Whoa, this app is feature packed. It's all pretty straight forward except for this part in the beginning :<p><a href="http://cl.ly/image/1d3q2Q3S0029" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/1d3q2Q3S0029</a><p>Why would I click on the hamburger menu icon to add a weight? Seems like I should hit the + button on the top right? In fact, it seems incorrect since it did what I expected, which was slide out the navigation. The + button, did ask me to add weight.<p>One thing I wanted (and maybe you have it?) was the ability to set a regular notification to remind me to weigh myself. Also, for the deluxe edition what are the other features besides removing the ads? I couldn't find what those would be. It showed up a nice list of them when I hit the button, but know that most people are going to be hesitant to do so. I'm not sure if Apple would allow it, but if you could integrate the question to upgrade into your onboard slideshow, I'd bet you'd get higher conversion. The way it is, it's pretty buried in there and this is the kind of app that people won't upgrade until they have several days worth of data to see if it's worth it. Chances are your app is going to tell them that they're bad at losing weight. They're going to be the most motivated and hopeful right when they downloaded it. Hope is a good place for conversion in my opinion.<p>Also, for the My Weight Goals, I didn't understand why it defaulted to Track Using : Actual Weights. Isn't the point to have it track using Moving Avg Weights? I just wasn't sure why you defaulted to this.<p>Thanks for sharing!
Hi HN!<p>Happy Scale helps people who are losing weight to redefine their relationship with the scale. By using their daily weigh-in as a single data point in a moving average instead of a source of truth, you can see daily weight loss progress in the app even when your scale weight plateaus for a few days. Over time, you become desensitized to the horror of a bad weigh-in and can avoid discouragement during the tender moments of building your new lifestyle habits.<p>I created this iOS app because I would be devastated in the first few days of a diet when I hopped on the scale and saw a number that was higher than my starting weight. I went on to learn that there are many factors that can cause fluctuations of a few pounds in our weight from day to day (glycogen stores, water retention, food in the belly, etc.), and using a moving average is a convenient way to neutralize these factors.<p>I've been working on this as a nights and weekends project for a bit over 4 years. I have some big ideas for where I'd like to take it in the future, but I'd love to get your feedback on where it is today!
For Android users, I've been using Libra for several years now and enjoy that I can customize the moving average.<p><a href="http://www.appbrain.com/app/libra-weight-manager/net.cachapa.libra" rel="nofollow">http://www.appbrain.com/app/libra-weight-manager/net.cachapa...</a><p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cachapa.libra" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cachapa.li...</a>
From my experience, using a moving average works really well to track weight. I am repeatedly amazed that more apps don't have something like this considering Hacker's Diet[1] was doing it over a decade ago.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html</a>
Very nice app! Thanks for putting decent HealthKit toggles in the app itself. I'm quite choosy about which apps can read HK data and which can write, and many of them are not good at making it obvious if they can cope with that!
Looks like a nicer UI than the withings app. Any thoughts about adding bf%? My #1 feature request for an app like this would be to see trend lines for LBM kg and Total Fat kg on one chart.