Help me choose: Samsung Galaxy Active 2 / Fossil Gen5 / Withings MoveECG - For iphone users!

fujiko
fujiko Posts: 58 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
The title pretty much says it all, however: I am looking for a smartwatch/tracker that has a classic watch look and not the square ones like apple watch etc.

But I do actually use an iphone so it needs to be compatible. Then, I use MFP for all my food tracking and daily calories. I also use Fiton for most at home workouts.

I've seen that the above all work with an iphone, but I'm struggling to figure out how to link all of these together. For example, under the App section on MFP I can't see Google Fit (Fossil) or Samsung Health as an app you can link it to. Is that because I'm using an iphone?

Help, really struggling to decide on which would be the best option, does anyone have experience using an iphone and one of those watches?

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    edited March 2021
    Our available options are sometimes shaped by our current software and hardware.

    While, in general, MFP integrations with Fitbit and Garmin appear fairly solid albeit not always interruption free... that's as far as I would personally go if a correctly working integration was of primary concern to me as of mid-late 2020. Apple integration may have improved between then and q1 2021 since I don't see numerous posts about exercising more and ending with less calories; but then again I'm checking less often.
  • jjalbertt
    jjalbertt Posts: 98 Member
    Samsung is going to be hell if you have an iPhone
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    A work around anyone should be able to use involves finding intermediary apps that can translate for one another.

    When Apple watch users were having issues, @heybales researched and demonstrated that using the Pacer app as an intermediary (sync device to pacer without linking to mfp, then sync Pacer to MFP) produces acceptable results.

    Other apps based on Mifflin BMR estimates and able to transmit whole day TDEE information to MFP should also work
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    It appears the problematic Google Fit and Samsung Health have been removed for linking accounts. I don't find them either.

    Not sure whose side that was, because it appears MFP is willing enough to sync in accounts providing bad info and just displaying it with whatever ill effects it might be (aka Apple).

    But maybe they finally did for those.

    Pretty sure you can still use the option to just tell the MFP app to use one of those as your step source.
    And that's all MFP gets - step count.
    MFP has to figure out some rough math for calories from steps and not the accurate distance used by linked accounts.
    MFP has to figure out what of those inaccurate calories came from logged workouts or not when there is no time stamped info - so you may not get full credit for daily activity.

    Pacer does seem to pull TDEE figures from some of those other accounts, but others it merely does the step count thing too, so inaccurate again.

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