Android Fitness Apps

I chose to use the gadget i already have and see what apps can turn it into what tempted me with the fitbit (and the $20 pedometer).

I walked to the market with Accupedo on in one pocket and Christine's pedometer in the other. Christine was able to install a new battery before i got Accupedo installed. The app seems accurate enough in my back pocket compared to the pedometer. The $5 version keeps all the data over time, and the export function saved a csv file to evernote for me. This is even more appealing than the fitbit's automated upload.

A colleague raved about using the phone as a heart rate monitor. I can get "Instant Heart rate" to give me a plausible rate about 50% of the time, it seems, and when i "shared" the rate with Evernote, it simply logged the source of the app. I might explore whether i've got "the right one" later. (Perhaps pony up the 99¢?) Ah -- indeed, there are two identically named apps. The *other* one works better, including a recording of the rate with room for an annotation about the measurement.

I did pony up the 99¢ for mySleepAnalyzer. It can record both sound and motion while one sleeps. I think the sound recording was accurate, but i don't know about the motion recorder. My bed could be too firm to transmit motion, or maybe i really did sleep like a stone. I'm going to have to experiment to see if the motion monitor is sensitive enough to be accurate.