Legato: Workouts to Health

Everything your watch recorded, in Apple Health.

Legato brings the activities from your Garmin watch into Apple Health with the detail it recorded: every heart rate reading, the route, power, cadence, laps and pauses. It reads the original file of each activity from Garmin Connect and writes the measurements Apple Health has a place for, reading by reading.

WHAT REACHES APPLE HEALTH • Heart rate: every reading, and your heart rate and power zones from iOS 27 • Route: the GPS track with its altitude, on the map in Fitness • Power and speed: every reading, where Apple Health has a type for them • Cadence: steps on foot, crank revolutions on the bike • Running dynamics: stride length, ground contact time and vertical oscillation • Laps, pauses and intervals: each lap, each automatic pause and each workout step you followed • Pool lengths and strokes: each length with its stroke style • Multisport legs: each leg and transition of a triathlon, a duathlon or a swimrun • Ascent, descent and weather: the watch's own totals, with the temperature and humidity from Garmin Connect • Calories, VO2 max and FTP: active and resting calories as the watch split them, and the day's VO2 max and FTP • Effort: the perceived effort you entered after the activity

What Apple Health has no place for stays visible in Legato.

READINESS AND TRAINING LOAD, UP TO DATE Training Load in Fitness weighs each workout by its duration and effort. Legato writes both, with the effort you rated on your watch, so your Garmin sessions count in it. On Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Readiness reflects them too.

HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign in to Garmin Connect in the app, with Garmin's two-step verification if you use it. 2. Choose your activities: recent ones first, older ones when you ask. One or several at a time. 3. Import: Legato downloads each original file and writes it to Apple Health. Your watch keeps syncing to Garmin Connect as usual. Once in Apple Health, your activities are workouts like any other: Fitness shows them with their route and heart rate, and every app you allow to read Health can use them.

SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES Running (road, trail, track, treadmill, virtual), cycling (road, gravel, mountain, e-bike, indoor, virtual, hand cycling), walking and hiking, pool and open water swimming, multisport (triathlon, duathlon, swimrun, brick), strength and HIIT, indoor cardio (rowing, elliptical, stairs, jump rope), yoga, Pilates, mobility, meditation and breathwork, indoor climbing, bouldering and dance. Other Garmin activity types appear in the list as not supported yet.

PRIVATE • Your Garmin password is not kept: it goes to Garmin once, to sign you in. The session Garmin returns stays in the iOS Keychain. • Your activities go from Garmin Connect to your iPhone or iPad, then to Apple Health. We never receive them. • No account to create, and no ads.

FOR EVERYONE Legato speaks 11 languages and is built for accessibility: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type at every size, Increase Contrast, Reduce Motion, and charts and routes you can explore without seeing them. On iPhone and iPad, in any window size.

WHY LEGATO EXISTS I'm Jérôme, an independent developer and a triathlete. The standard sync to Apple Health wasn't carrying what my watch recorded during a race, so I built the app I wanted.

Requires a Garmin Connect account and iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later. Legato is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Garmin or Apple. Garmin and Garmin Connect are trademarks of Garmin Ltd.

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