Google Fit vs. GoVida

Google Fit is recommended for those who want to maintain a healthy lifestyle and engage in regular physical activity. It promotes exercise and maintains you energized for effective work hours.

GoVida has many options to choose from, so the user has a lot of freedom and variety for improving their health habits. The main function is step-tracking. This function comes with multiple challenges (individual and team-challenges) that motivate the user to complete their daily step count. The application also has a "Mind" section. I find that this is quite an original feature that separates GoVida from other step trackers and elevates it [as] a wellness application. The "Mind" section has a variety of audio sessions that are helpful for meditation, mindfulness, and overall psychological wellbeing. Lately, GoVida added an Emotion tracker where users are able to rate their daily emotional wellbeing. The ratings are anonymous. With this feature, we are able to see the overall employee emotional wellbeing and make institution-wide improvements based on that. Lastly, GoVida offers a leaderboard. At our particular university, we have quite a few employees that are motivated by competition, so even though GoVida aims for a holistic approach toward wellness, we are happy that it also gives the option to compete [with] those who need it.

• Steps and calories counter
• pulse rate
• sleeping rate

• Keeps me moving.
• Helps with listening to Mind Tracker.
• GoVida Points go towards redeeming and charity.
• Easy to use.
• Tracks my steps.

• Would be great if you could sync the data with Google Sheets.

Incentivized

• The mental well-being content is good but I'd like to see more of it
• I'd like to see more functionality that helps the interaction with other colleagues during the challenges. We use Whatsapp at the moment which is ok but would be good if it was wrapped into the app

Some of the benefits of Google fit for your organization: Quickly shows you how many steps you have taken each day, tracks your heart rate every 10 minutes, throughout the day gives you an accurate picture of where you have been on a map, for the whole day gives you accurate step counts, distances and calorific content at the click of a button, very easy integration with other apps like Samsung Health. Google fit is great because it does all this for free.

Incentivized

We worked with the CEO of GoVida as a pilot business and loved the platform so we signed up.

• Healthy staff are more productive and can do more which has an impact on [the] ROI of business.
• Google fit can be configured to track how much weight is lost each day, the total weight [loss] to date, and an estimate of how much weight still needs to be lost, physically fit employees are an asset to [the] organisation. This would benefit ROI, more active physically, more active on the job.

Incentivized

• It has helped alot of us exercise more by walking or running to earn points from steps.