NatureDose User Reviews

Name: NatureDose
Rating: 4.5 (565 reviews)

NatureDose

NatureQuant

🌟 Lifestyle

💪 Health & Fitness

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of NatureDose. Based on 565 reviews and a 4.5/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this Health & Fitness app.

Positive things

🚀Motivating to get more nature time
👍Provides useful insights and data
👍Helps track and quantify outdoor time
👍Encourages a healthier lifestyle
👍Intuitive and informative app

Negative things

🐛Inaccurate in tracking outdoor time
🐛Inconsistent performance, sometimes doesn't work
🔋Drains battery life
👎Limited rewards/incentives

Top reviews

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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.

parnelliv

7 months ago

Response from developer

Very sorry about the cancer, but wonderful to hear about your recovery. Best wishes and thanks for the feedback!

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.

Taff1001

10 months ago

Response from developer

Please feel free to email us (info@naturequant.com or better is to use the Send feedback item in the app on the settings page), and we'd be glad to help. Do note, the updating is not real time, so I'm wondering if you were seeing the first days time later and associating it with the second day (you can tap on the view details to see how time is allocated by day). Time in a car is definitely NOT counted as outside (with the potential exception of if you drive somewhere and park outdoors, and stay in your car). Either way, feel free to contact us and we can look at your account specifically and see what might be going on.

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.

mfjcjskcucndbdocnwhw

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your review. Let us know if you have any questions (you can use the Feedback item in the app), and enjoy your time in nature!

Discontented

I went for a walk. Some time was near buildings but not all and I didn’t get any credit.

15hay16

2 years ago

NatureDose

Great how the App not only quantifies Nature exposure but also keeps track of Inside vs Outside time. Get outside!

CaliFriendz

2 years ago

Super clean

Clean & efficient design. Concise notifications with actually useful information.

Well done.

Maxwell Power III

2 years ago

Cool concept, needs better rewards

I love the idea of the app but you can only get discounts through L.L.Bean

aguilaralexus

2 years ago

App doesn’t track

Doesn’t work!!

Frustrated Mom3000

2 years ago

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.

angelfoodcakez

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, we'd be happy to take a look at the issues you're having. For some houses, if it is new construction, we may not have your building/house which can cause this. But buildings in a city should generally be found. If you'd like to send us a message via the Feedback item on the Settings page of the app, that will provide us some data on your account and we can investigate.

Good app

Would like additional stats on where and when we got the minutes.

NadiaMend

2 years ago

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.

Gsfbbgddxadggv

2 years ago

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.

cellphonesdead

2 years ago

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.

Rock road 87

2 years ago

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

BlooperDuper

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, we'd be happy to help determine what wasn't working. If you had truly zero time and were outside, this sounds like a permissions issue. Please feel free to email us (info@naturequant.com) and we can ensure things work for you.

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.

jurg0023

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, we'd be happy to take a look at your data. Note that NatureDose is not an "activity tracker", and there can be some delay in what it shows. It is designed to preserve battery and then to show you your dose for the week (or day in the details), but the app only updates periodically based on amount of movement, network connection, etc. Feel free to send us a feedback request (go to the Settings tab and click "Provide feedback", and we can see the issue might be.

A great app

Super interesting and has helped me talk my kids into going on more hikes 🤩

Noah Bears Dad

3 years ago

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.

TerryB.

3 years ago

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

Top Trail Horse

3 years ago

Great idea; needs work

Excited to try the app; downloaded it and gave it a shot this morning on my ruck. Well, I tucked for an hour in a nature preserve and it gave me only 35 minutes if a dose. Just given how far off time-wise it was, I would say it’s accuracy needs improved. I would have guessed my dose should have been more like 45-55 minutes.

McDontron

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, feel free to send us feedback via the Feedback link in the app, and we can check the specifics. Also, the app is not an "activity tracker", so it's not a real time update - it can sometimes take another bit of time before all time is updated in the app (i.e. if you walked in the park, and then got in your car and looked at NatureDose, it will not have processed all of the time yet). Either way, we'd be happy to take a closer look, so feel free to email us via the Feedback link.