Sports tracker vs endomondo

leelu137
leelu137 Posts: 46
in Fitness and Exercise
Today I went for a walk with both trackers running and the had different stats.

Sports tracker said I traveled 7.45km in 56minutes @ an average pace of 7.9km per hour . It said I burnt 479kcal


Endomondo said I travelled 7.03 km in 56minutes @ an average pace of 7.4km per hour. It said I burnt 614kcal

Does anyone know which is more accurate?

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  • Dimikkio
    Dimikkio Posts: 2
    My wife and I are trying to choose what to use - Endomondo or Sports Tracker. Today we compared three devices - Endomondo on Nokia Lumia 820 (Windows Phone 8), Sports Tracker on iPhone 5 (iOS 6.*) and Garmin Forerunner 305. We assumed that Garmin should be the most accurate - after all, it was designed as a sport tracking device. Of course, we aren't sure it's true.
    Anyway, Sports Tracker on iPhone was much closer to Garmin, both showed 10.43 km, Endomondo showed 9.90.

    So, the results are similar to yours. I've never tried to run two trackers simultaneously, didn't know it was possible. Will try tomorrow.

    Any ideas about Garmin Forerunner being the most accurate? Actually, we have two of them, and tomorrow I'll take both. They are pretty close but not identical, alas. They have slightly different firmware, though.

    Anyway, I'll keep you informed :) But the most important thing is surely to keep going whatever the device or software :)
  • acrowder99
    acrowder99 Posts: 63 Member
    I use Endomondo & I had a sneaky suspicion that it might be over-estimating my calories burned. If it were me, I would just run them both & split the difference.

    I am looking at either getting a Polar HRM or a BodyMedia Fit to measure my burns. I am leaning towards to BodyMedia since I am switching to more lifting now & it's one that you wear all day. My only thing holding me back is I don't want to spend that much money on something that's not going to be comfortable to wear.
  • Dimikkio
    Dimikkio Posts: 2
    Well, thank you for telling me about BodyMedia Fit, I've never heard of this system. Visited their site, but they don't give many technical details - what their four sensors are, for example. Anyway, looks nice.
    The thing is that we are both... well, slim is not the word :) For me - emaciated would be more accurate. So we are concerned about distance - heart rate measurements only.
    BTW, Polar monitors are great but their straps used to be disposable because of the battery - it was impossible to change, it was built-in. That's why we decided to buy Garmin Forerunner and never regretted.
    The reason we are looking for something else is a severe Russian winter. It kills the watch unit battery pretty fast. So in summer Garmin is fine, in winter we'll use something like Endomondo.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Take a look at this.


    http://www.getgrok.com/2013/01/a-comparative-review-28-days-with-the-fitbit-one-jawbone-up-nike-fuelband-and-bodymedia-link/

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