We analyzed 50 negative reviews from the top 5 Memory Palace Tracker apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"unless I'm missing something, you can't add you've done something after the fact. If you check an activity as done, it records you've done it "just now.""
"It looks as though you can't add an event after its already happened, which kind of seems like it defeats the purpose. For example, I got a haircut a month ago, but I can't backdate to a month ago?"
22% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I launched it, and saw it say "added item". I hadn't added anything, so I checked, and it forgot my check-ins for the past few months, as well as items that I renamed months ago."
"all of my 2019 entries mysteriously disappeared!"
20% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The only downside is you can't create a reminder for each specific event, only an overall reminder for you to look at the app."
"Currently there's no way to set up per-event notifications for when X days have passed after an event was completed."
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"It crashes tooooooo often. While I make 2 lists, it crashed almost 5 times"
"Was a solid app but now can't open. Crashes at launch."
14% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I emailed the app developer but a week later still haven't heard back from them."
"Sent in several support emails about issues with Dropbox sync and never got a response"
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"What it doesn't tell you is you have to pay a monthly fee for it to work."
"Don't fall in this scam. They make you pay for a subscription so you be able to receive certain amount a text messages"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users accidentally delete events with no way to recover them
"Could use an undo button, as it's somewhat easy to accidentally delete something."
Time picker breaks during time changes, preventing accurate event entry
"Every time time changes, you can't select the right time."
Unlabeled buttons make the app unusable for VoiceOver users
"The app seems to be able to do what I want, except it has many unlabeled buttons so VoiceOver doesn't know what they are."
User preferences reset automatically, forcing repeated configuration
"I have turned the button sounds off a million times and it turns itself right back on. I have also turned off the two time flippers so it just"
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