Recommended tracker setup

In order to have the best possible experience using the dacadoo app, we recommend that users only use one tracker for their health data. Even though the dacadoo app supports using more than one tracker at a time, these types of setups can easily lead to duplicated data and other synchronization issues between trackers and services. As such, it’s best for most users to keep their setup as simple as possible and limit their use to a single tracker.

Recommended Android setup

Android does not currently offer a centralized hub (such as Apple Health on iOS) for handling all of the apps which track a user’s health data. It is therefore more common on Android for health apps to track a user’s data independently from one another. Some of these trackers handle health data better than others, we therefore recommend the following setups for Android users, from most recommended to least recommended:

  1. If the user is using a Fitbit tracker, we recommend syncing it directly to dacadoo.
  2. If the user is using a Garmin tracker, we recommend syncing it directly to dacadoo.
  3. For trackers that sync to Samsung Health we recommend syncing those devices to Samsung Health and then syncing Samsung Health to dacadoo.
  4. For trackers such as Strava or Withings we recommend syncing directly to dacadoo.
  5. In general, we recommend syncing trackers that sync with Google Fit over Google Fit to the dacadoo app. However, it is important to mention that Google Fit’s API recalculates user data periodically, leading to possible changes to a user’s health data from one day to the next. This updated data is then sent to dacadoo, where it is displayed to the user, who should be aware that the changes are due to Google’s API and not dacadoo.

  6. Users who turn on Automatic step counter in settings should not sync with any other tracker, as dacadoo will attempt to get a step count straight from Android if this option is enabled. Users should be aware that tracking steps from Android’s step counter is less precise than tracking them through a dedicated tracker, and as such is our least recommended method for syncing health data to dacadoo. It is only recommended for users that do not use a health tracker.