Bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs – Productive - Habit Tracker Review

Paid for premium back when it was a flat fee, and it was worth it. Really helped me cope with ADHD. But I don’t think it’s worth the subscription price. Found another app that’s cheaper and has all the same features, so after years of using Productive I’m officially giving up on it. Every time they update the app, something is broken. An update as of 10/09 made the app completely unable to open. A week and a half later 10/19 they released an update that says it’s a bug fix (huge understatement) and all it does is go to a load screen that says it’s updating but never finishes. A) how do you not notice this before you release the update? B) Why would you not instantly roll back the update so people can at least use the app while you try to fix your (probably useless anyway) update? Other updates have deleted habits, screwed up streaks, duplicated habits. When you swipe an app done sometimes it will swipe the habit two or three below it for like, no reason. The monthly habits system is basically useless. It gives you a 2-4 day window in either the beginning, middle, or end of the month to complete it before it disappears from the list and counts it as missed, and you can’t pick what those days are. If you chose the whole month, instead of beginning middle or end, it still does a 2 day window at the beginning of the month (It’s the 1st of the month right now, and my monthly habits all popped up as due by the 3rd). Looking at my calendar and deciding it makes more sense to do most of those chores next week for a variety of reasons, so now I’m swiping those as done even though they’re not done yet, which defeats the purpose. If it were at least a 1 week window, or we could pick the timing, that would really help to provide flexibility. I’ve reported this to the developers multiple times over the last few years and I always get a canned response that they’ll think about adding this feature... as opposed to fixing this broken feature... or even explaining why it works this way.
Review by Jen1018 on Productive - Habit Tracker.