Life Cycle - Track Your Time

Name: Life Cycle - Track Your Time
Rating: 4.66784 (38263 reviews)

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Life Cycle - Track Your Time

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Sleep Cycle AB

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User Reviews for Life Cycle - Track Your Time

Incredible app, but flawed pricing

I use this app on a daily basis to help me track my time spent on activities in a week. There are 168 hours in a week, and by using this app, I can see how that time is allocated. In doing so, it helps me keep a balanced life, and I'm currently subscribed for the premium features. I love the structure and aesthetics of the app, and it's very user-friendly.However, it is absolutely ridiculous to require a $30 annual subscription from Sleep Cycle in order to access some of the sleep trend data charts. It's clearly unnecessary as the two options unavailable are "activities affecting your sleep quality" and "location effecting your sleep quality." Since Life Cycle continuously tracks your location & the sleep recorded by Sleep Cycle is synced, then there is absolutely no reason for the Sleep Cycle online backup subscription to be required. And how can Sleep Cycle selectively transfer data to Life Cycle by requiring online backup for some data, but not all data in the Life Cycle trends? I will gladly pay $10 a year for many years, but to quadruple that expense for access to two "additional" sleep trend data charts is ludicrous.I've recommended this app to several friends, but this limitation has really turned them away.

Account4this, Sep 13, 2017

I don’t get it? Also almost all data is totally wrong.

I’ve used this app for several weeks now in conjunction with Sleep Cycle (which I’ve used off and on since 2009 and which has only gotten worse and worse with each “improvement”) and I still don’t understand what I’m supposed to get out of this. I have to manually add or correct almost every activity which is tedious and time consuming. It gets basically every location and amount of time spent there wrong, and somehow despite being linked with Sleep Cycle which I’ve been using every day along with this, it has totally different info about time spent sleeping. This last week it said my average time spent sleeping was more than any individual day in Sleep Cycle (and about three times as much as I actually slept on average. Now that it is finally giving me trends they’re extremely simplistic and uninteresting. Even worse, the much touted journal feature has an extremely short character limit that renders it essentially useless. I know I’m kind of wordy but there wasn’t a single event that I could even fully describe, let alone reflect on. Give this one a hard pass, it’s a total waste of time (and a lot of time, at that).

AndreHarbo, Oct 05, 2020

Really Awesome, Very Helpful for Me

I absolutely adore this app. I told a couple friends about it and they love it, too. Some people I’ve talked to think it’s creepy that I use an app that tracks my every move, but I’m the only one with access to this information and it doesn’t use my locations and activities to give me those “targeted ads” you see on Facebook and Google. I have a really bad memory, and for a long time it bothered me that I couldn’t remember what I did or where I went on a certain day. This app solves that problem for me and I honestly think it’s the most useful app I’ve ever had. Now I can easily access dates of Doctor’s appointments, weekend trips, events, and other things that are important for me to know. I like to add notes to describe what I did when I was at a certain location or doing a certain activity like hanging out with my friends - that way I can go back whenever I want and reminisce about a really fun night that I had, even if I’d forgotten about it.

AnnMarie1621, Feb 23, 2018

Great but can still be improved

I love this app, I've been working two jobs over the summer and it's helped me keep track of how many hours I've been working and how much time I've spent driving or sitting at home. There are still a few areas that can be improved however. The weekly view would be way better if it updated each day instead of at the end of every week. The statistics can sometimes be really stupid, it'll tell me I've slept 6% more on a Sunday or something like that, who gives a crap about 6%? it's tiny. I think it would also be a good idea for there to be a map that shows your daily activities like the google maps timeline. Lastly I think it should track the routes you take each day. Update: After recent updates the weekly view now gets updated automatically, the statistics are much better, but I really think the map showing your activities would be a really good idea. I also think that the donut should be more like a timeline, in order, rather than chunks of different activities throughout your day.

