Hexis Live

I have been using the Hexis app for about one month. I started using the app to help me fuel and recover from my cycling workouts, with the added goal to lose weight. I am training for the Ride Across Portugal in May 2024. At 63 I am trying to be as professional in my preparation as possible. Hexis is helping me do this effectively and effortlessly. For Australia, a small improvement could be to update the food bank choices, but that’s it. Can highly recommend the app if you are serious about achieving you full potential. Peter

The idea is good and worked for the first day, although froze a few times. Now not showing me any information and isn’t working at all. Probably best not waste you money.

Great for personalised nutrition planning! TrainingPeaks integration makes a massive difference and very simple to use.

What’s promised and what’s delivered are 2 very different experiences.

This app has given me back structure. It has made aware of what high/medium and low carb is. Really enjoying navigating this resource.

…But not quite there yet. It does look pretty nice, but it‘s slightly clunky to use, a little laggy, and a bit buggy. For example, I have to quit the app to get Live Energy to update to the current time. Integration with Apple Health is a big step forwards. But it would be great to have integration directly with Garmin. Maybe syncing with a food tracker like MyFitnessPal, because food tracking in Hexis is pretty painful at the moment. Also, in-app recipes would be amazing… Some way to export data or take a deeper dive into the data outside of the app (as with Garmin Connect) would be much appreciated and I feel should be a given considering subscription price. The tech and thinking underpinning the app is terrific, though. So hopefully Hexis will continue to develop and improve as time goes on.

I really like the idea of this app, as compared to other nutrition apps it provides guidance and takes out a lot of the personal work on the best fuelling strategy. However, understandably with it being a new product, there is a good bit of work to do yet to get it up to scratch. My feedback after a couple of week’s use is as follows, and in order of priority (from my perspective): Provide nutrition requirements for exercise (eg for a moderate 4 hour bike ride aim for 1g/kg/hour) currently the in-exercise fuelling requirements seem to just be accounted for in the surrounding meals. Provide more granular nutrition rather than 4/5 meals - I tend to spread my snacks across the day rather than at distinct points and this currently makes the live energy graph irrelevant. Provide quick & easy meal/snack ideas - sometimes the target calories/carb ratios feel difficult to achieve, so in all examples would help give an idea of what to eat to achieve. A lot of recipes provide require a lot of preparation (baking, etc). Fix bugs (ie live energy chart is never at current time). Fix Apple health integration and add more integrations (TrainingPeaks for workout schedule, Fitbit, etc). Make frequently food entries also the frequent quantity.

A cycling magazine rated the app, it looked convincing but so far it’s a poor experience. Visually it’s slick but regular freezes and seeming bugs make the app painful to use. The (Beta) Apple Health connection doesn’t seem to work and the GUI hides links under buttons. I go around in circles trying to update my weight, just doesn’t save it nor does the new integration harvest the data from Health app. Trying to change settings in the app tells you to use the web dashboard but the app offers no way of going there or if you log into the account through a browser there’s virtually no settings to adjust and you’re pointed to the ‘better mobile experience’ of the app — a joke, incredibly frustrating. There seem to be no easy app support links, perhaps they’re too obvious. I feel really gullible for signing up for the subscription, what was going through my brain! Naturally I expected I’d have to learn how to use the app but so far the experience has been a total letdown in terms of reliability, ease-of-use and user-friendliness. I’m going to try uninstalling and reinstalling the app again but really it’s a pretty poor showing so far. Update: reinstalling seems to make the app more responsive, it hasn’t frozen so far but the rest of my comments still stand. Can I have my money back please? Apart from setting up my account I haven’t actually used Hexis for anything.

This app has completely transformed my performance. The app easy to use and doesn’t over complicate things. It’s definitely helped me understand more about my body and how to fuel correctly. When using the app I’ve found my recovery has improved significantly, I’m consistently hitting workout targets. Thank you Hexis!

The insights offered by Hexis is useful for any active person, from fitness enthusiast up to elite athlete. New features are being added all the time that make understanding fuelling and implementing good nutrition strategies even easier. I’m really looking forward to the introduction of a nutrition/food database so that training and nutrition can be tracked together in one place.