Monitor Your Weight

Love the app, does more and with a better display of data than other trackers I’ve tried. While my particular smart scale (Wyze) can’t connect to this app directly both connect to Apple Health which means my scale will automatically update the app through Apple Health which is very convenient. I only have one minor criticism and one suggestion. The criticism is that when you turn your phone sideways to view the graphs in landscape, you must keep the phone angled up. If you tilt it down (for more comfortable viewing or to lay it on a table)the screen goes back to portrait which is a bit irritating. Every other app that automatically switches between landscape and portrait will allow you to rotate the screen to landscape and maintain that view even when you set the phone down. The suggestion is that you provide a graph and/or data display on the home page of body measurements. Being able to add body measurements is nice but you have to call up the data screen and scroll through it looking for individual measurements amongst all of the weight data. Neither of these two issues are deal breakers, I really like the app and believe these two things could further improve an already great app.

I got this app to be able to use on my Apple Watch. My favorite weight tracker app (Happy Scale) doesn’t have an Apple Watch companion, so I was willing to try something new. This app seems to work nicely on my iPhone. However, the app on the Apple Watch is completely different. It’s one screen and the information is tiny and the app looks ancient, not like the iPhone visuals at all. I was actually fine with that. I mainly needed an app on my watch that I could enter weight from quickly. This said it would do that. Sometimes it does. Usually it doesn’t work. You set the app up on your phone and then it syncs with your Watch… supposedly. It only did that once and then stopped working. The Watch app now just says “new set up. No user defined.” So I PAID for the app because it said a paid subscription will sync everything seamlessly. Well all that did was sync the Watch as long as the app was open on my phone. If the app on my phone is closed, the Watch has no data. When I open the app on my phone, all the data on the Watch magically appears. This is USELESS. Why don’t need the app on my watch if I have to open the app on my phone anyway? Why not just log the weight on my phone? If I’m just logging the weight on my phone, the Watch app is useless because you can’t even use it to see your data unless you open your phone app and if your phone app is open, ignore your watch because the data that pops up on the Watch is small to read and a terrible format. If you are downloading this for your watch. Save your time AND your money. I rarely, if ever, write app reviews. I’m very disappointed.

I have about 5 weight tracking apps running, after losing data from 1, I became a little paranoid of losing all my hard work so I added a couple. 😁 I love this one above them all for the range of options it allows. Some apps have just as many but don’t teach you how to use them and how they impact your tracking. While a beginner can still use it and the basics it provides the History and Graphs sections are really great for those of use who like to dig into the details. Showing what category your BMI is placing in the way this app does allows me to see how much farther to go to get to the next category by pound where others are too general. I also really love the journal section which gives each entry a red, yellow or green to warn you should you begin to slide. A warning far ahead of doing damage to your weight loss goals and that too graphs and keeps a history. I really love the feature that allows you to have your pounds lost set outside of the app on the icon. It’s nice to be reminded of how far you’ve come when your not even in the app. I could go on but those are a few of the features I love about this app.