Upright GO 2 Premium | Posture Trainer & Tracker for Women & Men with Smart App

I'm hesitant to write this review since I've only been using it for a month now, but I think there is more than enough improvement to do so. I want to mention that this may sound like a glowing review. It is in no way sponsored. Just my experience, and I am very happy with it. TLDR: It very much worked for me. This review is longer than I wanted but I think has useful info. It is broken up into how it affected me, and then the device itself at the bottom. --------- Effect: I've had neck issues for many years now. Part of it is a C3 neck issue and part is from being on the computer a vast majority of my day. It feels like a clamp was attached to my traps. My doctor says they are muscle spasms. I knew my posture was off both standing and sitting. I have tried many solutions such as a chiropractor, TENS, door traction, the foam neck wraps, and even the neck immobilizers. The latter works well, but is constricting for daily use and can weaken muscles. I can say that after a month of use, this has seriously improved my posture and alleviated the huge amount of my pain. I am honestly surprised. I notice that I am now sitting in an upright position rather than a bit of a slouch. I want to mention that this does not detect slouching backwards in a chair. However, since I'm more conscious about my posture, I find myself correcting that too. The bonus is that you can lean back in a chair without it incorrectly going off. After the first week of use, my neck started feeling a little sore as if I had worked out slightly. This was different from my normal neck pain. Then my upper back started feeling like that. Then my neck again. I am 90% sure this was because I was getting back into the correct position and putting more load on the muscles that should have been used. As of right now, a huge amount of my pain is gone. I am so much more aware of when I get into a bad position. Since my neck pain is no longer taking so much of my concentration, I find I am working on my other pains such as extending my arm too much when using the mouse. There are times when I am very tired and I realize I am leaning forward, and the device alerts me. Sometimes I will think that I'm fine to not wear it. But most of the time I think better of it and wear it. Then I am surprised that it notifies me that I am indeed out of alignment. Now I'm better about wearing it consistently. All of that to say, I am actually surprised how well it works and would recommend it. --------- Device: The device itself is small and lightweight. I often don't even realize I'm wearing it. I have the necklace that attaches to it instead of using the adhesive because I was removing it so often and the adhesive doesn't work well with sweat. The case does have a nice raised bump surface, so when putting device in the case, it will extend the life of the adhesive sticker for reuse. The adhesive is easy to pull off and feels like the same type of gel sticker that TENS pads use. The review for the necklace will be on that that product's page. I really don't even notice it is there because it fits between my shoulder blades and it is flat and gradually rounded. I notice less now that I'm not rounding my shoulders. It comes with an app that is easy to use. It shows the settings of the device and a circle indicating the posture it is detecting. It also has other useful items like tips and stretches. When the user is out of position, it will give a small two pulse vibration and then wait a little bit and do it again. The app has the option to set how long it waits to notify the user they are out of position. I've kept it on a 15 second delay. The battery life has been about the 60 hour claim that they make. What I do not like is that it has a light on it that is blinks on and off every couple of seconds, even when wearing it. My concern is that the blinking will show through my shirt. However, a workaround is to put something opaque like electrical tape over the light. When I put it on, I do often have to calibrate it, which makes sense. Possible Improvements: The vibrations can be a little confusing when turning it on, but not a big deal. For instance, when turning on it is a short vibration. However, that feels like the same vibration as when the notification is disable. Enabling the notification is a longer vibration. So when I turn it on, I press it, feel the vibration, press again to see if I feel the long vibration. If not, press it again. Not a huge deal, but something that should be improved. I mention this because there have been several times that I disabled the notification and wondered why I hadn't felt anything in a while.

