You've got data pouring in from your connected fitness tracker, your smartphone, your smartwatch, the smart scales in your bathroom and the dieting app you use to log your meals -so how do you get all of this information in one place?
It isn't easy, but here are a few pointers to help.
Google Fit now comes as standard on Nexus and Pixel devices, using the sensors packed into your phone to keep track of steps, sleep, and other measurements automatically. There are a decent number of apps that work with Fit: Strava, Sleep As Android, and Runtastic, for example, so if you use these apps to track your run ning, walking, sleeping, and workouts then Google Fit is a decent option for consolidating everything in one place. What's missing is direct compatibility with Fitbit and Misfit, though Withings devices are supported.
It's a similar story with Apple Health as it is for Google Fit -strong integration with Apple's own kit and support for some bigname apps, but limited compatibility with non-Apple devices you might be wearing on your body.Health is much broader in scope than Fit, acting as a repository for all of your medical data, not just the number of laps you ran this morning. It also goes into greater depth when analysing your progress and making recommendations about where you can improve.
The IFTTT (If This Then That) service plugs into just about every fitness tracking API out there including Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings, Misfit, Strava and more. This makes it broader in scope than Google and Apple. IFTTT isn't a repository for your data either, so once you've collected all the infor mation from your various trackers and apps, you need to put it somewhere else. Fortunately, there are lots of options to pick from.You can transfer your statistics to Evernote, for example, or a Google Drive spreadsheet, or OneNote, or even a blog post.
Exist draws in a ton of data from a range of fitness apps and devices, and will even go to the trouble of analysing it for you. Exist works with Fitbit, Jawbone, Misfit, Withings, Google Fit, Apple Health, Strava, Moves, Runkeeper and more. It can also pull in data from the likes of Last.fm, Spotify, Twitter, Dark Sky and RescueTime to try and chart your exercise against other factors like social media activity and how much music you are listening to .
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