FUTUREpilot267, Jan 05, 2018

Great, but needs some polishing

I’ve been paying for this app since 2019, and I use it a lot. I love it so much. It gets so much right and is a fantastic way to log lots of my life. Because I’ve used it for so long, I’ve picked up on some problems. This is a wish list of changes: some Apple Fitness categories, such as dancing, show up as “(null)” in the app; it’s not possible to delete some of the default categories; the app glitched and created other (null) categories that can’t be removed (and they are not from Apple Fitness or Health); the step calculation rarely matches what’s in Fitness or Health; you can’t search for any notes; clicking an activity only shows the number of visits for the current calendar year but I’d like to see it for other times; it struggles to register a location if I haven’t been there for at least 10 minutes and if I don’t connect to Wifi there; if it doesn’t record you were at a place, it’s almost impossible to add it later because the location search works only from where you currently are or around a location it’s marked before.

I Have Lots of Opinions, Aug 17, 2023

Simply the best time tracking

Such a great. So many time tracking apps are focused solely on what you’re doing, and force you to manually tell it what you’re doing and when. That doesn’t feel like time tracking at all. That feels like time waisting. This app does something pretty obvious, and it does it so well. It tracks your time based on location. You’re at work, that must mean you’re doing work, you’re driving somewhere that must mean you’re driving in a car. It makes assumptions for you based on what you do at different locations. If you work from home one day, just go in and tap the plus icon to change that home time to worked time. I’m sure they’re people who need to track projects and tasks at a much more micro level. But for me, getting info such as I normally eat lunch at a certain time on Tuesdays or the last time I was at a friends house or even that I got less sleep than I normally do is such a great value for money. I love that this app lets me look back easily on what I did and when I did it with very little work or effort. Great app that offers incredible insights.

johndoeindigo, Jul 10, 2019

Not Completely Automatic.

I have been using this for a number of years now. At first I understood that I needed to tell it what I was doing as it learned the locations and many times it was just unable to get it close. After years of it having inaccurate location data I finally decided to raise a case with support just to find out if I can manually move the map pin to the correct location. I was told that it is unable to change the pin as it just pulls the data from the built in location services that the phone does automatically. Upon learning how it does it, I was able to look up the data from the most recent inaccurate map pin only to find that the phone had the location correct. I also noticed that the times on the in built data was more accurate than life cycle. I wrote back to support saying that the phone had the correct location and asked how can I get the app to use it. The response I got back that it wasn’t possible and just to create an event manually. When you do that though it doesn’t let you pick an address or location on a map so if you return you have to hope it gets it right when you go back. Would have given a higher rating if they showed some effort at improving it. But since there has been hardly any changes to the app since it started I shouldn’t expect them to start it now.

kaimax18, May 24, 2021

Terrible customer service

I have used Life Cycle (and Northcube’s linked app, Sleep Cycle) for roughly three years as a premium subscriber. Over that time, I have found the information useful and the app itself fairly intuitive. However, last week, my app stopped logging location changes or recognizing that I had left a location. After deleting and restoring the app, I was unable to restore my premium account or recover my data. In the time since, I have been corresponding with the developer’s customer service team who seem determined to misunderstand my requests for help. After four rounds of unhelpful suggestions, I was told to follow the exact steps I outlined in my original request—the fact that those steps did not work the several times I tried them was what prompted me to reach out for help in the first place!I am wildly dissatisfied with the way my request for support has been managed; I am frustrated that the developer has taken this long to understand a simple issue. Unfortunately, while the app has been very insightful up to this point, I would strongly recommend not logging this kind of data in a system that crashes and, apparently, will not allow you to recover your data.

Miak811, Jan 29, 2020

Great App But Could Use Some Improvements!

I mostly use it to keep track of my time spent doing things because I have a terrible memory, and it works really well... For the most part.I have spotty reception at my work and it’s also a fairly large facility, so often times my tracked work day times will be a mess that I have to fix manually almost every day. I understand that this is mostly reception and gps, and the fact there’s no wifi there, but perhaps if I could just set a large area to be “Work” and whenever I’m there it just sets it as that.Also sometimes it completely ignores commutes to work or home, sometimes just adding to my “work” or under “transportation.” I can’t directly change or add commute times either, which is a pain.Overall a solid app, would definitely recommend to anyone looking to keep track of their day to day business.Ps I have to agree with another review that the pricing is a little on the high side for what it is!