About 15 months ago, I came out of an 8-hour-long surgery with significant pain. An old injury, plus decades of stress, non-treatment via telemedicine, and medical arrogance by so-called "professionals" put me on a path where I just had to live with the pain. We chased the problem, going from one specialist to another for over a year. When we finally made it to physical therapy I had the fortune of getting a P/T who wasn't just a credentialed idiot. He pegged my posture as a contributing factor that was aggravating the damage to my neck and back. Since I felt significantly better after the P/T because we were working on my posture doing the exercises, I decided to look into something to help with posture. I didn't think braces and straighteners would work because those pull down on the shoulder and my shoulder muscles are already too strong. They would pull up agains the pressure, making them stronger, the opposite of what I was doing in P/T, which was dropping the shoulders when they pulled up. So I decided to try the Upright GO because if it didn't work, I could always send it back. As someone who spends significant time in front of a computer, I had already tried all sorts of ergonomic solutions, including an expensive chair and a standing desk. While these helped, I was still limiting my time in front of the computer to 20 minutes and lots of breaks. This significantly impacted my ability to work and get things done and I fell woefully behind. I also noticed that when stress increased no amount of stretching, P/T, gadgets, or standing instead of sitting helped. My back and neck would not only clench, but spasm. My migraines were so frequent that there were weeks where I could not get anything done. The first day of wearing this was very interesting. The device kept going off again and again. I had no idea, no awareness, of how much I was slouching, pulling forward, and tensing up. I could not feel what I was doing. It's like my body had a mind of its own and I was not in control of it. I almost gave up on using the device because the interruptions were not letting me concentrate, but --and this is the important part-- my pain was significantly reduced. The space between my shoulder blades was very sore, but my neck and back weren't contorting themselves into spasms that made me see stars. I wore the Upright GO 96 minutes the first day (more than the recommended 60 minutes) but I could see that it was already making a difference. Up until we had to travel and experience the joys of hotel beds, convention chairs, and airline "service" I was doing significantly better. I had a bit of a setback because of the travel, but I shudder to think at how much worse it would have been without it. Because when you're tired and can't rest, it gets harder and harder to maintain correct posture. This poor little thing was buzzing its little heart out the entire time. Nevertheless, I wore it most of the day. It was pricier than some of the other solutions out there, but I would buy it again. Why? Because it doesn't rely on downward pressure which I would have inadvertently fought all day, making my problem worse. Today, about a week and a half after I started wearing it, I adjusted the upright ranged from 5 to 4 (a stricter range). I like the iOS app and it's interface. It lets me set things up and turn the device on or off. It lets me recalibrate if it's too strict when I get tired so that I don't go back to slouching all the time even if I can't quite keep sitting/standing as straight as I should. My P/T is thinking of doing a case study because he says he's never seen anything like it. Yay. Go me!

I just received my Upright Go2. I ordered the Upright Go2 with the "UPRIGHT GO | Smart Wearable Posture Trainer, Adhesive Replacement Pack, 10 Count" ($99 + $10), using a single button the Upright Go2 page. So, a few things: - the adhesives included in the Adhesive replacement pack are NOT the same kind that came with the Upright Go2. - adhesives arrived first, in giant plastic envelope (what a waste). Why do I need the adhesives first? And why not ship it with the device itself? And why ship the old adhesives when I am purchasing the new Go2 device??? First impressions: there is excessive packaging on the Upright Go2, like Russian nesting dolls. There is a lot of paper packaging, without clear directions on how to use it. I mean: after Apple has already created the blue-print on how to mass-produce fairy sophisticated electronics with minimal packaging and very little instructions, I don't see the need for a lot of papers and packaging (with little useful info). In the main device package, there are 10 adhesives, and 6 alcohol pads. In the replacement (which, once again, is for Upright Go1), there are 10 adhesives and 10 alcohol pads. Description for usage "Use the alcohol pads to clean the the adhesives and / or your skin before use"? WTF? And/ or? Should I be cleaning the adhesive, or my skin? And if both, I need 2 pads. And 10 adhesives x 2 pads = 20. But you are sending me 6? Then they have this guitar pick-like thing which is called, "Adhesive removal tool". Here is the description: "Use it to peel off your old adhesive when replacing it with a new one". So I need to scrape my skin to remove this thing? Really???? OK, so I need to use the guitar pick to remove the adhesive. Now, a question arises: how often do I need to remove the adhesive? In the "About the adhesives" section it says, "With proper maintenance, each adhesive can be used about 3-10 times, depending on your skin type". Wow, so I re-use the same adhesive 10 times? And each time, I need to scrape off my skin using the guitar pick? And then put the icky thing back again on my back. 9 more times? Seriously? Or do I have to keep the adhesive on for 9 more sessions? Either way seems poor hygiene. I mean, do you know how much research you need to determine if 3-10 wears might cause either an allergic reaction, or bacterial infection? They also say, "Make sure your skin is <b>clean and dry</b> before using the GO 2. Use the provided alcohol pads to clean skin. So, I use each adhesive 3-10 times, and for a total of 10 adhesives, I need to have 30 to 100 alcohol swabs, but you are only sending me 6 to get started. Got cha. Now, I have not even gotten to the skin type. Let's say, hypothetically, I have bad skin. Like my skin is not clear like a mirror (like I have bumps, or whatever), and let's just say I have some hair. What do I do? Do I need a Brazilian wax before I can use Upright Go? Should I visit the local Immediate / Urgent care center after each time I poke my skin with the guitar pick to remove the adhesive? Well, in my view, and reasonable product, when it arrives to you and is ready to be used is worth exactly 3 stars (average). Depending on one's experience with it, it may go up or down to anywhere between 1 and 5 stars. As it stands, the best thing about Upright Go is that it can climb up from an absolute hole of 1 stars. So that is the best thing about Upright go right now. I promise to update my review as I find more (positive) aspects of this device. The good news is: there is zero chance that my star rating is going down. After a couple of days of usage, this is what I notice: - the tracker is highly sensitive to the placement location. Place a bit high, close to the hair-line, and it things you are slouching like all the time. Place lower, and it's statistics completely change, - also, as I use the tracker, I get this annoying alerts in the app, where it appears like someone is making suggestions. In reality, these are canned answers that are given to you on an unsolicited basis. Very annoying.

