Many things I love but needs some extras
I love reading my heart rate, blood oxygen level checks, learning so much about my sleep and even the good feeling when I read my steps, calorie burns, and activity points achieved.
Some things that could use some tweaking include a smaller face plate for the smaller wrist band(a little bulky on a small wrist); better tracking of mild activity(like when I’m cooking or cleaning but getting reminders that it’s time to move?); more suggestions for better sleep that don’t include meditation or maybe suggestions for getting back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night; if the workout videos could include sound prompts at end of times and circuits plus more prompts of what exercise coming up next; and more positive reinforcement prompts during the day like when I take the stairs or walk for 5 minutes but didn’t start my walking exercise timer.
But so far it has been helpful and encouraging to reach for goals.
Some things that could use some tweaking include a smaller face plate for the smaller wrist band(a little bulky on a small wrist); better tracking of mild activity(like when I’m cooking or cleaning but getting reminders that it’s time to move?); more suggestions for better sleep that don’t include meditation or maybe suggestions for getting back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night; if the workout videos could include sound prompts at end of times and circuits plus more prompts of what exercise coming up next; and more positive reinforcement prompts during the day like when I take the stairs or walk for 5 minutes but didn’t start my walking exercise timer.
But so far it has been helpful and encouraging to reach for goals.
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Halo review
Sleep tracking needs a lot of improvement. It doesn't actually register sleep unless it's during normal sleep hours. Naps need to count, not everyone can physically sleep enough in one chunk of sleep. One of them continually shuts off as soon as it's taken off, and takes thirty minutes of playing with the charger to get it to actually try to find a signal again. the watch. It's great and easy to use. The app is pretty good also, although I would like more sleep help options, also it says that all three of us are sleeping very badly. My boyfriend's band says he is awake, when he is snoring. I know it's not right. Maybe we could have an option to actually say I'm going to bed and I'm up, naps aren't considered as sleep either. I'm sure it's considered sedentary time, but that's how some people get their sleep, I'm disabled and pain sometimes keeps me up, maybe we are dreaming during the night and the app thinks we are awake? Also one of our watches just today decided that it doesn't want to be con ected to the phone except when it's plugged in. I have reset the phone and app but it's still not working, so there is also that.
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Halo view usage
The apps are great. I enjoy the sleep,health tracking, ability to see recipes, plan meals. I use the sleep programs almost nightly. However, they are flawed. You are supposed to be able to fall asleep before the actual video/yoga nidra, etc ends. If this happens-falling asleep. it we start up again apipproximately 4 hours after the initial sleep program. It’s very frustrating to be woken up when the goal was for the app to help you go to sleep.
I have done updates to the app even completely deleted my Halo View app to stArt over again , losing all my data. Unfortunenatly, ITS STILL HAPPENING AND VERY FRUSTRATING. IVE CONTACT TECH SUPPORT AND did tS
W HAT THEY ASKED. ITS NIT WORKING. IM PRETTY DIAAPPOINTED.
I also wish when you logged in exercises, you can Change the details such as the start and end time easier, the distance for certain. The band never matches what my treadmill or bike or exercise video claims has been achieved. At least those things could by changed on Fitbit easily.
I’m really hoping for so updates to stop the random night interruptions of my sleep.
I have done updates to the app even completely deleted my Halo View app to stArt over again , losing all my data. Unfortunenatly, ITS STILL HAPPENING AND VERY FRUSTRATING. IVE CONTACT TECH SUPPORT AND did tS
W HAT THEY ASKED. ITS NIT WORKING. IM PRETTY DIAAPPOINTED.
I also wish when you logged in exercises, you can Change the details such as the start and end time easier, the distance for certain. The band never matches what my treadmill or bike or exercise video claims has been achieved. At least those things could by changed on Fitbit easily.
I’m really hoping for so updates to stop the random night interruptions of my sleep.
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No Heart Rate Tracking / Way to Disable Calorie Counting
I wanted this to function as a way to see how my heart rate fluctuates on a graph as I have tachycardia and want to show evidence of it and try to lower my average heart rate (which people do by working out!)
