Arc App - Location & activity Reviews

There’s always a data gap

Msjsheree

It just stops recording. I've done what it keeps telling me to do like keep it running and location services but it still doesn't work. It sends me a stopped recording notification at least twice a day.

This app makes me happy.

ardenhabersham

I like maps and like knowing what I did with my day. Beyond liking, it’s useful for time and mileage tracking. The route recorded is very precise. I can see my path carrying in groceries, parking the car and unparking. The moves interface was much prettier, softer, but there is so much information here that I can get used to the crisper feel. To Mr. Digital Nomad, a question as I can’t find another way to reach you. Did I actually see the map animate itself in reviewing it later? It unfolded like a video. I could see the paths I took unloading the car. Is that normally possible? I know I saw it but don’t know how to make it repeat. And, hey, thanks for this app. I’ve tried all of them I can find and you are the winner, standing tall.

Doesn’t work as advertised

steve3763

It doesn’t record anything ever. I’ve had it for a few days and location has been always on. Frustrating.

Want to Love, Still Miss Moves

vaticdart

While I definitely appreciate the privacy centered approach of Arc compared to Moves, I miss Moves. I WANT to love Arc. A great deal of effort and love has gone into the app, and it shows. And I have donated around $50 to the developer in the last two years to support their efforts. That said, its tracking for most of the activities I do is far worse than Moves. It consistently does things like think that I biked 35 miles at 43 mph, or that I walked 8 miles at 17 mph. It consistently mistakes my location for another that I marked once, months or years ago. At my old apartment it consistently thought I was at a bar 3 blocks away. Almost every day at my work it thinks I'm at a food truck 1/4 mile away. It doesn't seem to learn but just keeps making the same mistakes over and over. That said, it is very good for cycling in the city. That is the one thing it seems to be better at than Moves. But for busing, taking the train, car share, and even walking, it's pretty bad. Other reviews here say something similar to "not as good as Moves" and the developer seems to respond defensively. I suggest they take such criticism seriously, and with grace, rather than getting defensive. I'm giving them until version 3.0 to get this app right, and then I'm moving on.

Excellent design and private

ChristineNYC

I like to track my bike rides around town and daily goings and not have my info be shared. Arc also exports to the Apple activity app. I’m not crazy about Strava’s design or data sharing. I support Arc when I can (just did), but I wish It had a cheaper plan. Like 2.99 a month. Over $50 a year seems out of reach for a lot of people.

Painless location logging

smackfu

Arc does a great job of tracking my trips so I can track mileage after the fact. Just check in once every few days and classify things properly. Only negative is how often segments get classified as cycling. Understand that cycling and car look similar but since I never ride a bicycle it seems like a simple setting could avoid a lot of data correction.

This app hasn’t worked in a few months

Adopt Don't Shop 939

What’s going on??!?!? Why is there no update?? The app won’t even open - it just shows a black screen, then crashes. Is this app even still functional??

Not reliable enough

Guy at a Keyboard

This is the second time I’ve tried having this on my phone and each time it has frustrated me with incorrect location data and bad guesses about how I’m traveling. The old Moves app was accurate and didn’t make me spend time annotating my day. For instance, my drive to work will show up as more than one segment; maybe cycling and transport. Also, I know it tries not to drain your battery but it did for me. I respect the author’s respect for privacy, but I just can’t use it.

Often good, sometimes hilarious

hangdawg33

No one will accuse Arc of machine learning. It continues to believe that when traffic backs up on the freeway, I abandon my car for another mode of transportation without even a pause. It doesn’t learn that, when I’m at the barn and going in circles, I’m horseback riding. But today was pretty special. It guessed that I was traveling by airplane, for one block, moving at 0.7 mph. With the demise of Moves, I’m glad to have Arc. I just have to wonder why it can’t figure out such obvious things.

Ver 3.0 looks great BUT at a huge cost; changed rules of game on accessing your own data

Rumple Still

I was going to give version 3.0 5 stars, then the gotcha, got me! And hard. In version 3.0 Matt and crew released what in many ways is a tremendous upgrade in the interface and look and feel. Well done! But it comes at a huge cost to long time users. We used to be able to see all our data. But this new release holds our data that’s older than 30 days hostage for a fee. I get that Matt and crew have earned and deserve to earn money for the app. It’s been a user-supported app for a while and he puts in a ton of time and work to make it go. Buuuut, I don’t think it’s right to change the rules of the game in midstream AND without informing users of this change. It’s big and material. It’d be nice if existing free users could be grand fathered in, if that’s technically possible.

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