I am impressed with the device and its ability to subtely remind the user to maintain good posture. The calibration is simple to do and you can position the device on your back to best mointor your cause of bad posture. I play around with positioning the unit to my needs and it does a good job buzzing me when my posture is poor. It is a very good reminder system. The functionality of the device deserves five stars. I gave it three stars though given the chariging issues. It comes with a special USB-C to USB-C cable as a regular USB-C cable does not to work. Also, it can only accept a low voltage charge. Supposively it will charge from a computer port, but not on my computer and not with any of the USB-C charging adapters I have. I read online that people had success charging using a USB-A to USB-C cable. So, I dug through my desk and fortunately found one, and it does slowly charge the device.

This has become a must have. Anyone looking to correct posture and relieve tension headaches and muscle spasms from poor posture. Better than shoulder braces. Light and comfortable. I only feel it when its working to correct bad posture. Sticks securely and easily covered by shirt for discretion. I sleep like a shark in a feeding frenzy and this device managed to stay on all night. I spend over 10 hours a day working on a pc and this has changed my life for the better. I bought it with skepticism but I know it was the right decision to purchase. Bonus feature it tracks activity if thats important to you.

I bought this device on Nov. 2023. I have to mention that I bought this to help my handicap brother to get a better posture. He is the survivor of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and has physical and cognitive disabilities as a result. One of them is the difficulty to walk straight. He doesn't seem to know where the vertical line of walking is. Hence, he walks really bended and/or hunched and he thinks he is walking straight ! (?). I didn't have many expectations for this purchase. I had tried many other things in the past to help my brother with this problem with no avail. The reviews looked good though, so I decided to give it a try. First I have to say that setting up the device was almost a deal breaker. That's why I am giving it 3 stars. I was about to return it but I persisted. What happened is that after charging the device, I tried to pair it with the phone that my brother uses (Android). I installed the App and followed the instructions. Things seemed to be working all right until the App in the phone informed me that the device needed to be upgraded with the latest software version, that I should wait a few minutes. This is where things went very wrong. I was just getting a steady violet light indicating the update was taking place, but then the light started blinking and I was informed that the update failed, that I should try again. I did try a few times with exactly the same result: "update failed". I couldn't use the device at all. Great start ! I looked at the website of the manufacturer to see if there was some information regarding this problem. Nothing. The only thing I found was an email address for customer service. I sent an email explaining the problem. I was very annoyed though. These things should work flawlessly on installation. This is just basic product testing, WTH? I was thinking about returning the device but I persisted. I am a software engineer myself so I figured I could try to find a workaround. I installed the App on my iPhone and tried to install and update the device from there. Things worked out all right. After a few hiccups here and there I finally managed to have the device paired to my brother's phone, phew ! After that things worked all right. The device does a decent job at detecting the vertical line and signals that with a cartoon picture in "green" on the App. You get off the vertical a few degrees and that cartoon like figure shows "red" and a bit bended. You can also configure a vibration to happen if you are off the vertical. In the case of my handicap brother, the vibration didn't help much. Even in at max intensity he couldn't feel the vibration (side effects of TBI). But the cartoon visual feedback was helpful. My brother compensates many of his handicaps with his visual abilities. He has become very visual oriented. So looking at the real time representation of himself, the cartoon figure, helped him correct his posture. I had to put the phone in front of his path for this to happen though. I know, this is not a workable solution for a continuous day training. Nonetheless, this gave my brother the opportunity to know where the vertical was for the 30-60 minutes we trained a day. No miracles to report here. My brother still keeps walking bended if he doesn't have the feedback from the App. But at least he now has some time during the day when he tries hard to walk straight and that's an improvement. One I am grateful for ! I know that this device wasn't probably designed for cases like my brother but I am happy to report that there is a use case for this demography. There are millions of TBI survivors out there that might find the device useful. For therapy of training. Also senior citizens and other people with physical disabilities might find some use. Maybe some redesign is needed to address the special needs of these people but I see potential here. My last words are just minor bug reports and a major feature request: Bugs: 0) The app asks for pairing the device from time to time even when things are just working fine? 1) The cartoon figure freezes sometimes, gets out of sync and/or displays the status with the wrong colors: Green while bended, red while straight? This doesn't happen often though. 