Pedometer

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Great app unless a phone call comes in. Great app as long as you don’t leave the screen. Great app unless your display time is set to anything but never. App will not function behind any other screens. Stops dead. You need to restart timer each time. Really? Seems easy for developers to readjust. Would even pay for function!

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I am experiencing wide variations in step counts at the same settings. At the default setting it is ranging from 5% to as much as 20% over the actual step count. This may get better as I adjust sensitivity, however, some additional comments. The milage appears to be calculated by step count. Assuming this is the case, you need to be able to input stride length in order to calcuate acurate milage & speed, even assuming you can get the step count correct. I make these assumption based on my observations walking the same route. That is, if I get a higher step count, I get higher milage for the same route (so it is not, apparently using GPS). That said, the numbers in the picture above fly in the face of this assumption. To get 1.42 mile in 1600 odd steps, as in the illustration, you'd need almost a 60" stride. That in itself, is a pretty poor illustration of likely accuracy. In reality, I have found the milage to be more accurate than the step count, therefore probably calibrated a bit low for my stride. In addition, somewhere, if only on the support site, it would be nice to see an indication of which direction to adjust the slider to increase/decrease sensitivity. I realize that this can be figured out by rote, but for the sake of completeness....

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This is the best Pedometer I've used on the Ipod. Very easy to setup and off you go! Simply enter your weight and hight and where you are going to hold it (Hand, poket, etc) and it just works. The really nice unique item on this pedometer is the history it keeps! Something none of the other Ipod Touch Pedometers. have. There are only a few down sides: 1) There is no controlling your music when the pedo meter is working. Skipping fowared / backword, Pause and volume control is impossible 2) If you have a remote to control your iPod, using the remote causes the program to close and the player to open. (except for volume control) 3) Battery Killer! You'll be lucky to get 3 or so hours out of a full charge if you are running this program. I suggest at least shutting off your WiFi to help save on power. Other then that its great! The only other nice thing I would like to see is a graph of your history day-to-day or maybe someway to export your results like the Niki pedometer lets you or a simple excel export. Overall a great Pedometer though!

I was skeptical that an app could accurately measure distance just by counting steps without making you enter your exact stride length. But somehow, this one works! It has an ultra-simple settings screen that lets you enter your height and weight, and lets you adjust the sensitivity until you hear one click per step. After you do this one-time setup, it works amazingly well. I just hit the start button before going on a walk, and it keeps track of distance and even calories burned. As a bonus, it keeps a daily log of your activity. I checked the distance it reported and it was amazingly accurate. This app is really well designed, easy to use, and well worth the 5 bucks. If you're thinking of getting a distance/activity monitor for your iPhone, THIS IS THE ONE TO GET!