Mi Fitness (Xiaomi Wear Lite‪)‬ 4+

I have used this Mi Fitness for a few years (Using the Mi Band 7 and 9) now and it has been great. Better than Apple fitness? Yes. Does it have issues? Yes, but forgivable ones.
I got this Mi fitness thinking it was just a dinky little fitness tracker app, and joking that the company was data mining and uploading my location to China. (I sure hope that’s not true.) Yet over time I got to lien it and see the full extent of the features it has to offer.
Things I like:
-Simple and easy to use and clean UI
-Incredibly easy to set up and sync a new device
-East to get used to using
-Good GPS tracking
-SO MANY WALLPAPERS (and good ones too if you look hard enough)
-Really good explanations for the different features of the app and how the band tracks you (how the sensors work)
Things I don’t:
-Good translation in some parts all the way to areas that are still completely in Chinese,
-Some wallpapers are in Chinese
-Low minimum age limit (doesn’t apply to me, but I can’t recommend this app to people born after 2008)
-Still don’t know about data mining 😬
Overall, still a great fitness app. I give it five stars because it exceeded my expectations. It’s faults are as to be expected. It’s free.

Why move away from Zepp life?? I am regretting updating from the smartband 7 (Zepp life) to the smartband 9 (mi fitness). This thing tells me I burned 50 calories if I walk to the bathroom and back. It waaaaay overestimates calories to the point that it’s useless to even wear it. The app is abysmal. My vitality never updates, it has said I am at 0 the whole time I’ve had it even though I run 4x a week. PAI is still a card option even though it is also stuck at 0 and seemingly not supported anymore? No one on this dev team had any eye for design. Clicking into a card (sleep for example), your eye doesn’t know where to go and the info that you want to see the most (hours slept and sleep stages) is hidden at the bottom under the stupid “your sleep animal” panel. Also the data generally doesn’t update when you first open the app, I’ve had to close it and open it several times before it wants to update with the info from my watch (which is close by and on the same wifi network). Also also, when you send a feedback message about bugs, 1) the text box removes all spaces so your text lookslikethis; and 2) it takes like 5 minutes for the message to send successfully but there’s no message saying “message sent successfully” so I could just be throwing my feedback to the wind for all I know. I am shocked at how bad this app is. Please god let me work on the team I will make it 1000x better. Or better yet - just let us use Zepp life!! That was a fine app!!

The Mi Band? Amazing, but I wish you could switch to the metric system. The app? Eh… it works. The app itself is fine, but the syncing with Apple Health is subpar. It syncs data like heart rate and calorie by the hour, not by the minute, which is really dumb for measuring stuff like recovery time. It only syncs the time in bed for sleep, and for some data, doesn’t sync at all. There’s also some issues with setting your birthday. When you go to set the age, it only lets you set it to 17 or older. I’m 14, so I just skipped that step. But then it said I needed to be 14 or older. I checked back, and sure enough, I couldn’t set it to 14. So I looked at the support page, and it said 16 or older. Choose an age and stick with it!!! (Preferably 14 or older.)