D Minder Pro

I’ve tried to be patient with this over the last couple weeks. I depend on this app so much to document vitamin d intake from the sun. I am unable to get it through typical oral supplements. Comparing the IU’s I was getting for 25 minutes, same time of day, same clear skies, same bikini, got me 6k IU here in Houston just a few weeks ago, before I started getting the black screen. The UV is even higher now. I got 3,000 IU today and started to burn. It’s not just not accurate anymore. Also, I had to manually enter the session again today because it still will not let me start a session from the drop down menu. This is so incredibly frustrating. The old app would alert you when you needed to turn over to avoid burning. It would also alert when you’ve met your max time outside, also to avoid burning. None of these important alerts are available when you have to manually enter. Also, I keep deleting and updating the app every morning, hoping it will work correctly.

I’m so appreciative of this app. Because it’s the only one like it, it provides a needed service. But it seems to have gotten worse recently when it started running ads. I’m fine dealing with ads for something I get for free. But it has actually compromised the app itself in someways. Sometimes now I find that when I go to clear an ad, I set my phone down only to pick it up and realize that the session has been paused and not tracking the session I’m currently in, so I lose how much sun I’m actually getting. This happens almost every time I use the app now. And all of my 7, 30, and 90 day trackers are all in the -80,000 range or more for some bizarre reason, which really messed up the calculation of my current running total for tracking my D over the summer. It feels hardly useable now. And I don’t know that paying for whatever upgrades are available would actually change these user issues, even without ads.

I am so happy with this app! I rarely write app reviews but I am just so thrilled that this app actually did what it said it would do. I was so skeptical about the accuracy of the IU amount being absorbed by the sun and the estimated amount needed. However, when I started using the app my doctor tested my blood levels of vitamin d at 21 ng/ml. After using this app to track my daily sun for about a month, I was up to 29 according to the app. I just had my blood levels rechecked at the doctor and I am at 32 ng/ml! I am unable to take oral vitamin d supplements so being able to accurately track my sun exposure this way is amazing! I am continuing to work on reaching my goal of 40-50 ng/ml and telling everyone I know about this app! I will also say I paid for the $2 ad free version and it was 100% worth it. That’s a very fair amount to pay for an app that is working so well for me.