Hidgets

Watch your health and exercise and give you a good motivation to live your life day by day

Update: Was emailed by dev and told to submit a ticket, within the hour was provided a code to restore my lifetime license. App used to be great. Those of us who paid for the app previously now get spit in our face. This should be considered fraud. This is why most people aren’t willing to pay for things.

Updating to the new 2.0 version seems to have deleted my existing widgets. When I tried to recreate the medium steps widget, it asked me to pay for a Pro account, something I’d be happy to do once, but I’m not paying $15 to get one steps graph. Appreciate that the widgets are a bit more customizable about timeframes, but I’m not a fan of the new look. I preferred when the graph was bolder and flatter and easier to read at a glance. Sorry, now I need to find a new app.

This app is great, but doesn’t allow you to track TOTAL calories (I.e. the combination of what the Health app refers to as Active and Resting calories). Apple buries this total calories number within the fitness app (see subtext under Move calories in the day overview), but this third-party app is not designed to replicate that number in a widget. This is something that should be easily addressed.

Look, the author of this app isn’t playing the hype game very well: it’s a one time purchase and it’s updated infrequently. What those things don’t tell you is this: The app just works. It works fabulously. You should get this if you want an app that you pay for once and can reliably show your health stats in a widget.