Aquarimate

I have used this app for about 5 years. There are no other programs like Aquarimate, at least not that I have found. Honestly, I no longer even look for another one. The ease from setting up a new system to viewing a tanks analytics from a mature system is a breeze. The ability to add livestock, plants, corals and invertebrate to a particular set up couples with the notes is a huge plus. This is primarily what I use it for. A few years ago I developed a leak in a tank. I never removed fish for breeding from this tank, but if you notice extra fish from breeding add them to your livestock count. If I hadn’t recorded the number of fish in that tank I would have missed several of the Pygmy Cory. If a tank crashes you can delete the whole system or keep it and start a new system. The biggest drawback for this app is there are no standard drop menus for water parameters. Every time I set up a system I must re-enter everything. It’s time consuming but worth it. On a lesser note, the livestock and plant list could have more, and a way to upload a pic to notes would really help too. If there is a way to do any of these things they need to make it more obvious.

I wish there were options to add fish to the database, since many popular fish are missing (or at least link to Wikipedia or a more robust database for the ones that are missing along with the ability to bring the info into the app so the users aren’t constantly having to add fish manually). It would also be nice if they could expand the details on each of the fish that are currently listed in the database - suggested water parameters, minimum tank size, captive diet, reef compatibility, if they produce poison/venom, and any other warnings that would apply to the fish (if you made the database user editable, we can fill in those missing details since you don’t seem to keep this app up to date). They could’ve also built a few more tools into their app like a standard fish compatibility, more aquarium calculators, and the ability to back up to whatever storage method you would like. Most importantly, for an app to cost me yearly for a subscription, it bothers me how infrequently the app is updated. I thought that was why people paid subscription fees in the first place. According to my App Store, it hadn’t been updated in a year. With me giving you $10 each year, I’d expect you to at least work on it ONCE in that amount of time. Overall, I gave it a 4 because it is the best app I have personally found for this purpose. As far as I know, there is not a better fish tracking app on the Apple store. I would pay more for more features that I talked bout above, and a lifetime subscription option would be great.

I wish there were prebuilt “suggested” maintenance routines so that I didn’t have to manually add every little thing. I also think the process of “adding new activities” is pretty complicated. I wish I could just easily see my task and say “performed task” somewhere, instead of having to click through a bunch of menus. I also wish you had the ability to add multiple parameter inputs per day. Sometimes if I perform a water change, I will test my levels before and after, and I have to only include one of those two levels. The last thing is that I don’t like when you run the analytics, if you include things like water changes or any tasks, the bar completely covers the days Parameters.