Do you use S Health?

[digitalbreak]

I have not seen any discussions around S Health here but I am finding it really useful in measuring my heart rate, stress and looking back at the trends on how well I am doing. I don't have a supported accessory, but other than that it looks promising.

Anybody use S Health? What do you think?

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

I use it daily. I happen to really love it.

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[TheDonJ77]

I actually use a lot more than I thought I would, on my note and gear S. It's a pretty good app. One of Samsung's better apps.

 

[djroy03]

Use it daily as well. I find the heart rate monitor to be quite accurate.

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[billykac]

I use it every day.
Great app.
Much kinder to the battery than Google's Fit app.

 

[Jdane07]

I like how much they've improved the software experience, but I still don't use it very much (I currently have it disabled). I applaud them for making it a solid app though.

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[sirCLD]

I also use it daily with my Gear S...I like it a lot!

 

[AllPhones]

Nope.

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[8100User]

First thing I do every morning, I see if my heart is beating....

If it is, I get up, get out of bed and get on with my day.....

 

[nokia4life]

I use it daily

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[jmy7213]

I use it every day. Its actually the reason I bought my Gear2 warch.

Sent from my:

Beautiful Note V
64 GB
Black Sapphire
Paired with Samsung Gear 2 Neo
Sprint PCS

 

[tripjnj]

I use it occasionally for the heart rate but not really for the step counter. Since the phone is beast I don't always have it on me, making the count not 100% accurate. When I do have it on me though, the counter is very accurate. I was impressed watching it count each step while holding it and walking.

 

[MikeekiM]

I am binging on S Health... Tracking my calories, my heart rate, my steps, my water intake, my caffeine consumption, etc, etc, etc...

I am definitely going to back off on some of the stuff I am tracking... Right now, I am simply playing with it to see what is useful...

I find calorie counting exceptionally painful and awkward... I don't think it is the S Health app's issue... It's just a difficult thing to do... Easy if you just went to a restaurant and the precise dish you ordered is in their database...not so easy if you ate something home cooked or something at a restaurant that is not in the database...

I like keeping track of my water and caffeine intake... That's easy...

I like tracking my sleep (even though the entries are manual) because it reminds me that I don't get enough sleep...

Step tracking takes no effort at all...besides making sure you are carrying your phone around, which is with me most of the time anyway... It might not be 100% accurate...it might not be terribly useful information...but it's a metric...and relatively high numbers mean more activity...relatively low numbers means I have been a slug...

 

[billykac]

S Health is the first app with a pedometer function that is gentle on battery use.
In fact, I can't see any change since I started using the app.
Great job Samsung!

 

[digitalbreak]

Calorie counter is something I dont use as well. I want a tech where all I do is take a photo of the food and it should automatically calculate the calories for most of the items and the rest I could enter manually.

I am binging on S Health... Tracking my calories, my heart rate, my steps, my water intake, my caffeine consumption, etc, etc, etc...

I am definitely going to back off on some of the stuff I am tracking... Right now, I am simply playing with it to see what is useful...

I find calorie counting exceptionally painful and awkward... I don't think it is the S Health app's issue... It's just a difficult thing to do... Easy if you just went to a restaurant and the precise dish you ordered is in their database...not so easy if you ate something home cooked or something at a restaurant that is not in the database...

I like keeping track of my water and caffeine intake... That's easy...

I like tracking my sleep (even though the entries are manual) because it reminds me that I don't get enough sleep...

Step tracking takes no effort at all...besides making sure you are carrying your phone around, which is with me most of the time anyway... It might not be 100% accurate...it might not be terribly useful information...but it's a metric...and relatively high numbers mean more activity...relatively low numbers means I have been a slug...

 

[Gab79]

I use it daily to tracking my heart rate, my steps and my weight.

 

[dpham00]

I use it all the time

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 5

 

[erasat]

I've been using it a lot since last year with the S5 and Note 4 but this year's version is far superior and smooth. In fact when I move to another non-Samsung phone (I've had over a dozen phones during this past year) the most I miss is S health. I end up using Google Fit and man, what a downgrade that is.

Anyway, here it's my S Health Panel so you can see what I'm currently tracking.

 

[Clams1]

Can S Health be used in place of Run Keeper or Map My Run? Would need it to use the GPS to map out my route, plus give me elapsed time, pace, etc.

 

[erasat]

Can S Health be used in place of Run Keeper or Map My Run? Would need it to use the GPS to map out my route, plus give me elapsed time, pace, etc.

It has it's own Running App, but I prefer the Nike+ Running one that was suggested by the S Health App. Before I was using both Run keeper and Map My Run, using them for years, but I've found that the Nike+ is very comparable, it uses GPS to track your route, it has the voice alerts and basically most of the same features that the others have, but I like that I have it integrated in the S Health app the others can't.

Take a look at my screenshot and you'll see that I have both, but I always use the Nike one, cause if I use it, it updates both the Nike and the S Health running App stats information, if i use the S health it doesn't update the Nike one.