My Circadian Clock

Salk Institute

About this app

My Circadian Clock.
The My circadian clock app is for use in research studies examining how diet, exercise, and sleep affect health. Our body contains circadian (circa – approximately and dian – day) or 24 h clocks that influences the timing of sleep, hunger, metabolism, and physical ability. Research studies run in different locations are trying to understand the interaction between “how much” and “when” we sleep, eat, or exercise for better health. You need an activation code from these research studies to download and use the app.
Following are the key features:
Camera function to snap picture of everything you eat or drink
Sleep tab to record time to bed and time of waking up, and sleep quality
Exercise tab to log physical activity
Food and Beverage tab to log all dietary intake including an autofill option to add frequently eating items easily
Water tab to log water
Health tab to log and monitor health parameters
Medication reminders to track your medicine/ supplement intake
Contact the research coordinator for any questions/ help.
Blogs tab to read scientific blogs on various topics like food, nutrition, sleep, time-restricted eating, etc.
Additional Features:
Health Tracking : Now you can track your results for a wide variety of vitals and blood tests. You can now also log in metric units.
Daily tracking and study status info on the home page : With a quick glance at the homepage, you can see when you ate that day, step counts, last night’s sleep duration, and where you are in the study.
Step Counts : Now you can view your step counts from Google Fit/ Apple Health in the app.
Notifications are used to provide health tips and reminders.
Settings : You can set your eating, sleeping, and exercise targets in one place. You can also set reminders for sleep, medicine, and water, eating window start and end notifications from the settings page.
Meditation tracking.
Improved user experience : The myCircadianClock app has been redesigned to make it easier and more enjoyable to use.
For more information, please refer to our [Privacy Policy](https://www.mycircadianclock.org/privacy/).

Ratings and reviews

Using the app for 3 weeks: In the baseline period, you cannot see your entries. Which is a hassle. But after the baseline period, you have access to the info. I like how easy it is to track your food- just snap a picture. No calorie counting:) When I have questions, I get a response within a 1-2 days. I would give it 5 stars but it does not download the workouts from Google Fit. I use Strava for my workouts. And added the Google Fit app. But I still have to manually enter workouts:(

I was so excited to participate in this study, and so deeply frustrated by my inability to do so. The app is clumsy and just bumbles along. It crashes often, freezes even more often, and is just plain s l o w. Honestly, it's hard to believe this app is actually tracking food, water, sleep, etc. If I could get my money, it's actually a psychological survey on how well people can tolerate frustrations and keep trying something that clearly doesn't work. I wish they had a better way to collect data. I would happily commit to 14 weeks of tracking, but this interface is impossible. I wonder how many people actually made it 14 weeks (and what level of errors are included in that)!

I have used this app for six months. It tracks many aspects of diet, exercise, lab results, and sleep, but is most efficient in doing what it was originally designed for -- helping to track and manage intermittent fasting patterns. For that, I have not found a better app. I stopped using the sleep tracker after about 3 months, as it is not as well designed as other trackers, and has minor bugs, such as difficulty in editing a record which covers the end of a month.

What’s new

Bug fixes & improvements!