Word Keeper - Writing Tracker

Pros: 1. A word counter + timer 2. Can add covers Cons: 1. HUGELY expensive for the most basic of functionality: seriously bare bones 2. Timer is 30 mins only; no option to choose differing lengths or even change the alarm to something in my phone 3. The interface is buggy as heck and often just crashes 4. The “daily tasks” is hardwired to American time with no ability to change it, meaning it doesn’t come up with the right day’s tasks—BUT the start date/end date are local! Meaning i get a “date passed” on projects when I’m trying to compensate for being on American dates otherwise 5. It crashed for the last time and I can’t get it to work again. Have deleted. In sum: app is barebones, lacklustre and absolutely not worth 48 bucks PER YEAR

I bought this and now I don’t have access anymore to my account...

Hi word keeper, this new version shows great potential, but the way it presents stats is a little disappointing. Data representation: The “words” section is definitely not working right. I entered the word count in the writing phase but still the “highest” per day shows a number that’s clearly wrong. And the pixels look weird. Also, please display the corresponding dates for “highest”. The “lowest” in words/day really isn’t necessary as the lowest would be days when I didn’t write at all... I believe a rank of most productive days with the word count + dates (as in the older version) is much more helpful than simply “highest”. This way you eliminate the outlier days when I happen to be writing much more than I usually do, hence give a more informative / realistic representation of my productivity. Another old version function I found to be helpful is the recent daily / weekly / annual word count graph. Personally I’m more interested in how much I actually wrote instead of how long or when I wrote. After all, I use this app as a word count tracker, not a habit tracker. If you could label the Y axis in Phases it would be great. I’m still trying to figure out what it means. The “time” session doesn’t display the current date/week/month. The month is in MM instead of MM/YY. I recently realised that all this time I’ve been looking at Nov/2018 stats in stead of 2019. When I click on a date I should be able to bring up an analogue from which I can select the date I want to see. Other suggestions: Should be able to click on tasks to add session. Vertical list of project makes more sense than horizontal. For one thing, that way you can show project names under the icons. Petition to bring the surprise achievement badges back! Would love to see new themes/fonts. What’s so great about the older design is the simplicity of its interface. This newer version feels cumbersome for some reason. I’m sure with some minor tweaks the functionality will be much improved. I understand that to polish this many functions all at once is a lot of work, but this really is an unique app and I cannot do without it. Keep up the good work!

I’ve had this app for twelve months, and up until these last couple of weeks, it’s been absolutely brilliant. It tracked everything it needed to track and there was never a glitch. It was a good, simple, useful app. This last update - totally changing everything from the interface to the various forms of data that can be entered and tracked - has ruined it completely. I have twice had to delete one project and start over as amending word counts on previous diary entries has messed up the total word count, and there’s no way to manually amend it. This has wasted so much time, re-entering all my word counts, times and accepting the loss of the extensive notes. That’s not to mention that doing so is no simple task thanks to the terrible calendar that takes you back to the main page after entering anything. That’s not it’s only issue. The app changes the daily word limit of its own accord, and consequently offers target dates and daily word counts that I do not want and when I manually change them, it changes them back. Accessing diary entries for previous days doesn’t seem possible, if you have more than one entry each day, as so far I cannot seem to access more than one entry on any given day. I can see that the idea was to make something more elaborate, but the attempt has rendered it untrustworthy and all but useless to me. I am really really disappointed. This was not a cheap app.

Barebones functionality that is just okay. No widgets, no Apple Watch, no updates. For a subscription based app, it is barely even kept up to date for new phones. The developer seems to put no effort into updating it or adding features…

This app is more worried about metrics than letting you get in and write. I searched the entire app and the Place it allowed me to actually write anything was in an obscure notes section. Garbage time waster

I’ve tried a number of tools to track my word count, and this one is by far my favorite. It’s easy to use, and it’s helping me improve my speed.

Once you finish your trial you will have to subscribe. You won’t be able to enter your account until you do that. I find it really silly to do this, the app is very outdated to begin with. It doesn’t give any sort of motivation to keep writing. It’s a simple app, but way too simple and so boring to look at. They should have made it as a paid app instead of a subscription base. It’s not really worth a lot for a subscription from the way it looks. I’d turn to something else.

Why make us set up an account before you reveal that subscription is the only option? Why not make the first step of the subscription be to set up an account?

Tried it. A subscription service for this app is absolutely ridiculous. Will never use it again.