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Re:Privacy Friendly Apps – improved privacy protection on th... by CharlesW on Saturday April 30, 2022 @11:22AM (#31216704)
> However all apps I've tried so far got my steps wrong.

FWIW, every pedometer (digital or not) ever created is "wrong" about the number of steps you take per day. What they do offer is a device- or app-relative measurement of roughly how many steps you take.

https://www.medicinenet.com/pedometers/article.htm

"Accurate pedometers are those with step-count errors less than 10%, high or low. […] The Colorado on the Move, Sportline 330 and 345, and Yamax Skeletone EM-180 were within acceptable high or low error limits of 10%. The Accusplit and Freestyle underestimated steps by 20% and 25%, respectively, and the Walk4Life, Omron, and Oregon Scientific overestimated steps by 20%, 30%, and 45%, respectively."

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Re:Privacy Friendly Apps – improved privacy protection on th... by alephxyz on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:04PM (#31218353)
These apps are also usually just a wrapper around the Android step counting API, so it's unlikely that you'll get better results with different apps.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_m...

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