Hexis Live Reviews

Total waste of $20. It never worked for me. Very slow. None of the integrations work. Not ready for prime time

I opened multiple emails with this company and never got a response. Bad app, terrible service. Would absolutely recommend against using this

Interface not well though out for iOS. Keyboard hides necessary information. Food logging is cumbersome and items show and disappear before you can add to a meal. Intriguing but not ready for release.

There’s a lot of potential here, but HexisLive constantly freezes and I have to restart it to get the data back to being live.

Concept makes sense but the functionality with the camera and food library is lacking

HexisLive is more than a macro tracker for athletes. It offers guidance for macro timing for elite athletes based on when workouts are scheduled. And it purports to offer a performance boost for adhering to that guidance.

The integration with TrainingPeaks is a great feature. Having my projected calories burned automatically incorporated into my daily nutrition plan is one area where HexisLive sets itself apart. The UX is pretty good, too.

However, HexisLive ’s focus on nutrient timing based on workout timing is more than I need. I already know to fuel before, during (endurance training only), and after my workouts. HexisLive requires me to schedule my workouts so that each meal’s macros and calories can be determined.

I have a busy, evolving daily schedule. And most days I don’t know when I’ll get my strength training or cycling workouts in. I found the requirement to schedule my workouts in HexisLive to be a barrier to using it. Scheduling my workouts at different times of the day changes the macros for different meals. So if my training schedule is variable or needs to flex, my macros for a given meal change from one day to the next.

This makes meal planning with HexisLive very difficult. I found I stick to a nutrition plan better when I eat the same or similar things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. With the workout timings not being predictable, using HexisLive for nutrition just became untenable. And at the end of the day, I’m better off with an app that I’ll use. Any performance benefit I personally might gain from optimizing nutrition timing is window dressing if I can’t even hit my daily macros using HexisLive . (And I’m not so sure the research literature is settled on nutrition timing beyond fueling before, during, and after workouts anyway.)

Also, it’d be nice to track daily weight with HexisLive . It seemed like users have to update their weight goals every time they’d want to update their weight, which is a bit clumsy.

Maybe a few improvements could make HexisLive better. But I feel like the main selling point for HexisLive , nutrient timing, would need to be sacrificed to make that happen. At which point, MyFitnessPal will get you there anyway.

The concept behind HexisLive is great! It’s a newer app so there are some minor kinks here and there as a result, but the developers are consistently isolating and addressing them. As an athlete I haven’t had any major issues with HexisLive and the benefits/usefulness so far outweigh any minor “new app” problems.