1000 Hours Outside

For a few years I’ve been tracking our hours, and at first I loved the marking our hours on a paper tracker on the wall. But it became hard for me to remember our hours when life got busier over the last couple years (after the pandemic). I love how easy this app makes it for me to track! I can see what days we did what hours, how many hours per month, and many more little details that I couldn’t see with the paper tracker. I don’t forget to track our hours as often because my phone is with us when we are out and about (to take pictures of our adventures!). Also I like the little photos/notes section that is like a little journal of what we did that day. Never had any issues with getting the app to work!

I like the app overall to keep track of our hours outside. My four biggest issues are: 1. The timer itself is buggy, I’ve gone to open the app and stop the timer after an hour or two outside and the timer will show as 00:00 with a start button and I will accidentally reflexively hit it with your realizing it hadn’t yet “updated” to our actual real time count. Sometimes it takes a full minute for the timer to refresh itself after it’s been running in the background a while 2. There’s no app widget available! This would be the perfect thing to add to my Lock Screen for instant access, sometimes I totally forget to start the timer on my phone but I believe a widget start/stop would make this whole thing way easier and enjoyable 3. When in the calendar view if I need to edit a single days time I expected to just click on the square for that day and be able to edit but you have to click on the little tiny clock button that comes up. I overall found a lot of navigating the app to be confusing. 4. I haven’t yet finished a full month of timing since it’s still January but other users have said that once a month is finished you aren’t shown a “month total” and would have to add up days manually to see how much time you spent outside during one particular month, if this is true this is VERY disappointing! I guess I will find out soon.

I am shocked that there are so many great reviews for this app. I like that you can track time for more than one person.. but in the calendar view and the “hours this week” view you can only see the hours for the “main account. You should be able to switch between which profile you want to view. You can’t even choose who the main account is. Also the last time I added hours it didn’t update in the individual profiles, so now I feel like I need to write down the hours we spend outside on a piece of paper because this isn’t accurate, defeating the purposes of this app. I also would have thought that on the timer tab that there would be timers for each individual profile. And with the announcement by Ginny for 2023 I would think that there would be a way to track miles walked, books read, and other goals. This app isn’t worth spending money on and it doesn’t live up to the needs. Hoping for lots of improvements soon.

I love this app and how it encouraged us to be outside more in 2023. Excited to start a new year and “beat” last years hours. One feature I wish the app had was after stopping a running time, to have the ability to “approve” or edit right there and then. So often I forget to stop the counter when we go inside and then I have to go back into the day’s total time and (😱) do math to correct it. When it’s only been like 5 minutes, it’s no big deal… but I have been known to leave the counter running for many hours or even over night haha and then it does become a challenge to remember what was already on the count for that day, and what the correct total time should be.

This app has completely made our 1KHO journey SO much easier! I love that I can set and stop the timer easily, edit time if I forget the timer, and that it keeps the running total for us. I keep the times updated on a paper chart, but this is 100% easier than what I was doing last year, which was recording the times on my phone, having to calculate what added up to an hour, and constantly trying to remember what time we left the house. My husband and son even join in by letting me know when to start and stop the timer. Thank you thank you!

We are trying to complete 1000 hours outside this year. To pay for the app you think that the whole app would be better. Every time I open the app to use the timer and start the timer it ends up closing the whole app out. I end up just tracking on my own how many hours we are logging. In a portion of the app you can upload photos, but not more than one at a time. After paying for the app there is also more in app purchases. If you want to collect bandages along the way, you have to purchase. We purchased the map and needless to say I could of googled most the locations I am at. I really wanted to like this app, but it has a lot of issues that need to be worked out. Needless to say since this is my New Year’s resolution, I will continue to use to log my hours.

I can’t find my history in a list anywhere with details. The calendar shows 2 hours when I have 2.5 in my week history. I can’t go back and look at any other days outside of that week with any detail if I entered it in rather than using the timer. I also did the timer this morning and then manually entered in another outdoor activity in the evening and it erased my timer from the morning. Frustrated I can’t have a detailed list of what I entered so I can look back at it clearly without having to click on every day and even that isn’t accurate.

I absolutely love having this app. It’s so easy, so streamlined, and I love that you can always edit your hours if you make a mistake or miss something. It’s really taken the stress out of tracking for me, and actually it’s helped me be more carefree and check the clock even less… to have an app on a phone that actually makes you use your phone less is a pretty big feat! Would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to track their hours outside.

