Wellspent User Reviews

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An app that helps with accountability

I was just lucky to come across this app and have been giving it a try to reduce my phone usage…. It is too easy for me to fall into mindless scrolling. I find the personalized and varied reminders very helpful to make me more aware of the moment.

Response from developer

Dear YogaBuz, so happy to read that Wellspent has become your accountability partner. 💪🧡 Big yes to staying aware of the moment via personalised and varied Wellspent reminders! Honored to support you on this mission. Best from Berlin - Christina

Works great

Love it so much

Response from developer

We love you, too! Thank you for the great feedback, Lei! Happy to hear that Wellspent is helpful for you.

Great idea but glitches

I power through my iOS screen time warnings so thought I’d give this a go.

I spent ages setting it all up but very quickly noticed that there was 1 glaring issue: when it timed out it would time out EVERYTHING. Every app. Even if I had said not to, it would still do it.

I lost count of how many times I would go in and reset everything, but nothing worked. And every time I went into the app, it seemed to rest the clock so all my apps would be unlocked.

Unfortunately after 8 hours of this, I lost the plot and so deleted the app.
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Response from developer

Hey Roxy's_Muse, thanks for sharing your feedback on Wellspent and celebrating the main idea. 🙌 We're sorry for the inconvenience you faced with the app's timeout feature. We recommend setting up separate budgets for different kinds of apps to have better control. Please reach out to our support team, and we'd be more than happy to assist you in setting up Wellspent in a way that perfectly fits your needs and preferences. 💪

Overpriced subscription

$7.99 a month or $30 bucks a year….
Ummm no…..
Saw an ad for this while on a doom scroll on Instagram and thought what a wonderful idea. Started setting it up and at the end of the set up it asks for what I think is an astronomical subscription price. I would of rather paid for the app and then had subscription pro version for more features.

To use the free version you only can choose one app… how stupid is that.
1 star for the stellar idea
1 more star for the great marketing
-3 for execution, pricing and lack of customer feedback implementation.
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Response from developer

Dear sleepyjess91, so happy to read that the Wellspent idea and marketing resonate with you. 🧡 I appreciate your feedback on the pricing structure of Wellspent. I'd love to encourage you to reach out to our support team directly. I'm sure we'll find a solution to have Wellspent support you the way you need. Screen time reduction should not depend on financial situation. 🙏🏽 Best from Berlin! Christina

Most glitchy app I’ve ever had

I love the idea of this. It worked well when I first tried it, so I paid for it. Some days it works, other days it does nothing. Sometimes I can’t dismiss the notification to finish what I’m doing in another app. Wouldn’t recommend.

Response from developer

Hey StaciFelker, thanks for appreciating the idea of Wellspent. 🧡 We're working full steam on fixing the mentioned issue with the reminders being hard to dismiss. We just launched a new version with a fix for this and are excited to deliver more stable Wellspent reminders with each update. 💪

I get my time back. Wellspent disrupts my unfocused scrolling sessions.

It keeps my time on Social Media in check so im not mindlessly watching Reels when I have better things to do. I highly recommend for parents, friends, siblings, cousins, coworkers, or anyone in any kind of relationship with any other living creature.

Response from developer

Hi Brendansmommy, Thanks a lot for the kind words! We appreciate you. :) All the best, Selcuk at Wellspent

Hated it

Screen pops up every two seconds even if I click dismiss. And it uses shaming and guilt tripping which I think is messed up.

Response from developer

We apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing with the frequent reminders. Please reach out directly to customer support via the build-in in app function. We're always there to resolve such issues. 🙏🏽 I want to apologise if any feelings of shaming or guilt tripping that you've encountered. Our intention is never to make our users feel uncomfortable. As different people respond best to different types of prompts, we build the "tone of voice" feature that allows you to customise the tonality of the app. 💪

Good concept, fairly well executed, but buggy

Things I like:
- the concept - nudges like this are quite effective
- the messages - are quite effective at gently making me think about what I want to be doing, without inducing a guilty feeling

But the bugs.. the main problem is that often the reminders don’t fire at the intended time - instead of one every 5 minutes, you’ll get nothing for half an hour and then six back-to-back
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Bugs and glitches

Great concept but as others have stated, it will let you scroll for long periods of time, and then all of a sudden it catches up with you and give you non-stop notifications. I wanted to use this but the glitches are too annoying, will delete the app now.

Response from developer

Thank you for trying our app and sharing your appreciation about the concept. 🧡 We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the scrolling issue and constant reminders. We understand how frustrating this can be.  We appreciate your feedback, and we encourage you to reach out to our customer support team directly if you experience any issues. They will be happy to assist you and address any bugs or glitches you encounter. 💪

Terrible glitchy app

This app glitched my phone so bad, in so many ways. my home screen is just black, my apps were crashing, I had to reset my phone like 3 times. And it’s still not right.
I love the idea behind it, but I absolutely do not recommend this app.

Response from developer

Dear Molly.jett, Thank you for sharing your feedback. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by Wellspent. We're continuously working to improve the app's performance and address any issues reported by our users. Your patience and understanding are greatly appreciated. 🧡 Please reach out to our support team directly to get assistance on bugs you're experiencing and we're happy to assist you. 🙏🏽

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