Argus: Calorie Counter & Step

I've been using this app for a long time now and really like the way it has brought me increasing and useful monitoring of health activities 24/7. The linking to sleep and heart rate are especially good - also step count, automatic run detection and voice coaching. I love the encouragement and sharing with others self-monitoring in countries all round the world - who become good friends. With groups and intercontinental challenges etc the ‘global village’ becomes a reality, and it’s very educational too! I wouldn’t want to be without this app! I mention the it to others when I can, especially those who wonder how on earth they can even start to get healthier!

I have been using this app for a week now. Its great with counting calouries that I consume. Makes me really conscious about what I eat. However, few downsides. Ingredients that I use in recipes dont get saved into my database, I have to search them every time. The only way to add the ingredient is to add it to a meal. But if I only want to add it but not to actually eat it at the time, I have to remove it from breakfast or lunch, and it gets removed from database. Quite frustrating it is. Also, the app is connected to my Health app that in return is connected to my Apple watch. But I still dont get readings on my workout, only the steps. Although, even steps are not correctly recorded, at least half of them are missing🧐 Otherwise fairly happy with it.

I have used and loved Argus since October 2014, and have long paid for the premium version. One of the app’s best features is Equivalent Active Minutes, which converts all the activities monitored — in my case, walking and running — into metabolically equivalent minutes, with more intense activities translating to more EAMs than the same amount of time spent doing a less intense activity. Sadly, the last few months, this feature has been misfiring, with the app not accurately recording the EAMs for walking. The developers need to fix this pronto.

I love this app as it keeps track of everything so it helps me lose weight I definitely recommend this app to everyone who wants to lose weight or for people who can’t afford a fit bit. As it keeps track of how many steps you take and you can check your heart rate which is just brilliant and it has loads of other things as well, this app has definitely helped me and loads of my friends and family.

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It’s a good app but I’m sick of having to delete about 2 weeks worth of duplicate Strava activities several times per week. Every few days, sometimes every day for a week or so I spend a few minutes deleting the same duplicates I already deleted several times before. Strava activities have a unique activity ID so it shouldn’t be hard to not import data that has already been imported. I’ve been doing this on and off for a couple of years and recently it’s become so frequent I’ve had enough. Too buggy to waste my time on, also fed up of the “special discount upgrade offer” being rammed down my throat every single day. Byee!!!!