Reporter App App Reviews

This app is easily worth the price of entry. Must-get, dont hesitate. Any scientist will tell you that good data is key to unlocking answers. Well then, consider this beautiful app the lock pick. An extremely well-considered and thought-through customizable experience for collecting private information about yourself. Start with the provided questions, and then add a ton more as you think of them. Anything you can think of to quantify, you can track. Only downside is waiting patiently to methodically collecting all that glorious data. (But that is half the fun). As an added bonus, the developer is beyond responsive and enthusiastic about the project, responding to support questions over twitter and through the website in record time and at all hours.

Ive been looking for an app like this for a few years now - one that will let me track what I want and then output that data. I love that I can add my own questions but there are a few prefab ones to he started with. I havent taken a look at the export yet - but Im hoping Ill be able to draw my own insights with a little Excel voodoo. Like another reviewer said, Id love it if I could order my own "Feltron report" at the end of the year or something. Thatd be pretty cool. Also, like another reviewer said - it would be nice to edit responses in case of typos etc. All in all, enjoying this app and interested to see what updates (if any) may bring.

With some performance improvements itll be even more fantastic.

This app is really cool, it keeps a log of what Ive done throughout the day, and it can hold you accountable. I have waited a long time for an app like this, it is sleek, simple to use, and has multiple uses. Very well done!

Too difficult to find anything youre looking for in this app. Good intentions but frustrating.

Ive been using this since the beginning but Ive recently stopped. Why? Im putting all of this information in and Im not getting anything useful back. Also it is really buggy and the developers dont seem interested in fixing it.

Its a neat idea, and the UI design is top notch. But the app itself is very glitchy. Sometimes the data you entered doesnt "stick". Labels randomly disappear from graphs. Small nitpick bugs abound that make me wonder how long the app author actually tested it.

It seems like a cool idea and I agree with the developer’s characterization that the input is both easy and readily adaptable. However, there seems to be no output. I’ve been putting in data for two weeks to the tune of 43 “reports” but I can find no trending data, charts, suggestions, etc. In other words it just seems like a place to store raw data. I read the FAQ and it says “trends will emerge” but nothing about how, when or the manner in which they will be displayed. It could well be user error on my part but I don’t get it. So far it is a fair amount of work with no benefit.

Just reached my one year anniversary recently! Its so cool to have Reporter manage my data.

Ive used this app for about a week and so far I love it. It makes it easy to track almost anything that requires a user input (and a few things that are passively tracked). Im looking forward to exporting the data and I like the options provided for that.

Use this to find the weeds and pull them out

Very simple, customizable and the concept of random polling for data is a great idea. Im successfully tracking things that I would always forget to log in other apps.

I just wish I could do more things with the data. And, if not. I wish there were an easier way to get it into a spreadsheet. But we cant even visualize the data in diverse ways on the app, which is why it would be nice if there were easier exporting capabilities.

Its really great app with incredible potential, but theres missing something very important - visualizing progress. Tracking is just half of success with optimizing our life, second half is visualizing data over time to see is there any progress, data alone isnt enough. I hope you can do something with this. Sorry for my english.

I had high hopes for this app. I wanted to gather the probability of how high traffic was depending on the day, season, temperature, etc. It records all of that but it doesnt correlate your questions to those important facts that are already automatically recorded. Its just a simple majority percentage % statistic database. Unless you want to know the percentage how many times you usually poop a day or how happy you usually are then go for it!

How it works: You create questions and then have option to create predetermined answer selections for those questions. Answers can be yes/no, a number, or any other answers which you define. The app randomly sends alerts that prompt you to check-in. You then answer the questions which you previously created. Depending on the type of answer, the app will make a report (either a line graph or a proportion) for each question individually. The bad: You cant set the times for the alerts or how many times a question gets asked. You also cant compare data. For example, if I wanted to see the data for two questions, side by side, I cant. The user interface is also terrible. Its clean but seriously lacks utility. I think the developer tried too hard to make it look trendy and forgot about function. I would not recommend this app. It is more trouble than it is useful. The frustration that comes from trying to make this app work truly outweighs the positives.

This is really the best app out there for easy personal data collection. Youll probably want to be some sort of a data scientist to put the data into a report, but you get basic histograms out of the box. It was co-written by Feltron, so Google his annual report for an example of what this will help you create.

I almost gave this only one star for the countless times Ive lost ideas I was in the middle of entering! I would give it 5 if this was fixed!!!

No frills, always works, flexible. Realize you need to configure the questions yourself. The best for those who want to configure their logging.

Beautiful idea, as were notoriously bad at compiling data about ourselves over a distribution of moods and contexts. I think there could be some small scale changes to really push this: rating scales w/ or w/o anchors, slider responses (to get at the nuances of things), bivariate visualizations, the ability to fit more characters into a question (cutting off at a few words), and integration with Fitbit (the new health sensor world). All-in-all, Im going to work with it as is because it is such an awesome idea (and calming design), but I think some small-scale implementations would push me to the 5-star zone.