I’m not sure if the app knows my baseline is a bit higher or not.
Also- you can’t disable the calorie burner tab. I am a survivor of an eating disorder and seeing calorie counts is very distressing.
I just wanted this to function as a sleep tracker, watch, and heart monitor but I feel as though it’s way more geared towards fitness tracking. It would be nice if we could just get rid of the widgets and such we don’t need. Atleast the calorie count isn’t available on the clock itself, but it’s still really sad a health app wouldn’t give users the chance to disable the feature from showing up.
I got this as part of the planet fitness deal, which I didn’t know locked me into a 2 year membership that cost $68 or something to cancel. In the end I paid way more in the long run, but atleast the watch isn’t too bulky? Usually I find watches to be very annoying. Im just upset the feature I thought it had aren’t there. It seems like it DOES track heart rate but not on an easily accessible graph- it’s just using it for the activity points.
I’m not sure if the app knows my baseline is a bit higher or not.
Also- you can’t disable the calorie burner tab. I am a survivor of an eating disorder and seeing calorie counts is very distressing.
I just wanted this to function as a sleep tracker, watch, and heart monitor but I feel as though it’s way more geared towards fitness tracking. It would be nice if we could just get rid of the widgets and such we don’t need. Atleast the calorie count isn’t available on the clock itself, but it’s still really sad a health app wouldn’t give users the chance to disable the feature from showing up.
I got this as part of the planet fitness deal, which I didn’t know locked me into a 2 year membership that cost $68 or something to cancel. In the end I paid way more in the long run, but atleast the watch isn’t too bulky? Usually I find watches to be very annoying. Im just upset the feature I thought it had aren’t there. It seems like it DOES track heart rate but not on an easily accessible graph- it’s just using it for the activity points.
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It's good but fitbit is better
I like the halo. Nice that it doesn't have a screen, syncs to your phone when you need to look at data, and is comfortable. But, my old fitbit was just better. Especially for tracking sleep. The halo only takes between 10pm and 6am because that's what I told it to do. If I wake up in the middle of the night, it doesn't always track the awake time and if I take a nap in the middle of the day. It doesn't track. Example..I didn't sleep well the other night and I woke up at 1:30am. The 20 min I was awake wasn't tracked. I woke up at 5am and played on my phone for an hour, halo tracked that as me sleeping. I finally went back to sleep at 6am and slept for 2.5 hours, but since that was outside my sleep time, it doesn't show on my tracker. Battery, heart rate, and activity is also better or same on fitbit and fitbit is better in the water since they don't have a fabric band. More expensive, but Fitbit is still the standard.
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Halo View
I am enjoying my Halo View, but I have had a Fit Bit Charge 2 for 5 years. To compare, the Halo has a much smaller face, and at age 65, it’s much harder for me to see. Sometimes the swipe feature doesn’t work, it’s too hard to change from screen to screen. It doesn’t have the feature to remind you to move 250 steps every hour, unless I just can’t find it. The Home screen does not show steps taken for the day, you have to swipe, and as I mentioned, that doesn’t always work. Also , it does not sync with my Renew Active app with Medicare, which rewards members with cash for taking steps. Currently I am wearing both of the trackers. I do like the feature where you can adjust the brightness of the screen, and turn off the feature where it goes on when you move your wrist at night and turn off notifications. I have not used the BMI feature, or the voice analysis feature. As a whole, I would not recommend. I bought it because I got it free from Weight Watchers.
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Obsessed
Ok, I didn’t want to get into this for a long time… I didn’t want to be “one of them” constantly stressed by being over connected…. but I finally got one and I’m obsessed. I absolutely love it. It is very helpful in jump starting and sustaining a healthy lifestyle. It tracks sleep, activity, calories burned and your heart. It has great tips on meals programs and workouts. It’s motivation on your wrist… get one and you won’t regret it. I’ll keep exploring, as I just got it a couple of days ago. It is a great tool to zone in and focus on one’s health without getting sidetracked for long… it’s on your wrist and it’ll probably stay there permanently once you get one.
