Simply Health - Upwards 4+

Best habit builder tracker

Got the annual subscription for it and couldn’t be happier. In just a few weeks I’ve noticed how much of a difference it can make- your good habits begin now.

Love it

Great tool to keep you monitoring your daily routine. Has helped me change my habits to achieve my goals. Love it

Good, but some bugs.

I really like the idea and UI for this app, but there’s a couple of bugs and suggestions I have.

Bug: You can’t set a habit to be ‘2 times in 1 day’, the number picker just changes it to ‘2 times in 2 days’.

Bug: When setting a time for the reminder, the hour for the displayed time doesn’t change, it displays 00:xx no matter which hour you set it to. The notifications also don’t seem to go off at the time set, so it seems to be stuck at midnight, as the reminder screen would indicate.

Suggestion/Comment: I really like the animations when swiping up to habits, but having to swipe through all the different categories (with no way to rearrange the order) gets quite tiring quite quickly. For example, at the moment I have habits over 4 categories, and in order to make the 4th one as done I have to swipe 4 times. And then 4 times another habits, 3 times for another, etc. It just feels like a lot of extra swipes. I’d suggest adding something like an option to tap the category to reveal the habits and be able to swipe them complete from the main screen. Or at least the ability to tap a specific category to open it, rather than having to start from the top category and swipe down every time.

Also, when you get to 4 or more categories, you can only tap the arrow to expand the habits, rather than swiping like before. This feels jarring, as I’d gotten used to swiping up.

One last thing is that there’s no option to back up anything, so you could use the app for a year and then accidentally delete it and all your habits and charts would be gone, which makes me hesitant to use it. I’d be happy with an option to back it up to my iCloud for peace of mind.

All in all, the app has a lot of potential, and I really want to see it iron out some minor bugs and improve the UX in some areas, because the rest of the app is great.

Developer Response ,

Hi @DSummersall 👋🏼
Thank you so much for taking the time out to write such a detailed review! We really appreciate it! Coming to the bugs/suggestions you mentioned:

Bug 1 - That's actually a limitation we have put for now, so that users only track their habits once a day. However we're working on a solution that'll allow them to track their habits multiple times a day in the future.
The way the picker jumps sure looked like a bug, hence we've since added a message regarding this limitation.

Then Bug 2 and Suggestion 1 have since been implemented ✅. You can now tap on a specific life area to track it, exactly like you mentioned 😊

Suggestion 2 - We absolutely understand. User authentication is in the pipeline, and we'll implement it as soon as possible.

Glad that you like the rest of the app, and we hope that the new features and improvements in the coming months will continue to make your experience even better. Cheers!