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
Simple but powerful
This app is gorgeous and incredibly well designed. The event visualizations, in particular, look fantastic. It is simple yet powerful and it has become one of my new favorites. I also love that it’s private and ad free. I highly recommend this app to anyone looking for a great habit tracker, or simply wanting to keep track of chores (or anything, really).
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Stunning!
Has proved instrumental in tracking my chronic illness symptoms. So logical and visually obvious. The best pacing solution I have found to date. Thanks!
Organizing my life beautifully
I am insistent in my need to organize and systemize whatever I can in my life to provide some calm in my day to day. I have used many apps to track my workouts, how often I meditate, when I read, and many other daily and weekly occurrences, but Chronicling is by far the most intuitive, polished, and effective I’ve used. Highly recommend for anyone looking to provide some structure in their life.
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Fantastic!
Brilliant app. I was looking for something simple to track my migraine frequency and plot on time graphs. This does it perfectly, so simple. The dedicated migraine apps were all crazily over-complicated!
Perfect life tracker
Chronicling is the perfect tracker for everything in your life. Looks great, works great, and the shortcuts support is fantastic.
Best tracking app out there!
Best tracking app out there!
Steals your money
Downloaded this tonight and decided to try out to 2 week free trial for $9.99 a year. As soon as I subscribe to the trial which isn’t supposed to charge me until October 19th I get a charge to my card from apple for the same exact amount. Don’t call it a free trial if it isn’t actually free. They better hope I don’t get charged again on the 19th since they’ve now already had me pay for the full year.
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Response from developer
Hi there - I’m sorry for the confusion and frustration this caused. The app itself doesn’t process payments directly - everything goes through Apple, so if you saw an immediate charge, it’s most likely another unrelated App Store purchase. The trial confirmation is shown on the purchase page, and you won’t be charged for Chronicling until the trial period has elapsed - unless you choose to cancel before then. If you believe you were wrongly charged, you can always request a refund through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. Best wishes, Rebecca
This is the app you are looking for
Chronicling is the tracker I have been looking for, with widgets and detailed views, this app is beautifully made. Simple and yet powerful charts and stats. Will be my go to app for tracking always.
Happy Customer
Easy to use & fulfills all my needs in a tracker. Gets my recommendation.
👍
Great as a chores tracker
Bugs
Can’t stand that it automatically alohabitezes lists making it harder to find things. Plus I can not add anything. When I hit the plus sign nothing happens
Cool app
I like the app, I am using it in combination with a physical calendar to keep track of things. There’s something beautiful about physically adding a thing to the calendar but it doesn’t automatically keep a count or history, so that’s where this app comes in handy.
I found and reported a bug to the developer, it was fixed and shipped on the same day 🚀. I downloaded the latest version and verified that the update fixes the issue.
Love it ❤️
I found and reported a bug to the developer, it was fixed and shipped on the same day 🚀. I downloaded the latest version and verified that the update fixes the issue.
Love it ❤️
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An Essential App
In a little over two years this has become an essential app for me. I use it track my health, my fitness and my work. I love the interface, especially on the Apple Watch where it is full featured. I have only one request: can we please get a reminders function? That will turn it into a suitable habit tracker as well. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this, Rebecca.
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Response from developer
Hi Steve, thank you so much for your kind words - it really means so much as an indie developer! I am currently working on custom reminders per category, so I hope Chronicling can also serve as a habit tracker soon. Best wishes, Rebecca
All in One! 10/10
It's the only tracking app that has groups + Y/N and notes feature for your habits/goals + charts and graphs + beautiful widgets + heat map + apple shortcut integration for completion and export text + icons + apple journal integration + summary infinity scroll of all completions day-wise + individual habit chart range weekly/month charts +++ aaaaand the developer is amazing ❤️
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Wonderful app!
Very well designed app with perfect features, exactly what I needed! I love all of the visualizations and the widgets. This works better for me than any habit tracker.
Amazing, but we need a macOS version
Rebecca has done a stellar job on this app, with my only complaint being that it isn’t a great experience on macOS. Hopefully, she’ll bring it o macOS sooner rather than later as I truly love this app!
Response from developer
Thanks for your kind words about Chronicling! I do plan to bring it to macOS someday, to round out the Apple platforms. I appreciate a native solution would be an improvement. Best wishes, Rebecca
