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Found this excellent, flexible counter app (f-droid.org)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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You can use it for pretty much anything. You can track your exercise, your eating habits, really anything at all. It has basic statistics, it can export your data, it is completely locally hosted and the interface is clean and easy to use.

It's one of those apps that you probably didn't even think that you might need until you see it and use it.

I have no affiliation with the developer, but I thought other people might really enjoy this as well. So I am sharing here.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There are great app recommendations here. Perhaps not the habit tracking type, but I love FitoTrack for tracking my runs. No social, no BS, just pure local metrics. Not perfect but entirely usable and serves its purpose.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tadris.fitness

Edit: what I love most about all these apps is that they are so lightweight. I have so many apps today which are well above 100MB, sometimes around 500MB and I'm not talking games.

This is so outrageous to me. All of these open source apps by comparison are 10MB or less. Absolutely beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish I could get my polar H10 to work with it... For now I have to use the polar app and export manually via the web interface...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes!! I wish there were more open source options to interface with fitness trackers and smart watches... I'm upset about all this proprietary crap forcing you to share your data with the manufacturer and depend on their availability and goodwill to access our data... Very frustrating :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Gadgetbridge in just about the only one.

The problem is that the watches themselves use proprietary BS Bluetooth protocols with their own cryptic values to stop people from decoding their own devices unless you use their app...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is an excellent app and I also use it. I create GPS breadcrumb trails and then animate them with another app on my computer after I export them. I can't remember the name of it as it's all automatically scripted now. The export goes to a syncthing folder which then goes to my computer and when the computer sees the new files it automatically creates an MPEG video.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh very interesting! How cool :) Do you then host some kind of website for people to view your animated progress in real time as you run?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

https://github.com/gpx-animator/gpx-animator

I'm pretty sure this is it. It can run via GUI or command line. I

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only for family. I can't post here. Doxing etc

It is cool though. Much fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh I didn't mean to ask for the link, I just meant to get more information about what you were doing with it, totally understandable! Anyway, cool project!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recommend also something similar in terms of time: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.razeeman.util.simpletimetracker/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Thank you, that looks excellent. I have just set it up for my exercise schedules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What is 2+2 minus 1

[–] merde 7 points 3 days ago

Track & Graph has some more options to choose from : https://f-droid.org/packages/com.samco.trackandgraph/

i use both

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Installed it, seems simple and efficient!

Would be nice to see all stats at the same time (and machine learning predicting them in the near future ...).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I use it all the time when walking a track. Pretty good app, and it lets my brain not worry about losig track and wondering if I really did walk around the desired amount of times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I use Table Habit to track my habits: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.friesi23.mhabit

It has a good looking interface and charts too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OK but what does it do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It counts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Counts what?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whatever you want. You did ten pushups.. add it to the counter, ate sweets... add it to the counter. So it doesn't count anything automatically, it just gives you a simple interface to keep track of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Oh. Cool.