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Ringlocket

Your ring. Your phone. Nobody else.

Ringlocket is a free, private companion app for low-cost SmartHealth smart rings. Heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen estimates, breathing, HRV and stress, read straight from the ring and kept on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking.

Why it exists

These rings cost about as much as lunch, and they measure real things. The app they ship with wants you to create an account first. Ringlocket talks to the ring directly over Bluetooth and keeps everything on your phone, with optional copies to Apple Health and to a backup folder you choose.

Built by one person for himself and his dad. It is free and stays free.

Which rings work

Ringlocket works with rings built on the Yucheng SmartHealth platform. The model name on the listing does not matter (sellers reuse names); what matters is that the box or listing says to use the SmartHealth app. If you pair a ring that is not compatible, Ringlocket tells you right away instead of half-working.

RingStatusNotes
TK5TestedOur daily ring. Sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen, breathing, HRV, stress, steps.
R10M, R11M / R99, R20, R21MReported workingSame platform per other developers; we are buying units to confirm.
Rings whose listing says "SmartHealth"LikelyCheck the listing for the app name before you buy.
SR08 (JRing app)Not compatible yet"SR08" is a shared label: some use the JRing app, others QRing. Support for the JRing version is being worked on.
QRing / Colmi, Jring / KeepFit, RWfit, LuckRing / TK18, LefunNot compatibleDifferent protocols, even when the ring looks identical.

How to check before you buy

  • The listing, the box or the manual names the SmartHealth app. Many listings hide the app name in the photos or the questions section, so look there too.
  • Skip listings that name QRing, Da Rings, Colmi Fit, JRing, KeepFit, RWfit, Fitpro, Wearfit or HBand.
  • If a ring turns out not to be compatible, Ringlocket tells you the first time it connects.

Buy links for tested rings will appear here once each listing has been checked with a real unit. Listings change often, so we only link to ones we have verified.

Support

The ring won't connect

Put the ring on its charger for a minute to wake it, keep it near the phone, and make sure the original SmartHealth app is closed (a ring talks to one app at a time). Then open Ringlocket and tap Connect.

Last night is missing

The ring stores readings while you sleep and Ringlocket collects them the next time the app is open and the ring is nearby. If the ring was not worn, or was on the charger, there is nothing to collect.

Moving to a new phone

In Ringlocket, open Data, then Backup, and choose a folder. The app saves a copy once a day. On the new phone, install Ringlocket and tap "Restore from a backup".

Are the numbers medical-grade?

No. A ring's optical sensor gives useful trends, especially for heart rate and sleep, but blood pressure and blood oxygen from a ring are estimates. Ringlocket is a wellness app, not a medical device.

Contact

Email support@peaksummitlabs.com. A real person reads it.

Privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-11-14 (app renamed Ringlocket; workout routes and location, optional Apple Maps, air pressure, marked moments, full Apple Health list)

Ringlocket is a private, on-device companion app for compatible Bluetooth smart rings. It has no accounts, no servers, no advertising, and no analytics. This page explains exactly what the app touches and where it goes.

Short version: your data stays on your iPhone. Ringlocket never sends it to the developer or to anyone else.

What Ringlocket reads from your ring

When you pair a compatible ring over Bluetooth, the app reads the sensor data the ring records:

  • heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, blood pressure estimates, and stress readings
  • step counts and activity
  • sleep sessions and sleep stages
  • battery level and firmware version of the ring
  • the ring's Bluetooth identifier, saved so the app can reconnect to your ring automatically

You can also enter a few details yourself: age, sex, weight, and an optional blood pressure calibration reading from your own cuff. Habit and symptom tags, mood check-ins, caffeine entries, cycle-tracking entries (only if you turn cycle tracking on), workout sessions, and marked moments ("headache at 2:25", with an optional short note) are stored too.

On this ring model, the blood oxygen and breathing-rate values the ring reports are calculated from heart rate rather than measured. Ringlocket labels them "from HR", leaves them out of its scores and alerts, and does not write them to Apple Health.

Where the data is stored

  • All of the above is stored only on your device, in the app's own database. The database files use iOS Data Protection: they are encrypted on the device and cannot be read after a restart until you unlock your iPhone for the first time. After that the app can keep saving your ring's readings overnight while the phone is locked.
  • Small settings (your profile, alert thresholds, night mode times, calibration) are stored in the app's on-device preferences.
  • A small summary (for example your latest health score) is shared with the Ringlocket home screen widget and the Ringlocket Apple Watch app on your own devices. The widget uses an on-device app group. The Watch app is fed by Apple's on-device WatchConnectivity link. Neither involves any server.

