Lazy Bones - Routine Planner for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Dutcherrr

  Simple & effective!

  One of my favorite apps! I’ve been using it for a little over a couple weeks now, and I wish I found it sooner! It also helps that I’ve coincidentally been reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. This app has made it super fun and easy to focus on creating new/healthy habits and routines. Being a father of 3 under 5, I understand the importance of having good habits and a good daily routine to make life simpler, more productive, and more rewarding. This app has helped me create simple/specific habits to focus on building, and keep track of them easily, with reminders. Definitely recommend.

  
  
• By Sherylc6

  Useful but not groundbreaking

  It’s a lot like Productive - Habit Tracker (by Apalon Apps), but with more colors / icons and less functions (like frequency of items). I like it and paid for a subscription, because it could be great for specializing certain routines (using different apps for different priorities). I like the design, but I didn’t find the suggested habits to be useful. And, I had trouble at first finding the button to create your own habit. I scanned through all of them, but didn’t use any of the templates. I downloaded the app on my iPad, too, and while the subscription restored successfully, and the initial sync worked smoothly, it seems like you need to continue manually syncing thereafter. So, I’ll probably only be using it on one device. I looked to contact customer service about this, but couldn’t find any link, other than to the developer’s LinkedIn. I feel like for a paid app or subscription, no matter how little, they should offer some kind of support.

  
  
• By Lewismheather

  Easy to use & aesthetically pleasing, except...

  As a minimalist, I only download a new app if I know “what job I’m hiring it to do”. I wanted to get my habit tracker out out of google tasks and my documents/study notes app, and have never found an app I liked until I discovered Lazy Bones. It’s easy to use, and pleasant to look at - but there’s a few things that are keeping this app in the gap between good and GREAT. 1. Overuse of exclamation marks. Have some variety with regular periods, even in your “suggested habits”. Not every sentence on the app needs to imply EXCITEMENT! It feels forced. I feel like the app is yelling at me all of the time and it’s exhausting. 2. Habit Flavor text is not customizable. The generic (and repetitive) “Go for it!” for an incomplete habit and “Good job!” For a complete habit feels stale like a boring computer is spouting hollow pre-programmed encouragement at me. I’d love to have the option to customize these per habit to make it encouraging specifically to me. Let the user decide what text encourages them to get it done and use your app to do it. Let them add their “why” for getting it done. Maybe I’m biased against the overuse of exclamation marks, but the app still does the job I’m hiring it for, so I bought it. I definitely recommend it to my clients for an easy tracker with a widget they can put on their Home Screen. Still, hoping to see some continued improvements!

  
  
• By RobbyYogi

  Great, but flawed. I would give it a 3.5

  I love this app. The ability to add notes to a habit helps me feel very organized. I also like the different colors that can be assigned to each habit. The notifications work well and the reminders get me off the couch and doing whatever I need to do. Assigning specific times for each habit is great too. There are some downsides though. Managing habits in the setting menu seems excessive. Being able to manage habits within the habit would be simpler. This isn’t a huge deal, but it can be confusing if you forget where this setting is. My biggest issue is syncing between devices. My iPhone never syncs with my iPad. I frequently switch between the two devices and even though it says iCloud sync is enabled, it doesn’t sync. I receive notifications for things that I have completed, and it becomes egregious for repeating habits. I’m aware that this issue is being worked on, but it is currently an issue. Also, if you don’t have the Microsoft’s “Mail” app you can’t access help and support or the bug reporting options. To send an email about the syncing issue I had to download Mail, and then create an iCloud email to contact support. Super annoying. Other than those downsides, the app is pretty great if you plan to only use one device.

  
  
• By Flash/arrow/legends/fan

  Unhealthy expectation in app to be perfect robot.

  Yea paid for a whole year subscription and I don’t regret it. But it bothers me a lot how this app focuses not on just getting tasks done, but the absolute necessity for perfection. it is good to strive and be better, yea even perfecting something is great. But this app focuses way too much on perfection. To me a perfect day, week, month does not mean robotically getting every chore and task done. If I set a thing for money and do it on Tuesday that’s fine with me. Sometimes in life it is worth living in the moment and catching up on tasks later. And this app punishes your for it. You could miss a single task out of a day. You could have finished 99 other tasks that day, and you are essentially punished for it and your day/week/month and every streak and every stat is ruined. Sad because I like the app.

  
  

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