Active app review: track your sleep and activity

Introduction

If you wanted to get a more in-depth look at your activity levels and even your physiology then we have an app that can certainly help you do just that. The Active app for your iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone makes it possible to automatically track all kinds of activities. There's no need to purchase all kinds of expensive tools in order to track such things as your activity, heart rate variability, heart rate, and sleep. So why track these details? It can actually paint a picture of your lifestyle and your health and therefore help you make adjustments where you see fit.

A Variety of Tracking

There are a number of different items you can automatically track through this app such as your body weight, sleep, activity, calories consumed, heart rate variability, and your heart rate. You won't need any external sensors or equipment either, making this a compact and complete app. You'll be able to manually add activities so you can customize the app and you can set your own goals. The idea behind the app is that you take a look at your physiological measurements and activity tracking combined in order to get a full picture of your lifestyle and health.

The app requires iOS 7.0 or later to use and if being used on the iPhone requires the 5S. Active app has been updated recently to provide users with all-time, monthly, and weekly averages as well as some bug fixes and other enhancements. There are currently no customer comments or a customer rating.

 

Gather the Information and Make Adjustments

The Active app is all about giving users a simple way to gather information about their activities so that you can then make adjustments in your life and be even healthier than before. What's cool is that the app uses the iPhone's M7 coprocessor in order to monitor your physical activities. The beauty of this is that the iPhone can do so without draining your battery. The app will group your activities into three groups then each of those groups is broken down into calories burnt and activity intensity.

Let's not forget that monitoring your heart rate plays a very important role in determining your overall health. You don't want to be over-training or stressing your body and monitoring your heart rate will provide you with these details. What I really like about the Active app is how user-friendly all these monitoring tools are. Nothing feels confusing and your information is always well-laid-out.

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• A collection of user friendly tools that automatically track your activity
• Use the information collected in order to get a better overall picture of your health
• The app is able to monitor your activity without draining the battery at a fast speed
• No external monitoring equipment is needed

Cons

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

 

Final Thoughts

The Active app for your iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone is able to give you a more complete picture of your overall health thanks to its user-friendly monitoring tools.