Misfit Link App Reviews

Got the flash for free from Oscar Healthcare. Set up the app nothing seems to work. Press on the button and it shows you the volume of the phone. Nothing else seems to work. What a waste of time, even for free. If I could give a zero or less I most definitely would.

I enjoy the custom setting of Misfit Link, but recently this has disabled the regular Misfit app from syncing. It just spins. So while I can control my music, and find my phone, the original Misfit app can no longer sync my activity and I cant participate in the competition with friends and family. Overall I still enjoy the Misfit but am excited for these glitches to be resolved.

I really enjoy using my Misfit Flash but since downloading this app Im not able to sync with the fitness app at all. I would really like the functionality of my device back and even after deleting this app I cant disable the music button feature - more than once Ive been in an inappropriate situation for music and found my phone suddenly blasting it because I had accidentally pressed my flash. Please fix it!

After updating the software to play music, I cant sync the flash to the original app. This stops me from tracking my steps, calories I burn, and the main function I use this tracker for.

As others have noted here, if the Link app is installed on a mobile device, the Misfit app doesnt work. Bummer, since the Misfit app is what tracks activity progress, the primary function of this system. Customer Support either isnt aware of this problem or hopes it isnt really true. Ive gone through three rounds of emails with them, and in all three, they merely repeat the installation instructions. I follow their instructions, and the problem is not fixed. So, from my experience, this app works great as a remote-control for iPhone music players and presumably IFTTT recipes and presentations; however, if you use this app, you wont be able to track activity in the basic Misfit app.

...yet debugged. Want to use it to control a Bolt light bulb. Tried every configuration. I give up. Ill wait a few weeks in hope software is smoothed. The device itself is amazingly affordable (given supposed capability), very nice too look at but the human interface is not at all fathomable for normal users. Geeks programming for other geeks? Trained at Microsoft?

So this app is horrible because you lose your activity function and gain a Bluetooth remote. Anyways this took me some time to figure out but to fix your misfit flash first unsync your device from the original misfit app and then delete the app. Second step is go into the misfit link app and click on the edit button and then unlink device option. Once you do this the app will instruct you to go to options and press on the (info) tab in Bluetooth settings to unlink device. Third step delete misfit link app and redownload the Misfit app. Once your download is complete go to the sync tab in app and it will automatically find your device and give you the option to update and link device. Once you sync the misfit flash will go back to being an activity tracker and back to its normal mode. Hope this helps.

Misfit does no QA. The Link app drains phone battery faster than any other app even with location and notifications off. The latest update broke Link device exercise data syncing completely. The Shine 2 now sometimes randomly decides to vibrate on email and texts. Misfit tech support told me I could fix all issues by shutting off Bluetooth on my phone. Wha?

After downloading this horrible app my Misfit is no longer an activity tracker and will not syncs. Do not use this app. Support is non-existent at this point and I dont even know who to talk to about it. When I try to disconnect my device it will not disconnect and now this stupid thing is good for only playing music. I hope support reads these reviews and answers this.

Misfit finally fixed the sync issues between the misfit and misfit link. You can now use any remote in misfit link and activity tracking syncs perfectly. Hoping to see more remotes in the future added to misfit link! Thanks for this great app!

I bought the Misfit Link for a fraction of the cost of other fitness trackers, and my expectations are in proportion to price. Nonetheless, I have deducted a star from this app for the challenge level of setting it up correctly. If you only want an activity tracker, the simplest thing is to just use it with the Misfit app, and forget about the Link app. If, however, youd like to double-click or triple-click the tracker to control some function while still using it as a tracker, read on. A Flash can ONLY be used as an activity tracker OR a music remote OR a selfie button OR a Preso clicker OR a Bolt switch OR a "custom button." It cant do them all at once, despite advertising implication. If you set up your activity tracker via Link you can have those extra functions, but its not going to do them all at the same time. First, disconnect your Flash from the Misfit app if youve already connected it (disconnect it from within the app.) After that, go to your phones Bluetooth settings and disconnect the Flash there, too. Now open the Link app. Go ahead and connect your Flash to it, and select Activity Tracker. The Link app will automatically connect your Flash to the Misfit app as well as to itself. Yay! You now have the function you probably bought the Flash Link for. Now you can set up the double-press or triple-press functions to a) send a "Yo;" b) connect to IFTTT.com for a recipe you can set up; c) Connect to a Harmony home control system; or d) ring your phone. I use IFTTT extensively -- so I have an IFTTT recipe connected to the double-press, and another connected to the triple-press. Finally, you will get the opportunity to set up your Flash to automatically turn on and show you your progress and the time when you raise your wrist (like an Apple Watch.) Think carefully before you turn this on; you cant turn it off, and it will run down your battery a bit faster. Now you can edit the tracker in Link to do one of those other functions (selfie button, etc.). It will still track your activity, and you can still sync it with the Misfit app, but you wont be able to see your progress or the time on the tracker itself (unless you turned on the wrist flick thing) until you edit the tracker back to the Activity Tracker function in the Link App. Also, you wont be able to tag activities unless your Flash is in Activity Tracker mode in the Link app. All this is horribly confusing, and not well explained in the apps as youre doing what youre doing. Worse, the Misfit app offers you an opportunity to set up your tracker with the Link app from the Device page within the Misfit app itself. Dont believe it! It lies! Disconnect your Flash from the Misfit app before you start in with the Link app, as I described above.

Even after the restore procedure mentioned in the reviews, now it just shows me how I pressed it (one tap, two taps, three taps, long press, with relevant light feedback). Appears to sync with the activity tracker properly now, but the device wont show my progress or the clock, just the above.

Set up process is much smoother now. The app no longer blocks me out if I linked my device to another account. I wish I could have the time and progress in my music mode though.

Awesome to control the world

This is app is useless on my iPad, just because I need higher version of Bluetooth?? F--- Apple and misfit. Dont bother!

Seems to work with misfit app smoothly. Cool!

My Ray worked with this app wonderfully until I added a Bolt. Then the Bluetooth started dropping for my Ray (and only for my Ray) constantly, causing it to sync inconsistently and rendering the integration with the Misfit Home app (to operate the Bolt via the Ray) essentially useless. The Home app doesnt work as advertised either. Misfit products are sleek and sexy. Its a shame they dont work. Ive had endless problems with their products and every app update seems to break two things in exchange for every one thing they fix. This uselessness makes the also seem expensive. Misfit tech support is cheerful and friendly but since fixes are low in results you end up feeling like theyre just smiling at you while they make empty promises. I wouldnt recommend buying any Misfit products until it can be said that they work.

You cant control your Misfit Bolts with the Misfit Ray using this app. It causes the Misfit Ray to lose Bluetooth connection to your phone. Needs to be corrected immediately.

Forced to download because the flash is bugged: would only turn up volume doing nothing else

I have the misfit flash and I love all the improvements.