Getting Started with Silent
A quick guide to setting up your health tracking journey. What to log first, how to connect Apple Health, and how to get the most out of the app.
Silent is built around one idea: tracking your health should feel effortless, not like a second job. This guide gets you set up in under five minutes.
Step 1: Set your goals
When you open Silent for the first time, you'll go through a short onboarding flow that asks for your daily calorie goal, protein target, and water intake goal. These become the benchmarks Silent uses to show your progress.
You don't need to be precise. A rough goal is better than no goal. You can adjust these anytime in Settings.
Step 2: Connect Apple Health
Silent can pull data automatically from Apple Health: steps, active calories burned, sleep hours, and weight. This means you don't have to log everything manually.
To enable it, go to Settings → Health Access and grant the permissions you want. Once connected, that data appears in your daily dashboard without any extra effort.
Step 3: Log your first day
For your first few days, focus on just two things: calories consumed and water intake. These are the two metrics that have the most impact on most people's health goals, and they're the easiest to build a logging habit around.
Tap the plus button on the dashboard to log a meal or drink. You can enter numbers directly. No food database required, no barcode scanning. Silent is intentionally minimal here. It trusts you to know what you ate.
Step 4: Add one habit
The habit tracker is one of Silent's most powerful features. Start with just one habit, something small you want to do every day. It could be "drink water before coffee" or "read for 10 minutes."
Tap Habits in the navigation, then + New Habit. Give it a name, pick an icon, and set it as active. From tomorrow, you'll see it on your dashboard every morning waiting to be checked off.
Unlocking the AI Coach
If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or later with Apple Intelligence enabled, the AI Coach becomes available once you've logged at least three days of data.
The coach works best when you give it something to analyze. The more you log, even roughly, the more specific and useful its insights become.
That's it. Five minutes, and you have a real health tracking setup. The goal isn't perfection; it's consistency. Log a little every day, and Silent starts to show you patterns you'd never notice otherwise.
If you have questions, email me at gjinprelvukaj1@gmail.com. I read everything.