Easy to use, love it
This app is the best. Easy to use and I love that I can save photos. It saves your outdoor memories in a seamless way.
Love this app!
We just started tracking our hours this year and this app made it super simple. I have three little kids, so coloring a page daily was a bit overwhelming. I decided to make this purchase and it was very much worth it. I can backtrack hours, add them daily or even start a timer when I go outside. It’s easy to use and makes tracking your outdoor hours simple and not overwhelming. Definitely worth the purchase!
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Great Idea, Subpar App
I absolutely love the idea of this app and have been very pleased with the incentive it offers to spend time outside. Unfortunately, in just the two weeks I’ve been using it I’ve encountered many occasions where the app glitches and doesn’t record my time. Oftentimes I’ll hit the start button, see the count begin, and leave for my time outside only to come back and find that the app didn’t record my time. This has been quite frustrating, as I’ll have to estimate my time outside and manually record it. Though the app is still effective in encouraging me to get outside, I do wish that it would more reliably record my time.
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Response from developer
Hi, sorry to hear of your frustration. This is not an issue that seems to affect others so please email us at hello@1000hoursoutside.com so we can assist you. Thanks!
Not reliable
The timer constantly stops and stalls while I am out. Not reliable
Response from developer
Hi, please email us at hello@1000hoursoutside.com so we can try and assist 😀
Motivating
I love using this app to track our time outdoors. It’s something that’s so important to me for my family and I love stats and data so it is a win win.
A few things I’d love to see improve:
1. An option to pause and re-start the timer. Sometimes we go in and out of the garden for example.
2. The timer logs what time it is when it’s started and stopped e.g. start 11:31 stop 11:45 and make a note in the notes for that day to help keep track.
3. A widget would be soo handy, almost more handy than the above two options because being able to tap on it from Lock Screen would be awesome.
4. I would love it if there were more badges such as a 75 hours reached.
5. I think being able to see a graph of how many hours you’ve achieved each week, month and year compared to each other would be amazing.
6. I think more clarity on the fact that you can start it anytime of the year would be helpful, though I’m being picky here becasue I assumed it had to be within the calendar year and didn’t clock it doesn’t matter when you begin.
I hope some of these are useful and adopted by the creators of this app so I can continue to love it for years to come. I’d love to know if my comments have made a difference.
Anyway, I love how it motivates us to not only get out, but spend more time, take the longer route, try somewhere new.
Thank you
A few things I’d love to see improve:
1. An option to pause and re-start the timer. Sometimes we go in and out of the garden for example.
2. The timer logs what time it is when it’s started and stopped e.g. start 11:31 stop 11:45 and make a note in the notes for that day to help keep track.
3. A widget would be soo handy, almost more handy than the above two options because being able to tap on it from Lock Screen would be awesome.
4. I would love it if there were more badges such as a 75 hours reached.
5. I think being able to see a graph of how many hours you’ve achieved each week, month and year compared to each other would be amazing.
6. I think more clarity on the fact that you can start it anytime of the year would be helpful, though I’m being picky here becasue I assumed it had to be within the calendar year and didn’t clock it doesn’t matter when you begin.
I hope some of these are useful and adopted by the creators of this app so I can continue to love it for years to come. I’d love to know if my comments have made a difference.
Anyway, I love how it motivates us to not only get out, but spend more time, take the longer route, try somewhere new.
Thank you
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Response from developer
Hi! We greatly appreciate your review and thoughtful feedback. We are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience and will discuss all these items!
Remove logged time feature
I really like this app but think it could use some updates.
- I love tracking time with multiple profiles they make it super easy. However the numbers aren’t accurate because when I remove time it only comes off of the main account.
- I frequently forget to turn off my timer when we come inside. I think you could easily add a setting to pick your “normal” outdoor time and if the stopwatch is tracking longer than that the app sends you an alert that asks if you’re still outside.
Thanks!
- I love tracking time with multiple profiles they make it super easy. However the numbers aren’t accurate because when I remove time it only comes off of the main account.
- I frequently forget to turn off my timer when we come inside. I think you could easily add a setting to pick your “normal” outdoor time and if the stopwatch is tracking longer than that the app sends you an alert that asks if you’re still outside.
Thanks!
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Love the concept, but could be better
We are trying to complete 1000 hours outside this year. To pay for the app you think that the whole app would be better. Every time I open the app to use the timer and start the timer it ends up closing the whole app out. I end up just tracking on my own how many hours we are logging. In a portion of the app you can upload photos, but not more than one at a time.
After paying for the app there is also more in app purchases. If you want to collect bandages along the way, you have to purchase. We purchased the map and needless to say I could of googled most the locations I am at. I really wanted to like this app, but it has a lot of issues that need to be worked out. Needless to say since this is my New Year’s resolution, I will continue to use to log my hours.
After paying for the app there is also more in app purchases. If you want to collect bandages along the way, you have to purchase. We purchased the map and needless to say I could of googled most the locations I am at. I really wanted to like this app, but it has a lot of issues that need to be worked out. Needless to say since this is my New Year’s resolution, I will continue to use to log my hours.
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Unimpressed
For a paid app, I am pretty unimpressed with the features. For there to be additional payment requirements for exporting to pdf, using the map features, and the badges, its certainly frustrating. I subscribed thinking that the map would have a bunch of outside things to do but it included basically anything that google maps would show. I can use a timer and a piece of paper and eliminate this entirely. I love Ginny’s ideas and podcast and am really surprised with this as it doesn't seem to be up to par for her work typically.
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Love it + one critique
I love this app and how it encouraged us to be outside more in 2023. Excited to start a new year and “beat” last years hours. One feature I wish the app had was after stopping a running time, to have the ability to “approve” or edit right there and then. So often I forget to stop the counter when we go inside and then I have to go back into the day’s total time and (😱) do math to correct it. When it’s only been like 5 minutes, it’s no big deal… but I have been known to leave the counter running for many hours or even over night haha and then it does become a challenge to remember what was already on the count for that day, and what the correct total time should be.
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Crashed my entire phone!
Unfortunately had to delete and request a refund as upon opening the app, after freezing a few times, my entire phone crashed and had to be restarted twice. Hoped it was a coincidence but the same thing happened when I tried it again later that evening!
