data into a score, a colour-coded verdict, or an interpretation of what it means — a design constraint that is now enforced in the product itself, not just stated as a policy.

That stands in contrast to the direction much of the category has moved: dedicated symptom scores, AI-generated readiness assessments, and wearable-driven “detection” features are increasingly common across menopause apps, and Apple’s own iOS 27 update adds automated perimenopause notifications based on logged cycle data. Nila’s explainer at Nila and Apple Health lays out plainly what the phone already does on its own and what Nila adds on top of it — namely a graded research library, a doctor-ready pattern view, a vetted practitioner directory, and an AI assistant that answers only from that library.

Why this matters for employers and benefits providers

Menopause-related productivity loss costs the U.S. economy more than $26 billion a year, according to a 2023 Mayo Clinic Proceedings study — split between lost work time and direct medical costs among women aged 45 to 60. Roughly 1 in 9 women in that study missed work in the past year due to symptoms, and most employer benefits plans still do not address menopause specifically.

Nila is built to be something employers and benefits providers can put in front of their people directly: a graded, sourced research library instead of forum threads; symptom tracking that produces a doctor-ready summary instead of a spreadsheet; and a practitioner directory to help employees find the right specialist faster. Nila is open to conversations with employers, insurers, and benefits platforms interested in piloting access for their teams or members.

Built for the moment before the specialist appointment

Nila is not designed to replace a doctor, a gynecologist, or an oncologist — it is designed for everything that happens before that appointment: understanding what is normal, what is worth tracking, and what questions to ask. The goal is for someone to walk into a specialist’s office already informed, with their own patterns and data in hand, rather than starting the conversation from zero.

What’s next

Further integrations — including a public Oura connection, and support for reading data directly from other wearables rather than via Apple Health or Health Connect — remain gated behind member demand. Nila has set a public threshold: once 250 people register interest in a specific integration, the company commits to publishing a cost and timeline, rather than leaving it open-ended.

About Nila

Nila is a free-to-start menopause support platform offering an evidence-graded research library (400+ articles, each carrying a sourced A–D grade), symptom tracking with doctor-ready exports, a vetted practitioner directory, and an AI assistant that answers only from Nila’s own graded sources. Nila is a member of Femtech Canada and The Menopause Society. Nila is available on the App Store and Google Play.

Nila is founded, built, and run by Erin Beattie of Victoria, BC — a breast cancer survivor eleven months out from active treatment, currently in surgical menopause following a total hysterectomy with BSO. Nila is entirely bootstrapped — self-funded, with no outside investors — and Erin remains the platform’s sole founder.

Media contact: Erin Beattie, Founder · info@hellonila.com · hellonila.com/press

Partnership, employer, and benefits inquiries: partnerships@hellonila.com