Health Mate - Steps tracker & Life coach by Withings 2.4.0
Companies making a living selling Health & Fitness products are seeing a surge in demand for their offerings, and many of them have created custom-tailored mobile apps that integrate with that gear. Some, however, use the actual sensors on the iPhone to take readings and assess the person’s health.
Uses your iPhone's sensors
Health Mate tracks your everyday activity and heart rate using sensors in your iPhone. The newer the model, the more readings you get. It’s cleverly designed to get you interested in your metabolic state, and it makes the tracking process fun and simple.
You start by creating an account, which may sound like a drag, but it’s really just a three-step affair: email, name and password. After that, the setup process asks just for a few more seconds of your time, to punch in your height and weight.
Full of pop
It’s got a modern UI that uses distinct vibrant colors to represent stuff like Activity (orange), Weight (pink), Heart (green), and Sleep (blue). The overall look is very friendly and inviting.
Health Mate is filled with graphs and various ways to track your progress as you try to get into shape, or simply stay in shape. It uses location services to track how many steps you’ve taken (with the goal to reach 10,000 daily steps for a healthy life), and it tells you to challenge friends to the marathon. It’s a great motivator!
There are various tips for healthy living scattered throughout the app. These alone are worth downloading it. The sleeping guide is a life changer.
Tells you how fast your heart is beating
However, probably the coolest feature inside Health Mate is the Heart Rate measurement that uses your iPhone’s camera and LED flash to detect your pulse and churn out a BPM (beats per minute). The measurement may not be 100% accurate, but it’s still something.
The app even allows you to link your Nike Fuelband and get your data in the timeline. You can also control your Withings Aura via the app, following the added compatibility between the two. In this manner, you’ll be able to better control the smart sleep device by launching the fall-asleep program, for instance, or customizing the volume and brightness of the device.
Following the release of iOS 8, the app has received compatibility with Apple Health, which makes it possible to synchronize your data from the Health Mate’s profile screen. The safety and privacy of users is taken into consideration as well. That’s why you can now securely protect your data with your fingerprint via the Touch ID system.
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Bottom Line
Design / UI9
Clearly made by experts, Health Mate is a great example of form meeting function to create an intersection of features focused on your healthy living. |
Function9
Offers invaluable tips for healthy living and is a great motivator to get out of that chair and start moving. We suggest you try the Heart Rate monitor thing. It’s pretty awesome! |
Security9
Since it collects a lot of your personal information, it goes without saying that you need to be careful with the data (where you send it, how manage it, etc). WiThings cleverly includes a padlock which you can enable to further secure your data. |
Battery7
Some features draw more power than others, but overall it’s no cause for concern. It does work in the background even after you put your iPhone to sleep, but that’s what you want it to do. |
Price9
For $0, the offerings are more than you’d expect. Sure Withings advertises its hardware products at every step of the way, but at least there are no pesky Google ad banners to endure. |
Compatibility9
Requires iOS 7 to run, which means it supports most iDevices currently in circulation, but there’s no iPad version. Not that there could be one. The tablet lacks the necessary hardware for some important readings (such as the Heart Rate function). |
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Specifications
- price:
- 100% Free
- current version:
- 2.4.0
- reviewed version:
- 2.4.0
- developer:
- WiThings, S.A.S.
- category:
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- os version req.:
- 7.0
- age rating:
- 4+
- in-app purchases:
- No
- hits:
- 576