Love the other programs by this developer and so wanted to also try this. The jury is still out for my one week trial so I’ll bite for an annual since it’s reasonable. I HATE subscriptions since I’m old and I’m afraid I’ll croak and my grandkids will still be paying this every month in perpetuity. But I’m curious as to what they’ll be able to do with this now that they have my extra $20. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. I do like all the pretty colors.
Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to review! Great to see you investing in your health monitoring and we trust you will enjoy Eclipse Yourself.
As a handy hint, you can turn off auto-renew at any time from your App Store account settings. To manage your subscriptions for this app and others, tap into the Settings app on your iPhone, tap into your Apple ID Account (it is located at the top of screen with your name), and you will see a Subscriptions menu option, tap into this to see details on each active subscription. Hope that helps clear the conscience with the grandkids :) Wishing you all the best.I love the other apps from this dev so I’ve been excited to try this app. It has a lot of potential, and I can’t wait for it to fulfill that. In its current state, it crashes quite a bit (iPhone 14 pro, 17.3.1 and Watch 7), and it doesn’t sync automatically. I had to keep double checking AutoSleep to make sure it had recorded my sleep, since this app said no sleep recording. The info is a little hard to interpret. I also wish it would have an idea if tomorrow morning is good for a work out, assuming I sleep a full night. I usually workout before work, so this is info that would be helpful before bed.
Unlike AutoSleep and HeartWatch, this app is quite underwhelming. Interestingly, this is also the Dev’s venture into a subscription based revenue model vs. one time purchase. It’s difficult for Dev’s across the board to see the bigger picture when looking at the prospect of ongoing subscription based revenue, especially if investors are involved.
However, marketing studies show (and I am a marketing exec) the consumer’s growing distaste for subscription based models and their felt need for alternatives. Dev’s that understand this and offer alternatives will attract the increasing number of users looking minimize their outflow to subscription based services and products.
Unfortunately, most devs have gotten away from releasing new versions of an app that require a new purchase, often discounted for users upgrading from a previous version, allows the devs to generate revenue from new and existing, while creating brand loyalty by rewarding existing users with an upgrade discount. Admittedly, that would be a shift in mindset for mobile app users, but it’s not unprecedented and users will adapt when faced with subscription based alternatives.
When I first read about this app while reading the HeartWatch help files at first I thought it was an app mainly for elite athletes. The marketing makes it seem that way, but after trialing it I've found it also works for people like me who are potatoes and maybe go on a walk a few times a day at most.
It's like the Activity rings in the stock Fitness app but takes into consideration overall wellness, not just being active. Getting a lot of movement done is great and all but it should also be backed by good rest and mental well being.
I also appreciate how there's *zones* for activity levels rather than a fixed number to aim for. Two zones in fact, one for getting in better shape and one for maintaining good health on those chill-out/break days.
What I would like to non-urgently see in the future is some extra goodies like adjusting heart rate zones to "heart reserve" method and some more home screen widgets and Apple Watch complications. But beyond that no major complaints so far. Great complementary app to HeartWatch and AutoSleep.
Developer Response
Thank you for the great review! You are 100% correct, Eclipse Yourself is for everyone. While the origins started with elite athletes, it is just as applicable for anyone trying to monitor and improve their total health. Lots more to come as we continue to invest into the app and rollout more features.I’m trying this app out right now and I’ve been sick during the entire trial period. It says I’ve been doing ”extreme training” and therefore my recovery/readiness is poor. I filled out the wellness survey each day and marked that I was sick, but it doesn’t change. What does it mean when it says you are doing “extreme training” but YOU AREN'T HARDLY MOVING due to illness???? Is there an accuracy problem? Or is it saying something about my HRV? There’s just no explanation, so all this data is not helpful for me… I’m also worried that it’s always going to tell me that I have poor recovery/readiness and discourage me from being active…
Developer Response
Thanks for the review. Feel free to reach out to our support who can help with lots more information on your questions. Also, a ton of information on the website that goes into detail on activity levels, overall recovery ratings and so on. Here is the link: https://eclipse.tantsissa.comIn the time I’ve used the app it has been an ok mirror of how I feel - and that’s both the power and flaw of it. If I’m already aware that (eg) I’m feeling sluggish, it isn’t that useful for an app to tell me that I’m right! It is interesting but not especially actionable. The most useful reading is recovery - if that’s out of balance it reinforces that I should take a nap and perhaps ease off a bit where I can. Fine. Readiness is more frustrating- when that’s out of balance, there’s not a lot I can do and not a lot that is useful about that knowledge. Sometimes it tells me I’m out of balance but I feel great - how is that helpful? Other times I’m in balance but feel below par - is the contradiction useful?
I really like the idea of tracking various variables, but I struggle with it being useful to me. So I’ve stopped.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to reach out to us if you need some more guidance, or the website is packed with information and videos that answer your exact questions. The Wellness Survey for example used with the Orbit trends is super helpful with subjective feeling overlays. Appreciate the feedback as the app continues to evolve.Poor recovery metrics should feed the overall one-number/one-phrase readiness score. If this app could distill all the underlying data it already collects into a single score, then users who feel their one-number readiness score may not accurately reflect their own waking experience could dig into all the factors the app is using… but otherwise there is currently too much scrolling required and too much data presented in order to get the app’s subjective assessment.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review. Feel free to reach out to support and happy to provide some more information on the metrics used. Also lot's of great information and videos on the website to explore. We will continue to evolve the app so all this great feedback is very welcome. Thanks for taking the time.I am a big fan of this developer and a longtime user of his AutoSleep. It's clear there has been a niche with the Apple Watch in giving people an idea of their readiness and recovery status. This app makes a really good attempt at doing that but the interface is really an issue. It's just way too complicated and busy, for example, I'm not really sure of the utility of giving people both a recovery and a readiness statistic. It reminds me of his AutoSleep app where there are two different readiness scores, and no real idea of how to process that. there are just way too many graphs and charts and circles to efficiently process what's going on. I would definitely use the app if the interface was more economical and usable but unfortunately it isn't. Therefore, I'll keep it in my library seeing if there's an improvement, but until then I will be using a competitor app for the time being.
While this navel gazing app is perfect for the overly self absorbed, the practical value is limited, the novelty and entertainment value expires as quickly as the free trial, and the depth of the analysis is shallower than a puddle on a hot August afternoon.
There is a lack of clarity to questions (does experiencing a major illness include long term/lifelong chronic conditions, or are they asking only about exigent conditions?)
Other types of questions might better be answered with a little guidance from the app, which in most cases has access to a lot of data about you in Apple Health. Why not put all that information to work, along with the general fund of medical knowledge, to suggest appropriate answers to questions such as the amount of sleep you need. And why not make those answers more readily available for editing and fine tuning?
In the end this is app which charges us a monthly fee to share with us a bit of information of which every human is already intrinsically, viscerally aware. How do I feel, and is this a good day or a crappy one. No doubt this is an essential for a certain class of “special” people, but utilty for the rest of us will require a lot more work to produce an app which is not only visually attractive, but practical and substantive.
This app works well in conjunction with my health related apps on my iPhone and Apple watch. most is the synthesis of information it’s pretty consistently accurate with how I actually feel which means to me that the metric is spot on.
I’ve received great support from the support team. Pretty much unmatched by any other app as far as support goes. I give it two thumbs up for sure.
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