Keep Health

I’m happy to have this to keep track of my health stats, specifically my heart rate, sleep time, caloric burn, and steps. However, even after verifying the app’s connection and permissions, it still doesn’t accurately translate to the health app for iPhone. I’ve had to manually add the difference in steps daily/ weekly. I’d love to see a better option for syncing to the app and within the iPhone health app. Most apps will read health stats (including steps and calories burned) from the iHealth app. So not having the accurate data communicate to the iHealth is frustrating. As for the watch itself, I love how lightweight it is. The battery life has been amazing so far. I can usually get by for 7 -8 days before I need to charge it fully. The backlight for the watch face is bright enough to see in daylight which has been a big disadvantage to other health watches I’ve used. My last watch needed to have the brightness all the way up to 100% to see in daylight but would drain the battery within 1-2 days. Overall I love this watch for the price point and the features that are comparable to Fitbit watches I’ve owned previously. I just wish the app would consistently and accurately reflect in my iHealth to communicate accurately stats to any other connected apps I use.

Overall I think the app is great and easy to use and follow. I have noticed a couple things that could use some work though. Namely the graphs. It’s great to be able to see a time series of data for the collected information but I think the graphs could be better. Take the body temperature one for instance. The graph shows a range of 80 degrees to 120 degrees. There is no need to have a range that exceeds 108 and drops below 90. Anything beyond those ranges aren’t survivable for a human so why include them? It creates a lot of wasted space on the graph. What would be awesome is if the graphs were dynamic. If they would somehow change their range based off of historical data for the user, that way the ranges would be a little more meaningful. Another issue with the graphs is that the data technically shouldn’t be reported as a histogram as this implies constant measurements. The watch takes measurements frequently, not constantly. connecting the the points with a solid line implies constant measurements. This can lead to confusion and inaccurate assessments by the user. The solid line shows that in between measurements there is data that isn’t truly there. A better display of this data is points/dots as it shows the data at the precise time of measurement without mapping out an inferred connection between the points. But overall, it’s a great app that is very easy to use and I am very happy with the purchase.