D Minder Pro

I really need this app for my vitamin D, but find it extremely unpredictable. Despite reminders being set for my phone and watch, it only reminds me of D being available maybe 5% of the time. The watch app suddenly stops my sun session for no reason, and there’s no way to actually stop the session on your watch once you start it. On the phone app, you can’t see the D time forecast for the next day or week. I need the app but I wish it were better.

I want to pay! But nowhere is it obvious how you do pay. Worse, the add takes up the whole screen, is in Spanish, and has no way to close. I get as supported apps, but some on already, have a bit of tact on which ad platform you choose. And for gods sake, make it easy for people to pay for your product.

Used to love the app, just downloaded on my new phone and it’s just a black screen.

Used to be a good app. Now it’s all ads

I’ve used the paid version for at least 5 or 6 years. The UI is clunky and not particularly intuitive. But it does exactly what you would expect it to. I tracked my d3 for 3 months and it underestimated my blood level by 40% but at least it didn’t over estimate. Overall I’m happy with this app.

not worth it anymore, finding a new app. save your time.

…the food items are limited in the entry screen to maybe a dozen items, there are a lot more foods that contain vitamin D. The app does not allow sun exposure entries outside of their ideal window, this seems silly as you still get D, it is just not very much. After reading the other reviewers, don’t think I’ll buy and will delete.

They have added ads which I would understand but they put buttons on the ads that makes you think you can skip them or click out of them when you really can’t. Some of the ads are over a minute long. I won’t be using this any longer because if you are in the sun and need to end your session but there’s an ad, you can’t.

I’m so appreciative of this app. Because it’s the only one like it, it provides a needed service. But it seems to have gotten worse recently when it started running ads. I’m fine dealing with ads for something I get for free. But it has actually compromised the app itself in someways. Sometimes now I find that when I go to clear an ad, I set my phone down only to pick it up and realize that the session has been paused and not tracking the session I’m currently in, so I lose how much sun I’m actually getting. This happens almost every time I use the app now. And all of my 7, 30, and 90 day trackers are all in the -80,000 range or more for some bizarre reason, which really messed up the calculation of my current running total for tracking my D over the summer. It feels hardly useable now. And I don’t know that paying for whatever upgrades are available would actually change these user issues, even without ads.

I am so happy with this app! I rarely write app reviews but I am just so thrilled that this app actually did what it said it would do. I was so skeptical about the accuracy of the IU amount being absorbed by the sun and the estimated amount needed. However, when I started using the app my doctor tested my blood levels of vitamin d at 21 ng/ml. After using this app to track my daily sun for about a month, I was up to 29 according to the app. I just had my blood levels rechecked at the doctor and I am at 32 ng/ml! I am unable to take oral vitamin d supplements so being able to accurately track my sun exposure this way is amazing! I am continuing to work on reaching my goal of 40-50 ng/ml and telling everyone I know about this app! I will also say I paid for the $2 ad free version and it was 100% worth it. That’s a very fair amount to pay for an app that is working so well for me.