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Used to be great… now rarely works
The app is one of the things I was recommending about the halo. Now I’m having to go retract my recommendation to my friends. I’d feel bad if they bought this on my rec. Seems like something broke in the past couple of months and now the app never loads and on the rare occasion it does, it definitely won’t sync with the watch. I tried all the trouble shooting multiple times to no avail. The app has become utterly unusable and the watch not much better, since you can’t access the data.
While the cat knocking things over graphic is cute, it gets old when that’s literally the only thing this app can do. No chance I’m going to pay the monthly fee for an app I can’t even use most/all of the time.
I guess I’m glad, if it was going to go downhill, that it did before I’d spent much on it. I really like the watch and app when they do work, it’s just that it doesn’t any more. Will be looking for an alternative. I give up.
While the cat knocking things over graphic is cute, it gets old when that’s literally the only thing this app can do. No chance I’m going to pay the monthly fee for an app I can’t even use most/all of the time.
I guess I’m glad, if it was going to go downhill, that it did before I’d spent much on it. I really like the watch and app when they do work, it’s just that it doesn’t any more. Will be looking for an alternative. I give up.
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Everything is great except nutrition!
Totally worth the price the app is easy and so informative about so many elements. I especially like the body and movement sections. Sleep is analyzes in a very detailed manner too. And the activity tracker is inspiring. I love that the band wraps all the way around so there is nothing to break. However… the nutrition section leaves a ton to be desired, at least if you’re doing keto. I selected ketogenic friendly and just one meal a day hoping to encounter new recipes. It’s like they don’t even know what keto is! The first recipe has 40 carbs!! My DAILY max is 25. If I tried to “balance out” my macro stating with 40 carbs, the fat calories I would have to eat would blow me out of the water. I’d start gaining for sheer excess calories. Maybe it was a fluke? Nope, checked every single recipe for the week and had to smdelete every one. Decided to use Senza for nutrition, which is great for Keto tracking. Despite this one area of low quality who h may only apply to keto, the rest of the halo app is wonderful and I highly recommend it. Thus 4 stars!
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What happened?
Up until around May of this year, I would have rated the Halo band and the Halo app with five stars. It does/did everything I wanted. It tracked my steps, it tracked my heart rate, it logged activities, the body scanning is amazing, and I don’t look like an idiot wearing two watches (I like to wear a traditional watch, so the band only option was highly attractive). However, somewhere around 2 to 3 months ago the step tracking became highly in accurate. For example, the average round of golf requires the participant to walk at least 5 miles. Five miles translates to roughly 10,000 steps. The days that I golf show roughly half the amount of steps I should be displaying…super bummer. I’ve tried resetting the band. I’ve tried doing a factory reset of the band. I don’t know if something changed in the algorithm to track steps, or if there is something wrong with the accelerometer within the band, but I am currently very unhappy with this recent change.
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Mixed feelings
I like the band and the app, easy to use, keeps track of everything. However, like most automated systems it doesn’t make allowances for people with joint pain, a bout of illness, other conditions. It assumes you are fairly fit to begin with. I hurt my knee on one of the exercises and with bad joints I cannot always do the physical demands of 150 points per week. I just might go to *only* the step counter and work from there.
I don’t have this problem but I do wonder how people with desk jobs who work a lot of overtime do it, especially with family at home. It’s a good idea and app, but it seems designed by young healthy people with no demands on their time. I’ve been ill the last 4 days and obviously the points I got the other three days will be gone. Not very motivating.
I’d still recommend it for the young and healthy - but not for my senior friends who are (mostly) diabetics, overweight, and have rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.
I don’t have this problem but I do wonder how people with desk jobs who work a lot of overtime do it, especially with family at home. It’s a good idea and app, but it seems designed by young healthy people with no demands on their time. I’ve been ill the last 4 days and obviously the points I got the other three days will be gone. Not very motivating.
