Public Health Tech Review

Review of FOSS Personal Health & Fitness Solutions

50 Word Review

Medilog allows you to record core health indicators such as blood pressure, temperature and weight. It's an excellent option for recording health data privately. It can exported into CSV as well as a PDF report which can be shared with your doctor. I use this every day and highly recommend.

Developer Product Description

Privacy respecting logging of blood pressure, blood sugar (experimental), weight, water intake, as well as a simple diary. Includes ways to securely share the sensitive data with medical staff if and when required.

* Support for biometric(fingerprint) logon * Charts with trends and thresholds * CSV Data export via protected/encrypted zip files * Ability to share health data via PDF files inside protected/encrypted zip files

Overview Detail
App Name: Medilog
Code Location : https://codeberg.org/toz/MediLog
License: GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (AGPL)
Focus Areas health logging
Data Types blood pressure, temerpature, Oximeter, Health Diary, Weight
Data Export Yes. CSV + PDF Report. Automatic backups on the device (needs to be configured)
Connectivity No Connection needed.
Suitable for non-technical people Yes
Platform Android
Download https://f-droid.org/packages/com.zell_mbc.medilog/

Hashtags:

#logging #personalhealth #bp #temperature #oximetry #weight

50 Word Review

This app allows users to track their intake of 12 foods types from the book “How not to die”. It's a bit inflexible but It has links to resources about nutrition so it makes a good reference (It's what I will use it for). UI is not optimized.

Developer Product Description

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen details the healthiest foods and how many servings of each we should try to check off every day from his book How Not Die—now including the 21 Tweaks from How Not to Diet—weight-loss accelerators to help maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.

All the proceeds from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements are donated to charity.

Overview Detail
App Name: Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen
Code Location : https://github.com/nutritionfactsorg/daily-dozen-android
Focus Areas Food, Healthy Eating, Forming Habits
Data Types Documents food intake, Weight
Data Export JSON, Manual Backups, NO Report export
Connectivity Offline, Reference resources (like butritional facts) require connection
Suitable for non-technical people Yes
Platform Android

Export Data Format Example (JSON)

{"Date":"20230121","dailyDozen":{"Spices":1,"Whole Grains":0,"Other Fruits":0,"Nuts":1,"Vitamin B12":1,"Beans":3,"Cruciferous Vegetables":1,"Flaxseeds":0,"Other Vegetables":2,"Beverages":5,"Berries":0,"Exercise":1,"Greens":0},"eveningWeight":0.0,"morningWeight":0.0,"tweaks":{"Meal 20 Minutes":0,"Meal Undistracted":0,"Meal Vinegar":0,"Daily Front-Load":0,"Daily Black Cumin":0,"Meal Water":0,"Complete Intentions":0,"Daily Cumin":0,"Daily NutriYeast":0,"Nightly Fast":0,"Daily Hydrate":0,"Nightly Trendelenburg":0,"Exercise Timing":0,"Nightly Sleep":0,"Daily Time-Restrict":0,"Weigh Twice":0,"Meal NegCal":0,"Daily Green Tea":0,"Daily Garlic":0,"Daily Ginger":0,"Daily Deflour Diet":0}}
{"Date":"20230122","dailyDozen":{"Spices":0,"Whole Grains":0,"Other Fruits":0,"Nuts":0,"Vitamin B12":0,"Beans":0,"Cruciferous Vegetables":0,"Flaxseeds":0,"Other Vegetables":0,"Beverages":0,"Berries":0,"Exercise":0,"Greens":0},"eveningWeight":74.0,"morningWeight":73.0,"tweaks":{"Meal 20 Minutes":0,"Meal Undistracted":0,"Meal Vinegar":0,"Daily Front-Load":0,"Daily Black Cumin":0,"Meal Water":3,"Complete Intentions":0,"Daily Cumin":0,"Daily NutriYeast":0,"Nightly Fast":0,"Daily Hydrate":0,"Nightly Trendelenburg":0,"Exercise Timing":0,"Nightly Sleep":1,"Daily Time-Restrict":0,"Weigh Twice":2,"Meal NegCal":0,"Daily Green Tea":0,"Daily Garlic":0,"Daily Ginger":0,"Daily Deflour Diet":0}}

Hashtags:

#food #health #eating #habit #diet

50 Word Review

This is a super simple and usable application that allows you to enter in your sleep schedule which it uses to calculate fasting times. Its UI is minimal but nice to look at. It is a work in progress so some features like the home screen are not yet available.

Developer Product Description

Interfast is a Kotlin Android Application for your intermittent fasting journey, it is:

  • Free
  • Open Source
  • Open for contributions
  • Ads free
  • Tracking free
  • And most importantly, salt Sugar free!

Intermittent Fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. Get your eating period according to your sleeping schedule and Fast/Feed target.

Overview Detail
App Name: Interfast
Code Location : https://github.com/Husseinfo/interfast
Focus Areas Intermittent fasting
Data Types Time schedule
Data Export N/A
Connectivity Offline
Suitable for non-technical people Yes
Platform Android

#fasting #health #fitness