FitnessView ∙ Activity Tracker Reviews

1: iCloud sync of data; I would like to be able to view my stats on iPad and Mac 2: optimization for iPad would be wonderful - though this isn’t necessary if item 1 cannot be done for whatever reason 3: direct entry of weight — or since this is mostly a viewer, add a weigh-in feature to Calory? 4: since both Calory and FitnessViewActivityTracker are made by the same people, why do the goals not sync? For example, in Calory I have caffeine set to 300mg, yet fitness view has it at 95mg, and both Calory and Fitness view have the same amount as consumed for the day… All in all, a solid app. Thanks for the great work. It’s already helped me on my journey to regaining fitness.

FitnessViewActivityTracker is great. I love the customizations in the widget section. I log my food in MyFitnessPal and let it sync through Apple Health which FitnessViewActivityTracker then reads to update the widget information accurately. However, FitnessViewActivityTracker doesn’t have cross device syncing. I can download FitnessViewActivityTracker on my iPad and add widgets, but without Apple Health on iPad, I’m unable to view any of my information entered via my phone. Please add multi device features so I can still use the widgets, and track my workouts on both devices.

I love the quick and easy to read screens. Being able to configure what is shown is also really nice. Most of all I like being able to go back to any day in the past and look what I did. A+ on FitnessViewActivityTracker.

Apple’s Health app shows yesterday’s stats until you start the next days workouts, but FitnessView displays reset when the date changes. If evenings are your preferred time of day for workouts, FitnessView’s behavior means you see info for only a brief part of each day. It would be more useful & motivating to follow the Health app’s behavior.

The competing app Fitness Totals addresses this issue by showing *both* today’s and yesterday’s stats in even its smallest widget.

Would love it to be even more customizable like some other iOS-centric apps i.e. ability to change icons of data sets, font size, etc.

This is an awesome app for showing data in a compact way in widgets and potentially complications on the Apple Watch, but I can’t get them to show up as on option when editing a watch face. Please fix this and FitnessViewActivityTracker would be great!

More data, more views, more stats. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great start. If you’re in to tracking and visualizing health data, give FitnessViewActivityTracker a try.

Any chance you can add the stats section as a widget? I would like to see where I stand compared to last month at a glance. Appreciate it.

Works wonderfully

FitnessViewActivityTracker looks promising and the UI looks nice, but the complications don’t work. FitnessViewActivityTracker isn’t one of the available choices when selecting a complication. I have reset both the phone and watch, and ensured the complication was active in FitnessViewActivityTracker with no luck. Without the complications, I have no real use for FitnessViewActivityTracker .

I put the wrong date on for my workout, and when I tried to go back and edited the date, there’s no option. Please be careful when inputting your stats, otherwise you’re screwed.

I have purchased the lifetime IAP (which is free today). Even though it shows purchased, FitnessViewActivityTracker still locks some of the stats!

Good afternoon

I love FitnessViewActivityTracker but really wanted the widgets. I can’t figure out how to put the widgets on my Home Screen. The possibilities are amazing if they worked

Couldn’t get watch complications to work. I followed the help, they are marked as active but they don’t show up in the watch faces. Widgets did work but I wanted the complications.

How do you even is this it is the no help at all please put instructions in FitnessViewActivityTracker Store for every thing you got in FitnessViewActivityTracker store pleas and thank you

I don’t get it, is FitnessViewActivityTracker supposed to sync with my phone and watch? Doesn’t do anything, can’t find any way to set things up. I deleted app.

I expected FitnessViewActivityTracker to fill the void Apple Fitness Trends and Summaries leaves to users.

But Fitness View doesn’t seem to fulfill that gap either.

One example:
My running group and I would like to see a simple view that is easy to find the total running or hiking distance per time period with total elevation gain.

As it is now elevation gain seems to be a unrepresented totaled metric.

Also not clear if “running + walking distance” includes “Hiking”.

Being able to pair multiple exercise metrics into a time range view would be great.
examples :
Running + Hiking Distance with Elevation gain over a week/month/year
Biking distance + elevation gain over week/month/year
Biking + Running distance + elevation gain over week/month/year


Also, there is no group/team metric view, that is really disappointing one of the biggest missing data points with Apple Watch/Fitness is even when “Competing” it is only based on Ring closures as opposed to more goal/metric based numbers such as a group goals. For example a group goal to individually run 200 miles a month and see how everyone is doing in near real time. Or to bike 30K elevation gain in a month. As it is now that can only be done partially through Strava/Fitness and adding up each individual session manually.

App has potential but really just a slightly more in depth Apple fitness app.

Also the widgets never get created and my app always crashes (on latest iOS).

