Pedometer Hack 3.6 + Redeem Codes

Great app unless a phone call comes in. Great app as long as you don’t leave the screen. Great app unless your display time is set to anything but never. App will not function behind any other screens. Stops dead. You need to restart timer each time. Really? Seems easy for developers to readjust. Would even pay for function!

I am experiencing wide variations in step counts at the same settings. At the default setting it is ranging from 5% to as much as 20% over the actual step count. This may get better as I adjust sensitivity, however, some additional comments. The milage appears to be calculated by step count. Assuming this is the case, you need to be able to input stride length in order to calcuate acurate milage & speed, even assuming you can get the step count correct. I make these assumption based on my observations walking the same route. That is, if I get a higher step count, I get higher milage for the same route (so it is not, apparently using GPS). That said, the numbers in the picture above fly in the face of this assumption. To get 1.42 mile in 1600 odd steps, as in the illustration, you'd need almost a 60" stride. That in itself, is a pretty poor illustration of likely accuracy. In reality, I have found the milage to be more accurate than the step count, therefore probably calibrated a bit low for my stride. In addition, somewhere, if only on the support site, it would be nice to see an indication of which direction to adjust the slider to increase/decrease sensitivity. I realize that this can be figured out by rote, but for the sake of completeness....

Thanks.

I will say that it's very sensitive when you move it will add 5 steps without actually stepping. But overall it works, as long as your fast walking it's pretty accurate more or less. I have been noticing lately that it pauses on its own and will stop tracking even when the phone is on lock and when I glance to check my progress I have to unlock it and press start for it to continue to track my steps which slows me down from my pace, so that can be annoying, especially if your the type of person who doesn't look at the pedometer until after your walk and you realize it never tracked your whole walk because it paused. :/

This is the best Pedometer I've used on the Ipod. Very easy to setup and off you go! Simply enter your weight and hight and where you are going to hold it (Hand, poket, etc) and it just works. The really nice unique item on this pedometer is the history it keeps! Something none of the other Ipod Touch Pedometers. have.

There are only a few down sides:

1) There is no controlling your music when the pedo meter is working. Skipping fowared / backword, Pause and volume control is impossible
2) If you have a remote to control your iPod, using the remote causes the program to close and the player to open. (except for volume control)
3) Battery Killer! You'll be lucky to get 3 or so hours out of a full charge if you are running this program. I suggest at least shutting off your WiFi to help save on power.

Other then that its great! The only other nice thing I would like to see is a graph of your history day-to-day or maybe someway to export your results like the Niki pedometer lets you or a simple excel export. Overall a great Pedometer though!

I was skeptical that an app could accurately measure distance just by counting steps without making you enter your exact stride length. But somehow, this one works! It has an ultra-simple settings screen that lets you enter your height and weight, and lets you adjust the sensitivity until you hear one click per step. After you do this one-time setup, it works amazingly well. I just hit the start button before going on a walk, and it keeps track of distance and even calories burned. As a bonus, it keeps a daily log of your activity. I checked the distance it reported and it was amazingly accurate. This app is really well designed, easy to use, and well worth the 5 bucks. If you're thinking of getting a distance/activity monitor for your iPhone, THIS IS THE ONE TO GET!

I see a lot of bad reviews of this app but I don't think they're deserved. Calibrating is a little tricky but once fine tuned this is a well functioning, reasonably accurate app. About calibration: I found that I had to adjust the sensitivity a couple of times to get accurate step counts. But that's easy, just a little trial and error. Use at least 100 steps to check accuracy. Once that was worked out the distance accuracy got much better.

I think we're getting spoiled by these apps, expecting everything to be easy. It just makes sense that a pedometer app like this has be calibrated to each person's stride, environment, etc. It'll take more than one try to get it right. I don't count that as a flaw. What d'ya really expect for 99 cents?

I'm an exercise nut and a techie-I have all sorts of apps and electronics. I have owned a few "store" traditional pedometers and I have NOTHING bad to say about this app. I've been using it for a year and it's never failed me. The addition of the GPS feature was a stroke if genius and makes it very accurate. I absolutely love this app and it's one of the apps that makes my iPhone worth the purchase. I find it's reliable, never stops or crashes and the email feature is also great. I have some pretty useless apps, but this is not one of them-I highly recommend. :))

I've found it to be extremely accurate, but takes a little tweeking to get the sensitivity right. Like a lot of others - I wish it could work while inactive, but keeps counting while other activities are going. History resets a grand total & zero total everyday & I wish I could label timed sessions or categorize them for different workouts to know what the timed activity was. Spending most of my day @ a desk with phone inactive - I haven't had any battery issues. Well worth the $!

I have been using Pedometer for a month, every day, and have found it to be useful and accurate. My only criticism, and this applies to many iPhone apps, is the availability of documentation. I would like to be able to access, even on the developers' websites, instructive material to get the best use of any app. So often, we have to experiment to see what the app developer intended. An example with Pedometer is the use of the Lock feature. This app is definitely worth the money.