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Wow, I'm really impressed by how clean and functional this app is. Great work, I tried few Moves replacements and I'll stick with this one. The only thing missing is auto-calories counting. I know it's a blind shot without using data from a smartwatch or another smart fit device, but sometimes it was helpful. Do you have plans for that?
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Love it, well done indeed, the best implementation of location / activity recording I have seen before. Please keep developing.
@joshdance the missing export function of Gyroscope and the "own your data" aspect of Arc make it my #1 Moves replacement right now.
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The great thing is that they have developed a feature to import data from the similar Moves app which has now closed down. I tested the Arc app against Gyroscope, Loca and Instant. Arc won hands down on usability and accuracy. And they keep launching new cool features. Two thumbs up!
Pros:
This is a great and stable app with many features for those who wish to log their travel and exercise.
Cons:
The project is struggling for funding. So please support the developer if you can.
@jamierytlewski Your timeline items and activity event data (basically everything you see in the app) is only in your private iCloud container [Edit: And a lot of it actually never even goes that far, and never leaves the app], so Arc (or I) can't do anything with it outside of the app itself.
The app does build anonymised "activity type fingerprints" for each of your activities (walking, cycling, bus, train, car, etc), which are then combined into shared fingerprints, to make the app more accurate for everyone.
The fingerprints are things like distribution maps of movement speed, steps per second, altitude, accelerometer data, etc. So when all that is combined together it allows the app to "fingerprint" match your current activity type, to distinguish between a train or a car trip, for example.
Your personal fingerprints aren't shared - those are private. The combined "global" fingerprints, made up of the combined values of everyone's individual fingerprints, are shared. So there's enough information in the "global" fingerprints to answer questions like "what's the most common walking speed in this city" or "what altitude do planes fly over this ocean" or "how much does the phone shake around while people cycle in this city".
Basically the philosophy is: Don't store anything that doesn't need to be stored. And don't share anything that doesn't need to be shared. The app isn't a data collection business, it's a personal pet project. So it stores everything as privately and securely as possible, and only aggregates enough anonymised data necessary to improve the accuracy.
@chiancheng Yeah, a bit similar :) Though different goals, I think
Human is more exercise focused, as a motivational tool to encourage people to be more active. Arc is more about collating a record of your daily activities, even if none of that includes exercise.
So Arc is useful for keeping track of your daily commutes, your travels while on vacation, or for collating statistics on how much time you spend at the office or cafe, during what hours of the day, that sort of thing.
The great thing is that they have developed a feature to import data from the similar Moves app which has now closed down. I tested the Arc app against Gyroscope, Loca and Instant. Arc won hands down on usability and accuracy. And they keep launching new cool features. Two thumbs up!
Pros:This is a great and stable app with many features for those who wish to log their travel and exercise.
Cons:The project is struggling for funding. So please support the developer if you can.