Walker Tracker

From the beginning the app will not count all of steps, I have been losing as much a 3000 steps in one day. And as of the 15th it has stopped counting them all together. We have tried everything, even taking the app off and putting back on. I have a fit bit, and a Apple Watch , neither will work. This app is messing up again.

I like that the app is compatible with my phone and Fitbit but it has some mechanical issues. So far for me I have to be very conscious of the time because after midnight it’s very hard to get it to sync data from the day before (even only second after it strikes 12). I use it for a competition and I got cheated several thousand steps just because of this issue. Other members in my team registered zero steps because the app doesn’t automatically register your steps if you don’t open the app up daily. It could function a little better for conversation with team members. Also when you take a picture with the app it doesn’t save to your phone so in order to keep the picture you’d have to screenshot it or take the picture with your camera first and then upload. Little things could make it a better app. That said, it works well for the competition because we all use the same platform to keep our tallies. These issues are just a source of frustration, especially because competition usually means you’re trying to win and the app is causing me to do more work than I need to by not functioning as effectively as I would like.

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I wouldn’t recommend using this for any sort of competition. Looks like you can just manually enter activity and it will convert it into steps. I was very discouraged once I saw that I was consistently beat at the end of the day by someone entering in activities. It seems like this is a common complaint but the responses from the company just gloss over how this is an obvious flaw. They are unable to accommodate people that may not want to carry their phone or get a wearable. It’s a competition! There needs to be a way to be held accountable. It should at least be made very obvious on the leaderboard how many are real steps and how many steps are activity steps. I was really excited about this competition and am very discouraged to even participate. What’s the point when someone can just add steps and beat you. Will be deleting and no longer participating. I even spoke to others at my company and they feel like it’s pointless to try. We have a month long competition and the “winner” has been adding activities so will probably win it in a week or two. Wow. Not fun and kind of has made me despise some coworkers. Haha.

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Overall, this app is user friendly and appeases the eye; however, I’m a little thrown when you add an activity that it automatically adds steps to what you’ve already accomplished. For example, you can’t just state that you’ve gone running without it adding steps to your total, which were already added when you were running. This concerns me when it comes to the legitimacy of the challenges because it seems that some people are achieving more steps than they’re actually attaining. Plus, when you’re using a fitness app, you want it to be accurate so you know what you’re really accomplishing and can set future goals. With that said, I do like that the app is able to convert so many different activities into steps, such as swimming, when you aren’t able to have your device (phone) with you.

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I sync my Fitbit to Fitbit’s cloud/Internet presence, I wait 10 minute, and then I check with this app ( because this app is used by our organization). If I am lucky, the count it claims to have gotten from Fitbit’s site (which I had to give it permission to access, and too much permission in my opinion) is wrong/old by 6 hours. This makes things DISCOURAGING because now I appear to be a slacker (which right now, I am). This app has never been perfect with Fitbit products/website (I have owned 3 different types of Fitbit devices), but right now, it is the pits. I gave it 2 stars because like a broken clock, it may be right twice a day.