Arc Timeline - Trips & Places

I love this app and the idea behind it that everything stays on my phone and my iCloud account. Unfortunately the “Arc has stopped recording” issue seems to be getting ever worse. (currently I am on iOS 13.3.1)

“Arc has stopped recording” keeps happening. I’ve tried Arc on and off for months and this keeps happening. Perhaps it’s my phone, or my location. But just now it happened again while stationary at a table at home. The developer is AMAZING, super responsive. But for now, Arc is not for me. I am looking forward to giving it another try in a few months though :)

Why allow only the map so have a dark version when everything else is retina-burningly bright? Honestly really annoyed this was overlooked.

I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro and this app is using unreasonable amounts of battery on days that I don’t leave the house and when I’m sleeping. I have to uninstall because it makes my phone die way too fast.

I wasn’t mad about subscribing- I think it’s a worthwhile feature that comes in handy often enough I would pay money for it. But coincidentally, now that I have been paying for a few months (and not really using its features) it’s suddenly broken. It’s useless. It doesn’t work. I thought maybe it’s from the app being closed out, but NOPE. I made sure the app was open yesterday and even today, it says there’s an empty timeline. I live that I’ve now wasted minimum of $15 just to find out this once handy, now expensive app is now unusable. Is this a scam?!

Instead of the promised increase in accuracy, the app is no longer identifying locations/stops at all, and it now consistently identifies walking as driving. Oh, and I never quit out of the app, so it’s running normally. Up until now it had been great. Now it’s mediocre.

Used for a long time. All it does is crash now.

I used this app for 2 years until the subscription was forced. During that time it worked mostly good. For me, the real value of this app was merely having a reliable history of my location. This app is really good at consistently logging your location and not being killed off in background like some other location trackers. Unfortunately the subscription was forced in order to get any functionality, and the entire app is locked behind a subscription page now. I can't imagine subscribing to a log of my own gps location data, so if you're a user like me who doesn't care about any of the ML and life logging features, I guess it's time to look elsewhere. I did read some confusing details that the author wrote in response to a critical review, but I still don't understand the subscription limitations. Unfortunately the app support link just goes to a marketing page that is devoid of support information. The confusion surrounding the subscription seems like it could be easily solved by putting an actual support page up.

Honestly I really want to love this app, but it’s hard to trust with how it failed to load my backup from a couple years ago. The price is reasonable, and anyone who wants to use it the backup feature appears to work at least if it’s recent. Just given me trust issues

Was surprised to see this app now requires a subscription. The monthly fee seems incredibly high considering what is being offered. Edit: after seeing the devs responses below, I can understand why the fee is present.