No point
Can’t use the app unless you pay for Excel code 💀
Would be even easier with Apple Watch!
This app is very useful but I’ve found myself not using it as I don’t always want my phone outside. I’m on the hunt for an alternative app that will work with my Apple Watch to track time outside. If this app had the ability to use the timer from an Apple Watch (syncing up later) that would be amazing and I’d get loads more use out of it!
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No wonder this app went free
Is this a joke? If you download the app you only get a basic timer, to get access to a calendar you need to pay monthly, in fact, in order to do anything on the app, besides using a timer, which is built into my iPhone, you have to pay monthly or yearly. A company that claims to want to promote wellbeing by going outside, wants to charge you an infinite subscription to do so. Grow up devs. Stay away from this app.
EDIT AFTER DEV RESPONSE: Devs said they moved from a paid app to a monthly payment app. So just to be clear, they changed from a one time payment for something…to an infinite payment for something. There is no end to a subscription model, you just keep paying and it never gets paid off. Whereas normally, not predatorily, you pay once for something and that’s it. This move by this “Family run Business”, is just to extract monthly payments from everyone instead of a one time payment like before. Ask yourself this, is this app worth an infinite amount of money? Or a normal one time payment and then enjoy? Devs are sketchy beware.
EDIT AFTER DEV RESPONSE: Devs said they moved from a paid app to a monthly payment app. So just to be clear, they changed from a one time payment for something…to an infinite payment for something. There is no end to a subscription model, you just keep paying and it never gets paid off. Whereas normally, not predatorily, you pay once for something and that’s it. This move by this “Family run Business”, is just to extract monthly payments from everyone instead of a one time payment like before. Ask yourself this, is this app worth an infinite amount of money? Or a normal one time payment and then enjoy? Devs are sketchy beware.
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Response from developer
Hi thanks for checking out the app! The app has always cost money and we have now moved to a membership model in order to keep investing in the features as we are a small family business. We have multiple free things like our tracking charts, blog posts articles, our podcast with over 375 episodes etc.
App needs a widget for the Lock Screen
I love this program and the ideas shared by Ginny on her podcast etc, but the app lacks a widget for the Lock Screen so I am constantly forgetting to stop the timer when I come back inside. Not getting value for money because tracking time outside is literally the point of the app.
App is a great concept but needs some work
My family has started using this app. Is it easy to use and you can have several family members tracked at once, which are major highlights for us!
My complaints are simply that:
1) you cannot switch between profiles to independently view progress - you can only look at the “main” profile.
2) similarly, you cannot really add/adjust activity times for subsequent profiles on a day to day basis
3) you cannot have multiple people tracking separately at the same time. Your options are to choose one person to track or everyone. If you are trying to track multiple kids and have a larger family, this can be a problem when you are not all together.
All in all, the app seems like a good start but I would like to see more work done to justify the price point. I would argue the app in its present state should be free due to these very pressing limitations.
My complaints are simply that:
1) you cannot switch between profiles to independently view progress - you can only look at the “main” profile.
2) similarly, you cannot really add/adjust activity times for subsequent profiles on a day to day basis
3) you cannot have multiple people tracking separately at the same time. Your options are to choose one person to track or everyone. If you are trying to track multiple kids and have a larger family, this can be a problem when you are not all together.
All in all, the app seems like a good start but I would like to see more work done to justify the price point. I would argue the app in its present state should be free due to these very pressing limitations.
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Unreliable
Ever since the most recent update this app has been very inconsistent. We were outside for at least three hours today and the app said 52 minutes 11 seconds. You also have to have service for the timer to work which is frustrating because many times we are out adventuring where there isn't service. It used to be very easy to toggle between the timer and calendar and now I have to close out of my app completely to get back to the calendar from the timer. Hopefully they will update this again. It worked perfectly perform they updated it
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Love the program, not the app
I love the program and have loved how much more time we are spending outside, but this is such a buggy app. It closes out every time I open it, anytime I have to edit hours, the number pad won’t close, so the app must be restarted, etc. And I was disappointed to find once I subscribed that almost all of the adventure map points are restaurants. Too expensive for that, and unfortunately I purchased the full year before seeing that. That said, we are spending much more time outside and that has been a wonderful benefit. The kids love seeing which new badge they’ve earned!
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Response from developer
Hi, please email us at hello@1000hoursoutside.com so we can help you! There is a filter to look for all sorts of spots on the map, not just restaurants:) Plus you can see where other 1KHO users have checked and left reviews using that same filter. Please contact us so we can help!
Only 1 timer
I purchased this app so my kids could track their hours outside, but only 1 person or 1 group of people can track their time at once. I have 4 kids and they are in and out all day long at various times which makes this app useless for us since there is only one timer. If you’re a mom with small children and you are always together for your outside time, this app would be great. If more than one person wants to track their time using the timer on this app, I would skip it.
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Life changing family time
This is a fabulous app if you are an intentional family who knows the value of getting outdoors together. It allows each member to track their outside time separately for those outdoor times when you aren’t all present. It takes half a second of your phone time to press the start button and stop it when you go back indoors. The dopamine hit from achieving a new digital badge is also fantastic. I love what Ginny and her family have created in this program!
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The BEST app for tracking hours, love it!!
I absolutely love having this app. It’s so easy, so streamlined, and I love that you can always edit your hours if you make a mistake or miss something. It’s really taken the stress out of tracking for me, and actually it’s helped me be more carefree and check the clock even less… to have an app on a phone that actually makes you use your phone less is a pretty big feat! Would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to track their hours outside.
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