Valeska is live on iPad, with honest Insights

An iPad often lives on the kitchen table. It is where people read the news, pay the bills, and sit down to work out what the week actually looked like. Valeska was not much use there, so we built a native iPad experience. Apple has reviewed the update, and it is now live on the App Store. That is the biggest change in this version, and while we were at it we fixed a handful of things that were bothering us about how honest the app was being with you.

Valeska is now live on iPad

Not stretched. Built. Every screen is laid out for the bigger window, so charts get room to breathe and lists show more than four rows at a time. A phone app blown up to iPad size looks like a photocopy of a photocopy, and we did not want to ship that.

A few things you can now do on the bigger screen:

• In a full-size iPad window you can switch on a sidebar that puts every tool in one list, so you can go from Symptoms to Meds to Visit Prep without hunting through a More tab.
• Split View and Stage Manager work, so Valeska can sit next to your patient portal, your email, or the notes you are writing for your next appointment.
• If you have sync turned on, it is one record across both devices. Log on the phone at the pharmacy, read it on the iPad that night.

The phone is still the right tool for logging in ten seconds in a waiting room. The iPad is the right tool for the Sunday review. Now you do not have to pick.

Apple Watch is coming next week

The next Valeska update brings the everyday quick actions to Apple Watch. You will be able to mark a scheduled dose taken or skipped, log an as-needed medicine, add water, record a symptom, and save a question for your care team without reaching for your phone.

The Watch is a companion to the same record on your iPhone. It does not diagnose or score anything, and it follows the same profile and sharing permissions you already chose.See what is coming to Apple Watch next week.

Every pattern says how sure it is

Valeska watches what you log and points out things that line up. Some of those are strong. Some, if we are honest, are the kind of thing you would get by shuffling a deck. Before this update, both of them arrived looking equally confident, and that is not fair to you.

Now every card tells you how solid it is: it stands out, it is worth a look, or it could be luck. If it could be luck, it says so on the card, and it tells you how many comparisons it ran to find it. A finding that admits it might be nothing is worth more than one that sounds certain about everything.

One thing does not get quieter, no matter how it scores. If Valeska spots a possible interaction between medicines you take, that card stays on your Home screen. Safety notes are not a place for modesty.

Only the days you actually logged count

If you had a rough fortnight and did not open the app, those days are not counted as calm days. They are counted as what they were, which is days with no record. This one matters more than it sounds. The weeks you cannot log are usually the weeks you feel worst, and no app should quietly read your silence as good news.

Sleep got the same treatment. If a night showed up twice, once from your watch and once from somewhere else, it used to be possible for one night to count as two. Now a night is a night.

A dose you held is not a dose you missed

Sometimes you hold a dose on purpose. Your stomach is off, your doctor said to skip it before a test, or you are waiting on a refill. The app used to describe that the same way it described forgetting.

It does not anymore. A held dose reads as "not taken." That is all it says, because that is all it knows. You are not being graded here, and after fifty of these a month the wording genuinely changes how it feels to open the app.

One dose, one record, on both devices

Mark a dose taken on your phone and it is taken on your iPad. Delete one and it stays deleted instead of wandering back a day later. If you have ever watched a dose reappear like it had unfinished business, you will appreciate this one.

Sharing got sturdier too. When you change what a caregiver can see, their device clears everything you took back, even if their app happened to be closed when you changed it. What you decided is what happens, not what happens the next time they remember to open the app.

Your heart numbers, next to how you felt

Valeska can now bring resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood pressure into your patterns. It compares them against your own normal, not against a chart of averages for everybody, because your normal is the only one that is any use to you.

So you may see something like a note that your resting heart rate ran higher on the days you logged dizziness. That is an observation, not a diagnosis. Take it to your care team and let them tell you what it means.

The small stuff that adds up

• Setting how strong a symptom feels is a plus and minus now, not a slider. Much kinder on a shaky morning.
• Pointing to where it hurts takes two taps: front or back, then the spot.
• The Symptoms page opens calm, with the body map tucked away until you want it.
• The More tab has "this week" mini charts, so you can see how the week went without opening anything.
• Food search actually finds the food now.

Why we spent an update on honesty

We could have spent this one adding another module. But the whole point of Valeska is that you can trust what it tells you and bring it to a doctor without a footnote. An app that overstates a weak pattern, counts days you never logged, or calls a careful decision a mistake is not a second pair of eyes. It is one more thing to argue with.

Valeska still shows you what it notices and stops there. It does not diagnose, it does not prescribe, and it will never score you. It just tries very hard to be right, and to say so plainly when it is not sure.