Lark

Lark

About this app

Lark is a friendly text-based coach that can help you reach your health goals, providing you with personalized advice for losing weight, managing diabetes, lowering blood pressure, reducing stress, getting more active, and eating better. With this all available 24/7 right on your smartphone, Lark is with you every step of the way. And it doesn’t cost you a thing!

Lark’s Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), Diabetes Care, Hypertension Care, and Wellness programs have helped nearly 2 million people take control of their health and improve their lives. Sign up today and start chatting with your Lark coach within minutes.

Ratings and reviews

This is a big decision tree wrapped in a psuedo chat. The pauses are annoyingly long. It will lose state and restart the "chat" if you set your phone down to do something else for a few minutes or switch to another app. And I can't get it to use data from Samsung for activity so I'd have to log it manually if I wanted it to appear. Smart apps and smart devices aren't very useful if they can't talk to other things

I like this app, it has some really great features and in general runs well. However, if this app ever shows up as being most searched for, the only reason is because it occasionally freezes, and does not log progress, so has to be uninstalled and reinstalled every few weeks: That's my only gripe.

Initial Impressions are it's a buggy and immature app. App is unable to correctly retrieve data from Google's Health Connect app. This is after several attempts by Lark's technical support team figure out with a dozen detailed screenshots showing permissions are correct, Health Connect has the data from Google Fit, and Lark's failed attempts to retrieve the data from Health Connect (despite Health Connect's log showing a Lark read access.) Also, chat interface is pretty limiting.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes