If Siri sent you encouraging messages about your activity and sopor patterns , she would look a lot like Lark , a colloquial health coaching app for iOS . Now the app is harness nutrient - tracking with Tuesday’supdate for iOSand its launch onApple Watch .
Lark is taking a decidedly unlike approach shot to food than its meal - tracking challenger with a focal point on health instead of guilt trip . Record your meal , snacks , and drinks using voice dictation on the Watch or iPhone and Lark will parse trends from your daily nutrient logarithm , not specific small calorie counts .
“ We do n’t want people to haunt about every kilocalorie , ” Lark founder and CEO Julia Hu told Macworld during a demo at our New York office .
Lark ’s mission is to help you alter your habits , and Hu does n’t believe knowing how many calories you have left to eat will help you do that . Instead , the app uses natural language processing to parse what kinds of food you should incorporate into your meals and which you should ditch .
The app expend your iPhone ’s M7 sensor on the iPhone 5s and the M8 sensor on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to track your activity and sleep , and it uses all of that information to give you personalize nutrition tips . For example , if you only sleep for a few hours the night before , your body will crave sugary and fatty food to keep it break . Lark will rede you to satisfy those cravings with levelheaded fats like ballock .
If you have no desire to log your food , just change your destination in Lark underSettings > Edit Profile . opt “ weight expiration ” will put sustenance front and centre in the app , while “ getting fitter ” and “ staying goodish and happy ” will prompt fewer question about food intake .
A few of us on Team Macworld have been using Lark since itlaunched alongside HealthKit last fall , even picking the app as one of ourfavorite young apps of 2014 . The app can now force data from about 60 unlike flow to give you a comprehensive aspect at your health — and assist you make some changes without feel bad about yourself .
