More than just a tracking app – Slice - Package Tracker Review

Slice App Review: This app can track your packages, but with a little effort, you can create a record of your purchases and spending habits. Plus, you have the option of adding a photo of what you bought, but only from their search of internet images. Sometimes you have to tweak the search phrase to find the right image, and sometimes it just can’t find the right image. It would be nice if they could give you the option of using a saved image from your camera roll. If all you want to do is track packages, there are other apps that only require the tracking number, but you have to wait until you get that number, which means you have to carefully watch your email and/or remember that you made a purchase days after the fact. This app allows you to enter your purchase info immediately and add tracking info later. This is advantageous especially around the holidays if you’re making a ton of online purchases and don’t want to forget what you bought. Plus, by adding the order number, you have an easy place to find that number if later you need it to search the vendor’s website for your order or return info. Slice’s original aim was to scan your emails for you and auto fill any purchase/tracking info, but I found this feature to be of little use. First, because of the limited domains it supports (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. and it never supported my ISP), and second, because retailers (especially Amazon) have moved away from providing tracking info in your emails, which can be easily hacked by package thieves to know when to come by your house to steal a package, and require you to log into your account to get that info now. So this app will require some data entry on your part regardless, but you can decide how much or how little beyond the required fields. Of course, there is always the danger of 3rd parties seeing your shopping and spending habits, which the one thing that would make this app better is the ability to download your data to keep privately and give you the option of deleting all or part of your data once downloaded. You can delete individual entries now, but then you lose the aggregate data needed to create the visual representations of that data. So if keeping a record of your purchases/spending and/or seeing how/where you spent that money is not of interest to you, then you probably don’t need this app. But it’s the only app out there that will give you that level of detail.
Review by Kgintovt on Slice - Package Tracker.