Evolve: Self-Care & ADHD Coach

I hate this app. It was nice before but now im realizing its gathering all of your personal information. you can’t delete it and a nature sound goes on every time it sends you a notification, which means every time it sends you a notification your phone is running until you look at it. like I’ll leave my phone at the house to go somewhere and when I come back after like an hour or two, I’ll hear the nature sound and it’s usually been running for 1 to 2 hours. this isn’t fun, this isn’t relieving, but it gathers your personal information and keeps your phone running for hours, so when you actually get back to your phone, you don’t really get much time with it because the battery will run out every time you go to it. I wanna give this one star but then people won’t see it. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!

It feels like a safe, welcoming space for LGBTQ+ people. I appreciate how customizable the experience is. I can focus on things like drinking water and mindfulness. One area that I’d love to see improved is around notifications. I’ve been getting a lot of them and they often come in at odd hours, like overnight. It’d be great to have options for time of day and types of notifications (to help adjust the volume). Overall, though, it’s a really special app that can make a big impact.

I really like this app as a guide to start and end a day. It has some really meaningful/thoughtful prompts and practices that have been really helpful to me for about a week. The subscription price too is reasonable although the free version is fantastic as is. I personally have been considering upgrading to the subscription but there are some bugs in the app make me a little indecisive because they happen pretty frequently and sort of disrupt the experience. These all will be related to features that generally work great besides a small issue that comes interrupts their usage. For the first, the app has a nice feature where it starts up with nature noises that are really pleasant to listen during exercises and meditations. Today though these noises scared me twice because they just started to play without the app being open. The only way to get them to stop playing too was to actually open this app and close it in which they would immediately stop. It’s just odd because I am not sure what triggered them. My phone is always on silence too so I am not used to getting notification noises as is, but this seemed to be just the app that plays in the app. For both times I was nowhere near my phone but just noticed from a distance that some nature noises were being played (and sounded familiar.) Both times I just opened and closed the app to get the noises to stop playing. I am just glad I wasn’t anywhere that needed silence though. On another note, there are also meditations and breathing exercises on the app that are really well done on their own but they often look like they are made for a thinner screen like maybe a non-iOS device. I don’t mind this as is but sometimes the difference causes an issue where an exercise can’t be closed or finished (it’s infrequent though - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.) When the issue happens though, it feels like the touch screen doesn’t register no matter how many times the X in the corner is hit (even though my phone has a perfectly function screen too.) Luckily the app remembers and records everything despite this issue, it isn’t the worst problem to work but it sort of sticks out in a user’s experience of the app because the app shouldn’t have to be closed and re-opened again while following the exercises. In this case that’s how I solve the issue but it’d be nice not to need to do so.