Hour Blocks User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience49.6% of reviews
Neutral20.9% of reviews
Negative experience29.6% of reviews

~ Based on 115 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hour Blocks Safe?

Hour Blocks: Day Planner appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hour Blocks is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 181 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

83.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
7.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 181 App Store ratings for Hour Blocks.

Is Hour Blocks Legit?

Hour Blocks: Day Planner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hour Blocks is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Nice Idea but the App Doesn't Work

I just downloaded the app, and within minutes, it became evident that I could not use it. The app opens, and you can scroll to different areas of the page. However, it all goes wrong once you do anything that requires a separate window to open. The window never closes, and the only way to get out of it is to Force Quit. I tried it five times with the same result.

What a DISAPPOINTMENT!! I’m glad I only lost $1.99

I'm glad I only spent $1.99. What a disappointment!!
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No updates?

The app needs work to be optimally usable and I see no updates for 2 years. We are expecting some usability improvements as described by some reviewers since This is a paid app.

Very nice and simple app but

But… the calendar sync didn’t work

A light without the bulb

Great start but it’s missing is key features.
Tons a room for needed growth.

It’s a middle schooler trying to play in the big leagues.

I like the general set up, the look, and general idea of how it works. Great start.

You wont be able to find past schedule items so if you forget game over no moving it.

Wanna move a schedule to a different time or day?

Forget about it, not gonna happen.

Wanna move a to do list to a scheduled time tomorrow? Nope impossible. Search past schedules or to do lists? No no no, I was it right why is it so they don’t want you to do that. Too helpful.

Schedule something at 10:30 instead or 10:00? Nope impossible. You dont get to do thing unless it’s on the hour.

It doesn’t link to your calendar although I guess half points because your calendar links to this app.
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Functional but easily better

UX needs for 5 stars

1. Allow custom presets. If I need a recommendation suggestion it would be something I preset.

2. Allow Notes. Both in to-do and hour blocks.

3. On the given day, allow earlier hours to be seen. Right now you can't see anything previous to the current hour.

4. Drag and reorder blocks. Make it faster to reorder block order.

There might be a few more additions to make this the perfect app out there, but honestly just these 4 things would make everything better. Ideas like a tagging system and weekly/monthly overview would be cool but isn't a must have for me. I personally use the app to remind me what I worked on so that I can do my weekly client timesheets faster.
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My sugession

I really like this simple app for a year now. Id like to suggest a way to break task into specific times, and add recuring task daily.

Not the best

I don’t understand why you would use this app? It makes no sense, not the best UI, and it’s only by the hour? Use apple calendar instead lol

Fantastic and Easy way to plan you day

This is a great app. I use it everyday now to plan my day. I'd love it if we could rearrange the order of subblocks. Rather than having to delete them to reorder when you forget something

Disappearing Sub-Blocks

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a setting to allow me to see the sub-blocks from past hour blocks! This will mean the difference between me being able to use this app and not.

It would also be good to be able to save and repeat entire hour blocks, including sub-blocks, but that’s not as crucial for me.

So close

Oh man this app would be absolutely perfect if it let you customize the block times. Not everything takes an entire hour…….

Perfect for me

Best scheduling app I’ve found. I love the simplicity for planning out your day each morning, only thing I think would improve it is a feature to cross off each hour you complete. Great app.

Ak

Hi. Just downloaded the app- looks like just what I need. My day however starts before 6am- is there any way of changing the start time? It really should allow for all the 24 hours in the day.

Great but reminders don't work

The one bad thing is the reminders don't work. I've changed the settings so it reminds you for upcoming hour blocks, but EVERY single day, the setting resets to "No" instead of "Yes". It's very frustrating, because oftentimes I'll already have the day set up before I check the setting, only to realize that it reset to "No", and it doesn't remind you for blocks that you created before you set it to "Yes".

Aside from that, the app is very minimal, clean, and user-friendly. Unfortunately, the Reminders feature is a big thing for me, so that's why my review is 3 stars.
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Needs more customization

The core blocks should be by the hour like you said in your response to a previous review. I agree with that. But there should be a “+” button that allows you to drop a block in between the hour blocks (that look exactly the same as the hour blocks) but that you can choose the time. I understand you want to keep the app simple looking (which you should and is the only reason I want to use it) but you have to remember no one plans their day only based on using the start of each hour. It’s unrealistic and makes the concept of time planning pointless if you’re only going to have only the start of each hour to base things on. You have the start of a great app but it needs more work. Make it more customizable without making it complicated. I would recommend following a similar concept to the app “Things.” Now hurry up and add customizable times so I can use the app properly as I’m sure a lot of other people would like to as well and you’ll have a 75% better app just by doing that. Thanks
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1/2 hr blocks…

1/2 hr blocks is not a catchy title but it would be more useful for me to have this app with 30 minute chunks of time. Otherwise it’s great!

AWESOME. Just needs a couple of tweaks!

I’m in love with this app. I have ADHD, and I need something SIMPLE, fast, clean - with my hourly schedule and a to do list in one single app.

The ability to easily add sub blocks to each hourly block is PERFECT. It’s invaluable in helping me remember what I need to do or take or organise for each thing.

I also love that it’s so easy and fast to add items.

The only things I’d like to see added are -

- the ability to see parts of the day that have already passed (maybe greyed out). This way, if I’m running behind or have woken up late, I can still see what I might still need to attend to.

- the ability to repeat or duplicate blocks to the following day / certain days of the week. This would be so helpful in creating things like morning routines, where I need to do the same 5-10 steps every day, etc.

Otherwise this app is fantastic and I plan to use this for many years to come! Thank you so much for creating it!
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Fantastic for planning trips

Used this app to plan a trip for my birthday and honestly saved a lot of hassle. The sub blocks are by far the best feature of this app.

So where are the blocks?

all this is is a list of to-dos disguised as hours. GUI reflects this. difficult to navigate, edit. “blocks”, which are just a segmented list are impossible to edit. and you can’t move them around. Honestly I don’t know what this is, but it’s not for me.

AMAZING

This has really helped oleo my days planned

Like it. Could be better

I love how simple the app is. It’s easy to use and easy to find stuff on it. But I wish there were setting options that allow you to change the time in time ta to 15 or 30 minutes instead of just one hour.