Discovery

The Discovery app provides a convenient way to access your information

Discovery

App stats

Version: 2024.11.01.0 (Last updated: 2024-12-02)
Creation date: 2012-08-17
Permissions
Device & app history: retrieve running apps
Calendar: read calendar events plus confidential information, add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Phone: directly call phone numbers, read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • access Bluetooth settings
  • connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
  • full network access
  • change your audio settings
  • run at startup
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • read Google service configuration

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App summary

Discovery Health:
Check the details of your Discovery Health Plan benefits and Medical Savings Account. View your most recent healthcare service claim details, search through 12 months’ claims, view your approved cover for chronic conditions and track benefit usage. Search for a healthcare professional and view your health record. Compare the prices of medicines and their generic alternatives and view a summary of hospital claims.

Some of the Discovery Health features include:
• Care Programmes for managing chronic conditions
• The Emergency assist feature for quick access to emergency care
• Tools for tracking, managing and uploading health records
• Tools for mental health support, counselling services and addiction recovery programmes
• Medicine tracker to manage prescribed medicine

Discovery Vitality:
See your Vitality points and status, track your Vitality Active Rewards goal and more.

Some of the Vitality features include:
• Activity and fitness: Tracking steps, speed and heart rate
• Nutrition and weight management: Vitality HealthyWeight
• Sleep management: Tracking your sleep
• Stress management, relaxation, mental acuity: Tracking mindfulness

DiscoveryCard:
View your transactions, account balance and last statement, as well as your Discovery Miles, smart shopper points or cashback balance.

Discovery Insure:
View your policy details, view your Vitality Drive points, status and other driving information, and request emergency assistance. Take a picture of your car after an accident and send it to us to start the claims process. Search for the nearest bp service station or Tiger Wheel & Tyre outlet. Link your Gautrain card to get up to 50% of your spend back. Request a personal driver or taxi service.

Discovery Life:
View all your policy information.

Discovery Invest:
View your portfolio, including fund balances, and request to have a relevant document emailed to you.

Members of the following medical schemes will also have access to their scheme information: MMED, Naspers, LA Health, Tsogo, TFG, Quantum, Remedi, Anglovaal, Retail Medical Scheme, UKZN, BMW, Malcor, Wits and SABMAS.

The application is available for anyone to download, but you have to be a Discovery member with at least one active Discovery product and must register on the Discovery website (www.discovery.co.za) before you can log in to the Discovery app. You will use the same username and password for this app as for the Discovery website.

If you are not registered on the Discovery website, visit https://www.discovery.co.za/portal/individual/register to register.

To find out how we use the device features requested in the permissions, visit https://www.discovery.co.za/portal/individual/discovery-app-permissions

For known issues and current system status, visit https://www.discovery.co.za/portal/individual/help

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
    Cons
    • Terrible user interface and navigation
    • Frequent crashes and loading issues
    • Inability to sync with external health apps (Samsung Health, Strava)
    • Authentication errors and login problems
    • Bugs that hinder earning rewards and claiming functionalities
    Most mentioned
    • Poor user experience and unfriendly interface
    • Technical difficulties and bugs
    • Inability to access desired functionalities
    • Frustration with app performance and stability
    • Poor integration with external apps
    User reviews
    Still the worst app I've used. Exercises don't sync which results in a streak break. Unless you constantly monitor the app and delink Samsung Health after every workout you are arbitrarily penalized only to receive a reply from costumer support to uninstall and reinstall the app. This is really demoralizing considering you have to pay for Vitality and the price of Medical aid increasing yet this app has never worked from day one.
    by Dewald Gouws, 2024-11-24

    Terrible user interface and terrible service. Never able to find anything quickly. Waste many hours between the app, website and customer care trying to find relevant information. Clearly Discovery's deliberate strategy is to keep us in the dark. Nothing can be this bad accidentally.
    by Ronelle Ward, 2024-11-23

    The app is very badly designed. It is not obvious where to navigate to get things done. I have to phone Discovery to "fix bugs" to get things done. There are two places to click to access Vitality and each has different functionality.
    by Mico Stander, 2024-11-20
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