nomi | a pet for your watch Hack 1.13 + Redeem Codes

Quick update: one thing I would love is if the hearts you earn saved up - right now, you have to remember to feed your Nomi when the heart ring is full, which can mean pausing in your workout. If you forget to do this, you could go through an entire workout and have burned enough calories for two or three hearts, but you still only get one.

This app is adorable, fun, and motivates me to stay active throughout the day. The Tamagotchi-like critter is so cute, and I hate seeing it sadface, so I want to stay active to be able to keep feeding it. When I first got the app the only way to get hearts to feed the critter was using steps, which was pretty difficult with the current ‘stay at home’ restrictions (even though I’ve been exercising daily, my step count is terrible). However, the developer was very understanding and responsive, and quickly released an update allowing you to use calories instead. I love the app and really the only thing I can think of to improve it at this point would be to make it actually possible to pet the critter. (If it’s happy, you can tap it and it does a little happy nudge type movement, but you can’t give it scritches.) I’m not sure how feasible this is for a cute little watch app (don’t know how hard it would be to make it that interactive or whether the watch can even support such a thing), but it would be cute. TL;DR, if you’re a sucker for cute critters to motivate you to exercise, GET THIS APP!

Update: glitch happened twice yesterday. RIP Timothy IV - 84 days old.

Update: malfunction is happening even with the update on my watch. I’ve lost at least 7 extra hearts due to this glitch. Update: I manually forced an update on my watch and, fingers crossed, the quick boogie malfunction hasn’t happened yet. I’ve played four times and earned four hearts. Update: quick boogie is still malfunctioning. My heart rate averaged 150 during the entire 11 minutes and it still told me I lost. Update: played the quick boogie, I was on a rowing machine and my heart rate was well-above the target the ENTIRE time but it did not record it. So I quit halfway through and started over. It happened again. I did the whole thing this time, hoping that maybe the bar just wasn’t filling in, since there was a check mark in the bottom corner each minute. It still told me I lost and did not give me a heart. Hopefully my pet doesn’t die tomorrow when I know I’ll be unable to exercise. My nomi, Timothy IV (RIP Timothy Sr, Timothy Jr, and Timothy the third) is fun. It keeps me accountable because I really don’t want him to die. Those tears get me. Lol. It’s a lot less glitchy since I got a new watch.

I’ve kept my Nomi alive for 95 days and counting - it has definitely motivated me to walk throughout the day or be active when I don’t quite have the motivation. Overall, well worth the minimal cost because it’s cute and fun. Love that there are continual updates and it keeps getting better.

Suggestions for the developer: is there a way to show time left before a heart gets empty? Or a reminder like “one hour left before Nomi dies” 🤣I would love to interact with it more somehow or would love if it read my exercise minutes to earn a heart for the “game” without having to start the exercise on the app. It really screws up my workout tracking / data to only set it for the 7-9 min at a time. Like if I could start a run and at the end, Nomi would tell me I earned 2 hearts worth based on HR during the run.

Update: I’m now on my 3rd Nomi and they’re just so cute and motivating. Sadly, the last one died at 147 days and I didn’t get the “one hour left” notification - I think because I was asleep and watch was set to Apples new do-not-disturb sleep setting. Excited for the new evolution paths now with my newest Nomi!! Love the updates, great job!! Can’t wait to find some friends!

I’m 71 and was a couch potato so when I got my Nomi I was loving that it was getting me up and moving. I just walk to earn hearts to feed her though. I’m now up to 2500 steps to feed her but my goodness, she has to eat about 4 times to keep her happy! And I’m only on the 4th level.
I know if the steps keep increasing 500 steps at every level, I’m not going to be able to keep it alive which makes me sad. Seems like I’m already walking so much I don’t have time for a life! Can’t you make a way to level off for us seniors? Maybe a different setting for seniors?
Also, it runs several minutes behind on syncing the steps and doesn’t let you know when you have enough to feed it so you don’t know when you have filled the heart without pausing your workout to wait for it to catch up or you walk more than it takes but you don’t get credit for it.
If you walk over the amount to fill, it should count towards your next heart.
I don’t want my Nomi to die ! Help please!

