North Star User Reviews

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Encourages me , Reminds me !

I love this app ! My biggest obstacle to doing my home Physical Therapy program is that I get distracted and busy . This app has really had an impact … I get reminded to complete my therapy , and I am grateful for the help and encouragement ! I am no longer embarrassed … I don’t have to confess to my fitness coach that I forgot to do the work and follow the plan !
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Life changing App

The thoughtfulness of design in this app is staggering. Great features, sleek design, and a business model that stops my data from being harvested. I love this app and it has significantly improved my daily life by motivating me to develop better habits and stick to them. I can already see progress in my studies and my workouts. Thank you North Star!!
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Accountability in an App

This is the perfect app for someone who needs help with accountability. As someone who has big goals but nobody to help keep me motivated, this app has ACTUALLY helped me stay on track, and keep the momentum going.

Simple interface, cute motivational quotes dropped at the perfect time, and customization that’s fun but not overwhelming.

I really look forward to checking off my milestones and I think it would be cool to be able to showcase that via your Instagram or other social media. It could further encourage other users and bring a group effort to everyone on the app!

Thanks!!
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Amazing app and visuals

I love using the app, it’s been so helpful for me to stay committed to my own self care. I just wish it had a Home Screen widget.

Response from developer

I had no idea people used Widgets a lot! I’ll add it to our roadmap. It’s just myself and my cofounder working on the app as a side passion project currently, hence the slower feature rollout. One day some day I’d love to be able to work on it full time. Thanks for calling this out — really appreciate you!!! 🫶🏼 — Katie (cofounder)

Great app!!

Love your app! Just started using this after scouring the App Store for a goal setting app that had everything I needed and I have to say you’ve done an absolutely bang up job!

A few things that I think would help improve the overall user experience would be the ability to customise the layout/size of some of the tools (ie Habits, Measures etc.). Also a widget would be awesome too!!
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Response from developer

I hear you! We’re working on that feature right now. I will respond here again when we have it done. It’s just myself and my cofounder working on the app as a side passion project currently (nights and weekends), so that’s why feature rollout is a bit slower. Thanks a ton for taking the time to write a helpful review — it means more to me than you’ll ever know! Appreciate your patience too! — Katie (cofounder)

Great app! One request…

I love this app! There are so many options for organizing information, tasks, and goals! However, I really wish there was an option to organize planner tasks by date in addition to by category. Currently, tasks just populate in the order that they were created, but I’d prefer if I could order them by date so I could more easily see which things are coming up over the next few days.
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Response from developer

I hear you! We’re working on that feature right now. I will respond here again when we have it done. It’s just myself and my cofounder working on the app as a side passion project currently (nights and weekends), so that’s why feature rollout is a bit slower. Thanks a ton for taking the time to write a helpful review — it means more to me than you’ll ever know! Appreciate your patience too! — Katie (cofounder)

Amazing

I have Downloaded apps for this purpose and was never Successfully using them. But this app is beautiful and very practical. Under each goal you get to have tasks, photos, habits , milestones and I have not yet even discovered all functions. I don’t think I ever wrote such positive review on an app.
The only feature I would love added is a vision board under each goal, no I do not believe in things showing up in life because you had them in a vision board, but seeing your goals on a vision board and using that to visualize is a strong reminder of what you are after and it helps with motivation.
I could add photos, but I am not sure if I can have a few images, not date-related on the main board for that goal.
Thank you and I look forward to achieving my goals with the help of this tool.
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Response from developer

WOW! Thank you so much! You’re a true gem 💎 Appreciate you taking the time to write a review! — Katie (cofounder)

Impressed with this beautiful app

First off let me say how beautiful this app is! As a designer I am always scrutinizing the apps I use for functionality and good UI and this one has both! I have downloaded and done free trials of so many goal/habit apps trying to find one that is both aesthetically pleasing (which is a must for me) and actually accommodates the goal of the app through good UX. I am ridiculously picky. Needless to say I have uninstalled so many apps 🤦‍♀️ After trying the free version for a couple hours I knew this was ‘the one’ and immediately got the lifetime subscription (also thank you developers for offering a lifetime subscription!!! I am so tired of recurring monthly charges for EVERYTHING). Here are just a few ideas that could help boost the user experience even more: 1. It would be really nice to be able to organize/move around the goals on the goal overview page rather than in the settings.
2. It would be nice to have a collapsed view of all the goals so that I could see all my goals in one glance without having to scroll. Maybe just showing the title of the goal with a carrot to open up the description info/tracking-? 3. It would be really nice in the Planner tool to be able to assign more than 1 category to an item. That way I could assign tags like ‘priority’ and ‘this week’ to each item. Just Some ideas 💡. Otherwise I am loving the app and appreciate how well designed it is!😊
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This app is everything!

I have a hard time getting motivated and this app really helps me focus on what I've done instead of always focusing on what's not done which I've noticed helps to feel motivated to aconplish even more than I have without it. I've been using it for about a year now and it's been my most productive and like balanced year. 10/10 would reccomend
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Very pleased

I’m all about this stuff. From the moment I began reading the articles provided, I knew this creators had knowledge of the books: nudge, atomic habits, and that yellow book about habits (forgot the name). Anyways. I was so moved by this app that I willfully decided to write this review. That should speak for itself!
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