Ringlocket makes no network connections of its own. It includes no third-party SDKs: no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking. The only web links in the app (this page and the list of compatible rings) open in Safari when you tap them. One optional exception: if you turn on Settings > Workout routes > Show Apple Maps under routes (off by default), Apple's MapKit downloads map images from Apple Maps for the area your route covers, so Apple can see roughly which area you looked at. Your route itself is never sent. With the setting off, routes are drawn as a plain line and nothing is loaded.

Location (workout routes)

When you start a walk, run, ride or hike, Ringlocket asks for your location (While Using the App) and records your route with the phone's GPS until you end the workout. Recording continues with the screen locked during that workout, and iOS shows the blue location indicator while it does. Location is never used at any other time. The route is stored on your phone and, if you allow it, saved to Apple Health with the workout (as a workout route and distance).

Motion & Fitness (air pressure)

When you mark a moment, Ringlocket reads the air pressure from your iPhone's barometer (iOS asks for Motion & Fitness access the first time), and after that it takes a pressure reading when you open the app, so it can show whether the weather was changing around the moment. Readings are kept on your phone for 14 days. No motion or activity data is read.

Apple Health (HealthKit)

If you allow it, Ringlocket connects to Apple Health.

  • Written to Apple Health (with your permission): heart rate, blood pressure estimates, heart rate variability, sleep stages, workouts you record with the app (with active energy, and for walks, runs, rides and hikes the GPS route and distance), mindful minutes from breathing sessions, and menstrual flow if you log it in cycle tracking. Blood oxygen and respiratory rate are written only from a ring that actually measures them. Steps are not written: your iPhone and Apple Watch already count them.
  • Read from Apple Health (with your permission): body weight, resting heart rate, active energy, workouts, VO2 max, Apple Watch sleeping wrist temperature, and menstrual flow (only if you turn on cycle tracking), so they can be shown next to your ring's data.

You choose each category in the iOS permission sheet and can change it at any time in Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Ringlocket. The app keeps working with Health access denied.

Health data is used only to show you your own information inside the app. It is never used for advertising, marketing, or data mining, and it is never shared with third parties. Ringlocket does not use iCloud itself. Your data only leaves the app as a file you export or a backup folder you choose (see Backups).

Notifications

If you enable alerts, Ringlocket schedules local notifications on your phone (for example when two readings in a row fall outside limits you set). They are generated on the device. Nothing is sent to a notification server.

Export and sharing

Ringlocket can create CSV, JSON, and PDF files of your data. This happens only when you tap an export or share button, and the file goes only where you send it using the standard iOS share sheet (Files, AirDrop, Mail, and so on). Once you share a file, the receiving app or person is governed by their own policies.

Backups

You can choose a folder in the Files app and Ringlocket will save a copy of your history there once a day, as a single file, so you can restore it on a new phone. Where that folder lives (on the phone, on a drive, or in a cloud service you use) is your choice, and you can stop at any time. Ringlocket never sends the file anywhere else.

If you use iCloud Backup or an encrypted Finder/iTunes backup for your whole device, the app's data may be included in that device backup, like any other app's data. That backup is controlled by your Apple settings, not by Ringlocket.

Third parties

None. Ringlocket has no developer-operated servers and shares nothing with third parties. Apple's own frameworks (Bluetooth, HealthKit, notifications, Core Location for workout routes, Core Motion for air pressure) operate on your device under your permissions. The one exception that involves Apple's servers is the optional Apple Maps background for routes, described above.

Children

Ringlocket is not directed to children under 13 and collects nothing from anyone.

Your controls and deleting your data

  • Stop collecting: tap Disconnect Ring in the app Settings, or turn off Bluetooth for the app in iOS Settings.
  • Revoke Health access: Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Ringlocket.
  • Delete data stored by the app: delete the Ringlocket app from your iPhone. This removes the app's database, preferences, and widget data. (Uninstalling also removes the data from the Watch app.)
  • Delete data the app wrote to Apple Health: open the Health app, choose the data type (for example Heart Rate), then Show All Data, and delete entries. You can also delete by source under Profile > Apps > Ringlocket > Delete All Data from "Ringlocket".
  • Delete exports you made: delete the files from wherever you saved or sent them.
  • Delete data on the ring: the ring's stored history is cleared after the app has safely saved it to your phone.

Not medical advice

Ringlocket is for general wellness and informational use. It is not a medical device, does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and its readings and estimates (including blood pressure, blood oxygen, sleep, and scores) can be wrong. Do not use it to make medical decisions. Talk to a qualified healthcare professional about health concerns, and call your local emergency number in an emergency.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at the same address with a new date. Because the app collects nothing off your device, a material change would require an app update that you would have to install.

Contact

Questions: support@peaksummitlabs.com