Timeular: Time Tracking

Got this gadget as a present, just to discover there is no subscription free app.. Honestly, the gadget is already quite expensive and paying extra subscription for an app that is nothing special and sometimes buggy is a huge flaw for me..

The app is very nice and seamless between devices, but what makes it stand out is the physical tracker that can be purchased separately. It’s a bit expensive, the tracker, but once the muscle memory kicks in to which face of the 8 face shape has to to be up for the task you are wanting to track, all the rest is just simply transparent, no clicking no key shortcuts, nothing; all you need is to put the tracker task face up and it starts tracking. Then when you are don with the task just turn the tracker to the next, or if you have finished with it completely, put it back in its stand and all timers stop. The app has a few quirks, but nothing that can’t be sorted with a bit of dev work. One such thing is in the tracker pairing, it makes you go to the blue tooth menu of iPhone, you don’t see the new tracker to pair, but when you return to the app then the tracker in sure enough paird. Other thing to keep in mind is the cost of the subscription required after the trial to be able to use the tool in full: a bit expensive for home use. For the rest really good and I lov using it, and has already given me plenty of interesting insights.

Decent but lacking a lot of features and the UX feels slow to get into tracking if you’re on the go. Unable to edit spaces on mobile and only able to add activities to the first space on mobile. Feels unfinished as these standard edit options should be there so you can actually use the app. You’re also unable to edit the order your spaces are in or create spaces on mobile, so if it so happens one of your most active activities gets listed at the bottom you’ll be scrolling down to it every time. Also adding icons to spaces on the computer is painful, you can only see 4 rows of icons at a time in a really really small window. Please make this bigger, there is no need for a window with icons the size of 8x8 or 16x16 to be so small, I have to squint. There’s no fast time tracking widgets if you’re into tracking activity on the go, so this app can get tedious and feel like a detriment with the constant opening, closing, scrolling to the task, starting the tracker and stopping. Analytics on the desktop are good however, and the only main reason to stay with the app.

Really wanted to get the tracker but can’t even seem to log into the iPad app..... which is actually iPhone app not iPad.... will give this a miss until they get this bit of their act together, no point in tracker without excellent software!

Great concept However, they are clearly marketing a MVP (concept product) that shouldn’t be on the market yet. - far larger than you think. You can’t take it anywhere with you easily - software/app is extremely basic - cost is through the roof (probably to prove to investors that there is a market at that price, which there isn’t if the product is not good enough) What should they do? - he clear it’s a Beta and offer early adopters upgrades as they become available or - work on a better product before marketing it

The concept seemed good so I downloaded the app to give it a go. Glad I didn’t buy the tracker! My primary device is my iPad Pro, which is a productivity beast, so I assumed that such a known productivity software would have iPadOS support, but no: Simply an iPhone-sized window rotated the wrong way, sitting on my screen. Forget buying a $70 device, the free app just isn’t ready yet for me without iPad support.

I really love this little app and gadget! I work in an agency so I need to track my time accurately. This does the trick!

Nice concept but it just does not work. Time is not logged properly in the app. I would rather not pay for beta software

The hardware is a bonus; the real value is in the ability to use categories, tags and mentions in the app to get insight into where my time is being spent.

Using the paid version of this and can’t understand why there are negative reviews. The app works brilliantly and is highly intuitive, just take a little bit of time at the outset to think through how you want to record time categories and how you will relate those categories to hashtags and @mentions. All the information you need to work out which approach will work best for your workflow is there on the blog.