Spire Mindfulness and Activity Tracker for iOS

good!!

It is mostly used by clippings with your undergarments. Highly prone to get wet or washed. After getting washed it stopped recharging. No support for repair at least in India.

Great product! Works really well. Seems very accurate at tracking the steps and forces me to take deep breath during the day with gentle reminders.I had a minor issue with the clip. I contacted service and instead of sending me a clip, they sent me a whole new Spire. They were amazing to work with. Would definitively recommend the product.

I liked that it does make you more aware of your breathing and stress. It does track your breathing. The texture and the product are very attractive.I don’t like that it takes such a long time to sync up with your phone. When you don’t have the app open and your phone in your pocket or bag (like when you’re at work) it has to sync. It can take 30 mins to sync.The packaging on arrival was CRAP. You pay soo much money and it’s literally in a blister pack with no instructions or explanation or website to follow on. It’s a bit of a joke.I would reconsider my purchase now that I’ve used it. It’s such a steep price for what it does. If you need mindfulness try mindfulness apps. They’re less expensive too.

設定した時間、呼吸の乱れや浅い呼吸、座っている時間等が続くと本体のバイブとスマホの通知で知らせてくれ、それらのデーターはアプリに保存されます。最初は頻繁に緊張の通知が来ますが、２～３日すると平均呼吸数を学習するので改善されます。姿勢が悪くなって呼吸が浅くなった時も反応するので、猫背改善にも役立っていますし、歩数計としても使えます。他のレビューにありますが、直接肌に付けなくてもシャツの上からでも問題なく使えますし、毎日一日中付けて現場作業をしたりしても外れたことはありません。クリップの強さにもしかしたら個体差があるのかもしれません。半年以上使っていて今のところ問題ありませんし、普段意識しない呼吸や姿勢を意識させてくれるので、良い商品だと思います。

I've been using Spire for about 3 weeks now and I've been debating about how to review it. I've decided to give the product 5 stars. If I could, I'd give it 4.5 but that's not an option, and I genuinely believe it deserves more than 4 stars. I won't describe what the product does, if you're reading this then presumably you already know that and you're trying to figure out if it actually delivers. I'll list what I really like about the product, and what I want to see change.Positives:- getting real-time notifications when I'm not breathing properly is simply huge. I was just on a phone meeting and got a notification on my iPhone that it had been awhile since I'd taken a deep breath. Sure enough, Spire was right. It was just a nice little nudge, a reminder, to get back to doing what I know is important, full and functional breathing.- being able to track through my day when I was calm, when I was in focus, when I was tense, it's really helpful information. Spire can do better on this count and I'll talk about that in a moment. The data presentation and tracking is not as dialed in as I'd like it to be, but is it better than what I was doing pre-Spire (which was, namely, nothing)? Oh heck yeah.- alerts are great. You set them up within their parameters and now the app gives you real time feedback. If I've been tense for 3 minutes, Spire will tell me. If I've been in an extended period of calm or focus, I'm going to see that, too. And that's helpful for determining what I was doing/thinking/focusing on to create that state.- the boosts. Those are recordings you can listen to in order to increase a sense of calm, or focus, increase energy, etc... It's a nice library of resources. And they have a nice 'foundation pack' teaching you some elemental breathing techniques along with getting to know your device and the app.- last but not least, I like having such a modest device to track my steps. I don't wear a pedometer, I don't wear a fitness watch, so it's nice to have Spire do this for me.- some of the problems others have noted have not been a problem for me at all. I wear it on my waistband and initially thought it would bug me. And it did bug me, absolutely. For about 45 minutes. After that I literally forget I have it on. It's just not an issue. Connectivity is not an issue, either. Setup has been easy and it stays connected to my iPhone 6+ without issue.Things I'd like to see improve:- there are times where I feel like I'm tense but Spire doesn't recognize it as such. I get that my perspective is a thought while Spire is measuring actual breathing patterns. I suppose this means that even when I emotionally feel tense, I'm still doing a credible job of breathing well. Cool. I do wish I had the ability to adjust the sensitivity of the algorithm, or increase the 'challenge level' so that it takes more to register as Calm, but that's a relatively minor quibble.- I cannot stand the way the foundation pack in the Boost section handles unlocking the next boost after you've listened to the prior one. Instead of making it immediately available, it waits until 9am the next business day. So if I listen to one boost Friday afternoon, I don't get the next one unlocked until Monday morning. That's just a brain dead design.- could be easier to get more actionable data out of the app. For example, when I just had a Calm streak or a Focus streak, I'd love to be able to add a tag noting what I was doing during that streak. That would be helpful from an analysis perspective.And good news, these last two issues? They are directly remedied in the next version of the Spire app. They are in beta testing on it and I took a look at it, and while it's still rough around the edges it has great promise and it directly addresses these two points.Bottom line: I think the device and the app are very useful as presently constructed. I emailed some thoughts, criticisms and suggestions to the company and was impressed to receive a detailed and thoughtful response from one of the company's founders and chief science officer. We've had a nice dialogue such that while I'm impressed with what the app can do right now, I think where it's going is simply going to get better and better.So, do I recommend this for purchase right now? Yes, I absolutely do. I genuinely believe this is one of the few wearable technologies that doesn't just give you a bunch of data that is essentially meaningless, but can actually improve the quality of your life in important and meaningful ways.

I let my guard down when I chose this seller. They had no reviews yet...Fortunately Amazon gave me a refund. Thank you Amazon!The spire stone had no vibration, and was reading movement poorly as well so I didn't even get to try it out.Spire is antiquated anyways with these awesome new smartwatches. I just really wanted a device that would remind me to breath deeply when I stop.