App Review: Weightbot

December 11th, 2008

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As promised in the latest episode, here is our review of Weightbot by Tapbots. I have been planning to purchase an iPhone for the last 3 or 4 months. My current contract was up on 10/18 and so I bought one and the first application that I purchased was Weightbot. Imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail from Jeff telling me he bought an iPod Touch. He informs me that he purchased the Weightbot application also. So here’s my review of Weightbot. Perhaps Jeff will chime in with his thoughts.

There’s not much to dislike about Weightbot. It’s main feature would have to be it’s simplicity. It does one thing, provide a platform to record your weight. Weightbot uses the features of the iPhone interface to it’s fullest. You start out by inputing your goal weight, your height, and an optional passcode to keep unwanted eyes out of your business. After that, you are presented with the main interface of Weightbot. By clicking on the large numbers on the screen a sideways scale will appear along the bottom of the screen. By flicking your finger across the scale you can input your weight down to the tenth of a pound. Simply click the large numbers that now has your weight and it will be recorded for the day. Also included on the display is your current BMI.

Each day record your weight this way and soon you’ll have a nice looking graph of your weight loss. If you rotate the iPhone 90 degrees, Weightbot will display the graph. Cool beans. If you’d like to delete one of the weigh-ins, simply scroll to that date on the bottom of the screen and shake the iPhone.

What’s missing from Weightbot? The only thing that I can imagine to make Weightbot better would be a Bluetooth scale that Weightbot could communicate with and automatically enter your weight.

Tapbots has a few features that are listed as Coming Soon on the web site. They include:

Ability to backup/restore your data
Moving average line in the graph view
Multiple graph views (Month/Year)
Removal of the 90 day limitation to modify data
Gestures to jump faster through dates/weight measurements in the scroller.
Alternate data view with information like lbs lost to date, lbs lost per week/month, lbs. left to reach goal, etc.
Localization
Option to attach other details to each weight entry (notes for example)

Weightbot is $1.99 and is available from the iTunes App Store.

App Review: Weightbot