Body & Weight Monitor

by Fenlander Software Solutions

Product Details

• ASIN: B0054QY36C
• Original Release Date: June 7, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 7, 2011
Rated: All Ages

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (125 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,435 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #74 in Appstore for Android > Health & Fitness

Product Features

• Multi-user support with full password protection
• Goal-setting, monitoring
• Built-in BMI and body fat Calculators
• Weight loss widget showing calendar, goals, progress
• Data export to spreadsheet, image capture

Technical Details

• Size: 923.1KB
• Version: 1.2.1
• Developed By: Fenlander Software Solutions
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Write to external storage
  • com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 10 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 38 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Plain black/white widget that does not fit text in landscape, and marginally passes as an app. June 26, 2012

By GemDragon

Updating: I just swapped out battery and rebooted. An icon now is found in the apps directory where you could open it like an app. This sure is some cockeyed way of programming the install! But the dev is probably forcing you to put his widget on your homescreen first and hopefully leave it there and then rebooting gives you the ability to have the app icon. If you do like this app, at least you now have the choice of app or widget. I still don't care for it for the many other reasons I wrote below, but now the app runs all day and can't be killed with a task killer - it comes right back 10 seconds later in the background! If you delete the widget, the app still runs all day! The widget is still ugly and not coded correctly for landscape, and the calendar is still useless as a way to view progress unless you want just a summary of calcultions or feel like clicking 50 times and have a real good memory of what you read.

Not even programmed right! This widget in landscape is just a long white rectangle where the letters are outside the borderline. Only fits right in portrait. Calendar is ridiculous. I put in weight and height so far, and all it shows are a red line and yellow line. I have to click every box on the calendar to get the info? Why not just let me see at least weight actual numbers in the calendar boxes? Widget only shows total lost or gained and the last gain or loss and how much to the goal for one person, but you don't know the name of who it was (the last person you were working on). So if I add an entry for Person B, I have to remember to go back into my name before I close it out or it will be showing the other person's stats on the widget because it shows no name on it. The other issues still stand and are annoying enough to keep it at one star for me.

It is about 2 MB on the internal phone storage already with no data in it, more than what the description said. This could get much higher as time goes on adding all your data and notes for multiple people. I can only see this being beneficial if you actually export it to a spreadsheet where you can actually see the numbers of the progress. This widget basically shows the calculated stats, which I guess would be useful if you only wanted to know that. And adding Google Play licensing to the permissions is pretty sneaky, too. This means if you go to Play to update, you can't even update it although you have their licensing for it, and neither can you review the app on Play! If you go to Play, it will be on your Playlist of apps purchased there even though you didn't buy it there. Now I'll be confused when I go to update Play apps in the future and not realize why the update won't take! I'd have to remember that years ago I got it from Amazon so that's the only place to update. I can't stand when devs put licensing on an app from another vendor we did not purchase from!! You throw off the whole list of apps process for us when you do that!!

Also, the date popup alerts are 26/06/2012, European style, which I do not care for, and some poor English language grammar and style I noticed in this widget. Also, I noticed when I had Person A up, and put weight in for the day before (June 25), then went to put in weight for Person B, it had June 25 for the date popping up, not today June 26! It really should default to today's date when switching from one user to another.

Really looks like it was slapped together quickly with not much thought to design, which is very basic with colors and lines. This just will not work for me. It's just a passable way to keep this personal data on your device because of the pains it takes just to manuever around in this app, be it one person or a whole family.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Serious Reservations June 26, 2012

By Dr. Shannon

Amazon Verified Purchase

I downloaded this app for my son, who is a weightlifter and could use this intelligently, especially after reading the helpful reviews about maneuvering through the initial setup. However, I have profound concerns about the utility and psychological safety of an app that encourages people to weight themselves DAILY and then somehow provides "meaningful" data, such as BMI (a very emotionally loaded number for many people). Obtaining an accurate BMI requires more than height, weight, age & gender. Therefore, in the wrong hands, this app is not only inaccurate but potentially damaging.

When I then consider the UI difficulties already mentioned, the app has very limited utility. The issue of potential updates is still up in the air, as one reviewer pointed out. I, for one, get pretty cranky when I can't get support from Google for an app from Amazon that Amazon no longer carries (think wp clock, a live wallpaper, which explicitly states they won't give updates unless you have a Google purchase code). How useful is this app in it's present state, assuming you may not have updates available?

Please developers, listen to this review. Don't encourage people to weight themselves more than a couple times a week. Don't allow a BMI unless you have adequate data, which you have the fields built in to obtain. Provide info about what are healthy ranges for people at different ages and circumstances. Have built in triggers that will tell a person to seek medical advice if BMI or weight falls outside a certain range. Without such precautions, this app is potentially dangerous.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Who knows? June 26, 2012

By T. L. Trester

Amazon Verified Purchase

Thought I would love this app, but when I try to input a user it won't go past name, bday, and sex. I already know all that about myself. I was wanting to track weight loss, BMI, etc. Any clues on how to get to the next screen?
If I finally get it to work I will change my review.