Eclipse Yourself 4+

Wonderful app, but can be confusing

After using all of the competitor apps in this space, I have come back here. The major reason is the wonderful partnership with the king of sleep, tracker apps-AutoSleep. All of the other apps more or less forced me to use Apple sleep tracking for them to work properly and that has never worked for me whereas AutoSleep does everything I need it to do. If I have one criticism, it's the learning curve that it takes to figure out how this app works, and the interface which I must say is a bit busy and kind of confusing at times. If the interface was just a bit more polished, I would have no problem giving it five stars. I particularly like the whole "eclipse" game gamification concept as well as the activity path.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking the time to review! Great to hear you are enjoying Eclipse Yourself, we will continue to evolve the app and functions, so appreciate all the feedback. Remember for learning about the app, the videos page in the Help Centre are very popular. You can find these under the Help tab in the app.

I like the idea but the reality just doesn’t do much.

In the time I’ve used the app it has been an ok mirror of how I feel - and that’s both the power and flaw of it. If I’m already aware that (eg) I’m feeling sluggish, it isn’t that useful for an app to tell me that I’m right! It is interesting but not especially actionable. The most useful reading is recovery - if that’s out of balance it reinforces that I should take a nap and perhaps ease off a bit where I can. Fine. Readiness is more frustrating- when that’s out of balance, there’s not a lot I can do and not a lot that is useful about that knowledge. Sometimes it tells me I’m out of balance but I feel great - how is that helpful? Other times I’m in balance but feel below par - is the contradiction useful?

I really like the idea of tracking various variables, but I struggle with it being useful to me. So I’ve stopped.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to reach out to us if you need some more guidance, or the website is packed with information and videos that answer your exact questions. The Wellness Survey for example used with the Orbit trends is super helpful with subjective feeling overlays. Appreciate the feedback as the app continues to evolve.

Overhyped, overpriced, underwhelming

While this navel gazing app is perfect for the overly self absorbed, the practical value is limited, the novelty and entertainment value expires as quickly as the free trial, and the depth of the analysis is shallower than a puddle on a hot August afternoon.

There is a lack of clarity to questions (does experiencing a major illness include long term/lifelong chronic conditions, or are they asking only about exigent conditions?)

Other types of questions might better be answered with a little guidance from the app, which in most cases has access to a lot of data about you in Apple Health. Why not put all that information to work, along with the general fund of medical knowledge, to suggest appropriate answers to questions such as the amount of sleep you need. And why not make those answers more readily available for editing and fine tuning?

In the end this is app which charges us a monthly fee to share with us a bit of information of which every human is already intrinsically, viscerally aware. How do I feel, and is this a good day or a crappy one. No doubt this is an essential for a certain class of “special” people, but utilty for the rest of us will require a lot more work to produce an app which is not only visually attractive, but practical and substantive.