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Moves App Now FREE (Save $3.79) [iPhone & Android]

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Moves App Now FREE (Save $3.79) [iPhone & Android]
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itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 01:44 itunes.apple.com (3081 clicks)
Last edited 26/04/2014 - 09:12

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• Android (hat tip to efgee).

I absolutely love this app. I use it every day – it has resulted in a total paradigm shift in my daily activities and fitness goals. Who needs a $200 Fitbit when you can just install this powerful app?

N.B. This app can still be downloaded & used on iOS 6.

Description

Moves automatically tracks your everyday exercise, commuting and time spent in important places. Just carry your phone in your pocket or bag.

NEW IN MOVES 2.5: A Complete Exercise Diary!
• Over 60 new activity types
• New activities are not (yet) automatically recognized, but easy to add

FEATURES
• Automatically tracks walking, cycling and running
• Recognizes the places in your daily life
• Shows your day as a simple storyline
• Plots your routes on a map
• Step counter (pedometer)
• Calories burned for each activity
• Support for the M7 co-processor in iPhone 5s

More features available from the Connected Apps catalog.

BENEFIT
Seeing your everyday life in a new way can motivate you to move more. Set simple goals (e.g. 10,000 steps a day) and start with small changes that can lead to a fitter lifestyle and healthier habits.

BATTERY CONSUMPTION
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Moves has been designed to use GPS and other sensors sparingly. The app relies mostly on acceleration data, cell tower and Wi-Fi locations. The Battery Saving Mode will further minimize battery consumption when stationary in a place.

IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT IOS 7
Moves needs to run continuously in the background to track your activities:
Ensure that you have BACKGROUND APP REFRESH turned ON for Moves (iPhone Settings > General > Background App Refresh)

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  • A3Australia on 26/04/2014 - 02:53
    +2

    Interesting.

    Just acquired by Facebook as well.

    How about the Android version? Anyone know if that is also free?

    • effgee on 26/04/2014 - 06:16
      +12

      Yep:

      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.protogeo.m…

      Surely 'acquired by fb' is a negative, given their utter disrespect for personal privacy.
      No mention of heartrate monitor support

      • Riker88 on 26/04/2014 - 07:55
        +9

        I was going to get this until you mentioned that Facebook has acquired it. This is giving FB access to your entire life in regards to what you do and where you are. It will be a goldmine for FB. No need to 'check in' anywhere since FB will already know

        • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 09:05

          For those of you that use the Moves app – the Moves experience will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook.

          http://www.moves-app.com/press

        • Diji1 on 26/04/2014 - 10:51
          +11

          Given Facebook's woeful record I'm struggling to treat this press release with any credibility.

        • Diogenes on 26/04/2014 - 12:21
          +4

          " there are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook" - that's a typically-American weasel-worded piece of marketing spiel.

          The moment that Facebook's overseers (and its chums in the NSA or the Aus-equivalent tax-eating degenerate parasites) decide that they want your "Moves", they will simply "commingle" the phuq out of whatever data they want.

          Closed source, and owned by Facebook? This guarantees that "Moves" never sees the inside of my phone.

        • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 15:34

          Woeful record? Could you give an example?

        • daydream on 26/04/2014 - 17:26
          +3

          There are no plans currently. In six months they will have the plans ;-)

      • The Gent on 26/04/2014 - 12:50

        People really get on the "ARGHHH MY PRIVACY!" bandwagon when talking about Facebook…

        1) Most of the stories about them are false or exaggerated.
        2) You gave the personal information to them in the first place.
        3) No one cares where you buy your adult toys.

        • Diji1 on 26/04/2014 - 15:29
          +6

          1) Nope

          2) Nope

          3) As someone who's worked in digital marketing using contextual advertising all I can say is: don't kid yourself.

      • IVI on 26/04/2014 - 19:53

        So, if I carry a WiFi-only Android device, am I safe?

