Skincare Routine: BasicBeauty

If you need a convenient and practical way to create an agenda of your hygiene routines or record personal data, this app is for you! It has a pleasing, minimalist design with a straightforward interface, which makes menu navigation a cinch. Users have the ability to build custom or default routines from their product lists, set the frequency of each routine, and check off each time they use a product in a routine. My favorite feature is being able to add the expiration date of each product. You can simplify your app utility by sticking to the product and routine menus, but there are other features as well! The app contains informational guides from credible sources that educate users about health and wellbeing. There is also a section with various journal templates to document skincare photos, diet, mood, and more. The app is so robust that it will even summarize your personal progress based on your journal entries! I have never been more motivated to take care of myself until I discovered this app, and I hope more individuals discover it too!

The developer of this app actually listened to my feedback! The app now has a monthly view!!!! It is officially the best beauty treatment app on the market. Honestly it’s the best anything tracker on the market. I use this app to track all things in my life that repeat daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. I have routines for my meds, vitamins, yoga, exercise, date night with hubby, cleaning schedule… I love this app. Old review: I have tried every skin care tracking app in the App Store. This one comes so frustratingly close to perfect. But I keep looking for the perfect app while using this one because what it’s missing is very important. I have an advanced DIY medspa and skin care regiment. I have daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, every 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and yearly routines. This app does it all except let me see month to month (it does week to week) nor does it let you see past the next 5 weeks. I can schedule stuff past that but I can’t see it. If I have a routine that occurs every 8 weeks I can’t see the date of the next occurrence. The routine says again in 7 weeks. Trying to map out many routines, I really need to see months into the future, a month at a time.

And I’m a retired coder. I’m very picky about application design. I love this app. I have a very complicated skincare routine, different products morning and night, I use 3 different skincare devices throughout the day, an add in a few extra optional routines. I find the app easy to set up, intuitive, easy to change, add in or swap out products and routines. I can complete a routine or skip it for the day. I can schedule a routine to occur on certain days. I’ve even added flossing as a daily routine at my dentist’s order. For whatever reason, having to check something off each day keeps me honest. A nice upgrade would be to add more routine icons to keep up with new devices, e.g., microcurrent, laser and LED.