Gyroscope 4+

Underrated health app

This is a very underrated and feature packed health app - after using it for a few weeks at time of writing and getting to learn all of the features, I’m surprised that I didn’t hear about it sooner! Basically this app gives you several categories of your health to focus on - sleep, body fat, mental well-being, etc. As you use the app more and it gets a better picture of your health, it’ll give you a grading based on how well you’re doing (proud to say almost all of my categories are at least an A!). Now, I could probably extrapolate all this data myself from the Health app but Gyroscope actually gives meaning to that data and gives you actionable insights to improve it and an easy way to visualize your progress. Just to end off, I’d like to say the support team is super helpful and responsive! They helped me get a more affordable plan since I’m a college student, which is super cool of them!

My Health Operating System

Gyroscope gives me the tools to maximize my mental and physical health. It provides actionable information at a glance as well as detailed reports that give me what I need to adjust my behavior and perform at my best each day. I've used Gyroscope for many years, and it's an app that I never hesitate to renew my subscription. Here are my favorite features of Gyroscope:

Mood Analytics and measurement are some of my favorite features. The mood measurement is not simple; however, Gyroscope has distilled measuring it down to a 30-second exercise. If I'm overwhelmed, stressed, happy, or angry, I get a good sense of that mood and how it impacts me in Gyroscope.

Trends are another powerful feature of Gyroscope. It gives you actionable and easy-to-understand perspectives on many aspects of your health. Every morning, I look at trends and see whether I succeed or fail at my goals. Trends are excellent because they have a view where you can see the overtime data and a simple score for that category.

Finally, AI Coach is a new but powerful feature in Gyroscope. It builds on Gyroscope's reporting and rich data to help you achieve your goals. It helps with meal plans, workouts, and optimization. I have just scratched the surface of what's possible and look forward to the future of AI features.

Overpriced and glaring privacy concerns

My biggest issue with Gyroscope from the very start was “where is my data”? I can accept paying a premium sub for helpful visualizations, dietary and such if it is secure and the price is reasonable. My data matters and not even the so called vault feature is security I'm confident in after my experiences. I want to have control over it – which is not something I ever felt confident in re: Gyroscope’s data storage communication and lack of transparency. I also had a concerning correspondence with some Gyroscope employee about privacy concerns (the app tracks location data and depending on privacy settings can share it with friends list or even literally anyone with an account or anyone in the whole world) and my concerns about stalking, privacy, etc on the internet were met with the most brain-dead corporate cheer response of “we have many users who don’t mind sharing their location data 🥰”

Yeah no. Stay away from this app like the plague or at least keep location off and do be comfortable having questionable people access your data.

Developer Response ,

Hi Puma269 - oh no, sorry for the confusion here or not answering your question in a satisfactory way when you wrote into support before asking about the location permissions.

Much more information about the privacy and how the places tracking works is available on the website - but it is a completely optional feature, and you can also adjust your privacy. So if you do not want anyone to see your locations, that is the default behavior and you can avoid adding friends or avoid making your location to public.

Some people do want to track their places or share it with friends/the public, so we have that as an *optional* feature in the app for those people to be able to do, but if that is not what you do not want to do, then you absolutely don’t have to do it. Apologies if that was not explained completely clearly or possibly something got lost in translation before.

So to be clear, you can also just not track your locations at all if it makes you uncomfortable. IF you are worried about stalkers or location data or anything, please do NOT make your account public! You can keep it private and just see it for yourself, or not use it at all if it does not interest you.

The choice is yours!

Hope that helps clear up any confusion about how the privacy settings work