Jack Dorsey's new app tracks your solar publicity

One other day, one other app from Jack Dorsey. The Twitter co-founder has introduced an app referred to as Solar Day only one week after releasing the peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat.

Whereas Bitchat is an internet-free app for speaking with associates over Bluetooth, Solar Day is all about, properly, the solar. The most recent app tracks your UV publicity and the way a lot Vitamin D you get. It does this utilizing a couple of private particulars, together with your location. Solar Day additionally asks you to share what sort of clothes you are carrying, comparable to “gentle (shorts & t-shirt).” There’s a further house so that you can share your pores and skin sort, selecting from certainly one of six choices.

From there, it reveals you the present UV index, excessive for the day, dawn, sundown and burn restrict — or the time you will be outdoors earlier than your pores and skin begins to burn. You may get your supposed vitamin D consumption whereas outside by clicking “observe UV publicity.”

Like its week-old sibling, Solar Day is at the moment obtainable in beta on TestFlight. You may obtain the service by means of Apple’s App Retailer and see if there are spots obtainable to check out Solar Day.