Instant (app)

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Instant
Developer(s) Emberify
Initial release2015
Stable release
3.4 [1]
Operating system Android, iOS
Available inEnglish, Japanese
Type Lifestyle
License Proprietary
Website instantapp.today

Instant is a Quantified Self mobile app [2] for iOS [3] and Android. It tracks [4] [5] the user's phone/app usage, travel, places, fitness and sleep automatically. It puts all this information on a dashboard and gives the user analysed reports based on the data. It is developed by Emberify, founded by Shashwat Pradhan. Instant 4.0 was launched on 13 July 2016 with a Chatbot Coach. [6] The Coach allows users to query data and it also passively analyses the user's trends and correlations.

Contents

Features

Instant automatically tracks [7] phone/app usage, fitness, travel, sleep and places. It provides daily and weekly reports based on the user's tracked data. All the data stays only [8] on the user's smartphone. It is meant to track habits, especially used by Quantified Self and lifelogging enthusiasts. [9]

Instant is a passive journaling app, that automatically journals the user's life with data from the smartphone and sensors. [10] For health and fitness data it can also sync with Google Fit and Apple Health. [11]

Instant also can connect to the user's Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatch. [12]

Trackable activities

As of May 2016, Instant tracks the following activities: [8] [9] [13]

Awards

Instant won the Grand Prize of the Google Fit Developer Challenge in April 2015. [15] [16] [17] It also won the Best App Ever Awards 2015 in the Productivity Category. [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Instant- Quantified Self". iTunes. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  2. ↑ "Instant's New Android App Lets You Track Just About Anything". TechCrunch. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Instant - Quantified Self on the App Store". App Store. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  4. ↑ "New app that lets you track time of nearly anything you want". News 18. 13 Feb 2015.
  5. ↑ "Get Phone Usage Stats in Instant". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on November 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Lifelogging app Instant's chatbot shows you just how addicted you are to your phone". 2016-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  7. ↑ "New App By Indian Startup Emberify Keeps Track Of Almost Everything About Your Life". The Huffington Post.
  8. 1 2 "Emberify". emberify.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  9. 1 2 Eaton, Kit (20 Jan 2016). "'Quantified Self' Apps to Help Track Habits and Identify Patterns". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Instant Tracks Your Physical Activity and Phone Usage All in One Place". Lifehacker. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "New Android App Lets Users Track Nearly Anything They Want". Gadgets 360.
  12. ↑ "Instant 3.1, wearables are welcome!". Emberify Blog. 2016-03-30. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  13. ↑ "Track and view all of your activities in an Instant". App Advice.
  14. ↑ "Instant- Quantified Self - Android Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  15. ↑ "The Google Fit Developer Challenge winners". Google Developers Blog.
  16. ↑ "Google Fit Developer Challenge Winners Announced". ProgrammableWeb.
  17. ↑ "Google Announce Winners Of Google Fit Developer Challenge And Publish Winning Apps To The Play Store". Android Headlines.
  18. ↑ "And the Winner of the 7th Annual Best App Ever Awards is..." 148 apps.
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