Karin's Weight DiaryThis is an anime girl themed weight diary that gives dietary tips, tracks your weight and allows you to keep a calendar chart of when you exercised, overate, had sweets, etc.
I have been trying out a few diet apps because I am almost constantly trying to maintain a decent weight through diet and exercise, but it really helps to have something keeping me motivated. I thought the app looked cute so I gave it a try. I found that it didn't really keep me motivated and using it seemed like more of a hassle really. However, I will share some details about how the app works, what I didn't like, what I did like and how to get around one part of the app that most people are finding difficult, but I figured out how to make it work...First off, this app is very attractive as far as graphics go. It is bright and colourful with little stamps for your calendar tracking, two costume options for your diet cheer coach, Karin, and even the ability to make Karin gain and lose weight along with you. So there is a visual appeal. But there aren't really any fancy animations or fun interactive visuals to partake in. Well, aside from tapping the screen makes Karin's head slightly move in that direction and tapping her makes he head jiggle a bit.
As for sounds, there is no music but it does turn off any music other apps may have been playing when you start the app up (IE Pandora, etc). It has sort of bleep bloop sounds when you tap certain things but these can be turned off in the options.
The app was clearly originally intended to be in Japanese and some of the translation is questionable or has unusual choices in grammar or wording. That being said, it is pretty clear to understand what certain phrases intend to say.
Now onto the functionality and using the app. The first thing users will want to do is to go over to the Settings page and enter in their information so that the app can track their weight changes. Here you can choose between English and Japanese language settings, toggle sounds, enter height and weight and set a weight goal. users can also choose whether or not Karin will diet with them or not under the Mode setting.Diet Together will allow the graphic of Karin to become thicker when users gain weight or to look thick prior to them reaching their goal. If Karin is dieting she will have a sports kit on complete with shorts and a polo top.
Rather than to have Karin dieting with the users, they can change the mode to Cheering Mode. This makes Karin wear a cheering uniform to help motivate the user to do their best. Her pompoms will move around on the main screen in this mode She will also perform a couple cheer stances.
This next bit is important... One would assume that after they enter their information into the settings they should tap the Initialize Data button. As such many users are complaining that after entering in this information that Karin will not retain it and the app won't work. Do not press this button. After entering in the information, simply switch back to the Home screen. If you press the button the app will not start using the information you have entered. This is clearly an issue in the app's code. However, simply not pressing the button seems to work just fine.
On the Home screen users can see Karin in the costume that is associated with the mode they have chosen. They can also see their height, current weight, target weight, how much weight they have left to use and a spot for BMI that doesn't seem to work. Tapping on Karin will cause her to display a speech bubble with some sort of dietary information such as tips and facts associated with certain foods or how to stay fit. Unfortunately sometimes these facts can be quite wordy which causes the speech bubble to expand past the edge of the screen making it impossible to read all of the text.
On the right side of the home screen users can record their current weight each day so Karin can keep track of how much has been gained or lost and keep a record of the fluctuations. Tapping the Record Weight button makes a piggy appear with arrows pointing left or right that can be tapped to adjust the weight. Users can also tap the Report buttons with the happy or sad faces. If they have done something good such as exercise, walking, eating smaller meals or fasting, they can hit the happy report button. If they did something that will negatively affect their weight loss such as eating or drinking too much, not getting enough sleep or snacking, they can hit the sad face report button. A sticker associated with their report will be added to that calendar day. Multiple stickers can be added to each day.
The Graph button takes you to the screen that keeps track of any weight fluctuations on a line graph. It can be viewed in latest, week, month or year mode.
The Calendar button is where you can see any stickers you've added to a particular day. This allows users to track how much good or bad habits have been performed. tapping a particular day allows for that day to be edited. Here more stickers can be added or if one was added on accident, it can be removed.
That covers all the parts of the app. The app does have an ad banner across the bottom of the app but no popups occur so that is a plus. I generally don't mind ad banners so long as they do not interfere with the functionality of the app.
In case you may be wondering what happens after you meet your goal... nothing happens. It doesn't even stop tracking your goal. There is no happy sound, animation, or congratulatory message... It is all a bit anticlimactic...
In summary, the app is cute, but some of the functionality either doesn't work or needs to be worked around to work properly. Watching Karin get fat even if you only gain .1 LBS tends to do less motivating than demotivating. I didn't find the app helped me diet and it didn't motivate me to continue using it. I don't think I would recommend the app to anyone who is serious about dieting or losing weight.
Rating: 2/5
- Free
- Seller: Satoru Umezawa
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Size: 62.4 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Copyright: © 2018 dailyanime.news
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