        …or does this puppy save & send later?

        (I guess one could always run it only in a totally disconnected device…. ;-)

        • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 19:54

          So, if I carry a WiFi-only Android device, am I safe?

          It requires GPS. But, yes, you could run it on a totally disconnected device otherwise.

        • Diji1 on 27/04/2014 - 07:58

          You could use whatever firewall method takes your fancy (I like the app known as Droidwall) takes your fancy to prevent it from making any connection at all. I don't know how firewalling works on iOS but I'm assuming it's just as easy.

    • n0va on 26/04/2014 - 09:07
      +5

      but you'll be well positioned when FB releases it's new premium-app which tracks how fat our ex-boy/girlfriends have become!

  • budgetgaming on 26/04/2014 - 05:30

    Would it use much cellular data? I've only 1gb/month

    • GregFiona on 26/04/2014 - 08:53
      +1

      and what about battery life?

      • aec on 26/04/2014 - 09:34
        +3

        read the reviews, it appears to suck lots of juice from your phone battery.

    • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 09:08
      +1

      Nope – I've had it installed for months and it's only consumed 9.8 MB.

      Battery life obviously does decrease, but I haven't found it to be too bad – YMMV though, as I have an iPhone 5s, which means I can enable Battery Saving Mode.

    • mskeggs on 26/04/2014 - 10:26
      +8

      The problem with this approach is it becomes trivially easy for FB to re-identify you. They don't actually care if your name is Tarquin Fauntleroy, they want to know your connections and inter-connections so they can get inside your head for marketing, research, political manipulation etc. Pseudonymity has a place, but be aware that it only adds a tiny speed hump to the machine.
      Think about Coles/Woolies. They don't really care if I scan my everyday rewards card if I am paying on CC, they can still string my purchases together. And align them with data they collect when I get a web quote for their car or house insurance.
      I reckon they know more about me than my parents.

      • The Gent on 27/04/2014 - 12:59
        +1

        Why is relevant advertising scary though?

        Please tell me what the absolute worst thing that can be done with your data is…? The worst thing you have said so far is that you get an accurate quote for insurance without having to type in information…and hey, Mother's Day is coming up - buy some flowers and go see your mum, you!

        Note: the distinction between data and information is relevant here.

    • Diji1 on 26/04/2014 - 10:58

      I'm not really sure why you think having a name that isn't you're own does anything for your privacy on Facebook.

    • xuqi on 26/04/2014 - 12:18
      +1

      Yeah, that'll fool their meta-data analytics systems.

    • mycosys on 26/04/2014 - 18:54

      And I ADORE cheese

      rule for the net - if it is on the web it is utterly public, no matter how much security or imagined obscurity you think protects it
      If you dont want something public, dont put it on the web. Other protocols vary but the web is public.

  • greenie4242 on 26/04/2014 - 09:29
    +2

    Reviews say it's a battery hog, but could be worth a try.

  • wolffram on 26/04/2014 - 09:51
    +2

    I used this for a month but had to remove it as the battery consumption was enormous. I've got an iPhone 4S, so a newer phone might be better, but I got sick of having to charge my phone several times a day. Apart from that the app works great and does what it states re tracking your movement. (To be fair, I've tried all the IOS pedometer apps I could find, and they were all power hogs. I finally bit the bullet and bought a Fitbit ).

  • snvl on 26/04/2014 - 10:02

    Has it always been free on android? As other has said, it drains your battery.

    I have been using pedometer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.ped….

  • jacklynhydejr on 26/04/2014 - 10:03

    Anyone else not able to download this for IOS 6? I tried both my US and Australian iTunes account, and do not get the same pop-up the OP has shown?? It just says, you must update to iOS 7 :( Any ideas?

    • ur2dads on 26/04/2014 - 10:23
      +5

      Update to IOS 7.

    • Steptoe on 26/04/2014 - 10:25

      What he said.

    • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 19:57

      You could try downloading it into iTunes on your computer, then downloading it on your iOS device from Purchased – that's what I incidentally did, since my iOS 6 device isn't my primary one anymore, so perhaps that's something…

  • hashtagbargain on 26/04/2014 - 10:46
    +4

    Over hyped, say good bye to your battery life, acquired by fb.

    No thank you.

  • stemcell on 26/04/2014 - 11:18
    +8

    I've binned facebook and reverted to talking to my friends.

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  • conio on 26/04/2014 - 12:01
    +2

    On android this has always been free. I've had it for months and its great.

  • CI on 26/04/2014 - 12:10
    +1

    Will affect battery life ? A lot?

    • xuqi on 26/04/2014 - 12:19
      +3

      Yes..

  • A3Australia on 26/04/2014 - 14:35

    Android people,

    My friend tried to get this app with his Note 2. He received a message that his device was not supported.

    Any info. on this problem?

    Thanks.

    EDIT:
    From the Google Play Store of course.

    • MilkWoman on 26/04/2014 - 18:41

      It means that his device is not supported.

      • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 18:43
        +2

        Yes, and this is why:

        Accelerometer problem on Android
        Moves uses the phone's accelerometer to recognize activities and steps. Unfortunately some Android phones aren't capable of using the accelerometer when the screen is off. Samsung Galaxy Note II is the most popular model that is unable to run the accelerometer in the background.

  • FutureMe on 26/04/2014 - 15:24

    I used moves on my Nexus 5 a couple of months ago (Was free). Good App but battery usage was too high for me. Now use simple but good free app called Pedometer by Thomas Hoffmann. It used no battery as uses the built in step counter of Nexus5.

    • itsfree on 26/04/2014 - 18:45
      +1

      Fair enough – I still use it because it does much more than simply count steps. I'm willing to sacrifice the small amount of battery it consumes because I find the features worthwhile. I also have a 12,000 mAH portable battery always with me.

  • imperium on 26/04/2014 - 16:49
    +1

    nexus 5 - program is a whore that just keep on sucking.

    edit: still nice post. i like free things.

  • chonghe on 27/04/2014 - 01:32
    +3

    Seriously at first when I saw the picture, I thought it has something to do with Motorola.
    Anyway thanks for the good apps.

    • itsfree on 27/04/2014 - 09:03

      No worries mate!

  • jacklynhydejr on 28/04/2014 - 21:26
    +1

    This app is awesome. Two days in and loving it. I don't see an obscene drain to the battery life either. Thanks for the post :)

    • itsfree on 28/04/2014 - 22:16

      Glad someone likes it! Yes that's what I found too – it's become part of my daily usage now :)

  • sayanything on 01/05/2014 - 19:11
    +1

    Thanks, have been looking for something like this!

    • itsfree on 01/05/2014 - 19:11

      You're welcome! :)

  • MonocleMoose on 07/05/2014 - 12:04
    +2

    That didn't take long for Facebook to destroy any sense of privacy.

    The privacy policy has already been changed and they are now sharing whatever they want to whoever they want really.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/05/after-facebook-deal-m…

    • huertano on 08/05/2014 - 14:54
      +1

      just exported my data and deleted the app. good riddance. Now I have to figure out a way to get rid of whatsapp

  • Last Seen on 09/05/2014 - 17:06

    Sadly I didn't like this app much. Appreciate the OP's efforts, though.

    Not sure if there was a conflict but I used it on a Galaxy Note 3, causing massive battery drain with no settings modified. No other apps or changes to usage patterns during the test.

  • iamnikon on 09/05/2014 - 23:39
    +1

    I loved this app for the few days I had this - between this deal and Moves changing their privacy policy. It didn't drain too much on my battery, the design was great and it was fun. I've since exported my data, deleted the app and replaced it with Breeze by Runkeeper which is just as good if a bit more gimmicky.

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