Instant (app) explained

Instant
Instant app icon
Logo Size:	150px
Collapsible:	oneMinuteRated100 years1/60secondsx24hx365x100.Count in macro seconds.(31december for every succeeding year after the current year has arrived at 31december.
Developer:	Emberify
Released:	2015
Latest Release Version:	3.4^[1]
Operating System:	Android, iOS
Language:	English, Japanese
Genre:	Lifestyle
License:	Proprietary

Instant is a Quantified Self mobile app^[2] for iOS^[3] and Android. It tracks^{[4] [5]} the user's phone/app usage, travel, places, fitness and sleep automatically. It puts all this information on a dashboard and gives the user analysed reports based on the data. It is developed by Emberify, founded by Shashwat Pradhan. Instant 4.0 was launched on 13 July 2016 with a Chatbot Coach.^[6] The Coach allows users to query data and it also passively analyses the user's trends and correlations.Editng Instant (app)

Features

Instant automatically tracks^[7] phone/app usage, fitness, travel, sleep and places. It provides daily and weekly reports based on the user's tracked data. All the data stays only^[8] on the user's smartphone. It is meant to track habits, especially used by Quantified Self and lifelogging enthusiasts.^[9]

Instant is a passive journaling app, that automatically journals the user's life with data from the smartphone and sensors.^[10] For health and fitness data it can also sync with Google Fit and Apple Health.^[11]

Instant also can connect to the user's Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatch.^[12]

Trackable activities

As of May 2016, Instant tracks the following activities:^[13]

• Phone usage time
• App usage time (Android only)^[14]
• Sleeping
• Time spent at places
• Fitness
• Travel time

Awards

Instant won the Grand Prize of the Google Fit Developer Challenge in April 2015.^{[15] [16] [17]} It also won the Best App Ever Awards 2015 in the Productivity Category.^[18]

See also

• Comparison of time-tracking software

References

1. Web site: Instant- Quantified Self . iTunes . 2016-05-05.
2. News: Instant's New Android App Lets You Track Just About Anything. TechCrunch. 25 May 2016.
3. Web site: Instant - Quantified Self on the App Store. App Store. 2016-05-27.
4. News: New app that lets you track time of nearly anything you want. 13 Feb 2015. News 18.
5. News: Get Phone Usage Stats in Instant. https://web.archive.org/web/20151130050825/http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/Get-Phone-Usage-Stats-in-an-Instant/2015/03/09/article2699437.ece. dead. November 30, 2015. The New Indian Express.
6. Web site: Lifelogging app Instant's chatbot shows you just how addicted you are to your phone. 2016-07-13. 2016-07-23.
7. News: New App By Indian Startup Emberify Keeps Track Of Almost Everything About Your Life. The Huffington Post.
8. Web site: Emberify. emberify.com. 2016-05-27. 2016-05-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160508005003/http://emberify.com/privacy/. dead.
9. News: 'Quantified Self' Apps to Help Track Habits and Identify Patterns. Eaton. Kit. 20 Jan 2016. The New York Times. 26 May 2016.
10. News: Instant Tracks Your Physical Activity and Phone Usage All in One Place. Lifehacker. 24 May 2016.
11. News: New Android App Lets Users Track Nearly Anything They Want. Gadgets 360.
12. Web site: Instant 3.1, wearables are welcome!. 2016-03-30. Emberify Blog. 2016-05-27. 2016-06-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052801/http://emberify.com/blog/instant-app-wearables/. dead.
13. News: Track and view all of your activities in an Instant. App Advice.
14. Web site: Instant- Quantified Self - Android Apps on Google Play. play.google.com. 2016-05-27.
15. Web site: The Google Fit Developer Challenge winners. Google Developers Blog.
16. News: Google Fit Developer Challenge Winners Announced. ProgrammableWeb.
17. News: Google Announce Winners Of Google Fit Developer Challenge And Publish Winning Apps To The Play Store. Android Headlines.
18. News: And the Winner of the 7th Annual Best App Ever Awards is.... 148 apps.