Happy to re-review after updates or speak to developers more.

Had high hopes for app even with premium version it disappoints still.

I like when a developer goes for it and I’m willing to pay for that kind of initiative. Lots of potential here so it will be exciting to see what’s on the roadmap for upgrades.

Giving 5-5 as this mvp has all of what is needed to simply and without clutter display health information.

In time, I hope FitnessViewActivityTracker can be what I’m expecting. I’m willing to hang on for a bit and see how quickly the updates arrive.
Dark Mode really is not implemented well. For example, on the home tab, you cannot read “Today’s Goals” because it is white text on a white background! Almost any other color would have been legible, but white on white?! I’m worried that FitnessViewActivityTracker will not meet expectations if such a simple attention to detail like this is overlooked.

Every time I open FitnessViewActivityTracker I have to do a restore to open up everything. I purchased it but have to restore to use it.
Update… works great since app update.
Thank you…

FitnessViewActivityTracker is great. The display of data is clean and easy to understand. I wished Apple’s own Fitness app looked this polished. Will use FitnessViewActivityTracker often!

Needs more, low stars due to app upsells me when I’ve already purchased FitnessViewActivityTracker .

App keeps forgetting I have made a lifetime purchase of FitnessViewActivityTracker .

widgets and Complications need to go to the quick add feature of FitnessViewActivityTracker on both the watch and phone or allow us to inject our own Siri Shortcut.

Dark Mode and some calculations I just checked have been fixed with v1.1.1. Added a star and will keep checking for other improvements.

Original Review - Still not ready…
A reviewer from two months ago mentioned how Dark Mode was messed up. I actually waited to write this review until the most recent update (v1.1), thinking an update would be released around the same time as iOS 15. Once I saw that Dark Mode had not been fixed — it only looks right on the Settings tab. To be honest, I really do not know what to make of FitnessViewActivityTracker. Full transparency, I have lifetime subscriptions to three other apps from Funnmedia (the developer). Two of those other apps I use daily. I like what Funnmedia is trying to do. They actually used to have an app called HealthView that did/does almost exactly the same thing as this FitnessView app, but HealthView is now “owned” by Reflectly. Although the UI is a little dated, HealthView showed/shows way more metrics than FitnessView — some of which are important (e.g., Net Calories — which is a calculation and not actually something that is in the iOS Health app; Total Fat — not just Saturated Fat). Hopefully, Funnmedia will add all of the metrics/calculations from HealthView. At least include more metrics that make sense. Why is there only Saturated Fat and not Total Fat? Net Calories is way more meaningful than Nike Fuel. (Nike doesn’t even use Nike Fuel anymore.) Then there is the issue of what the “Insights” actually mean. Let’s use Water, for example, I see an Hourly Avg. of 17.33 US oz and a Daily Avg. of 61.66 US oz. I have recorded 52 oz today. It is 11:45p right now. What are these numbers calculating? Those numbers are from the “Home” tab. On the “Stats” tab for today, the Hourly Avg. is 0.59 US oz. What is that? I have recorded 52 oz in a 24-hour day. That should be over 2 oz per hour, right? Water is not the only metric with issues like this. From a widgets standpoint, the “Activity” ring goal shows the same three metrics (move, exercise, stand) as the Activity app. However, move is kcal instead of cal (no big deal). Exercise does not have a label (min) at all, just numbers; and when you get to an hour, instead of showing 60 minutes, it shows 1:00. That means if your goal is 30 exercise minutes for a day and you earn 60 exercise minutes that day, your exercise progress is displayed as “1:00/30”. If you’re not going to make this better than the Health and Activity apps, at least make it the same — not worse. Remember, FitnessViewActivityTracker can only replace the user’s view of their own statistics. Users still have to use the iOS Activity app to see what their friends/family are doing. They shouldn’t have to figure out what they are looking at based on FitnessViewActivityTracker . For this to be an app that just “reads” information from the iOS Health app, there are really only two things on which to focus — 1) making accurate calculations; and 2) presenting the data in an easy to understand and aesthetically pleasing way. FitnessViewActivityTracker is not doing that yet — which is odd because Funnmedia just had an app that does almost the same thing. I am hopeful that they will address some of this stuff soon — even though there are still some issues with one of their other apps that I emailed them about over a year ago. I was told that all of them were added to their “future update”, but it has been 15 months now. To be clear, I am an overall fan of what Funnmedia is trying to do from an app standpoint, but I get the impression that there are other business issues getting in the way of the apps really offering the solid user experience that one might expect. I will gladly edit/update this review with each update that addresses some of the issues I mentioned.

Not paying for any it. Did not see any pluses with FitnessViewActivityTracker compared to health app