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by ElJefeTX

Unlike AutoSleep and HeartWatch, this app is quite underwhelming.
Interestingly, this is also the Dev's venture into a subscription based revenue model vs. one time purchase. It's difficult for Dev's across the board to see the bigger picture when looking at the prospect of ongoing subscription based revenue, especially if investors are involved.

However, marketing studies show (and I am a marketing exec) the consumer's growing distaste for subscription based models and their felt need for
alternatives. Dev's that understand this and offer alternatives will attract the increasing number of users looking minimize their outflow to subscription based services and products.

Unfortunately, most devs have gotten away from releasing new versions of an app that require a new purchase, often discounted for users upgrading from a previous version, allows the devs to generate revenue from new and existing, while creating brand loyalty by rewarding existing users with an upgrade discount. Admittedly, that would be a shift in mindset for mobile app users, but it's not unprecedented and users will adapt when faced with subscription based alternatives.

by Daschles

In the time I’ve used the app it has been an ok mirror of how I feel - and that’s both the power and flaw of it. If I’m already aware that (eg) I’m feeling sluggish, it isn’t that useful for an app to tell me that I’m right! It is interesting but not especially actionable. The most useful reading is recovery - if that’s out of balance it reinforces that I should take a nap and perhaps ease off a bit where I can. Fine. Readiness is more frustrating- when that’s out of balance, there’s not a lot I can do and not a lot that is useful about that knowledge. Sometimes it tells me I’m out of balance but I feel great - how is that helpful? Other times I’m in balance but feel below par - is the contradiction useful?

I really like the idea of tracking various variables, but I struggle with it being useful to me. So I’ve stopped.

by Rwizard

While this navel gazing app is perfect for the overly self absorbed, the practical value is limited, the novelty and entertainment value expires as quickly as the free trial, and the depth of the analysis is shallower than a puddle on a hot August afternoon.

There is a lack of clarity to questions (does experiencing a major illness include long term/lifelong chronic conditions, or are they asking only about exigent conditions?)

Other types of questions might better be answered with a little guidance from the app, which in most cases has access to a lot of data about you in Apple Health. Why not put all that information to work, along with the general fund of medical knowledge, to suggest appropriate answers to questions such as the amount of sleep you need. And why not make those answers more readily available for editing and fine tuning?

In the end this is app which charges us a monthly fee to share with us a bit of information of which every human is already intrinsically, viscerally aware. How do I feel, and is this a good day or a crappy one. No doubt this is an essential for a certain class of “special” people, but utilty for the rest of us will require a lot more work to produce an app which is not only visually attractive, but practical and substantive.