one-fifth of readers exercise with Samsung Health
With 22 percent of the vote, Samsung Health is by far the most used app to track sports activities. Our AW Poll also showed that Strava, Google Fit and Garmin Connect are also very popular. Whether you want to keep track of your movement in the form of steps or intense workouts in the gym: for many people such a sports app is a stick behind the door.
Sports apps
But not for everyone: 12 percent of people do not use sports apps at all. For Marvado, for example, such an app is annoying: “I did it for a while, mainly counting steps and stuff. It got all ticklish, because the 10k blahblahblah. It puts a kind of pressure that backfires. For intensive athletes, I can imagine that monitoring your performance has added value, so I am not in that category.”
The use of sports apps is often mainly fueled by wearables: after all, you need such a sports app to set up your smart watch and read the information it collects about you. The very popular Garmin Connect app, for example. Markun85: “Garmin Connect with Garmin Epix 2. Keeps track of almost everything.” Yet there are also many apps that are not necessarily linked to a specific wearable: Adidas, Nike, Runkeeper and MyFitnessPal, for example.
While Samsung Health does by far the best with 22 percent of the vote, followed by Garmin Connect (15 percent), Strava (14 percent) and Google Fit (12 percent), the use of other apps quickly drops below 5 percent. Huawei Health is used by 5 percent of readers, Komoot by 4 percent, Zepp Life by 4 percent and Adidas Running by 2 percent. Apps such as Nike Run Club, Map My Run, Basic-Fit, Asics Runkeeper, MyFitnessPal and Ommetje are used by less than 1 percent of readers.
Fitness
TomTom Sports, StepsApp, SportCity, Pedometer, Step Counter and Step Tracker received no votes. However, 6 percent of readers indicate that they use a different app. We can conclude from this that people do not so much opt for apps that are only pedometers: logical, because there are often other apps on their phone that already have a pedometer integrated. Edo de Roo also endorses this: “Google Fit, mainly because it is active on my phone/watch by default. And I enter my weight in it every morning, that too.”
Drankorgel does not have a sports app, because yes: “There is no app that can count the number of beer and whiskey bottles that I drink. I wish there was an unhealthy app that tells me it’s high time to eat a greasy bite, get drunk and keep smoking hard.”
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See you next week when we’re back with a new one AW Poll. As long as nobody makes the app that Drankorger proposes, we expect his input again next week. 😉
