TimeBlocks - Mobile Planner

I’ve had this app as my primary calendar/planner for about 6 years. I have tried basically all of the top planner apps out there, and to me, this one is the easiest to use, most intuitive, versatile, and pretty to look at to boot. I love customizing colors and themes in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and makes the most sense to me. I probably wouldn’t use this if I wanted to put very detailed plans or long notes in my planner/to-do’s. TimeBlocks is perfect to quickly add events, to-do’s, memos, etc., that are clearly visually laid out and easy to organize. You can add/purchase extra color schemes, stickers, fonts, etc., but everything that comes free with the basic app is plenty to achieve an organized and aesthetically pleasing calendar.

There are 3 things I need from this app: 1) Weekly View 2) To-Do items that cross over into google tasks or apple reminders, since there is no widget. The instruction say that Apple Reminders cross (1 way?) over but that hasn’t been the case for me. Anyway I want a 2 way crossing from either direction. 3) Since the update, you can no longer drag and drop an item from the memo tab to your calendar. It used to be: looking at your memos and saying “Oh yeah! I need an oil change.” And pressing on that item and dragging to your next day off. That needs to come back, it was far more intuitive than choosing the day, going to more , then having to already have been to the memo tab to look at your notes to see which task or event you want to put on that day, THEN finding and scheduling it. Fix these things and the lack of response to support questions and it’s perfection. I love the do to feature, I love the customization, even though I wouldn’t mind that expanding, I love the import from google cal, and the fact that the things you don’t finish auto-roll over to the next day, and I love the ability to have separate categories and color customization for those categories. Pretty great app!

Which is a huge bummer because it would be FANTASTIC if it weren’t so full of bugs. This morning it switched a date on a to-do to December 1969. And so many duplicates, even when you follow the directions to remove them. And the alert sound is super short and hard to hear, so it’s easy to miss. The sync is slow, and unreliable across devices, too. That said, it is still my favorite calendar app! It’s the only one where the month view gives you actual information, and not just dots. And I like how the to-dos are listed under the events (not mixed in with them). It really is a great interface - and it’s even pleasing to look at and fun to customize. (Although I wish highlighting “today” were an option, rather than just a little dot - it’s hard to find!) But please, PLEASE, stop adding features and start fixing what you have. Habit tracker and countdown features sound cool, but they are useless if the app is totally buggy and unreliable. I don’t want to cancel my subscription and delete this app, but I will have to if I can’t trust it!