Arachnifiles

This has lots of perks. Looks great. Lots of resources like enclosures, supplies, merch, and access to community, all at your fingertips. As far as functionality, it falls a little short for me. I do love the way the rehousing and substrate changes get logged. And being able to easily access care history for things like that. The information shown on the cards/in the lists is useful, but the info I want to have “at a glance,” isn’t there. As far as I can find, setting feeding reminders can only be done while logging a feeding. Frustrating. Molt info is lacking. It’s hard to track trends, “days hungry” - nonexistent, and same goes for “days in premolt,” “previous cycle length,” and “molt cycle predictions.” The graphs are neat, but seeing “last fed/watered,” is clunky at best. There’s no way to change the date or time formats. Date acquired, rehoused, molted, etc are again, not easy to see “at a glance.” It’s just… clunky. I have to go into each spider’s info to find what I’m looking for most of the time and then there’s an annoying amount of guesswork or number crunching involved in calculating when which spider needs what. The feeding graph is basically useless to me. I want to see when the spider last ate quickly, plus when it molted last, how long it’s been, and when I watered it last, so I can then observe the spider and gauge whether it’s hungry, thirsty, out for a stroll, or uncomfortable because a molt is coming up soon. Most of the time, I don’t really need to know if it had two crickets last time or three. I just need to know if it’s actually hungry or not. The amount of food (tracked and dated by the graph) only tells me whether I need to increase, decrease, or keep the amount the same, but only in conjunction with about half a dozen other factors. I’d rather see when and what quickly first. The dates in the graph are difficult to read, too. I don’t want to have to go into each spider’s profile to see those things either. I only have 12, but that’s still kind of time consuming. And it gets confusing, “Wait, did I take care of the C. olivaceum yet? When did it molt last again? Ugh.” I LOVE the idea and all the bells and whistles this app has. The functionality could use some improvements though. So, I’ll keep using the less pretty, but far more functionally useful app (with the annoyingly disruptive ads) and checking back with this one periodically. 🤷🏻

I really enjoy this app and the concept of it. But it glitches a LOT and keeps losing my data. Hard to give it a higher review when I can’t really rely on it to be accurate. :(

I’ve only had for a few days now and it is awesome I think that it is so cool that they have a full blown platform and I just wanted to say for people who are skeptical cuz of the 3.7 stars it is amazing

I really like the app, but I feel like things I save get erased, such as feedings, molts ect. Also currently I can’t even add a new Tarantula card! Please fix this! I have new babies I need to add to this cards!

I love it but it always gets rid of the pictures I upload from my phone

Honestly this app is a godsend, especially if you keep a lot of inverts and wanna keep track of them. I love the option to turn on feeding reminders for each specimen. I’ve had one little issue with the wishlist, (fantastic addition to the app btw) where I will go in to edit the genus/species name and hit save, then hit save again, only for it to stay the same. I’ve tried restarting the app but ran into the same issue. Hope this gets fixed soon because I love that function so much!

This is a great app for keeping everything in one place. However, even with the recent updates my pictures are constantly deleting themselves, info I put in just disappears, and it’s just not very user friendly. It’ll usually stay updated while I'm still in the app, but as soon as I close the app and open it again the stuff is gone. It’s very frustrating and I definitely understand this isn’t a huge company making this app so I'm not upset at all, just wanted to leave some feedback about some glitches. There are a lot of good aspects even still and I’d recommend the app for sure if it ends up actually saving the information. Editing to add: now every single one of my 30 tarantulas has a black page and the pictures have all disappeared.

I want to like it. It’s a great idea. But can’t even get past the start screen to make my profile. I try to reset my password and when you hit reset, it does nothing. It also claims the password you create never works.

Love having my whole collection at my fingertips Makes feeding and maintenance easier to manage Therefore healthier happier T’s. Thank you

The app deleted half of my index of spiders I had, and all my feeding info that was in the app as well… might as well delete the whole thing… I lost a lot of good information there ☹️