Decent app, meh price
I have no doubt the craft that goes into the app takes real effort. There is real love in here.
Having said that. This is a 40 dollar habit tracker. Does it earn the price? Less confident.
The marketing is cute, but ultimately this is a database logging tool with extremely basic visualizations. Sync/export is solid. Do your own research, as the sales funnel does not have a viable free edition or low cost option.
I myself use it though.
Pricing 1/5, Features 3.5/5, UI polish 5/5, UX 4/5. Multi-device is great.
Better visualizations, better logging options, would bump up feature/UX rating more. Pricing is industry, despite indie dev framing.
Having said that. This is a 40 dollar habit tracker. Does it earn the price? Less confident.
The marketing is cute, but ultimately this is a database logging tool with extremely basic visualizations. Sync/export is solid. Do your own research, as the sales funnel does not have a viable free edition or low cost option.
I myself use it though.
Pricing 1/5, Features 3.5/5, UI polish 5/5, UX 4/5. Multi-device is great.
Better visualizations, better logging options, would bump up feature/UX rating more. Pricing is industry, despite indie dev framing.
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Simple but powerful!
I was looking for an app where I could track whatever I wanted by just tapping a button as many times as I want — I looked for SO LONG, tried so many apps, but none were as simple and customizable as this! Other apps were either inflated with features, required more than one tap to log, did not have widgets, or didn’t have the ability for multiple entries.
I really like Chronicling because of its simplicity — it’s not inflated with features and requires very minimal effort to add an entry once you’ve set up the categories you want to track. I really like that you can group your categories too. After setting those up, you just tap on the icon and it logs the time and date immediately (down to the second!) without any other work necessary. There is the option to add notes if you like but if you want anything further than that then you might be better off with a journaling app instead.
I’ll list my pros, cons, and suggestions below!
FYI, I paid for the full version! I only used the app for a day before I decided to buy because I knew it was everything I needed and I’d definitely need more than the free three categories. But I do think you can use the free version of this app without running into problems if you’re more of a light user!
PROS:
- One tap logging — tracks the date and time (can add additional notes if needed)
- Multiple entries allowed
- Categories can be color-coded and organized into groups
- Option to backdate or postdate entries
- Option to import/export data as a CSV
- Heatmap-style charts
- Modern UI and interactive widgets
- “Go to” date option, entries are searchable and can be filtered
- No AI! (If there are AI options, I haven’t gone looking for them and I can’t thank the app’s creator enough for not shoving it down our throat — thank you Rebecca!!!)
CONS:
- Limit to unique titles — duplicate titles are not allowed, even if they are in different groups. This was common in other apps I tried though!
- Does not backup to iCloud so you cannot use across devices. If you want to track on a separate device, the data set is not shared — you will have to create everything again. There are options for an Apple Watch but I don’t own one so I can’t comment. I mostly want to be able to move between my iPhone and iPad.
SUGGESTIONS:
- iCloud backup — I really want the ability to access my entries across devices!
- Collaborative tracking — it would be nice if others could be added to a category/group so they could add entries to the data set as well.
- Grid view — right now the categories and events show up as an interactive list on the main page. It would be really nice to have an interactive grid of icons with the event’s title, like a button grid.
- “Events view” details — currently, the events view shows a list of times and is denoted by the category’s icon. If you use the same icon for multiple categories, it’s difficult to know which entries you’re looking at without tapping into the entry completely. In the same way you can see notes in this view, I think it would be helpful to also see the category title!
I really like Chronicling because of its simplicity — it’s not inflated with features and requires very minimal effort to add an entry once you’ve set up the categories you want to track. I really like that you can group your categories too. After setting those up, you just tap on the icon and it logs the time and date immediately (down to the second!) without any other work necessary. There is the option to add notes if you like but if you want anything further than that then you might be better off with a journaling app instead.
I’ll list my pros, cons, and suggestions below!
FYI, I paid for the full version! I only used the app for a day before I decided to buy because I knew it was everything I needed and I’d definitely need more than the free three categories. But I do think you can use the free version of this app without running into problems if you’re more of a light user!
PROS:
- One tap logging — tracks the date and time (can add additional notes if needed)
- Multiple entries allowed
- Categories can be color-coded and organized into groups
- Option to backdate or postdate entries
- Option to import/export data as a CSV
- Heatmap-style charts
- Modern UI and interactive widgets
- “Go to” date option, entries are searchable and can be filtered
- No AI! (If there are AI options, I haven’t gone looking for them and I can’t thank the app’s creator enough for not shoving it down our throat — thank you Rebecca!!!)
CONS:
- Limit to unique titles — duplicate titles are not allowed, even if they are in different groups. This was common in other apps I tried though!
- Does not backup to iCloud so you cannot use across devices. If you want to track on a separate device, the data set is not shared — you will have to create everything again. There are options for an Apple Watch but I don’t own one so I can’t comment. I mostly want to be able to move between my iPhone and iPad.
SUGGESTIONS:
- iCloud backup — I really want the ability to access my entries across devices!
- Collaborative tracking — it would be nice if others could be added to a category/group so they could add entries to the data set as well.
- Grid view — right now the categories and events show up as an interactive list on the main page. It would be really nice to have an interactive grid of icons with the event’s title, like a button grid.
- “Events view” details — currently, the events view shows a list of times and is denoted by the category’s icon. If you use the same icon for multiple categories, it’s difficult to know which entries you’re looking at without tapping into the entry completely. In the same way you can see notes in this view, I think it would be helpful to also see the category title!
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Widget provides great Motivation
While this didn’t do what I wanted out of the box it is customizable enough that I could get it to work how I expected and the widget showing me progress for exercising has been a great motivator to keep filling in the dots each day.
Excellent tracker
Does everything one would want it to
Beautiful
Great UI and UX design. Really appreciate the Watch complication too
