Expand your mind
Helps me remember what is really important to me and how to make it better
This actually works.
This actually works. Even though I’m outside often, it’s not always intentional. This helps to change that. Whether it’s qigong exercises, a walk or taking pictures, this app makes these moments intentional. Sleeps little better and I’m less likely to be in a slump. Best part it’s free.
Clarifying Contributor to Recovery
I was diagnosed with cancer last year and NatureDose helped me move from 150ish minutes in nature each week to 500. My docs said it’s very likely that this extra time contributed significantly to my recovery and I don’t doubt it. But more, I am [mostly] at peace which makes living so much better.
Not impressed so far.
Very inaccurate scoring of time outdoors. I spent over three hours outside yesterday and it gave me a score of 0 minutes then today the only time I spent outside was my drive too and from work which does not count but it says I spent over 20 minutes outside. I park my car 15 seconds from my house and about 20 seconds from the door I enter at work. I will give it a few more days and if it doesn’t improve it will be deleted.
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Day One
Today may only be day one, but I am excited about an app for the first time in a while. The idea is simple, but I believe it may be genius. Every day, I think about how much healthier I would feel if I were outside and connected. Thank you for this very simple and hopefully effective. I will keep everyone posted on how it goes.
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Discontented
I went for a walk. Some time was near buildings but not all and I didn’t get any credit.
NatureDose
Great how the App not only quantifies Nature exposure but also keeps track of Inside vs Outside time. Get outside!
Super clean
Clean & efficient design. Concise notifications with actually useful information.
Well done.
Well done.
Cool concept, needs better rewards
I love the idea of the app but you can only get discounts through L.L.Bean
App doesn’t track
Doesn’t work!!
Great idea, pretty inaccurate 😅
While I think this app is really cute the results are fairly inaccurate, I’ve seen other reviews have the problem where their app doesn’t track their hours of outdoor time, I have the exact opposite problem, my app tracks that I’m outdoors when I’m indoors. I noticed this first when it started tracking that I had reached 30 minutes of outdoor time when I’d been sitting in my room on my phone for several hours. I figured that, hey, maybe this was just because I live in a somewhat nature-filled neighborhood, but then I hit my goal of 120 minutes. Sitting in a hotel room. In the middle of a city. So it’s safe to say this app isn’t exactly accurate.
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Good app
Would like additional stats on where and when we got the minutes.
I’ll continue tracking my own time outside
I’ve been doing the 1000 hours outside challenge for 4-5 years now, so am always tracking outside time.
I read about this app and figured I’d give it a go to see how accurate it was. I like the feature where it tells you the nature score of where you are… but as far as recording outside time, it’s very off. After using it for 4 days, averaging 4-5 hours outside per day, the app only recorded that I was outside for 1 hour/day. And only half of that time counted as “quality” time. I was in my (98.5 scored) yard most of the time - mostly gardening.
So, I don’t know if it just scored poorly because I was too close to my house part of the time. But I will probably not continue to try to use this app to track time.
I read about this app and figured I’d give it a go to see how accurate it was. I like the feature where it tells you the nature score of where you are… but as far as recording outside time, it’s very off. After using it for 4 days, averaging 4-5 hours outside per day, the app only recorded that I was outside for 1 hour/day. And only half of that time counted as “quality” time. I was in my (98.5 scored) yard most of the time - mostly gardening.
So, I don’t know if it just scored poorly because I was too close to my house part of the time. But I will probably not continue to try to use this app to track time.
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Cool
This is a cool app but after trying it out for a few weeks, I’m deleting because I don’t change locations frequently enough for my data to vary widely (plus it runs in the background, so I don’t want extra battery drain). I could see this having more useful long-term use for people with a lifestyle that involves more neighborhood/environment diversity.
I wish the app itself had an interactive map. You can go to the website to look at map scores by street or address, but if you happen to be in a low-scoring area, there’s no indication of where to turn to get more green exposure unless you’re already familiar with the area.
I wish the app itself had an interactive map. You can go to the website to look at map scores by street or address, but if you happen to be in a low-scoring area, there’s no indication of where to turn to get more green exposure unless you’re already familiar with the area.
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Makes you aware of outside time
Great app needs to be a little more informative .
It does not seem to always pick up on being in a rural area because it may not be on map yet.
It does not seem to always pick up on being in a rural area because it may not be on map yet.
Great idea - doesn’t work
I really enjoyed the idea of having a small tracker to encourage me to spend some more time outside! Downloaded, set it up, and let it be for a week (actually much longer since I forgot about it). I had been spending much time outside for the previous week yet the app still showed 0 for time outdoors. Oh well, was worth a shot
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Not accurate
This is a great idea, but is not very accurate. Hopefully it will improve in the future. It gave me 30 min of nature time when I was most likely in a large grocery store, and then it completely failed to recognize an evening I spent outside. There’s no way to self correct the data either, and the minutes are presented by the day rather than the hour.
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A great app
Super interesting and has helped me talk my kids into going on more hikes 🤩
If you’re not the customer…
I didn’t believe that the average person fails to spend 120m outside per week and installed the app to find out what my number was. After using it for three days, outside (by my definition) for substantial parts of each day, including five hours in a national park.
Result = zero hours so I’m not sure hours far off the grid you have to be to get counted as outside enough.
Beyond that I was curious and listened to the founder on a podcast I enjoy talking about how the goal was to gather enough data to get Apple to include it bundled on their app but, for now, profits come from selling data to governments and insurance companies.
Not seeing a way to opt out of such data collection, I deleted the app and my account (though I wonder if info was really deleted).
An app that does what this promises would be valuable for many people but a ‘free’ service collect and bundle user data to insurance companies isn’t something is disingenuous.
Result = zero hours so I’m not sure hours far off the grid you have to be to get counted as outside enough.
Beyond that I was curious and listened to the founder on a podcast I enjoy talking about how the goal was to gather enough data to get Apple to include it bundled on their app but, for now, profits come from selling data to governments and insurance companies.
Not seeing a way to opt out of such data collection, I deleted the app and my account (though I wonder if info was really deleted).
An app that does what this promises would be valuable for many people but a ‘free’ service collect and bundle user data to insurance companies isn’t something is disingenuous.
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Not correctly logging outdoor time
I just spent over an hour outside with my limb trimmer in the woods and looked at the app found I got credit for 2 minutes. Maybe I’m doing something wrong
