Whoop 4.0 is getting Healthspan this summer
Healthspan is on its way to Whoop 4.0. The feature will, apparently, be arriving sometime this summer.
Up to now, Healthspan has been one of the clearer differences between the two generations. WHOOP Age and Pace of Aging go beyond daily stats and give you a sense of how your habits are shaping up over months. It seems like a genuinely useful feature as detailed in my longer article on the topic.
Healthspan coming to 4.0 changes the value gap
When Whoop 5.0 launched, it introduced a cleaner sensor layout, longer battery life, and a couple of new tricks for the MG variant like ECG and blood pressure insights. But for most people using the regular strap, the jump from 4.0 to 5.0 came down to two main things: Healthspan and battery life.
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Now one of those is going away as an exclusive. As seen in the screenshot below, this is what Whoop told me when I posed the question in Whoop Coach. And depending on how you use your device, Healthspan might have been the more useful of the two. Battery life on 4.0 is not a deal-breaker. It’s shorter, yes, but not to the point where most people complain about it unless they’re in the habit of forgetting the charger.
That means if you’ve been sitting on a 4.0, wondering if you need to upgrade, this summer update might shift the math. You’re about to get access to WHOOP Age and Pace of Aging. These metrics only start working after 90 days of baseline tracking, but if you currently have Whoop 4.0 – the data will already be there when the feature is enabled.
The hardware difference is shrinking
Physically, 5.0 doesn’t offer a radical design shift. It’s slightly smaller, but only by about 7 percent. The weight difference is also subtle. You’d be hard pressed to feel any major change between the two models once they’re on your wrist.
So that leaves fewer reasons to upgrade. If you don’t care about ECG or blood pressure estimates, and if the shorter battery life isn’t a dealbreaker, you’ll soon be getting most of the premium software experience on your current band. That’s good news if you are currently holding on to a 4.0.
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