iTimekeep 4+

In theory, great app and supplement to the desktop site. When it works, great and easy to use. At times though, very slow to load. Have been multiple occasions where it is frozen on the welcome screen for 30 seconds +and then closes automatically and I can access the app. I’ll try and close out and then reopen and same thing. Other times, the prompt to rate the review remains frozen on the welcome screen and despite me selecting all three options, the touch pad unresponsive. Manually writing this review now through AppStore in hopes the app it will realize I have reviewed it and let me log on.

I’m updating my old review (below) for the new version, which has implemented off-line time tracking capability!

The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars now is because there is no ability to automatically round up to the nearest 0.1 hr before submitting open time. I currently have to do that manually, so I can’t use the single-button submission feature. If they implement that, I will increase to 5 stars.

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It is ridiculous how this app handles losing an internet connection. It is understandable that you lose the ability to pull in details to automatically populate certain fields. But, there are situations in which you can lose the state of timers that you have started. I mean, how hard is it to just provide stopwatch functionality without an internet connection. My old calculator watch from the 1980s could do it just fine. The local device should simply sync its state back to the cloud after the connection is restored. Or, if that’s how they meant for the app to work, they didn’t quite catch all the bugs.

They didn’t get the lowest 1-star rating because the app is able to sync with a back-end billing system without requiring manually re-typing the data in ... which is more than I can say for my last 2 time billing apps.

When I am typing an entry it sometimes (at least twice or three times a day) will just delete the word I am typing and overtype it.

A feature I would like to see is a minimized widget that just shows your timer so you can quickly pause and resume it without having the full app open.