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I don’t get it? Also almost all data is totally wrong.
I’ve used this app for several weeks now in conjunction with Sleep Cycle (which I’ve used off and on since 2009 and which has only gotten worse and worse with each “improvement”) and I still don’t understand what I’m supposed to get out of this. I have to manually add or correct almost every activity which is tedious and time consuming. It gets basically every location and amount of time spent there wrong, and somehow despite being linked with Sleep Cycle which I’ve been using every day along with this, it has totally different info about time spent sleeping. This last week it said my average time spent sleeping was more than any individual day in Sleep Cycle (and about three times as much as I actually slept on average. Now that it is finally giving me trends they’re extremely simplistic and uninteresting. Even worse, the much touted journal feature has an extremely short character limit that renders it essentially useless. I know I’m kind of wordy but there wasn’t a single event that I could even fully describe, let alone reflect on. Give this one a hard pass, it’s a total waste of time (and a lot of time, at that).Show lessAndrewHarbor
Good app, but adding integration with Apple automation would make it fantastic
I’ve been using for an entire year now and consider it indispensable. I’ve setup categories to track my project work, use my iWatch fitness app to track different workouts, use the notes to annotate places I visit.
The downside with the app has to do with the lack of integration with iPhone automation. There is no way to use automation to quickly log an Activity from my Home screen shortcut. Also, there is no easy way to automate filtering activities for a day and then say copy to the clipboard to create a status email. So, to get 5 stars, automation is a must criteria.
One minor pet peeve, with COVID-19 and having to stay home, it’s very annoying to see the message that my location hasn’t changed. Duh! I’m staying home. Please have an option to disable the warnings!Show lessBillramo
Not great for a home office
I work in property management out of a home office. Using the app was interesting at first so I subscribed to the premium version. I work & eat much of the time at the same place I sleep & watch TV. Eventually I got tired of making corrections. For example, if you go to a new place it will show in your “daily donut” as a space with a question mark. Since I work from home, it would show me working or sleeping 16 hours a day, for example. If I changed the start & end times to show an 8 hour work day, it would be nice if the other 8 eight hours would automatically show up as a space with a question mark. Instead, I have to go through the gyrations of adding an 8 hour event for sleep. Otherwise I have a 16 hour day! Not worth the trouble.Show lessWinghead55
Works okay but not as expected
It tracks time and location, but of course it relies on you to tell it what you’re doing at each time and location. The ads lead you to think this app learns your habits, but really it’s just relying on you to tell it everything you’re doing on a regular basis. I have used it over a week and I do not see how it will be helpful yet.
I was hoping it would have a more intelligent algorithm for behaviors but it is pretty plain overall. It shows that I had 8-14 hrs at home daily, but has no clue as to what I was doing during that time. So that is about half of my time overall where there is really no data to analyze or gain any insight from. It just says I spent 75 hrs at home this week.
The travel part is potentially the most helpful as it tells me my time on the road but doesn’t tell me how many miles of course. It’s not for the business consumer I do not think. More for the curious person with some time to spare. IMOShow lessklkaplan
Terrible customer service
I have used Life Cycle (and Northcube’s linked app, Sleep Cycle) for roughly three years as a premium subscriber. Over that time, I have found the information useful and the app itself fairly intuitive.
However, last week, my app stopped logging location changes or recognizing that I had left a location. After deleting and restoring the app, I was unable to restore my premium account or recover my data. In the time since, I have been corresponding with the developer’s customer service team who seem determined to misunderstand my requests for help. After four rounds of unhelpful suggestions, I was told to follow the exact steps I outlined in my original request—the fact that those steps did not work the several times I tried them was what prompted me to reach out for help in the first place!
I am wildly dissatisfied with the way my request for support has been managed; I am frustrated that the developer has taken this long to understand a simple issue. Unfortunately, while the app has been very insightful up to this point, I would strongly recommend not logging this kind of data in a system that crashes and, apparently, will not allow you to recover your data.Show lessMiak811
Not accurate
This app is hit or miss anymore. When I look back at the week it’s not correct like it used to be.
One of the biggest problems is the app had assigned my home as a grocery store. So for I had to keep editing it after the fact. I tried getting support and was ignored. It also tells me that 2 grocery stores, my parents home, and my gym are 36’ away from my home and I live on 20 acres and have no neighbors so obviously there are issues with this app. My settings have the app set to always allow too.
Also another issue, I will be in a town at a park for a run and it tells me I am at the other end of town at a grocery store etc. and vice versa. Its not honing in on GPS locations like it used to. It just picks random things it seems?! I don’t know what this apps obsession is with grocery stores Lol!
I have been using this app for years and I would like to support them but I feel it would be throwing money away as I have to edit more then I should to make this accurate. And I’m not expecting it to be perfect, but I just think it could function better given the technology out there these days. And not recognizing my home is the most annoying!Show lessLuvF1
Sudden issue
I’ve been using this app for a few months, and then out of the blue earlier this week, it stopped tracking my location. I went into my settings and checked, and it still showed that my location was enabled. I tried deleting and redownloading and it did it again. I’ve tried one more time, but every time I open it while it syncs with my life, it pops up saying that it needs to have the location services changed. I really want it to work because no other app does what I like that this one does, but if I can’t get this fixed, I’ll be forced to leave an even worse review.
EDIT: after waiting and waiting for it find my location and restarting the initial location-finding many times, I’m giving up on it, at least for now. I throughly loved this app, and will be attempting it again in the future, but for now, given the fact that it seems to no longer be able to track my location for NO REASON, I’m being forced off out of frustration. Please update and fix.Show lessLizzHalf1267
iOS 13.1.2 Location Services Stopped Working
Upgraded to iOS 13.1.2 on Saturday and location services have stopped working suddenly. I had 4 months of great data and now no data for three days and counting. Please fix it!
Other than this bug, been enjoying the app and keeping track of how I spend my time. Love that it is connected to the Ten Percent meditation app and health data so it automatically logs my meditation sessions. It also does a good job of logging my workouts, sleep, and time at office.
Wish they’d design it where you can create a new activity and set the duration by clicking a button that says five or ten minutes instead of having to set the end time. I end up spending too much time trying to log my many ten minute book reading breaks daily. Since I read in my office hallway or lounge area, it doesn’t auto log it because it thinks I’m just in the office.Show lessMrBluesLee
Great app but....
I love this app a lot, but there are some small things that just keep adding up. For example when I do something between my “work” (school) and home, I want that activity to be its own activity, not a part of the “commute to home” I live really close to my school so this function serves me no purpose other than to bother me. I can’t even remove the “commute to home” because it’s a built in activity. Another thing is that I have a lot of activities I’ve done in the 2 years I’ve used this app, so when I go to manually track an activity I have to scroll through a massive amount of activities silently muttering the alphabet just to see if I’ve already made that activity before. I with there was a search feature for activities and I wish there was a way to remove the “commute to home”Show lessGraced0220
I like it but...
It’s a dope app. It’s pretty good at tracking your day if your day is repetitive. As a over the road truck driver my day is far from repetitive, now the parts that are it logs effortlessly. Now to the but...so like when I stop at a truck stop and walk across the street to eat (breakfast, lunch, dinner) the tracker will not log the new entry. Now the app says it doesn’t log movement under 5 minutes (as to not log my every bathroom trip); but to stop and move as randomly as I do, I would imagine that the tracker would track this. If the truck stop has a place to eat and that’s where I’m staying the night, the process to log this information manually is setup for inaccurate logs. Now I’ve only been using for a month now maybe it hasn’t learned me enough yet to log in this fashion. Outside of that though I really like this app!!!Show lessThisGuyDaEngineer
