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Apps to bring everything together?

I have been exercising regularly at a gym for quite some time. I was tracking runs with the Nike+Running app because it works fairly well indoors or out and writes data to Apple's Health app.

 

Between runs, I was using the FitnessBuilder app because it has a great weightlifting and other free workout routines for weightloss, etc. and it writes data to Apples Health app.

 

For a food diary I was using the Lose It! app. It has an easy to use interface and a huge food database. You can also manually add other exercices in it (elliptical for example) and it writes data to Apple's Health app.

 

Then this past Christmas I got a fitbit ChargeHR, because the only data, and most important in my opinion, I was missing was heart rate.

 

So now during at the gym indoors, I still have to use the Nike+Running app because it is far more accurate than the ChargeHR for pace and distance, but it won't read heart rate info from the ChargeHR. And I can't edit the the pace or distance in the fitbit app.

 

So I am still left with a bunch of data in several different places that I can't seem to get together to make a good analysis.

 

I am wondering what others are doing to get all their data in one place to make a good judgmenet on how your overall health is going or is the ChargeHR/fitbit app just not capable and was a waste of my money?

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When I was comparing Fitbit models, it boiled down to the ChargeHR and Surge for the heart rate monitoring functions.  I ultimately chose the Surge since the HR monitor would replace my Polar and the GPS could replace the Nike app I used while outside.  

 

In the end I now use Fitbit for everything, including its online food database to replace Calorie Count that I used until now.  For me it's simpler that way.  At first I was skeptical about my calorie burn rate, but I find even with my slightly increased eating given the higher burn count, the scale is going in the right direction.  

 

The distances it gives me are accurate, as well as the pace, even when I am not using the GPS.  The only thing is that it sometimes undercounts my steps (by a small margin).  But I am more concerned about my overall health than steps, which for now is getting better.

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