To understand apps in more details, I felt that if I downloaded a couple of apps that were in my chosen area of ideas of travel and health lifestyle I could see what works and what doesn’t work well on the apps because both of my apps ideas have apps that are similar made but looking at them I feel that they could developed a lot more or created a lot different.
water tracker apps
To start off with I looked into the app of water trackers, there was loads of water trackers on the apple store right now in 2019, I spent some time looking at a couple that appeared on to the top ones when you search water trackers. When you look at water trackers isn’t not very fun app to download just a simple boring diary you would keep on a note book but there was so points I liked of each app and disliked.
The daily drink reminder was a simple basic app that goes with the name of just a place on your phone you can record your intake of waters each time you drink and telling you should drink, looking into the app it’s very boring to look at from a creative view theres nothing much going on then simple date put into bar chars or boards to help you look back on.
even though the app has a rating of 4.2 starts out of 5 I do think that the app could have so much more better things on it as having just a chart to record your water intake is boring to look at meaning people will lose movative to open the app just to record as theres nothing else that makes them log in. I found that a lot of the water app had the same idea of just recording the water intake with some type of charts.
This is another app that I found on the App Store that came up when I searched “water tracker ” the app has a similar name and idea of how to keep the person water intake on bars charts however do use a illustration of a human with water in showing how they have drank that day I feel that this helps the app look a Bit more interesting then just a simple bar chart.
The typography that is used in the both app they use bold san serif it works very well as it stand out on the background to show the viewer what part of the app they are on, both of the app use the same colour theme of blue and white the typical colours of water in people eyes keeping the colour theme helps the app work well.
the last app I picked to look into was a very improved water tracker app to the other two water apps I had seen I felt that this app had a bit more creativey and allowed the user go into more detail on what they drank that day and when to get reminders , by the app having some more art details I feel it brings the more together and it looks more pretty to look at however I would still add other sections to the app and improve it.
To improve the app I would add area that give the app more life to bring people in like having a game every time they add their water in, I would definitely link the app to go on app watches to give hours or chosen reminders to drink.
Travelling apps
when looking at travelling app there was already a section on the apple store where you can find loads of different travel apps in different types for example ” travel with Siri” anything to link to languages or needing help there was another good section I looked into was “Backpack the world ” this section anything from blogs, food places this my main source I used to look at different apps.
The first app I found was “esloriso” this app is a app where you can upload your location and upload a photo to share with friends/ family you can upload your ways you have travel for example the pathway you have walked, I really love the idea of blogging your journey this what I aim my travel app would do but theres not a lot going in this app.
- not a lot of text
- photos fit not right everything seems to full in the page
- doesn’t look easy to use as theres no simple buttons will have to play around
Another app that I found in my time in the App Store was this app called “Keeptrax” this app is another app that tracks your location and helps you keep up to date where you have been, the app seems very full of interesting things to add in to help you remember your day but a con of the app could be that some places won’t always be on the app such as small business or a new locations opening.
The layout of the app works very well as everything has simple guilds on how to use everything, the typography isn’t too small or too big and simple typeface fits in perfectly on the app and is visible.
A very impressive app I came across was this packing app, I think a packing app is such a good idea, can help people have an organised life before flying, the design layout of the app is a great way to set out so many choices it works so much as you get to see everything, to improve this app I would probably add in a countdown to your holiday so when you log in each time to pack stuff or tick it off the list you can get a little bit for happier.
The last app I came across was this travel app that was somewhere you can upload your photos on one places and upload what have you done in this location, you can print all of your photos off on a booklet when you get back, the big con about this app is that you got to pay a membership to use the app and upload your own photos that’s very disappointing. from looking the app it seem the app is only half built everything is a bit over the place .
from looking into some apps that are linked to my ideas it has helped me understand what I want my app to include and what is wrong with some other apps thats out there, from this task it has really helped me.
Georgia Smith 