Awesome Quantified Self

Carefully curated list of awesome Quantified Self resources.

The Quantified Self is a movement to incorporate technology into data acquisition on aspects of a person's daily life in terms of inputs (e.g. food consumed, quality of surrounding air), states (e.g. mood, arousal, blood oxygen levels), and performance (mental and physical).

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Websites and Resources
Applications and Platforms
Devices and Wearables
Research and Data Analysis
Open Source Projects

Websites and Resources

Quantified Self - Official website.
Flowing Data - Self surveillance and quantification news.
Biohack Stack - Biohacker community with "stacks" of famous scientists.
Wearables Database - Awesome list of wearables available per body part.
Wearables Table - Nice crowd-sourced table of wearables.
Wolfram Connected Devices Project - IoT and Quantified Self device list.
Quantified Self Institute - Quantified Self research and innovation projects.
Biomindmap - Database of interventions from research studies with a network viz option.

Articles & Blogs

The Personal Analytics of My Life by Stephen Wolfram - Stephen Wolfram explores the data he has collected on the use of his time.
Measured Me - Personal experiment in self-quantification and self-optimization.
Lifestream Blog - Social data aggregation, lifelogging, Quantified Self and digital legacy.
Quantified Bob - Follow one guy's quest for self knowledge, betterment, and optimization through experimentation and personal analytics.
Shadow of the Stream - Quantified Self, lifelogging, journaling, education.
QS on Medium - Quantified Self posts on Medium.
QS on Venture Beat - Quantified Self articles on Venture Beat.
QS on Wired - Quantified Self articles on Wired.com.
QS on LiveScience - Quantified Self articles on LiveScience.
Gwern - Esoteric blog which includes blinded self-experiments & Quantified Self analyses amongst other topics.
beepb00p - Writing about Quantified Self, owning the data and building the infrastructure.
QS Experiments - Science-based approach for Quantified Self, sharing raw data and analysis, modelling physical processes, health trackers comparison and analysis.

Books

Your life, uploaded: The digital way to better memory, health, and productivity (2010) - Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell
The Quantified Self (2016) - Deborah Lupton
Self-Tracking (2016) - Gina Neff & Dawn Nafus
Everyday Data Science (2021) - Andrew N Carr (cheaper PDF version)

Talks

Ted Talk: The Quantified Self - Ted talk by Gary Wolf on the Quantified Self movement.
Tedx Talk: Wearable Tech Expands Human Potential - Lauren Costantini explores what it means to be human in the age of the Quantified Self.
Don't Unplug!!! How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too - A keynote by Chris Dancy ("the Most Connected Man on Earth") in which he explores how technology helped him become a better person by paying attention to the data he collected about his life.

Applications and Platforms

Fitness

Runkeeper - Outdoor fitness activity tracker (iOS & Android).
Endomondo - Sport and health statistics tracker (iOS & Android).
Runtastic - Running, cycling, and fitness GPS tracker (iOS & Android).
Strava - Athletic activity tracking and social network.
Gym Hero - Track workouts, strength training and other fitness exercise (iOS, Web)
OpenTracks - Privacy-respecting offline-capable fitness activity tracker (Android).

Places & Travel

RoadGoat - Travel tracking, automated integrations with many platforms listed here (Web).
Swarm - Point of interest auto-checkins via GPS (iOS & Android).
Arc - Track your movements and places visited via GPS (iOS).

Aggregators & Dashboards

Memento Labs - Personalized health and wellness action plans using wearables & A/B testing.
Apple Health - Multi-purpose tracking platform for Apple devices. Tracks activities, sleep, nutrition, mindfulness, and other metrics.
Google Fit - Open ecosystem to store, access, and manage fitness data (Android).
Gyroscope - Quantified Self health dashboard (web, iOS, & Android).
Exist - Track everything in one place (web, iOS & Android).
Zenobase - Store, aggregate and visualize your data from multiple 3rd party sources (web).
Vital - Plaid like widget that joins together all your fitness data, wearables data and at home lab tests.
Validic - Cloud-based platform that connects patient-recorded data from digital health applications, devices, and wearables.
FitnessSyncer - Joins health and fitness data into a single centralized platform.
IoTool - Smartphone IoT platform for automation and data collection.
Tictrac - Dashboard for health and fitness data (web).
QS Access - Export Apple Health data into CSV table format (iOS).
KeepTrack - Multi-purpose tracker (Android).
BiomarkerDash - Simple dashboard to visualize trends in bloodwork biomarkers.

Automation

Tasker - Automation and event triggering app (Android).
Apple Shortcuts - Powerful automation app (iOS).
If This Then That (IFTTT) - Awesome conditional automation platform.
Zapier - Automate tasks between apps.

Data Collection

AskMeEvery - Automated data entry through email or text questions.
Reporter - Tracking app that collects data through random surveys (iOS).
Logsit - Quantified self and lifelogging app to track the things you've done (iOS).
LifeMetrics - Daily questionnaires and automatically generated wellness insights (iOS).
Reflect - Tracking app with customizable forms and data insights (iOS).

