Pedometer (PFA) was a health & fitness app developed by SECUSO Research Group. It was removed from Google Play Nov 3, 2022 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Pedometer (PFA) had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Pedometer (PFA) was rated 3.32 out of 5 stars, based on 210 ratings.
App Information
Pedometer (PFA) was free to download. The APK download size was 5.08 MB. The last available version was 3.0.0. The last update was on September 6, 2022.
Technical Requirements
Pedometer (PFA) required Android 4.2+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play November 2016.
Description
Privacy Friendly Pedometer can count your steps in background, provides you an overview about your walked steps and allows you to define custom walking modes and notifications if the achievement of your daily step goal is in danger. The app requires minimal permissions (Run at startup and prevent phone from sleeping). It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Technische Universität Darmstadt. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa
Privacy Friendly Pedometer can count your daily walked steps while it runs in background. It gives you an overview about your walked steps, distance and about the calories you have burned while walking. You can add and choose different walking modes with different step lengths, such as walking or running, to improve the calculation of distance and calories.
In a special training mode you can track your training sessions. To each training session additional information, such as feeling or a description, can be added.
What makes Privacy Friendly Pedometer different from other pedometers?
1. Minimal amount of permissions: * Run at startup: This permission is required to restart the step counting when your phone boots. * prevent phone from sleeping: On some devices the processor falls asleep and prevents counting steps. With this permission the app can keep the processor awake while counting steps.
Most of Pedometer Apps in the Google Play Store require additional permissions. E.g. accessing the network or Internet which is mostly used to display advertisement. Some apps have access to GPS or telephony data.
2. No advertisement. Many other free apps in the Google Play Store dazzle annoying advertising and also shortens battery life.
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Recent changes: - Reworked step mechanisms used - Fixed many smaller bugs and crashes
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★★★★★
App is accurate, to calibrate it to your step length; you go to Settings - Walking Modes - then adjust the step length to match the distance you walked. If you don't have a measured mile somewhere, you can use your car to measure a mile or some shorter distance if you are not up to miles yet or possibly google maps and walk it. then adjust your steps to match the distance. Have a good time getting out.
★★★★★
Incredibly useful and great. No battery drain, no issues with it being 'always on'. Just works. Has helped me get more active. 14 miles of walking last week!
★★★★★
This app does an excellent job... EXCEPT that its program clock, STILL, ALWAYS rolls the 11:30 to midnight step count to the next day. All steps up to 11:30pm are counted on the correct day, but never between 11:30pm and midnight. Please fix that messed up half hour in your program. Thank you.
★★☆☆☆
It only seems to actually save your steps count about once every billion hours or so. If you have to turn off your phone or it restarts or you run out of battery you can be out literally thousands of steps. It would be quite good if not for this ridiculous flaw.
★★☆☆☆
Step counter is accurate. Distance is not. Walked 2km, this app measured it as 1.4km. Would not recommend this app to people who is trying to actively measure the amount of calories burned through walking.
★★☆☆☆
Walking with phone in my pocket and app failed to count steps when phone powered down as all phones do. This needs a fix please
★★☆☆☆
Inaccurate and inconsistent operation. Like privacy, and clean display; also no ads. Has potential. But presently unreliable.
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