Life Cycle - Track Your Time

I’ve been using Life Cycle for almost 10 years now (probably around 8-9) and I’ve never been more loyal to an app. Life Cycle has been tracking my location and giving me statistical insights for SO long that it feels like a part of me. The functionality of this app is absolutely amazing, only very rarely bugging out or breaking, and by rarely I mean maybe three times in the past decade. There are no pop up ads every few seconds, no paywalls that lock away half the app, no sponsorships or partnerships pushing products or microtransactions, it’s beautiful. The data it collects is NOT SOLD!! Northcube is transparent in their values on personal data and doesn’t store it or sell it. They even give you an option to export your data to CSV format if you’re interested in doing a more thorough, personal data analysis. The $30 a year for premium is genuinely a steal and I’d recommend anyone who likes this app to pull the trigger on it, it is MORE than worth it. I pray this app never changes to be predatory, because the way it is now has given me the utmost respect and trust to the app and the company. I believe more companies/apps should strive to be like Northcube/Life Cycle, they are truly a blessing in today’s world.

Update: I should’ve confessed by now something LifeCycle has been telling me for years- either I waste a lot of time, take my time or am just slow. Challenge yourself to find out what you’ve been hiding from yourself. ——————— ——————— ——————— ——————— ——————— I know I reviewed this before and always with the same comments. It's great, even when we don't go anywhere- I sometimes grab a screenshot or photo to mark a transition from one activity to another and add so many in manually later. There's not enough resolution to know from my Nia, Yoga or swimming in the same complex. I wouldn't expect it, don't know why other reviewers did and why they dropped 🌟 because of it. 🙄 My only (only?) issues are the colors and icons. Why so few? I've re-useds icons but they've often not been appropriate for any category. The same goes for the colors; the dreary, dreary colors. A color wheel could make us happy and how thrilling it would be if you bought or designed as many icons as there are now! What if even half of those had the subtle, sneaky movement some of the original have? Imagine how amazing your app would be!

I’ve been trying out the free trail for a few weeks, and I love the idea behind this app so far. However, I will not be paying for premium and don’t see myself sticking even to the free version because of a few small bugs that irritate me. First, there are some bugs with this app tracking location. It can sometimes take a couple days for it to pop up that I was in an area or it won’t show up at all, then I have to enter it manually (which is both annoying and inaccurate). Second, why can’t I edit the activities already in the app? I don’t need a lunch and dinner option, just a “food” option. I could create my own, but it still irritates me to see the other options cluttering up my activities. Third, an activity at a uncategorized location will have a general area on a map tagged to it. But once I put in a custom name for the location, sometimes the location is untagged? Fourth, I’d like to be able to start an activity in the app somehow and stop it manually. Rather than having to remember my start and stop times and enter it after I finish if I want to manually create an activity. Finally, it would be nice to have more color options and be able to view my day in chronological order as well as by category. Overall the concept behind this app is great but I’m going to delete it because the execution makes the app more difficult to use than it’s insights are worth.