My Journey with Actifit August 2018 – App Info, Activities, Earnings, Tokens

Repository

https://github.com/mcfarhat/actifit

Introduction

The Аctifit app is now two months old. I’m using it for a month and a half and through all august 2018.

I can say that I have become hard core Actifiter 😊. I have been using the app on a daily basis through this period. I also had made a small delegation of 100 SP.

The Actifit project

Couple of word about the project. The Actifit project has gathered about 111k delegations from the Steemit users. The interesting part here is that all this delegation is from a lot of small users, not just a couple of big whales. It means that a lot of people put their faith in Аctifit.

From the user side, the last report of @actifit is that there is around 200-daily posts. In the play store there is more than 1000 downloads.

Actifit awards its users for being active. The awards are in form of upvote of the posted activities and actifit tokens. More on this in their announcement post.

Updates

The team is doing a good job for now and they are rolling regular updates on both, the app and the website. The app is updated couple of times since its launch. The website also is getting improvements all the time. The users can login in the site and can see their daily activities with information about the posts. There is a wallet section as well, so everyone can check their earned tokens.

Starting from 28.08.2018 they have iOS early access for the iPhone users. The app is ready, and they are waiting on Apple for the final approval. If there is no problem with the approval the app should be available for the iPhone users in the next weeks. Until this happens they allow some early access to the app as Test Flight mode.

My personal thoughts about this project are all positive. There is huge potential in this. They can be millions of users using it. If the team do a good job on it and keep improving and promoting it, the only way is up.

App Usage

Using the actifit app is quite easy. Just activate the app and let it count your steps in the background. After you have done your activities write at least 30 words and post it. Enter the weight, height, user name, the password and click post. The minimum of 30 words was introduced at the end of July. Before this there was no minimum words limit. I don’t mind this at all. Actually, I was writing a couple of words even before they put the limit.

At the middle of august they have redesigned the default look of the report cards and put a nicer one. There is a photo for a different type of activities: walking, cycling, running etc.
More on this here.

Nice design is always welcome, so this is a good thing. Me personally I’m always trying to put my own photo in my report card and make it more personal. There is still no option in the app to add a photo, so I’m doing it from Steemit. But they have plans to add this option in the future, so it will be even easier to add my personal photos.

Staying active

Staying active is getting harder and harder. The types of jobs are more and more office ones, siting in front of the computer. The importance of being active is clear to everyone. It is about your health. And health has the priority status in everyone’s life. People are getting more and more obese. Obesity is becoming modern age illness with a huge impact on our society. Countless of studies has been made on this topic, showing how bad it is for all us. Heart problems, diabetes, bone and joint disease.

And what is one of the best ways to stay active. Well go to work walking or cycling. I have been doing this for a long time now. My walk to work is about 30 to 40 minutes depending on the tempo. Actifit is now rewarding me and motivates me to do even more. I walk to work every day, and the app counts my step. It also makes record of them, so I can keep track how I’m doing and improve myself over time. Or if for some reason I wasn’t active that much, I can check that and correct myself.

Before Actifit I was using Samsung health app, that also count steps automatically. But after some time, it just gets in the background, I don’t notice it at all. The Actifit app is far more engaging. I’m looking of my activities on regular basis.

In the past month and a half, I stayed motivated to do may walks to my work. Before this, sometimes was happening to be a little bit lazy and skip a walk on the way back. Now I’m not doing this. Also, for the weekend I tend to be more active and not just laying around.

One of the things that I want to achieve is to have a morning exercise routine. I am struggling with this for a long time, with little success. Sometimes I make it sometimes not. I’m planning to buy myself one of those straps for the phone put it on my arm and start exercise in the morning. This will add on my activities and I will be happier about myself. Will see how this will turn around.

My August 2018 activity data

On the chart below is a data about my activities for august 2018. I have extracted the data from my reports and put in a chart. In this way I will have clear picture how I’m doing. The total amount of steps for the whole month is 268.612.

Actifit rewards its users for minimum of 5000 steps, and the maximum is more than a 10000. The blue lines on the chart represent this numbers.

From 31 day I have 8 days without the minimum of 5k steps. Some of this days I actually forgot to post, even do I have been active. Notification from the app in the future will be of help. The team can think about implementing such a thing. I have 16 days with over 10k steps and 7 days between 5k and 10k. In total 23 active days. My goal is to have at least 25 days with activities more than 5k.

Having this stat make me aware of how I’m doing and to try to get better. I will continue to follow my activities that for sure and continue to improve myself. Will be interesting to see my next months how it will be, and did I got the results that I want.

Earnings from upvote

This is a chart of the upvotes that I got from the @actifit account for my activities in august 2018. They had been rewarding me with an upvote from 0,1$ to 0,5$ depending on the activities that I made. The value of the upvote depends on the amount of power delegation and number of posts.

The average upvote for me in past month is 0,36$ for 23 days. Or total of 8,24$ for the month.

But this is not the only way Actifit rewards it users. It also rewards users activities with actifit tokens.

Actifit Tokens

Actifit tokens can be earned from activities and delegation. Also, they reward one token for voting users report card.

Since I use their app, I earn tokens from activities. Also, I made a delegation of 100 SP, so I earn some tokens from the delegation as well.

Tokens are rewarded for minimum of 5000 steps, and the maximum is more than a 10000. For activity more that 10k the reward is 100 tokens, and for 5k is 25. The rewarded tokens gradually increase between these two amounts.

I have earned a total of 1935 tokens from activity in this month.

I have delegated 100 SP so I earn tokens from delegation.

Actifit rewards the delegators with 1:1 ratio on a daily basis, until the delegations reach 100k SP. After that it allocates the tokes proportionally. The 100k SP power delegation was reached on 18 august and after that the number of tokens is not with 1:1 ratio. At the end of the month I have 90 tokens for 100 SP.

The number of tokens earned from delegation for this month is 2218, and the total number of earned tokens from activity and delegation is 4153.

I’m satisfied with these earnings. Now what will be the value of these tokens is yet to be seen. SMT are planned to go live in March 2019 and we will have to wait till then to see how valuable they will be. I don’t want to speculate with price and will remain patience and wait. The number of tokens I have now with the earnings from the previous month is 5700.

Meanwhile I will stay active and improve as much as I can. This app is helping me do this. And I’m doing this for me and my health. This is something worth doing.

Resources

• https://steemit.com/actifit/@actifit/announcing-actifit-innovative-smt-for-rewarding-fitness-activity
• https://steemit.com/actifit/@actifit/actifit-daily-58-ios-early-access-248-reports-rewarded-top-10-daily-actifitters
• https://actifit.io/
• https://steemit.com/actifit/@actifit/actifit-daily-46-new-report-cards-180-rewards-today-1k-followers-98-k-sp-and-more

Series Backlinks

• https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@dalzphoto/using-actifit-for-one-month-how-much-did-i-earned
• https://steemit.com/actifit/@dalzphoto/using-actifit-for-one-week-everyday-how-much-did-i-earned