01/20 ETA: I recently finished my treatment & have received my retainers. It would be great to see added functionality and/or notifications to specifically track retainer wear. I plan to continue using this app on my journey to “only needing to wear my retainers at night” & to help retain my new smile 😃This is the best app if you’re going through Invisalign (or similar) treatment! This has made the entire experience less stressful because I don’t have to worry about manually calculating hours or whatever the equivalent would be. The progress photo feature is great. For me, this has been just as important as chewies in making sure I stay on track with my treatment. My orthodontist is a top 1% provider and the entire office has been so elated with my progress. I’m going to be finishing treatment ahead of schedule & I really couldn’t have done it without this app! I know I must sound like a shill, but I’m just very thankful for this app. I’ll also note that when a bug made the app unusable for me, it was fixed within hours! Thank you so much TrayMinder!! 😊

After much frustration with Invisalign’s native app (lagginess, bugs, terrible user friendliness, and abysmal Apple Watch to iOS syncing of wear times), my partner, who currently is also an Invisalign wearer, stumbled upon TrayMinder. What an app! The interface is so much better and it has a lot of useful features allowing you to take control of tracking wear and off time. And Apple Watch syncing, for a well-worth in app purchase of $2, is spot on. Puts Invisalign’s app completely to shame and shows that sometimes 3rd party developers put much more effort and care into app development. Plus, the app has an Instagram account with helpful videos on managing the Invisalign trays. I will probably take the plunge and pay the $2 to remove ads because this app is just so worth it. The only missing features I can think of is Siri integration with Apple Watch and widgets on the iOS lock/Home Screen. However the existing Siri integration with iOS is already really handy!

I started with the MyInvisalign app as soon as I got my trays. I started looking for other apps within a few days because it just did not feel like it was as functional as an app should be. I decided to give TrayMinder a try. It is not just a little better , it is WAY better. MyInvisalign has the reminders set at specific intervals 15, 30, 45 mins, then I believe half hour intervals after 1 hour. I love that TrayMinder has the quick select options for common choices, but also the scrolling option if you want to ale it some odd time, like 12 minutes. I also appreciate the text reminders with the emoji 😬 if I’ve overshot and haven’t stopped the timer indicating I have put them back in. Nice summary chart of how long I wore my trays too. MyInvisalign doesn’t even come close to the functionality of Tray Minder. Save yourself the trouble and just download this one instead. 😉

This makes it really easy to track wear time and give stats across time. I appreciate the reminder option for when you take your trays out, as I sometimes don’t realize I’ve had them out for awhile, or just get distracted. One note, and I see it in another review: it took me a long time to figure out how to adjust the goal wear time from the default 20 hours. (It’s in settings under the totally-not-intuitively-named “adjust color codes”)The one feature that would get the app to 5 stars for me is the ability to sync across devices. I usually have my iPad out at home so have been using that as my main device, but when I’m out and about (not that often right now given the pandemic, but in normal times, often) have my iPhone. I’ve tried the “backup device to cloud” and “restore from cloud” options to transfer, but a) it’s super buggy - it did not correctly pull in all my most recent data, and b) even if that worked, that’s a very clunky way to move between devices.