Athlete's Diary

Only when this app is first installed, does dropbox work for about an hour and then it stops working and will not sync and will quickly erase all your data unless you’re very careful. The developer needs to fix this if you want to continue to get good reviews so fix it.

Been using this app for years, then recently it stopped working. I contacted support and got crickets. So, for months nowI’ve been unable to log my workouts. I certainly wouldn’t buy this app again.

update to my review: Night Mode is broken. iPad app is still not sized for full screen. I hope the developer plans to continue revitalizing this very useful app. ———————— I started using Athlete’s Diary about 1996, and have stuck with it, even though it hasn’t been updated for the last four years! I thought for sure its days were numbered. It never transitioned to larger phone screens (iPhone X). But it continued to log thousands of entries, reliably. During the interim, I sent emails to the developer, but didn’t receive a reply. This morning, I was shocked and delighted to see an update on my phone. The Athlete’s Diary is a warhorse of logbook software. It can seem limited, without a lot of flair—some of the icons look to be pre-retinal display—but its features are essential. I have nearly 16,000 entries logged into it, and I don’t think it’s ever crashed. I hope it continues to get updated in the years ahead. (PS, I hope The Athlete’s Diary on my Mac and iPad have been updated too!)

This app does not sync with Dropbox as advertised, despite two months of promises that it will. Otherwise it would be great.

Well I went to TAD's help section and figured out that I had to change setting on my phone. Now everything looks fine. Forget what I said (except the GPS suggestion.)

I've used The Athlete's Diary for probably ten years. Every single day! First on my PDA and then on my iPhone. I have the desktop version, too. After all this time, I have lost interest in using it. The fonts are too small. It is not an attractive or intuitive app. Compared to many modern and HD apps it look really dated. I started marking my workouts on a paper calendar and it is easier!

After many attempts I was able to get my log to transfer over from my 3GS to the 4S phone. Emailing to gmail, then on my laptop copying and pasting into the body of a new email, followed by emailing to the new phone was what finally did it for me. All my info appears to be there, however the app still crashes when trying to see the Totals in the Monthly and Yearly views. Weekly view appears to work ok. I was able to input a new work out and it saved ok. I really like this app, so I'm glad that you are keeping it going. Once all the views work again I'll update to five stars.

And frustrated that after 10+ years of use it is still so convoluted to back up my data when so many other developers have such simple solutions. Definitely not worth $20. Also, non-functional with iOS5, crashes!

Worked well until I upgraded to iOs 5.

The Athlete's Diary is awesome! I've been using it for years on my desktop computer and Treo to track my training progress. If fact, it was the only reason I was holding onto my Treo! TAD had become so important to my daily training that I was still using my Treo even though I canceled the phone service months ago when I got my iPhone! The Athlete's Diary is super easy to use. Just enter your time and distance and TAD does the rest. Use the graphs to see your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly totals. Filter by activity or favorite route to see your progress leading up to a major race or competition. The Autofill feature to makes data entry even faster by automatically filling in the info you care most about. I use it to prompt me to record my heart rate, max speed, and route conditions in the Comments section. Your possibilities are endless. So, thank you Stevens Creek, for finally bringing TAD to the Apps Store. My iPhone is complete...for now!!