I’d still recommend it for the young and healthy - but not for my senior friends who are (mostly) diabetics, overweight, and have rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.
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Ok but some big issues
This app would be much better with a few changes.
1) the app only tracks calories while the band is on. So if you charge the band it registers 0 calories, which skews all the averages. It would be much better if it automatically logged a resting calorie rate based on weight or gave you the option to add calories based on an activity (you can currently add an activity, but the calories and heart rate for that activity will be 0)
2) the heart rate monitor does not work well at all if you move your arms a lot during an activity. For example if I do cardio moving my arms my heart rate will log as 50bpm- clearly this is wrong if I have been working out hard for half an hour. When I stop moving it will track again and shoot up to 135. Once again this could be solved by letting you add an activity with an estimated heart rate or calories.
1) the app only tracks calories while the band is on. So if you charge the band it registers 0 calories, which skews all the averages. It would be much better if it automatically logged a resting calorie rate based on weight or gave you the option to add calories based on an activity (you can currently add an activity, but the calories and heart rate for that activity will be 0)
2) the heart rate monitor does not work well at all if you move your arms a lot during an activity. For example if I do cardio moving my arms my heart rate will log as 50bpm- clearly this is wrong if I have been working out hard for half an hour. When I stop moving it will track again and shoot up to 135. Once again this could be solved by letting you add an activity with an estimated heart rate or calories.
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Great Improvement!
I had the first iteration and sent it back because it didn’t do enough and wasn’t really a fully baked product. This one, however, is a n excellent product. It offers a lot for the money and does a good job in tracking my steps, heart rate and how well I sleep plus being a watch. It has other features that I haven’t used yet but all the them are ones that I will use. No bloat-ware here. Very easy to use phone app and battery life is very good. I top off the battery while I am showering each day. However, the battery will last several days without charging. The watch strap took some getting used to but it works well and I am glad that it is not leather so I can wipe it down when needed.
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The BEST / Most AFFORDABLE Health assistant EVER
This is the BEST, most AFFORDABLE health solution available on the market. If you are serious about changing your approach to self care, personal health and overall well-being STOP READING and get the Halo View right now. It helps you find where you currently are at for a starting level and then suggests programs and exercise bits available via the app. Literally a one stop health shop. Fitness, meditation, sleep, recipes, mobility assessments. The whole sha bang!! I suggest you find a free / flexible macro nutrition app for tracking and tweaking your intake and then make the HALO jump. You won’t regret it! Make sure you take yoga with Elena. She is fabulous and is very helpful and supportive during her sessions!!!
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has potential but not worth $4/ month as is
Decided to switch over from FitBit to Halo View because presale prices were quite affordable. The app itself which comes with a $3.99/month subscription (free year w/ purchase) has potential. The new metrics that set it apart (hence require a subscription) from other trackers feel a tad invasive. The points system is interesting. But I’m not a fan of getting a demerit if I stay still for too long as this is something that may or may not be in the users control— injuries, disabilities, or just a particularly restrictive work situation. The sleep feature is great but again falls short because you cannot manually log sleep or naps.
The website was also misleading about what apps the Halo view can integrate with— I ended up buying it because Lifesum was listed as one of the apps (something that would make me overlook lack of apple health integration) but it turns out it’s just content from Lifesum that’s featured not actual app integration. Although I quite enjoy the headspace content on the discover tab.
All in all the app has potential, if we were given options to import data (whether by logging sleep or through other apps) and maybe an opt-out option for the demerits.
The website was also misleading about what apps the Halo view can integrate with— I ended up buying it because Lifesum was listed as one of the apps (something that would make me overlook lack of apple health integration) but it turns out it’s just content from Lifesum that’s featured not actual app integration. Although I quite enjoy the headspace content on the discover tab.
All in all the app has potential, if we were given options to import data (whether by logging sleep or through other apps) and maybe an opt-out option for the demerits.
