Support bone mass, muscle mass, body fat percentage and water content when adding weight values
It is great to see that the interaction of weight values with Apple Health now finally works. I know that it is easy for someone who did not previously provide any feedback to say "it should have worked before"; however, it is great to see it fully implemented and working properly.
My scales, which I have had for some years, track not only weight (mass) but also bone mass, muscle mass, body fat percentage and water content, and I have been trying to find an app that allows me to track these parameters on my iPhone and integrate with Apple Heath. Apple Heath itself only supports "weight" and body fat percentage, not bone mass, muscle mass or water content, so tracking the additional parameters is currently "meaningless" from the perspective of Apple Health, at least until such time as these parameters are added. However, because I have the data available to me, I still want to track it.
Despite extensive search, I have not yet found an app that allows me both to track this data and integrate with Apple Health. iBody and iLoseWeight, both from ihanwel, both support all of these parameters, but currently have no integration at all with Apple Health.
I currently use iCardio, which supports tracking of weight, which it passes through to Apple Health, and body fat percentage, which for some reason it does not. It also has a "notes" feature, for adding additional comments to logged entries, which I use for manually adding these extra parameters. However, it is just a plain text field, and the only tracking that I can do is visually.
If Lifesum were able to also allow tracking of body fat percentage and feed it through to Apple Health, and even better bone mass, muscle mass and water content, that would make the weight tracking feature much more useful to me, and also make it unique among lifestyle/fitness trackers.
Martin Reed
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Gabi
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Also other conacted apps like Samsung health
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Anonymous commented
Lifesum needs to write body fat to Apple health app
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Anonymous
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+3. I would like not to get this kind of data from Apple Health, though, but input manually from my scale.
I can currently add these units manually (which is awesome and I think this is the preferable way to having fixed things everyone should track since scales ary), but with two shortcomings:
- My muscle mass growth is shown in RED like it's a bad thing, because all the numbers want to go down. :D
- When I add body fat or skeletal muscle percentages and my weight goes down, it's hard to follow what the total is. I would LOVE for Lifesum to offer to automatically plot and calculate the absolute values (total/latest weight on measurement point * percentage) for me, and then store the absolute value for the plot (or into a separate plot, I don't mind that, I just have to calculate and track it separately entirely manually now).
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Alexandre Ferreira commented
I use the app → Body Graph... Fantastic... Free or 1,99$
→ Weight, Fat, Water, Muscle
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Martin Reed
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Disappointing to see no new Apple Health parameters in iOS 10 - muscle mass, bone mass and water content being the ones that I am specifically watching out for.
Since I posted my original note, iBodyPro (pro version of iBody, obviously) has added Apple Health integration, and I now use only iBodyPro for tracking my weight and everything else that comes out of my (smart) scales.
The developer of iBodyPro is very responsive, so if Lifesum could interact directly with iBodyPro to import these parameters, that would be a great step forward for integration, and also make Lifesum unique among lifestyle/fitness trackers.
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Anonymous
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Agreed! Thank you for quite an amazing app .I would too like a place
where you can write other metrics e.g. with a Tanita
measurement. I would like to make notes of my fat % muscle mass etc.So the
app also can be used when you working on building your muscle
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/jandreac/Downloads/class_notes/Exercise_You/S
ummer06/TANITA-Printout.pdf
Thank you
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Martin Reed
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The app iBodyPro, for which I am also a beta tester, now has Apple Health integration in the beta version that is not yet in the App Store, so it tracks bone mass, muscle mass and water content, as well as "weight" and body fat, and writes "weight" and body fat to Apple Health. The version of the app that is in the App Store, plain iBody, does not have Apple Health integration.
As iBodyPro has already implemented the entry of these parameters, and now the integration with Apple Health, perhaps Lifesum could integrate directly with iBodyPro in order to pick up these other parameters (and avoid duplication of effort).
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Ian
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Yes, I would love to track more than just weight as well. My nutritionist showed me all of the other important data to be concerned about, so I bought a scale that breaks down your body by fat%, muscle %, water %, and bone density (it also calculates your BMI). It would be awesome for me to track these values on the Lifesum app, so I can set another fitness goal of lowering my body fat % to say 15% and then track my progress. Please make this happen. By the way, I am an Android user, so please make this available for Android as well.