Software:Instant (app)

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Instant
Instant App icon.png
Developer(s)Emberify
Initial release2015
Stable release
3.4[1]
Operating systemAndroid, iOS
Available inEnglish, Japanese
TypeLifestyle
LicenseProprietary
Websiteinstantapp.today

Instant is a Quantified Self mobile app[2] for iOS[3] and Android. It tracks[4][5] the user's phone/app usage, travel, places, fitness and sleep automatically. It puts all this information on a dashboard and gives the user analysed reports based on the data. It is developed by Emberify, founded by Shashwat Pradhan. Instant 4.0 was launched on 13 July 2016 with a Chatbot Coach.[6] The Coach allows users to query data and it also passively analyses the user's trends and correlations.

Features

Instant automatically tracks[7] phone/app usage, fitness, travel, sleep and places. It provides daily and weekly reports based on the user's tracked data. All the data stays only[8] on the user's smartphone. It is meant to track habits, especially used by Quantified Self and lifelogging enthusiasts.[9]

Instant is a passive journaling app, that automatically journals the user's life with data from the smartphone and sensors.[10] For health and fitness data it can also sync with Google Fit and Apple Health.[11]

Instant also can connect to the user's Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatch.[12]

Trackable activities

As of May 2016, Instant tracks the following activities:[8][9][13]

  • Phone usage time
  • App usage time (Android only)[14]
  • Sleeping
  • Time spent at places
  • Fitness
  • Travel time

Awards

Instant won the Grand Prize of the Google Fit Developer Challenge in April 2015.[15][16][17] It also won the Best App Ever Awards 2015 in the Productivity Category.[18]

See also

References

  1. "Instant- Quantified Self". iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id991690667?mt=8. 
  2. "Instant's New Android App Lets You Track Just About Anything". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/instants-new-android-app-lets-you-track-just-about-anything/. 
  3. "Instant - Quantified Self on the App Store". https://itunes.apple.com/app/id991690667?mt=8. 
  4. "New app that lets you track time of nearly anything you want". News 18. 13 Feb 2015. http://zeenews.india.com/news/sci-tech/now-an-app-that-lets-you-keep-a-track-on-almost-anything_1546064.html. 
  5. "Get Phone Usage Stats in Instant". The New Indian Express. http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/Get-Phone-Usage-Stats-in-an-Instant/2015/03/09/article2699437.ece. 
  6. "Lifelogging app Instant's chatbot shows you just how addicted you are to your phone". 2016-07-13. http://www.androidcentral.com/lifelogging-app-instants-latest-update-lets-you-track-how-addicted-you-are-your-phone. 
  7. "New App By Indian Startup Emberify Keeps Track Of Almost Everything About Your Life". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/02/13/emberify-app-quantified-s_n_6676994.html. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Emberify". http://emberify.com/privacy. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Eaton, Kit (20 Jan 2016). "'Quantified Self' Apps to Help Track Habits and Identify Patterns". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/technology/personaltech/video-feature-quantified-self-apps-to-help-track-habits-and-identify-patterns.html. 
  10. "Instant Tracks Your Physical Activity and Phone Usage All in One Place". Lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com/instant-tracks-your-physical-activity-and-phone-usage-a-1733615420. 
  11. "New Android App Lets Users Track Nearly Anything They Want". Gadgets 360. http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/new-android-app-lets-users-track-nearly-anything-they-want-660411. 
  12. "Instant 3.1, wearables are welcome!". 2016-03-30. http://emberify.com/blog/instant-app-wearables/. 
  13. "Track and view all of your activities in an Instant". App Advice. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/09/track-and-view-all-of-your-activities-in-an-instant. 
  14. "Instant- Quantified Self - Android Apps on Google Play". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emberify.instant. 
  15. "The Google Fit Developer Challenge winners". Google Developers Blog. https://developers.googleblog.com/2015/04/the-google-fit-developer-challenge.html. 
  16. "Google Fit Developer Challenge Winners Announced". ProgrammableWeb. http://www.programmableweb.com/news/google-fit-developer-challenge-winners-announced/2015/04/16. 
  17. "Google Announce Winners Of Google Fit Developer Challenge And Publish Winning Apps To The Play Store". Android Headlines. http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/04/google-announce-winners-of-google-fit-developer-challenge-and-publish-winning-apps-to-the-play-store.html. 
  18. "And the Winner of the 7th Annual Best App Ever Awards is...". 148 apps. http://www.148apps.com/news/and-the-winner-of-the-7th-annual-best-app-ever-awards-is/.