# NatureDose — user reviews > 44 indexed App Store user reviews of NatureDose by NatureQuant, rated 4.50/5 from 565 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/naturedose/id1591127435/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/naturedose/id1591127435.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 447 · 4★ 47 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of NatureDose? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Motivating to get more nature time - 👍 Provides useful insights and data - 👍 Helps track and quantify outdoor time - 👍 Encourages a healthier lifestyle - 👍 Intuitive and informative app **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate in tracking outdoor time - 🐛 Inconsistent performance, sometimes doesn't work - 🔋 Drains battery life - 👎 Limited rewards/incentives **Commonly reported bugs** - Fails to recognize outdoor time spent - Incorrectly logs indoor time as outdoor - Doesn't work in certain areas/locations **Most requested features** - More transparency in NatureScore calculation - Ability to manually log/edit outdoor time - Interactive map feature to find high-scoring areas - Daily/weekly summaries and insights ## Newest reviews (10 of 44) ### 3/5 — Cool concept, needs better rewards *2024-05-07, version 1.7.2* I love the idea of the app but you can only get discounts through L.L.Bean ### 4/5 — Good app *2024-05-03, version 1.7.2* Would like additional stats on where and when we got the minutes. ### 4/5 — Not completely accurate *2023-11-04, version 1.6.0* We just went to our local state park and spent 65 minutes walking through trees. The app shows 41 minutes. ### 4/5 — Great Premise *2023-07-19* I absolutely love what this app represents. It provides a lot of cool insights like references to studies and a Score that rates the level of abundant green nature in your area, which all helps to encourage a healthier lifestyle. It’s still a work in progress and you may have to bear with outdoor time being off but it will continue to get better and it has already helped myself and those I’ve referred to be more conscientious of the nature around us and it’s benefits. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-07-17* It read my data loosely for about one week before it quit working altogether. Reached out to customer service to offer feedback and got a bunch of off-putting excuses. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-07-15* It read my data loosely for about one week before it just quit working altogether. Reached out to customer service just to let them know, and instead just got a bunch of off putting excuses. ### 2/5 — Random *2023-06-09, version 1.4.0* Some days or weeks it’s very good. Others? Not so much. It misses big chunks of time on some days and, on a few occasions, credited large blocks of time when I have barely been out. Then it will kind of reset and take care of business for awhile. I keep thinking I’ll delete it then it straightens up for a few weeks. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work in my area *2023-06-03, version 1.4.0* I can’t it doesn’t work in my area. I don’t know how to get it to work in my area. I don’t know why my area is out of range of this apt. ### 4/5 — If you inker track one thing, let it be nature *2023-05-30, version 1.4.0* Nature dose fills a key gap in the tracking world. Although you probably do not really want to know how little time you spend outside. The app isn’t perfect in always capturing all your outside time, but it’s remarkably good. The research tidbits are a nice touch, and the other features are great too. This app has really motivated me to spend more time outside. ### 5/5 — Comforting *2023-05-26, version 1.4.0* To be held in nature is Everything. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not impressed so far. *2025-10-03, version 1.7.2* Very inaccurate scoring of time outdoors. I spent over three hours outside yesterday and it gave me a score of 0 minutes then today the only time I spent outside was my drive too and from work which does not count but it says I spent over 20 minutes outside. I park my car 15 seconds from my house and about 20 seconds from the door I enter at work. I will give it a few more days and if it doesn’t improve it will be deleted. ### 1/5 — Discontented *2024-09-29, version 1.7.2* I went for a walk. Some time was near buildings but not all and I didn’t get any credit. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t track *2024-05-07, version 1.7.2* Doesn’t work!! ### 1/5 — If you’re not the customer… *2023-11-20, version 1.6.1* I didn’t believe that the average person fails to spend 120m outside per week and installed the app to find out what my number was. After using it for three days, outside (by my definition) for substantial parts of each day, including five hours in a national park. Result = zero hours so I’m not sure hours far off the grid you have to be to get counted as outside enough. Beyond that I was curious and listened to the founder on a podcast I enjoy talking about how the goal was to gather enough data to get Apple to include it bundled on their app but, for now, profits come from selling data to governments and insurance companies. Not seeing a way to opt out of such data collection, I deleted the app and my account (though I wonder if info was really deleted). An app that does what this promises would be valuable for many people but a ‘free’ service collect and bundle user data to insurance companies isn’t something is disingenuous. ### 2/5 — Great idea, pretty inaccurate 😅 *2024-05-04, version 1.7.2* While I think this app is really cute the results