Eightful
An Apple Watch complication and iPhone app that shows your progress toward the 8-point daily activity target used by Vitality Health.
The colour changes as you approach or cross thresholds. White below 6,500 steps. Red when you're within 500 steps of 7,000, 10,000 or 12,500, as a visual cue that you're close. Orange, yellow and green as you reach 3, 5 and 8 points.
Why
The official Vitality app tells you what you've already earned. It's not great at nudging you before near misses. I created Eightful because I kept having near misses, and missing out when a few more steps would have got me to my daily 8 or weekly 40.
What it does
- Live step count on your watch face, colour-coded by points tier
- One daily nudge at a time you choose - silent if you've hit green, loud when you're 500 steps from a point
- Workout detection - flips green early when a 60-min Zone 2 or 30-min Zone 3+ workout banks the 8 points ahead of steps, and tells you which workout and at what intensity
- Week view on iPhone - last week's points day by day in colour
- Gentle on battery - adaptive refresh: more frequent when you're walking, idle when you're not. NOTE: This sometimes means there is a bit of a lag, but unlike some other Pedometer apps, it should only ever undercount, not overcount. Clicking on the complication forces an update.
Privacy
Everything happens on your devices. Step counts, workout data and settings stay on your watch and phone. Nothing is sent to Vitality, nothing goes anywhere else.
The apps I build track nothing.
Full privacy policy.
Disclaimer
Eightful is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Vitality Health Insurance. The 7,000 / 10,000 / 12,500 step thresholds and HR-based workout rules implement Vitality's published activity scoring. For authoritative rules and point awards, check your Vitality Member account.
Get it
Download Eightful on the App Store
Support my work
Eightful is free and always will be. If it's saving you points and you fancy it, you can throw a coffee my way.