User guide

Getting started

Set up in one evening. Two minutes a day after that. This short guide shows you what to add to bionico, how to read it each morning, and how to bring your doctor along.

bionico's AI features are invite-based during the founding period. Not a member yet? Request access — this page will be waiting when your invitation arrives.

How bionico works — one minute

bionico builds your digital health twin — the complete record of your measurements, each with its source — from data you already have. You add it once, keep it current with almost no effort, and it is there every morning:

Your morning, in three signals

Sleep, heart-rate variability and resting heart rate, each shown against your own fourteen-day band. No single number, and no verdict on your day.

Questions on every system

Fixed questions on each system and factor, answered from your own record with the source and date.

Yours, entirely. Swiss-built and Swiss-hosted: your data lives in Zurich under Swiss data-protection law and the GDPR. No ads, never sold. Delete everything from inside the app at any time. The details, in plain words: privacy & security.

Step 1 · Set up your account — five minutes

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Install bionico from the App Store

iPhone required; an Apple Watch or any wearable that syncs into Apple Health (Oura, Whoop, Garmin…) makes bionico much better, but isn't required.

2
Create your account with your invited e-mail address

Your access is tied to the exact address your invitation was sent to. Signing up with e-mail and password? We send a confirmation link — open it, then sign in. That is expected — it confirms the address is yours.

3
Notifications, only if you set a reminder

bionico is quiet by design. It notifies you only for a reminder you set yourself — a commitment or a vaccine booster — and asks for permission the first time you set one.

4
Connect Apple Health

Grant access when asked. Sleep, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, blood oxygen and workouts flow in automatically — nothing more to do.

The one rule that matters. If you use Sign in with Apple, choose "Share My Email" — not "Hide My Email". A hidden address can't be matched to your invitation. Already happened? Reply to your invite and it's fixed in a minute.

Step 2 · Add your records — fifteen minutes, once

Your blood panel — the biggest single win

Upload your most recent lab report under your profile picture; a photo works too. No recent panel? Ask your doctor for a copy — it's your data and you're entitled to it.

Your wearable

Already connected if it writes into Apple Health. Whoop and Oura do not pass heart-rate variability to Apple Health.

Your basics

Age, goal, medications, conditions — two minutes that give every number its context.

Your DNA — optional

If you have a VCF file from genome sequencing, import it on your phone under profile → Import genetics. It's read on the device and the file is discarded; only the matched variants — rsID and genotype, with their interpretation — are stored.

Start small. One blood panel plus your phone's health data is enough. Each addition is one more measurement, with its source.

Step 3 · The rhythm

TodayThree morning signals against your own fourteen-day band, what matters for you today, and one next action.
TwinYour body as eleven systems: what has been measured under each, when, and by whom.
ActionsWhat you said you would do, and what came of it.
CareYour appointments, your instructions, and who they came from.

Meals, Move, an open Ask and the Monday letter are in preparation.

Morning, with your coffee: open Today. During the day, when useful: add what you have, and note what you have done.

Bring your doctor along

In the Care tab, under Sharing, you can share the complete record or one system's record — labs with sources, medications, your latest wearable readings — as a link that expires after 7 or 30 days and that you can revoke. You see when it's opened. Decisions stay where they belong, with your clinician: bionico advises, it never diagnoses.

The founding period

Free through 31 December 2026 — no card on file, nothing renews by itself. Everyone shares a monthly energy budget; hitting a limit means you're actually using it.

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