# Connecting your watch or running app

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Get your runs into Health Connect, and PaceWise can do the rest (Android).

Two PaceWise features read your **running workouts from Health Connect** on Android:

- **Import from Health** (in Personal bests) scans your running workouts and offers your fastest 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon as personal bests.
- **Weekly distance** (the Trends tab) adds up the running you’ve logged each week.

Both work best when your runs actually land in Health Connect. Most modern watches and running apps can write to Health Connect. It’s Android’s shared, on-device store for health and fitness data, and PaceWise is one of the apps that can read from it. Check your watch or running app’s own settings for a **Health Connect** or “health data sharing” option, turn it on, and make sure **Exercise**/**Workouts** is included in what it shares. The first time PaceWise reads from Health Connect it will ask your permission. Grant read access when prompted.

PaceWise never asks for your watch account or password and has no servers of its own. It reads from Health Connect, on your phone, when you tap Import or open the Weekly distance screen. The connection between your watch/running app and Health Connect is strictly between that company’s app and Android.

## Per-app steps

We haven’t yet validated the exact steps for individual watch or running apps on Health Connect, so we’re not listing app-by-app instructions here. In the meantime, look for a “Health Connect” entry in your app’s own settings (often under Connected Apps, Integrations or Data Sharing) and check that app’s help centre for the exact menu path.

## Checking it worked

Health Connect itself has the final say on what an app may read or write: the first time an app connects, Android asks you to allow each data type. If runs aren’t coming through, open the **Health Connect** app (or Settings → Apps → Health Connect), check **App permissions** for your watch/running app and make sure it can **write** Exercise data, then check PaceWise’s own permissions there to make sure it can **read** it. If you can see your runs listed in Health Connect’s data, PaceWise can see them too.

## Limits

PaceWise only counts activities recorded as a **running** exercise session, so an indoor session logged as a generic “workout” or saved only as steps won’t be picked up. The sharing is one-way and read-only: PaceWise reads from Health Connect and never writes back.

Head back to [Support](https://pacewise.doughworks.dev/support) or email [support@doughworks.dev](mailto:support@doughworks.dev).