Arachnifiles: Pet Tracker

I really hate to leave a bad review on something - especially related to one of my favorite hobbies. However, this app is completely unusable. I haven’t even been able to add a single animal to my collection. I have watched the tutorials and everything to make sure I’m doing it right and not skipping steps even though it is pretty self explanatory. However, after selecting a picture, filling everything out, and then clicking “save” absolutely nothing happens. It stays on the same screen where I fill in all the info and the save button just lights back up. I can even spam the save button and nothing happens. I have closed out the app and restarted it as well as logged out of my account and logged back in. Nothing fixes the issue and if I can’t add anything to my collection then the app is useless. I will update my review once this issue is fixed as this app has great potential.

I am using the app to track my jumping spiders. One feature we need is to record stats for egg sacs. Another feature I would love is a photo archive for each spider so I can track color changes for them as well as their chels since they vary and change so much from molt to molt. Also, I would like to report an issue with transferring cloud data. I use the app on both my iPhone and iPad. Sometimes when I transfer data from one device to the other it will delete all pictures of my spiders, sometimes only some. It’s really frustrating because I have 50 spiders plus egg sacs and communal slings I’m tracking and it’s very time consuming to have to add them all back just for them to be erased again.

Make no mistake I absolutely will be updating my rating since this app is still under development. So far I really love being able to catalogue all my creepy crawlies. I had an excel table keeping all of them there but it’s so much easier to have an app where they display like little collector cards. I’m really excited to see how this app updates over time. In the meantime I have a few things that I would like to suggest for the next update! Some tarantula species are not labeled, or at least the ones that aren’t entirely in a scientific species that exists already. I.E. Hapolopus sp. colombia, Cyriopagopus sp. hati hati, etc. I’d like to see subspecies available on the drop downs as well so that I don’t have to write them in. Also noticed in the iPhone version that the scorpion genus and species has no drop down. Would like to see that included. My favorite keeper app so far! Really enjoying it and can’t wait to see it grow!