Diet

MyFitnessPal - Food tracking and diet plan app (iOS & Android).
Fat Secret - Calorie counter and diet tracker for weight loss (iOS & Android).
Calorie Counter - Nutritional database and calorie counting app (iOS & Android).
Cronometer - Food, activity, and biometric tracker (iOS & Android).
Zero - A simple fasting tracker used for intermittent, circadian rhythm, and custom fasting (iOS & Android).
Vora - Fasting tracker (iOS & Android).
Bitesnap - Image based food logging app powered by computer vision (iOS & Android).
Coffee It - Record Caffeine intake, with database inside & Apple Health sync. (iOS)
HiCoffee - Super efficient caffeine tracker app with Apple Watch support (iOS and Apple Watch).
Nutriely - Food and nutrition tracking, diary. Focusing on detailed micro and vitamin breakdown. (Web)

Goals

GoalsOnTrack - Web-based goal setting and tracking software (iOS & Android).
Lifetick - Online goal tracking platform.
stickK - Goal tracking with a monetary commitment.
Beeminder - Goal tracking with a monetary commitment. Integrates with many devices and apps.
Taskade - Simple and sharable tasks, checklists, and notes. (Web, iOS & Android).

Habits

Habitica - A habit tracking app which treats your goals like a role playing game (Web, iOS & Android).
HabitBull - A simple mobile habit tracking app to build and track streaks (iOS & Android).
Strides - App to track your goals, habits and projects with SMART goal setting (Web, iOS).
Habit List - Create good habits, break bad ones, build a better you (iOS).
Streaks - The to-do list that helps you form good habits (iOS).
Taskade - Modern task lists that syncs across all your devices. (Web, iOS, Android, Chrome, Mac and PC).
Productive - Habits and daily goals tracker with flexible scheduling, reminders and data export (iOS).
Everyday - Simple and beautiful habit tracker for the Web, iOS and Android. Has a web extension to add it to your browser's new tab.
Emoji Log - Track habits without streaks using emoji.
Conjure - Habits, goals and time tracker with rules engine, data layer, API, dashboards and more. (Web, Desktop, iOS, Android).

Health

AlcDroid - Alcohol consumption tracking and BAC calculation app that offers various statistics regarding your drinking behavior (Android).
CureTogether - Health self tracking and collaborative network.
Symple - Symptom journal and health tracker (iOS).

Heart

Cardiio - Touchless heart rate monitor (iOS).
Instant Heart Rate - Fast and accurate mobile heart rate monitor (iOS, Android, Windows).
HRV4Training - Track Heart Rate Variability, Stress, and other contextual data points using your smartphone camera and receive personalized advice to optimize your health and training (iOS, Android).
Welltory - The go-to health app that lets users track their heart rate variability, stress, and energy levels, along with aggregated health and fitness analytics from different wearable devices and apps.

Media Consumption

Goodreads - Lets users track and rate books and network with other readers (Web, iOS, Android).
HistoryHound - Searchable cross-browser history database that can be exported as HTML (MacOS).
Last.fm - Track the music you listen to by scrobbling via desktop and mobile apps or by connecting to music services (Web, iOS, Android).
Trakt - Automatically track TV & movies you're watching (Web, Media Players).
Pocket - Lets you save articles to read later (Web, iOS, Android).
PhotoStats - Photo tracking with visualizations, analytics and auto-tagging using machine learning (iOS, Android).
WordCounter - Word count tracker for writers (Mac).
Podcast Tracker - Lets you log, aggregate and export your podcast listening history (Web).

Mind & Cognition

Cambridge Brain Sciences - Scientifically proven tools for the assessment of cognitive function.
Quantified Mind - Tests and experiments to quantify cognitive abilities.

Mood

MoodCast - Keep track of your daily mood & activities (Android).
Daylio - Capture your day without writing down a single line. Exportable data with Premium Version. (iOS & Android).
MoodNotes - Capture your feelings with a modifiable smiling or frowning face. Exportable data. (iOS and Apple Watch).
MoodPanda - One of the oldest moodtrackers available online. Rate your mood and share to support. Exportable data. Sync and extend via API (Web, iOS, Android).
MoodJam - Track your moods with colors. (Web only).
iMoodJournal - Mood Tracking on a 10-point scale from Really great to Couldn't be worse. Exportable data. (Android, iOS, Apple Watch).
Perspective - Journaling to captures Thoughts, Moods, and Interests with the goal of helping you reflect and find perspective. (iOS).
Moods by Mokriya - Quick track your mood as good, okay or bad. Specify feelings using a word cloud. No data export option. (iOS, Apple Watch).

Sleep

Sleep as Android - Full featured sleep tracker with wearable integration (Android).
SleepBot - Smart alarm and sleep tracker (iOS & Android).
Sleep Cycle - Intelligent alarm clock and sleep tracker (iOS & Android).
Pillow - Track your sleep from your Apple Watch or iPhone (iOS).