2) I decided to do the pairing before wearing the device. It seemed to me that the App takes longer to find the device if this is under the clothes? VERY BIG Feature Request: 0) For the case of my brother it would be "fantastic" if you could get the cartoon-like posture feedback projected on one of those new "smart-glasses". Basically, port the current App visual feedback to any of the smart-glass platforms available right now. Like that, my brother would be able to get feedback about his posture without me carrying the phone with the App ahead of his path. Then, he would be able to get this valuable feedback the whole day, if he wishes. I am sure, other people would benefit from this feature, ;-). That's all folks !

Realistic working mans review -- I'm 6'2" and have had a slouch for many years because everything in life is about 2" too low to reach comfortably with good posture. I've tried the posture correcting shoulder strap brace things and they work to remind you for about 30 minutes and then you forget they're there and slouch through them until 4 hours pass and they start to be highly uncomfortable. I am an active outdoorsman and handyman/contractor for a living so I was hesitant to try this GO that appeared to be designed for a desk jockey. I finally figured the high price (IMHO) was worth a shot. In short, it IS designed for a desk worker and has its limitations, but, it has still helped correct my posture better than any other method I've tried. Yes, it can be annoying sometimes when you're doing a task that involves frequent bending over or working under a truck or checking fittings under a sink. Easy solution! When you get annoyed, switch it to tracking and the buzzing stops. When that job is done, switch to training again and let your body continue to learn correct posture on the drive home or throughout your evening. I stick mine on right out of my morning shower almost every day and it says there completely unobtrusively all day long! I disliked the adhesive idea when ordering and thought for sure I would order the necklace upgrade, but I must say I am extremely impressed with how well the adhesives work! I am about a month into wearing it and only on my SECOND pad! I've been told I'm a rather oily person even. I use the alcohol pads on the sticky every time I take it off and it's good for another whole day. (I started using rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab which is cheaper...) There are exceptions to the whole day stick when I sweat hard in the sun. I usually leave it off when it falls off on those days, clean it, and start over the next day. Can't win them all... I think the programming and app work fantastic for what it is. You have to understand that all that this thing is is an accelerometer that measures unit angle relative to earth plumb. With that basic technology, there is obvious limitations. If you plan to be swinging a pick or cutting up trees all day long, don't even bother wearing it. It will be buzzing all day and you already know there's nothing you can do better for your posture... One thing I like is that if you slouch far enough (like tying your shoe, or lying down) it does not buzz at you. All the the angles and thresholds and timers and buzzing patterns can be configured in the easy to navigate app to tailor the experience for you. Unfortunately, I have caught myself in the habit of slouching more than I normally would when working sometimes to keep the angle below the buzzing threshold, which is not good but something to be aware of. I also have very sensitive skin (or lots of hair or something) and am very aware of anything touching me so I thought this sticker would drive me nuts. After the first 10 minutes of wearing it, I completely forgot about it! The battery lasts about 2 full days which is impressive. The included case I thought was stupid at first, but quickly realized how nice it is to keep the adhesive clean when you're charging it, or packing it along somewhere. The upshot -- The most effective slouch tool available right now Requires some attention and consideration to be effective Wear it on the weekends and days you're just around the office and leave it at home on highly physical days. Wear it a few days a week and you will surely become continually aware of your posture! Great battery Fantastic adhesive performance Highly customizable Non-obtrusive The whole goal of this product is to remind you of your lousy posture so often that being aware of your slouch is constantly on your mind, even when you take the GO off. This does that very well! Absolutely worth the price of nearly $100 I highly recommend the GO 2 to anyone!

