Xiaomi, renowned for smartphones, also offers a broad range of wellness products, from fitness bands and smartwatches to digital scales and smart shoes. Complementing these devices is the free Mi Fit app, enabling detailed activity tracking.
However, imagine an app offering complete control over every detail recorded by your Mi fitness band or smartwatch. Enter “Notify & Fitness” – a highly useful app providing greater control over your daily fitness compared to the official app. It seamlessly integrates with all generations of Mi Bands and Amazfit smartwatches.
Below are the top five features of the Notify & Fitness app that will make you abandon Mi Fit:
1. Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring
Some Mi Band variants and the Amazfit Bip lack continuous heart monitoring due to Mi Fit app’s 1-minute interval restriction. Notify & Fitness surpasses this limit, enabling continuous heart rate tracking.
The app monitors your heart rate every 6-7 seconds and displays it as a cardiograph. This not only aids in heart health monitoring but also alerts you to irregular heartbeats (arrhythmia). To conserve phone battery, the app can activate a feature allowing the Mi Band or Amazfit smartwatch to store, but not instantly transfer, this data.
2. Comprehensive Workout Tracking
While the stock app limits live workout tracking to walking and running, Notify & Fitness elevates it by offering tracking for over 85 different activities.
Basic activities like aerobic and weight training, sports, and less common ones like CrossFit, beach volleyball, fencing, rowing, and more are tracked. It also monitors activities like sex (referred to euphemistically as Love) and pole dancing, showcasing its diverse capabilities.
No sensor in Mi Band or Amazfit Bip identifies activity types, so you must manually initiate tracking in the Notify & Fitness app. Additionally, you can sync activities with third-party apps like Strava and Google Fit. Set goals and receive reminders for workout duration or distance.
3. Watch Button Mapping – Control Music or Activate Google Assistant
While reviewing the Amazfit Bip recently, one disappointing aspect I discovered was its inability to control music. Fortunately, the Notify & Fitness app offers the choice to customize the button on the Amazfit Bip – and the touch area on the Mi Band – for your preferred action.
These actions range from skipping tracks, playing or pausing music, waking Google Assistant, hanging up or ignoring calls, to automating tasks with Tasker. For users with multiple media apps, there’s an option to configure settings individually for each app.
Utilize the smartwatch as a camera remote and adjust the phone’s volume. Additionally, customize button presses to activate different functions.
4. Detailed Notifications
The Notify & Fitness app provides extensive control over smartphone notifications displayed on your fitness band or smartwatch. Customize settings for each app, including notification text, icon, repetition, priority, vibration pattern, and intensity.
Set schedules for alerts on your wrist and exceptions for silent or DND mode, or sleep. The app offers extensive alarm options and lets you set reminders displayed on your Mi Band or Amazfit smartwatch. Additionally, enable caller ID on the band or smartwatch for incoming calls.
5. Personalized Watch Faces
Watch faces significantly influence smartwatch impressions. Amazfit offers few official options, but independent developers offer over 20,000 for the Bip, Stratos, and Cor models.
Notify & Fitness lacks these faces but facilitates downloads from amazfitwatchface.com, sparing users from complex manual installation.
Optimizing Mi Band and Amazfit Devices
Notify & Fitness, a humble yet robust app for Mi Band and Amazfit fitness devices, offers substantial control that not only boosts confidence but also motivates users to explore more activities and continue their fitness journey.
This app excels in various aspects beyond those mentioned. Experience it yourself and share your feelings. While the app is free to try with essential features unlocked, purchasing the full version for Rs. 200 unlocks its full potential.
Download Notify & Fitness for Mi Band from Google Play Store (Free)
Download Notify & Fitness for Amazfit from Google Play Store (Free)
Pritam Chopra is a seasoned IT professional and a passionate blogger hailing from the dynamic realm of technology. With an insatiable curiosity for all things tech-related, Pritam has dedicated himself to exploring and unraveling the intricacies of the digital world.
