Complex app with lots of options

There are a lot of apps in the app store that either track habits, moods or events. I tried a few of them but was never really satisfied. I needed to count things - like how many pieces of fruit have I eaten today. I needed to track if have I done things at all - like gone to the sports studio. I needed to rate things - like how was my mood at the office. For each of these things there was an app. But there was none for all of these. So there never was a real overview over all of it for me.

Now I found TracknShare. It tracks all of these things and more. This adds to the complexity of it of course so it takes a little while to sink ones teeth into the logic and idea behind the app. It does take some getting used to but if you let yourself accept the concept the app really does a lot for you. Aside from the formalized things like tracking and counting you can always add notes and make things more personal. The items to track are highly customizable albeit not always as and where I expected. This also takes a bit of getting used to but on the whole it is worth the time I put into it.

It is true - the app does crash occasionally but I never lost any data. All I have to do is re-start and Im back where I left off. In that regard TracknShare is no worse than many other apps.

I never tried the sharing part of the app because I dont think that any of the stuff Im tracking here are anybodys beeswax so I cannot say anything about that.

The backup / restore part works fine. I tried it because I want to use it on my iPhone but setting things up was more comfortable on the bigger screen of the iPad. So I tried the app on both devices - transferring my data and customizations via backup and restore. I can say the user interface makes good use of the possibilities that both screen formats offer. Well done.

The only thing I would like to be improved is the response time when I choose a category to track items in. I tap a category and the app takes some seconds to react. A visual confirmation of I felt your tap - hang on a sec, I gotta work a bit would be nice.

So in a nutshell its a great app. Not perfect but very good. I am glad to have it and hope for future improvements.

Bald Zombi about Symptom Tracker by TracknShare, v5.0.1