Developer ProtoGeo have produced an app which tracks your every movement, and has been 
praised as an alternative to wearable fitness tracking devices.
The Moves App works in partnership with the recently launched M7 coprocessor, a chip which you’ll find in the iPhone 5s, the iPad Air and the iPad mini with Retina. This coprocessor works with the heavily discussed A7 processor, which is the beating heart of any Apple device and monitors your movement and records the data.
ProtoGeo worked extremely hard to develop this fitness-tracking technology before the M7 coprocessor came onto the scene. Though it may appear that Apple have beaten them to it, in fact the arrival of the coprocessor could be a blessing in disguise.
Launched in January this year, users complained that the Moves App was draining their phone’s battery. But now the support of the secondary processor in Apple products such as the iPhone 5s sends the main processor to sleep, which preserves the battery life far more effectively.
However, the new coprocessor doesn’t have the whole package, as it currently fails to recognise faster moving activities such as cycling. Additionally, the Moves App still encounters problems when used on phones that don’t have the luxury of an elite, secondary processor.
Wearable devices such as the Fuelband from Jawbone have been offered as an alternative to these problems, but critics claim these products aren’t attractive enough to a mainstream user.
Experts claim the most likely conclusion of the fitness-tracking dilemma is that better Apps will be launched on more sophisticated technology, and that in a matter of months we’ll most likely be inundated with various options of how to track our day to day movements.