Mikie Swart, Sep 17, 2017

Needs a few changes

I’ve been trying out the free trail for a few weeks, and I love the idea behind this app so far. However, I will not be paying for premium and don’t see myself sticking even to the free version because of a few small bugs that irritate me. First, there are some bugs with this app tracking location. It can sometimes take a couple days for it to pop up that I was in an area or it won’t show up at all, then I have to enter it manually (which is both annoying and inaccurate). Second, why can’t I edit the activities already in the app? I don’t need a lunch and dinner option, just a “food” option. I could create my own, but it still irritates me to see the other options cluttering up my activities. Third, an activity at a uncategorized location will have a general area on a map tagged to it. But once I put in a custom name for the location, sometimes the location is untagged? Fourth, I’d like to be able to start an activity in the app somehow and stop it manually. Rather than having to remember my start and stop times and enter it after I finish if I want to manually create an activity. Finally, it would be nice to have more color options and be able to view my day in chronological order as well as by category. Overall the concept behind this app is great but I’m going to delete it because the execution makes the app more difficult to use than it’s insights are worth.

pepe's child, Dec 30, 2017

Description

Life Cycle automatically keeps track of your time and presents your life sorted into slices. It shows you your daily activities, places you go, and who you spend time with. Life Cycle weekly journal provides personalized insights and clarity to your week passed.

Start each week with a look back. Remember where you’ve been and vision where you’re going. Whether you’re just curious of how your time is spent or looking to make a change, Life Cycle is your daily companion, providing you with all the information and insights you need. What’s more - it uses only 1% of your phone’s battery while it seamlessly does the work. FREE FEATURES • Automatic - Life Cycle works in the background, recording and sorting what you do as you go about your daily business. • Less than 1% battery - Life Cycle uses less than 1% of your battery per day as it runs in the background. • Weekly journal - Weekly insight to activities, accompanied by photos tied to moments passed. • From a day to a year - view your life day by day, week by week, month by month or even year by year. • Apple Health - Fully integrated. Imports all activities, mindfulness and sleep data. • Friends - Connect with your friends on Facebook and see who you’re spending time with, what you’re doing and where. • Sleep Cycle connection - For accurate sleep data, connect with Sleep Cycle alarm clock through Apple Health. (Life Cycle only reads data from Health, it does not share any data. It reads Sleep Analysis and Steps data.) PREMIUM FEATURES • Connect to your Sleep Cycle account - If you have an online backup account with Sleep Cycle, Life Cycle will let you know how your daily habits affect your sleep quality score. • Backup - Keep your data safe with our backup system. Never worry about losing your Life Cycle logs again. • Graphs - Beyond the donuts, Life Cycle shows you what you do with your time in detailed graphs for deeper analysis. The visuals gives you insight to if you're spending your time on what’s most important to you. • Compare trends - see if you’re dropping in sleep hours, if you’re working too much or if you’ve taken longer walks this week. Compare trends over the weeks, months or years. BATTERY CONSUMPTION Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Life Cycle does not use the GPS in the background, but instead relies on cell tower and Wi-Fi locations. As a result, it consumes less than 1% of your battery per day, when the app runs in the background. REQUIREMENTS • Life Cycle needs to run in the background to be able to record your data. It only uses 1% of your battery per day when doing so. • You need to carry your phone with you, for Life Cycle to accurately record and interpret your activities. • Wi-Fi should be enabled on your phone for tracking to work. Should you choose to subscribe to Life Cycle Premium, the purchase will be charged to your iTunes account. You can manage or cancel your auto-renewable subscription by entering the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours before the subscription period ends, with the same kind of subscription you already bought, to the same price. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of service: https://www.northcube.com/terms-service-life-cycle/ Privacy policy: https://www.northcube.com/privacy-policy-for-life-cycle/