are fairly inaccurate, I’ve seen other reviews have the problem where their app doesn’t track their hours of outdoor time, I have the exact opposite problem, my app tracks that I’m outdoors when I’m indoors. I noticed this first when it started tracking that I had reached 30 minutes of outdoor time when I’d been sitting in my room on my phone for several hours. I figured that, hey, maybe this was just because I live in a somewhat nature-filled neighborhood, but then I hit my goal of 120 minutes. Sitting in a hotel room. In the middle of a city. So it’s safe to say this app isn’t exactly accurate. ### 2/5 — I’ll continue tracking my own time outside *2024-04-25, version 1.7.1* I’ve been doing the 1000 hours outside challenge for 4-5 years now, so am always tracking outside time. I read about this app and figured I’d give it a go to see how accurate it was. I like the feature where it tells you the nature score of where you are… but as far as recording outside time, it’s very off. After using it for 4 days, averaging 4-5 hours outside per day, the app only recorded that I was outside for 1 hour/day. And only half of that time counted as “quality” time. I was in my (98.5 scored) yard most of the time - mostly gardening. So, I don’t know if it just scored poorly because I was too close to my house part of the time. But I will probably not continue to try to use this app to track time. ### 2/5 — Great idea - doesn’t work *2024-03-05, version 1.6.2* I really enjoyed the idea of having a small tracker to encourage me to spend some more time outside! Downloaded, set it up, and let it be for a week (actually much longer since I forgot about it). I had been spending much time outside for the previous week yet the app still showed 0 for time outdoors. Oh well, was worth a shot ### 2/5 — Not accurate *2024-02-17, version 1.6.2* This is a great idea, but is not very accurate. Hopefully it will improve in the future. It gave me 30 min of nature time when I was most likely in a large grocery store, and then it completely failed to recognize an evening I spent outside. There’s no way to self correct the data either, and the minutes are presented by the day rather than the hour. ### 2/5 — Not correctly logging outdoor time *2023-11-19, version 1.6.1* I just spent over an hour outside with my limb trimmer in the woods and looked at the app found I got credit for 2 minutes. Maybe I’m doing something wrong ### 2/5 — Great idea; needs work *2023-11-17, version 1.6.1* Excited to try the app; downloaded it and gave it a shot this morning on my ruck. Well, I tucked for an hour in a nature preserve and it gave me only 35 minutes if a dose. Just given how far off time-wise it was, I would say it’s accuracy needs improved. I would have guessed my dose should have been more like 45-55 minutes. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Expand your mind *2026-06-23, version 1.7.4* Helps me remember what is really important to me and how to make it better ### 5/5 — This actually works. *2026-05-19, version 1.7.4* This actually works. Even though I’m outside often, it’s not always intentional. This helps to change that. Whether it’s qigong exercises, a walk or taking pictures, this app makes these moments intentional. Sleeps little better and I’m less likely to be in a slump. Best part it’s free. ### 5/5 — Clarifying Contributor to Recovery *2025-12-29, version 1.7.4* I was diagnosed with cancer last year and NatureDose helped me move from 150ish minutes in nature each week to 500. My docs said it’s very likely that this extra time contributed significantly to my recovery and I don’t doubt it. But more, I am [mostly] at peace which makes living so much better. ### 5/5 — Day One *2025-02-20, version 1.7.2* Today may only be day one, but I am excited about an app for the first time in a while. The idea is simple, but I believe it may be genius. Every day, I think about how much healthier I would feel if I were outside and connected. Thank you for this very simple and hopefully effective. I will keep everyone posted on how it goes. ### 5/5 — NatureDose *2024-06-19, version 1.7.2* Great how the App not only quantifies Nature exposure but also keeps track of Inside vs Outside time. Get outside! ### 5/5 — Super clean *2024-06-19, version 1.7.2* Clean & efficient design. Concise notifications with actually useful information. Well done. ### 5/5 — Cool *2024-04-18, version 1.7.0* This is a cool app but after trying it out for a few weeks, I’m deleting because I don’t change locations frequently enough for my data to vary widely (plus it runs in the background, so I don’t want extra battery drain). I could see this having more useful long-term use for people with a lifestyle that involves more neighborhood/environment diversity. I wish the app itself had an interactive map. You can go to the website to look at map scores by street or address, but if you happen to be in a low-scoring area, there’s no indication of where to turn to get more green exposure unless you’re already familiar with the area. ### 5/5 — Makes you aware of outside time *2024-04-03, version 1.6.2* Great app needs to be a little more informative . It does not seem to always pick up on being in a rural area because it may not be on map yet. ### 5/5 — A great app *2023-12-12, version 1.6.2* Super interesting and has helped me talk my kids into going on more hikes 🤩 ### 5/5 — Reminder to keep in the wonderful nature spaces. *2023-05-27, version 1.4.0* I enjoy seeing the time in nature both at home and when traveling. The information is a gentle nudge to make the outdoors a priority. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*