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Accupedo pedometer: daily walking step counter
  1. Zoran Milanović,
  2. Nenad Stojiljković,
  3. Ljubomir Pavlović,
  4. Vladimir Antić,
  5. Nemanja Stanković
  1. Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Zoran Milanović, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Niš, Čarnojevićeva 10a, Niš 18000, Serbia; zoooro_85{at}yahoo.com

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Platform

iOS (requires iOS 8.1 or later), Android (versions 2.2 or later)

Cost

Lite version—free; Accupedo-Pro Pedometer $3.99

About the App

Accupedo, a pedometer app, monitors daily walking and calculates the physical activity level. With more than 5 million downloads and 3.8 overall reviewers score, this is one of the most popular apps in the health and fitness category. The accuracy of this app is based on three-dimensional (3D) motion recognition algorithms which track walking patterns by filtering and rejecting non-walking activities. Normally an ‘intelligent algorithm’ starts tracking after 10 consecutive steps, then stops and restarts automatically as you walk, but the advantage of this app compared to the other commercial 2D sensor pedometers is Accupedo's ability to count steps regardless of where you put your …

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  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.