Apple Health vs. Noom

I would recommend it as a tool to use in addition to other fitness/health tracking tools. I use other health apps as well (C25K, LoseIt, SleepIQ, Nike Run Club). I'd say its a tool among tools - not the end all be all tool. I do think the Apple Health Ecosystem (Apple Watch, iPhone) is unmatched.

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Noom is great for building habits. It is a platform that has a thoughtful design for encouraging use. I personally know many people who have had great success with it. However, I myself did not see great results. This may be because I am extremely busy in my role and dedicating the appropriate amount of time is a challenge.

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• Steps Tracking
• Flights of Stairs
• Heart Rate
• Sitting/idle time
• Active Energy

Incentivized

• I'd like see more robust tracking of foods/diet - this is a personal request - not necessarily driven by work issues, but calorie tracking would be a nice addition.
• I find the "summary screen" to be convoluted and not compatible between other Apple Health Users - this is mainly due to differences in generations of Apple hardware.
• I'd like to see a universal comparison of days for all metrics (Active Energy, Steps, Calories burned etc.

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I've used Garmin and Fitbit - admittedly it's been a long time and those were early generations of a product - but the Apple Health devices that are available in todays climate are far superior to those initial devices that served very limited roles (only steps tracking). The heart rate monitoring/active energy calculations/etc all blow those early devices out of the water.

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I have used My Fitness Pal, Lose It, and Apple’s Health Feature. Noom is the most sophisticated of these and also distinct in the type of educational material embedded into the program. The food tracker is perhaps equal to other programs, such as My Fitness Pal- but those other programs do not have anything like what Noom offers in habit building and support.

Incentivized

• Apple Products are inherently expensive - but for the most part employees are motivated to pay for them.
• From a business perspective, we pay for the Apple iPhones, but the Apple Watch is left to the employee
• I think that it improves employee moral when comparing and having a healthy competition between employees.

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