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First Look: Health Cubby for iPhone / iPod touch
App Cubby announced that a new iPhone app, Health Cubby (click opens iTunes) arrived in the App Store today. Health Cubby (US$4.99) is a personal fitness tracking app with a difference -- it adds a social networking element for working with friends and family members to keep motivated to exercise more and eat less.The social features connect you with up to 7 other people, share your progress in achieving fitness goals, and even send motivational messages. To do that, you set up a private account with App Cubby for data syncing and sending messages.
Health Cubby has a great online user manual complete with screenshots. Instead of tracking meals with points or calories, the app has you enter a 1 to 5 rating. Rating a meal a 1 means you put the all-you-can-eat buffet out of business, while a 5 is a low-calorie, healthy meal. You also set goals for strength, cardio and...vices! While the first two involve exercise, the third item makes you set goals to reduce the number of times you indulge in a vice. My goal is to reduce my beer drinking to one a day (yeah, right...).
I've put Health Cubby on my iPhone right next to Weight Watchers Mobile. It'll be interesting to see which app I use most often. Check the gallery below for screenshots of Health Cubby in action.
Gallery: Health Cubby
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Charles R Hamilton said 4:47PM on 1-14-2009
Weird timing, just heard about Steve and his health problems forcing a leave of absence. Get well soon Mr. Jobs
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mannymix said 5:08PM on 1-14-2009
The only thing I would change about the app is this part "Instead of tracking meals with points or calories, the app has you enter a 1 to 5 rating. Rating a meal a 1 means you put the all-you-can-eat buffet out of business, while a 5 is a low-calorie, healthy meal"
It really should have a calorie counter, then that way it can be used to track calories not only to lose weight but also so those who want to gain / maintain weight can also track it easily.
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Squid7085 said 5:47PM on 1-14-2009
What happened to Cash Cubby? I need two things, track my Fuel and Stay on a Budget. I love the way App Cubby does stuff and have been waiting, but I think I will spring for Pennies or something instead. I have been trying to do some kind of health thing, but I am still a Teenager, so I probably shouldn't worry about it too much now.
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Fred said 5:56PM on 1-14-2009
I've been using the Ubisoft My Weight Loss coach thing for a little while now myself. The little man in there makes me laugh. It's not for really hardcore dieters because it's not super-exact, but hey, it get's my fat ass off the couch so that's good, right?
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Maryanne said 2:09AM on 1-15-2009
I was frustrated of using several products and Fitness Regime as it was consuming my most of the time in a single day. Though i was unsatisfied with the results. Now i have started surfing on net as i get many HITS, Health Cubby is on of these. Even found several products like Proleva etc. So, i have combine fitness with nutritions. Now i have became greedy and want to use as many as i can so that i become PERFECT for my Wedding Day. Yes I am getting married and really happy. Still there is four month left but I want to surprise my Fiance
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Marc J said 5:18AM on 1-15-2009
Livestrong for me.
I wish the app showed daily fat intake / protein (it has the info when you select the food) as well as calories. That aside, and for free, I can't grumble too much.
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pwb said 12:28PM on 1-16-2009
> My goal is to reduce my beer drinking to one a day.
Maybe you should go for once a day. ;-)
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Ronald I said 1:41AM on 1-28-2009
Congrats Maryanne! Hope you will achieve your goal. It is a well documented fact that diets do not work, this is because dieters do not know how lose weight the right way. My friend also recommended me Proleva for my inadequacy of antioxidants.
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