I wanted so badly to love this. The concept is exactly what I needed for my child, whose PT said they had completed all their posture strength training and now just needed to remember to straighten up, and I can NOT spend all day nagging my child to straighten up. So I bought this with tons of optimism after reading many positive reviews all over the web. Right out of the box, it was fantastic. Did exactly what it was supposed to. Connected immediately. Was very effective. For about a week. Then it needed to be charged, and would not charge. Did not seem to notice it was plugged in at all. I tried different chargers, different outlets, turning it on and off and whatever but it wouldn't connect. When I got a reply from customer service, it said I had to be using specifically the charger that came with it (looked like any other usb-c but ok?) and specifically plugged into a computer (what?) I tried that and it still didn't work. Replied with photo and video evidence of such. Got no answer. Kept trying. Eventually I gave up and decided to return it via Amazon, since it was getting close to the end of the return window. Amazon replaced it quickly and easily. This one was willing to charge fine (not with their charger in my computer. Only with my regular usb-c wall charger. But it did charge) However, it refused to connect with the app. I think the app might still have been looking for the old one to connect with? But it didn't seem to have any option to help it forget that. I tried uninstalling it, restarting my phone, reinstalling... I reached out to customer service again, got a list of troubleshooting tips, none of them worked. Thus started another round of trying to reply to them and getting no useful answers back. I got the same troubleshooting tips a few times. I got long periods of silence. Most of all, I got answers that were clearly straight out of AI (my guess is chatGPT by the style but it's possible they came up with something else) and did not even read the earlier emails. For example, they still thought I was talking about the charging issue long after I'd moved onto that. It is seemingly impossible to get an actual human who actually knows anything about their product to actually help with the actual problem. It's super frustrating and very circular. I think I'll have to return the second unit as well and I'm not sure whether to keep trying because this seems to be the exact product I need, and plenty of people seem to be doing fine with it, and there doesn't seem to be anything else like it. Maybe someone at their office will see this and wake up and take over from the AI bot. examples pasted straight from the emails, no human talks like this: You're absolutely right—I apologize. Diana asked for the order number, you provided it, and then I asked for something different. That's exactly the kind of poor communication and lack of continuity you've been experiencing, and it's unacceptable. I'm sorry. you're sorry and yet you continue to not answer my emails and not address my issue and I still have no working device a month and a half after my first order

Device works well, I lIke the tracking aspect of it. As for maintaining the device it I easy to use, when cleaning 5he sticker it can be used more than once and yes the scraping tool is used to get the sticker of the device not your skin as another review mentioned. It is stated in the manual how to use it. I used it during snow shoeing, it stayed on. Great additional tool for retraining ones posture. I also use a back pod and physio.

This review should help you. I was skeptical too. The device DOES work and it will help you adjust your posture, train your back and also strengthen your core muscles. The app gives you many settings so you can select your vibration, its strength, length, etc. The one problem are these adhesives. And yes, they do only last 3 days (one adhesive). I solved that. Once the adhesive loses its grip, I added some double-side tape on it and it worked perfectly - for many more days. Once that was also used up, you add another strip of double-side tape. And it will go for months. I found it works best if the tape is put on top of the used up adhesive, not straight on the device. Overall, I do advise this product, it actually does help.

Muy bueno! me funciona genial

This is a great gadget to remind you to sit or stand up straight. Very simple to use. You get a vibration when you slouch which you can set from a tiny vibration to a fairly big one. You can also adjust settings for how much you slouch and how long for. One sticker lasts for weeks on me. I do have the necklace too which is better, but I only use it if I am wearing something where it doesn't show.

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