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Love the device, like the app & hate lack of integration
I’ve had the original ‘no screen’ Halo and it’s become a big part of my fitness & health lifestyle. The Halo app has made solid improvements over the past year but I feel it is not achieving its potential at all when compared to other wearables & what could be done with the sensors and data it collects. A big piece of that is how this is effectively a closed end device & service with no serious integration with other health tracking services. In my case a basic integration with Apple Health would enable my work’s insurance health app Virgin Pulse (for insurance discounts) to get basic data like my step count. The Halo app/service also doesn’t support direct integration with the vast majority of the common services on the market. I’m really hoping that will change soon as I love the device otherwise!
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Great app features and value for the membership
I really like the many programs this app offers and when it isn’t buggy, all the data I can view. It seems to be hit or miss when it comes to bugs. For example, when I open a meditation program, there is a bug that prevents me from viewing it in full screen unless I restart the app a few times. The same goes for program reminders. A bug with those is sometimes the app won’t allow me to scroll through them, it just shoots me back to the first one. Lastly, when it comes to filtering through workouts, recipes, and mindfulness activities, sometimes the app refuses to show me any filtering options unless I open and close the app a few times.
I gave it three stars for the reasons stated above. I enjoy having a screen less tracker more than I though, it helps me be more present with those around me and myself.
I gave it three stars for the reasons stated above. I enjoy having a screen less tracker more than I though, it helps me be more present with those around me and myself.
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Inaccurate Sleep Data
For the last several days the sleep data has been off by several hours. For example, I got in my bed last night at 9 p.m. and fell asleep around 9:30. I know I fell asleep at 9:37 because I was watching tv and when the commercial came on I feel asleep. I woke up at 12:30 to the same tv show, it had repeated, and I looked at my watch to see the time. I woke up to the nearly at the same place in which I had fallen asleep. I stayed awake until the show was over. I slept from 9:30 or so until 12:30, but Halo calculated sleep data from 12:06 until I woke up at 8. Halo’s sleep data says I slept for 7 hours 6 minutes. I slept for well over 9 hours. This happened the night before too. My sleep data has been off for the last 5 days. I’m not sure if I can trust the data. I specifically wanted Halo to track my sleep.
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Good app, but not all activity is ‘exercise’
I find this is a total wellness and health app and tracker. The activity tracker is the most accurate I’ve had, which recognizes not just the physical shifting of the devise, but increased heart rate as well. I still have issues with it recognizing I’m doing something if I’m pushing a cart or carrying something stationary in my band arm, but that’s less of an issue than with most trackers. The app also doesn’t allow for marking activities as a daily living activity. I find my most intense activity is often during family chores and necessities. I should be able to mark them as ‘chores,’ ‘morning prep’ or preferably something of my choice rather than other or stairs. If I do, then I can see my progress of improvement even on days I don’t make specific workouts a priority due to time constraints. Also, the ability to track cycles, lunar, hormonal, or even mood cycles, would make this much more complete for tracking total health.
Update: with iOS 15 updates I can’t see beyond my basic data! I’ve updated and the data graphs and content are not visible. It’s tweaked off to the side like I need to scroll sideways.
Update: with iOS 15 updates I can’t see beyond my basic data! I’ve updated and the data graphs and content are not visible. It’s tweaked off to the side like I need to scroll sideways.
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Disappointed
I’ve had the halo band for seven months now. It’s nothing special, kind of bulky and the back cover for the chip that has contact with your arm fell off. Admittedly I wear it everyday but I am by no means highly active. I walk a normal amount, out of necessity, since I live in NY but I do not partake in any extra activities that would count as exercise therefore it shouldn’t be falling apart. I also stopped sleeping with it on along time back so I wear it through the day and take it off at night. I wanted something to track my steps but I probably would have been better off with something else as this is really not elegant, limited clunky band options, and it falls apart despite not being highly active. Additionally, lately, when I check my activity report, it has me listed as partaking in serious activity when I know I was just sitting on a couch. While it is exciting to be exceeding my daily activity goals it’s sad because I know it’s not accurate. I am sad because I also ordered one for my mom a few months back and now I’m just waiting for it to fall apart. Overall waste of money.
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