It's been a while I last reviewed and promoted an open-source app. This is due to a couple of reasons which including getting properly acquainted with the apps so as to ensure a proper and detailed review or I have not come across a project that interests me enough. Fortunately, something interesting happened this past week, one of my favorites steemit dapp got updated and a new release was launched.
The app is quite popular among steemians but some still are yet to key into and make use of this wonderful innovation. This has been by far the steemit dapp project that I found most interesting. I plan to talk about this great project and the newly incorporated features and improvements made on the app.
The app I am talking about is non-other than the great Actifit app. In this article, I'll not only be reviewing the app but I'll also be sharing my opinions alongside because this is an app I make use of every week since it was first launched. This promises to be a very interesting app review, sit back, relax and enjoy this article.
Actifit: An Innovative Dapp That Rewards Your Everyday Activity!
Built as one of the first Smart Media Tokens on top of the Steem blockchain, with beta Android and iOS mobile apps already available on playstore and app store, Actifit tracks and rewards your activity with Actifit (AFIT) tokens, but also STEEM rewards via upvotes on your Steem posts.
Actifit is an open-source app that is built on the steem blockchain that rewards users for various activities that enhances and promotes the user's fitness such as jogging, walking, running, weight lifting and so many other activities that involve the movement of the user. This is like 'getting rewarded for what you should be paying for'.
You might wonder why I made the quoted statement, this is not far fetched and due to the fact that most of us actually paid for various gym membership and fitness instructor to ensure and help us keep fit through which is done simply by motivations and encouragements receive from them. This same encouragement and motivation to participate in fitness activities is what Actifit is providing users with and better still pay them for engaging in such. Isn't that Amazing!!!
Actifit reward is twice as much as users are rewarded with both steem upvotes and Actifit tokens which can also be converted to Fiat money or used for other many services.
The most recent improvements that were made in the app was done 7 days ago which led to the release of the latest version (Actifit v0.6.2). This particular release has a lot of interesting features included and it appears to seem there is a general overhaul in the User Interface of the app. I will be talking about all of these features in this review. So, sit back and enjoy!
The new Actifit UI is now a very interesting and interactive one which is now different from the regular and boring UI that the older versions were made of. Like I mentioned in the earlier part of this post, there seems to be a general overhaul in the appearance of the Actifit app.
Even with the new and improved appearance, the Actifit appearance is still a simple one but more beautiful and engaging with the presence and inclusion of a lot of more useful feature options, more information addition of cool pie and charts, steemit profile logo e.t.c.
The feature options now present in the new Actifit release which can be seen in the image above are:
Profile Picture Display: Located at the top left corner of the app which takes you to your actifit.io profile page when clicked on. This page has a lot of info about to you in regards to Actifit
Actifit User Rank: This is located at the top right corner of the homepage display. User ranks enable users to earn more rewards for their daily activity, as it the higher your User Rank, the higher the reward you earn. Owning and keeping AFIT token increases which in turn reflects an increase in your daily STEEM and AFIT rewards. My user rank is currently 7 as it can be seen in the image above.
The Pie Chart: This is a newly added feature to the app. It shows the user daily activity progress. It becomes full when the user reaches 10K activity count but this doesn't mean further activity done by the user won't be recorded, only that it will no longer be captured in the Pie Chart.
The 2 Charts: The next newly added features are the Interactive Intra-day and Full activity charts. They are interactive in the sense that they can be zoomed in and out, move forward or/and backward for a better view.
The first chart (Intra-day Chart) shows the trend of the user activity for the particular day while the second chart (Full Activity Chart) shows the graph of the user's whole activity so far.
Post to Steem; which enable the user to post his/her activity to the steem blockchain. This was present in the former versions too but a new and great addition has been made which is the ability to Post Yesterday's Activity Report.
This is indeed a very useful addition which a lot of users are going to love and make use at one point or the other. I've happened to miss out in earning rewards many times due to the fact that I forgot to post my Activity at the end of the day and there was no provision for users to publish such post later. I'm really glad when I find out that I can now post activity from the previous day in the new version.
View Tracking History; which displays the user's activity history as a list.
View Wallet; which displays the user's AFTIT Token balance and Transactions.
Snap an Acti Pic; This feature allows user snap pics while carrying out the activity so as to include it into the Actifit Report post. Including Acti Pic in a reports earns the user more rewards, most people don't know this. Now you know this, thanks to this report....lol.
View Daily Leaderboard; This feature was present in the previous version but not as detailed as the one in this new version.
The newly introduced leaderboard now contains the full listing of all posts that are eligible for the day's voting round. Also, users are now able to click on the name/profile pic of other users to visit their profile and also click on the post details button to actually read their post, comment and/or upvote it.
Considering the fact that Users get rewarded with AFIT tokens for commenting and/or upvoting it. for at least 3 posts every single day, this is a great improvement as it makes the whole process easier to be done!
Enable Aggressive Background Tracking This feature is for users who are facing issues of tracking activity when their device is locked. This option should only be enabled when it seems the app is missing in keeping the correct track of activity as it tends to drain the device battery faster. This feature was present in older versions.
Language Previously, Actifit supported only English Language, But with the help of various translators 
I will like to use this opportunity to thank the utopian-io and DaVinci platform for the opportunity given to me to be a part and contribute to this project.
There's still an opportunity to help translate Actifit to other languages and be rewarded by the Actifit team. Making Actifit available in multiple languages will enhance user experience and further enhances its adoption among users.
Donate Rewards to Charity This option allows users to donate to a registered and verified charity organizations. This feature was present in older versions.
Daily Post Reminder This feature allows users to set time reminders which notifications will be sent to them reminding them to post the day's activity. This is a good feature and I have used it a number of times. This feature was present in the older version.
Apart from the newly added features already mentioned in this post which were implemented in the latest version release of 7 days ago, here are some extra notable and worthy ones:
With this new feature implementation, I now get a message whenever I reach 5k and 10k milestone. This is another way of motivating users to ensure they reached the minimum activity needed to get rewarded and also keep fit.
Also, the In-App Announcement notifications, this serves as a channel and means of passing information across to all Actifit users from the Actifit team.
Sometimes, most user seems not to get announcements made by the Actifit team on time or at all due to the fact that they come online to the various announcement channels (e.g Discord app) being previously used by the team late, but with the introduction of this new feature, the passing of info is now easier.
Actifit has been integrated with firebase services to enable Actifit to get crash log reports in case any error is encountered and also Actifit now have the ability to automatically recover from any crash error.
Also, a measure has been put in place to put the activities of abusers in check and ensure they are easily tracked and punished.
In summary, I tried as much as possible not to make this post too long so it won't get boring while ensuring it still captures the important features of the app. The Actifit app and project greatness is not something that can be captured in just a simple blog post, but I hope I have done justice to a reasonable extent with the aid of this post.
I have been able to review the features of this useful app. I as a person finds the app very useful because it motivates and encourages me to participate in activities that ensure my fitness.
I believe there are many people who would like to benefit from this great innovation. Install this app and testify.
All of the images used are screenshots of the app from my device. All other places where other images were used were duly cited.
The app can only be downloaded from Google Playstore and Apple AppStore for now.
Thanks for reading.