I really like the concept and I was very excited to download this app. Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked very well in my experience. The games frequently freeze. The quick boogie fails to start about 20% of the time and the 3 heart game has failed to load every single time I’ve tried. I literally haven’t been able to make it work once. They claim you can add nomi to your watch face but it doesn’t show up in the list of available complications to add. The BIGGEST frustration for me is the poor notification system. I have NEVER received a notification to tell me my heart is full and I VERY FREQUENTLY don’t get notifications when my heart runs out which is even worse. I was at 3 full hearts yesterday and my nomi just died and I got zero notifications at all along the way. Like seriously, what the heck?!?! I worked hard to get my nomi to that point so I’m genuinely mad to have lost all that work due to poor programming. I don’t think I’ll be making another nomi unless they fix the notification system. The rest of my complaints are pretty manageable but the poor notification system makes this game unbearable for me.

This is a fun little watch pet that brings back great memories of childhood tamagotchi days. The concept is superb to move around to feed Nomi as well as keeping the watch owner active and healthy.

I left 4/5 stars as the highly interactive creator who responds very frequently has room to make this even better. More engaging interactions with Nomi would be so much fun such as bathing/cleaning and “flushing” if you will, after Nomi goes to the bathroom, especially when young. Watering Nomi as well as having a “medicine” option when Nomi gets sick. The hearts can count for feeding Nomi so that’s fine. Petting and being interactive with Nomi could fill a “cared for” type of gage. Lastly fun games we could play with Nomi itself, not just exercise could be fun.

It new and I’m sure it’s complicated and takes time to add these types of interactions but none the less, it’s a great pet app and great visuals that bring back those nostalgic memories.

This is the perfect kind of app for the Apple Watch. Simple, fun, and motivational, playing to the strengths of the platform. Very appealing visuals and a clever concept; staying healthy yourself keeps your little buddy alive too.

This isn’t the kind of thing that needs many features - the beauty is in its simplicity, and the very reasonable price reflects that - but further integration with the health app in some way (heart rate/exercise tracking) would be nice right now during these quarantine times when we’re still trying to exercise but can’t get those steps in. I also second other users ideas about a tiny bit more interactivity; everyone who plays this is going to instinctively try to poke/pet the little guy, and that tiny bit of extra interaction would go a long way.

Overall, great app and I hope the developer continues to support it because it fills the perfect niche on the watch.

I think 🤔 the concept is excellent and keeps people accountable for their own progress in how they manage to keep the pet alive daily. My one issue is that if I have done the work/workout throughout the day and filled up the heart(s) why can Nomi not feed himself? This is me moving all day everyday in my life with my watch on, but I really don’t have the time to tickle and watch him do tricks just to eat the heart. My day does not stop because he is hungry or has a heart waiting for me to tap for him to eat. This is something that your team needs to look into especially when life gets really hectic. I’m apart of an Apple Fitness Group & that is the General consensus with many; We are doing workouts, taking care of family, self-care, working just to have this thing Die because of the tap of the screen. 👎🏽

Revising my review after I stopped using Nomi for awhile and gave it another try after the latest update. We asked and they listened! Nomi is better than ever :). The new features are great and syncing seems faster and more accurate as well.

Original Review (3 star): Love this little guy as it’s been keeping me motivated to stay active during quarantine. I’ve used it everyday but have become increasingly frustrated by the inaccuracies of the activity to heart ratio. I’m walking well over 5k steps a day but my Nomi is sad and starving by the end of the day. The developer has stated on Reddit that the steps increase each day, making it more challenging to keep your Nomi alive. Great but I’d like to be able to control this myself as there might be times I can’t meet a goal because of injury, illness, etc. Hopefully the next update will address these issues.

I find this app to be fun. There are a few things I would like to mention though.

You can only have one heart saved. If you workout for miles and forget to give a heart during, you only earned one heart. Also, it doesn't update live. You have to go into the Activity app, and then back to Nomi to update it. I'm not sure what the refresh interval is. Also, Nomi should sleep when the watch is off. I woke up to an almost dead Nomi often. (I saw an update coming from a review response for this! Thank you!)

Edit: I like the notifications in the new update. This is a solution to only getting one heart during my walks and forgetting to check and feed him during. Thanks!
Nomi now sleeps for six hours in the new update. Thanks!

Also, I’m not a fan of the Complication icons, the middle or the corner. I would like the full body, but small of course. I don’t like the zoomed in face. It also looks low quality at certain phases. Also, I would like it to have a bar for the Infograph Watch Face. Like the Rain one, with a number of hearts, and have the bar be one third for each heart.

One more thing. I’m trying out Active Energy. After evolving, the icon for steps increase, instead of calories.