Healthtracker

A friend of mine just recently released a Windows Mobile program called HealthTracker. My first thought was “eh another calorie program” but I agreed to take a look at it for him. I must say I’m really impressed by it! It has a really nice clean interface that makes it easy to use and a pleasure to use.

I’ve been using it for about a week now, and it’s has alot of nice features in it. The database of foods is fairly large and it’s easy to add in new features. There’s a couple of things I would want such as adding exercise and charts, but I’m told that’s coming soon in a next release.

While using the program, I was really pleased to see that it has an auto-update feature. A couple times this week, I received notifications of new updates being available and it installed them when I gave it the okay. Really slick and I haven’t seen that on any other mobile program.

The other thing that seems to be of interest is the syncing with Microsoft HealthVault. The feature is turned off right now, but should be available again soon. The idea of being able to back my data up to Healthvault, aka the cloud has some appeal to me.
The program also has LiveID verification in it which is really intriguing since LiveID does not have a Mobile API. I’m really curious as to how he did that! Being able to do LiveID verfication in a mobile app is awesome! That really changes the game as to what you can do with Mobile apps, I can see syncing with Dynamics, etc

The design of the program is what I would expect out of a touch application, which is sadly not the case for 99% of windows mobile applications but is the case with most iphone apps. It makes me wonder why other windows mobile applications are not a visually attractive.

The program can be found here, http://www.optimaldepth.com/healthtracker.html , give it a try it you have time, it’s free.