HealthyNow Reviews

by RecycleYourAnna

It's hard enough to get people to track their activity and food calories. So an app needs to be easy to use. HealthyNow is not. I am not likely to spend upwards of two minutes searching for a certain food in the list. I'm not likely to spend upwards of two minutes searching for the exercise I just did. Please take a note from other trackers and have more generic food categories such as "chicken breast"and not a specific restaurant's dish. A barcode scanner could be awesome. A list of most used foods would be great too but somebody would have to use HealthyNow long enough to build such a list.

There is also no way to track strength training (which earns associates & dependents points)... if I Have to go to desktop to log strength training then why would I bother with HealthyNow ?

by RaynnMJ

HealthyNow is not smart. It pads the pedometer and uses all sources from the Apple health app like they are being used independently and not as a team. E.g. the phone and the Apple Watch; one registers 3500 and one registers 3200. But you may be using them at the same time or not. HealthyNow ’ll say you did 6700. But health kit got it right and you did 3800. It’s frustrating when you are competing in a challenge and it looks like you are cheating.

by Guywithfx

HealthyNow would sync steps from my Apple Watch back in 2017, but somewhere along the way that broke and still won’t capture step data in the wellness platform. This is the only reason I have HealthyNow and it won’t do that simple function. Please fix.

by Psyco Chick

This is the most useless app. It's not user friendly, it's difficult to get it to log what you want, and many features it needs to have it doesn't. As much of a pain as it is to log into the portal online every day that is still easier than dealing with HealthyNow.

by OwlHoot8

To put it bluntly, this is the only tracking app that I’ve used that is totally useless. Everything is a manual input. It supposedly links to your devices for data but it doesn’t. Food tracking is vague and difficult to use while providing no nutritional information. It doesn’t alert you of challenges because you have to sign up through your computer. A mobile app is a complete waste since it doesn’t do anything. I am trying to figure out why I even have this on my phone.

by Nellynel20

App needs to be more compatible with other electronic health devices. Like the Apple Watch, Samsung watch etc. I should not have to log what I have logged in my other health apps again, also have to manually log steps that my watch app keeps track of. (Not everyone likes or has a Fitbit.)

by Jmcmom3

It takes forever to use HealthyNow for no more than it does. It takes several minutes to an hour to access your steps! Then another eternity to upload them to the Cerner Site. If I wasn’t involved in a step challenge to help lower our insurance cost, I wouldn’t use HealthyNow.

by Cincyred2

Incredibly cumbersome to use; I’ve only used (or tried to use) the food log portion of HealthyNow ; the search function is useless. I tried to record that I ate an apple; the search returned “Applebee’s” and “appetizers” before giving me what I was looking for, and there’s no option to change measurements. I can’t even imagine how the rest of it works.

by Ringing In My Head

My work started a healthy challenge to eat more fruits and veggies. We have to use HealthyNow to track. Day 1 I had fresh raspberries and blackberries. Nowhere to be found on the list. I’ll just use the filter to get rid of all the “candy”. The filter does nothing. What a worthless app. It would not took me 10 minutes to eat my breakfast I’m not spending 15 to input what I ate.

by MikeG222

When pulling updates from HealthKit, this app inflates my step count greatly. It’s too bad because HealthyNow’s connectivity with my work’s wellness portal makes it really convenient to send my steps in automatically. It appears Cerner no longer maintains HealthyNow. The last App Store update was more than 4 years ago.

by Mamita2009

I do not like HealthyNow I can not get my pin and I’ve been trying to get it for days and there is no way to get it I’ve spent hours trying to get it I’ve went to different websites and I’ve been to my health portal to search for the healthy now page and it’s no where to be found HealthyNow is the worst app I’ve ever used

by Jessacast

My health insurance company wants me to use HealthyNow to track my exercise and earn cash back. Looks like they’re laughing at me because HealthyNow doesn’t work. I’ve tried and tried to log exercise or get it to talk to my activity tracker to log my steps. Neither one works. HealthyNow is terrible, unless its purpose is to keep the insurance company from having to pay up for active people.

by Can't Get My Noodles!

Can i rate it zero stars?!?

Pretty much everyone in the world has a phone on them 24/7 so you’d think a wellness app would want to leverage and serve that fact. Not this one. So clunky it’s sort of funny. Can’t save favorite exercises, have to scroll thru lists that have to stop and refresh every page length, not the least bit intuitive. No obvious way to save favorite foods, search logic is from 1997, just awful.

by Sunkissorange

Trying to get points for our insurance and HealthyNow is supposed to help with that..... yeah HealthyNow is a joke! I can’t even get into it even after following the instructions online, sending in a question and getting further instructions from the company themselves. Maybe it’s designed this way so we won’t reach the 300 points needed and we will still have to pay full price for insurance! ZERO STARS

by WrightBrained

I was hoping HealthyNow would allow me to sync my workouts and steps so I wouldn't have to manually input those data points. HealthyNow never syncs any of that data. There seemingly hasn't been any new developments on HealthyNow in the last couple of years which is disappointing.

Update: it’s 2018 and I still can’t get my steps from RunKeeper to consistently upload here. It gets logged to my Apple Health app but HealthyNow never collects any of the data.

by Jimmy Sickles

Linked HealthyNow to my phone so it could track my steps so I don’t have to log my steps manually, but for some reason HealthyNow will add extra steps to my day. One day HealthyNow showed that I took over 18,000 steps but I really only has about 7-8,000.

Also, tried tracking my calories, but it’s difficult to enter the food I’ve eaten. Too many chain restaurant meal options. I don’t dine out that often.

by HootyHoo1234

HealthyNow is useless. I downloaded it to make competing in a corporate step-challenge more convenient. It did no such thing. I have worn an Apple Watch for years, and find that it’s generally accurate. The step count HealthyNow displays is DOUBLE the amount. I thought that the Apple Watch information would feed into HealthyNow , but it isn’t. I have no idea where HealthyNow is getting the step count it’s showing. Now it looks like I’m cheating in the competition, just because HealthyNow is fudging the numbers.

by Pbk2015

I called the developer company over a year ago and was told that it would be updated by the end of 2018. It's now approaching 2020. But no update.

HealthyNow needs serious updating. It's been over a year since the last update. Developers, there are new screen sizes with new iPhones and FaceID. Also, please add recognition for more than just steps and weight from HealthKit, but also workouts in Apple Health.

by Andrw45_1

HealthyNow is not user friendly at all. It’s very outdated and cumbersome. But hey, it’s what they are giving state of Kansas employees to use for free so you know it’s not going to be the best. They are going to find the most mediocre lowest cost thing possible. You cannot easily interface with other health apps that actually work well such as Myfitnesspal and its a nightmare to link your Apple Watch step and activity data. You might as well manually enter everything. Good job Cerner and State of Kansas (Sarcasm intended.)

by "may"

Tonight I downloaded HealthyNow , got the info I needed from my work site and was able to log in easily! I had just registered for a class on my work site, and when I logged into HealthyNow , my registered class was there! Will be nice to have this info handy on my I pro (: