Google Fit is a fitness app that helps people to keep a track of their fitness activities, to analyse how they are working towards their fitness goals. To install this app it ask for the location access of users in order to track their activities through GPS. It also need access to phone to track the activities when the device is in use. Users can perform various activities through it such as walking, running, biking, aerobics etc. This app can be used while playing various games and users can track how much calories have been burnt during performing an activity. It tracks the location of a user through google map and keeps on analyzing the movement of a user and then shows data as per the task performed.
This app comes from a leading company and even though the layout looks so simple and difficult to use. The logo is not attractive at all and so is the design. The design of the whole app including the characters looks so irrelevant and was not accepted from a leading brand. Even the activity data layout is not properly managed and looks very unprofessional.
This app has limited features to analyse the fitness activities of a user. It tracks users activities through GPS and sensors when phone is kept in the pocket. However, I have experienced it mainly works tracking activities through sensors and GPS is just to plan an activity between two destinations and nothing much is done by the GPS feature. Google maps are used for completing most of the activities and apart from it doesn’t have any special features.
So, the overall outcome after using it in various activities is it doesn’t play a significant role and the data captured by it is totally different than actual figures. I completed several tasks but the data was not captured even for a single task. It only works when the phone is kept in the pocket while walking, running etc. then it tracks the movement of our body and shows rough estimated figures. I observed that it has a low accuracy and the data displayed is not reliable.