Category: Cell Phone Talk
I'm thinking of getting a fit bit for my I-phone. What ones have you used, and how accessable are they to use, set up, etc?
I have the Fitbit app itself and let it use the accelerometer in my phone. I don't
have one of their fancy pants devices. It uploads to my insurance company's
servers as a hopeful benefit to lower insurance rates. Having a walking desk at
work, I put on 20,000 steps a day or so, over 9 miles. Your phone and the app
will do it, sort of like how the Health app does.
No need for one of those wrist band things that will calculate how much sleep
you got, or the cubic centimeters of when you last blew your load. I wouldn't
even upload to my insurance company's server, but it's supposed to help with
the rates, so we'll see.
a walking desk? Please, do tell. i've heard of these things, but have never seen one.
Or standing desk. You just walk in place at the desk. I've just set up my own setup so the keyboard is at the right height, that and my Braille display. You can look online if you want, but I just have done it myself with boxers. There's fancy ones you can get if that's what you're into. You just walk in place while typing, you get used to it.
I tried the fit bot app ans didn't find it all that useable. On the sing up screen, it was hard to enter my weight, hight, pick my gender, etc. An how does this app track your sleep? I didn't see anything in the app that mentioned it?
Oh you have to have a device for tracking your sleep. I'm too much of a conspiracy theorist to have some government pawn tracking my sleep lol lol kidding, somewhat.
Sign up on Fitbit.com and sign into the account you create on your iPhone app. The Fitbit site worked, at least a year ago.
Leo, how do you get the app to track your steps. I looked at the "track exercise" feature, but it wanted to use my GPS, and I thought it was going to try to use some distance calculation. I was on a treadmill. I mostly just do the log exercise and estimate it.
I got the Fitbit Flex, but I honestly wish I hadn't gotten it. I used the website to set it up, and I didn't need any sighted help to get it running. You could use the Fitbit app in conjunction with some other pedometer app on the iPhone and be just as happy and also save yourself eighty bucks. Even when I switched around the dominant wrist settings, it still overcounted my steps hard core.
So I guess I'm just looking for a good step-counting app. Save your money.
walkMeeter will do this just fine. There are several activities to choose from, within the app. Choose tredmill and it should work. If you'll go for a quick walk outdoors, it'll set your step length automatically, and if you can take a quick jog, it'll set your running step length too. Then you can walk indoors, in place or on the tredmill, using the indoor mode.
It tracks what steps you're doing just as the health app does. You don't need to
do anything. Then if it is behind, click where it says 0 steps or whatever, and
then the back button. It will refresh and show you.
You don't have to do anything. It tracks the steps you went all day long.
Why use it at all, if the health app does it? Is it because of the different places that it will upload the data?
I don't like to use the health app because as far as I can tell, you have to update things manually.
Every app uses the health app data. Yes it's if you want to use the FitBit service
for one reason or another. I do it for my insurance.
To use the health app you open it and select Day on the dashboard then you'll
see the steps.
That's all I actually use though.