I absolutely love the idea of this app and have been very pleased with the incentive it offers to spend time outside. Unfortunately, in just the two weeks I’ve been using it I’ve encountered many occasions where the app glitches and doesn’t record my time. Oftentimes I’ll hit the start button, see the count begin, and leave for my time outside only to come back and find that the app didn’t record my time. This has been quite frustrating, as I’ll have to estimate my time outside and manually record it. Though the app is still effective in encouraging me to get outside, I do wish that it would more reliably record my time.

I was so excited to get this app and couldn’t wait to make the purchase. I’m bummed though. To find my total for a month, I have to go through and manually click each day and add the hours - I’m not seeing how to find a running total aside from the current week’s running total. I’m also frustrated that once I’m past 1 hour in a day, it’s just showing a one on the calendar even though I might have clocked 1.7 hours. Those issues alone make it so that the app isn’t doing what it was made to do. Am I missing something?

I love the program and have loved how much more time we are spending outside, but this is such a buggy app. It closes out every time I open it, anytime I have to edit hours, the number pad won’t close, so the app must be restarted, etc. And I was disappointed to find once I subscribed that almost all of the adventure map points are restaurants. Too expensive for that, and unfortunately I purchased the full year before seeing that. That said, we are spending much more time outside and that has been a wonderful benefit. The kids love seeing which new badge they’ve earned!

We just started tracking our hours this year and this app made it super simple. I have three little kids, so coloring a page daily was a bit overwhelming. I decided to make this purchase and it was very much worth it. I can backtrack hours, add them daily or even start a timer when I go outside. It’s easy to use and makes tracking your outdoor hours simple and not overwhelming. Definitely worth the purchase!

Ever since the most recent update this app has been very inconsistent. We were outside for at least three hours today and the app said 52 minutes 11 seconds. You also have to have service for the timer to work which is frustrating because many times we are out adventuring where there isn't service. It used to be very easy to toggle between the timer and calendar and now I have to close out of my app completely to get back to the calendar from the timer. Hopefully they will update this again. It worked perfectly perform they updated it

I got the app hoping it would be easier than physically tracking my family’s hours in a paper, but it’s actually not been helpful at all. If I forget to start the timer right when we go out, there’s no way to adjust the start time. And there’s no way for me to add an hour for one child and two for another if I miss it - I can either do one child or the same amount of time for both - and then if I want to spend more time outside later, I can only edit that before time instead of add another hour or two. It became so complicated, I had to stop trying after a week and I’m back to my paper in the kitchen. I’m glad it was only $2, but it was still a waste.

This is a great idea in theory, but the app is proving to be very buggy. It seems there is a big issue with exiting the app and coming back to it, whether that's by hitting my home button or even pulling down my notifications bar. I've had it stop tracking and reset to zero. But most often it artificially inflates the time. Just yesterday with each time I pulled my notifications bar down I watched the time jump from 20 minutes to over 7 hours of time. Disappointed to have bought this and have it not work. Was so excited to join the challenge and have an easy way to keep track of our time.

This is a super useful app for our 1kho goals, but it definitely still needs some work when it comes to tracking different profiles. I tried to edit one kiddo’s hours when I accidentally left the timer going and it seems to get confused about edits- I checked his total hours so far and they were definitely more than they should have been, the app was confused somewhere between the profiles and edits. Looking forward to more improvements but not totally trusting the app yet and will still use the paper tracker and keep an eye on hours!

For a paid app this should have more. I would like the ability to see each individual timer entry; The time the timer was started and stopped; And be able to edit individual entries. If we go out once in the morning and again in the afternoon, but I forget to stop the timer in the afternoon- I have to some now keep track of what was already tracked in the morning and add it to the second entry that I’m trying to edit. The app should be able to show me all of the data for one day… not just a running total for the day.

I really like this app but think it could use some updates. - I love tracking time with multiple profiles they make it super easy. However the numbers aren’t accurate because when I remove time it only comes off of the main account. - I frequently forget to turn off my timer when we come inside. I think you could easily add a setting to pick your “normal” outdoor time and if the stopwatch is tracking longer than that the app sends you an alert that asks if you’re still outside. Thanks!

I have used this app for a year now and have been very impressed. I love the option to add a journal entry at the end of every day and pictures along with it. Babies don’t keep and being able to download all of my entries at the end of the year was so heartfelt and brought back so many fun memories of spending time outside with my little one. I would recommend this app to anyone!

My wife is in to the 1000 hours thing for our kids and wanted me to help her with tracking the kids time this year. 2 issues - can’t sync her phone and mine so possible duplication or missing time. However the main issue is that the app works great on her phone, but crashes in about 30 seconds on mine no matter what I try. I have rebooted the phone, made sure I had latest IOS updates, deleted and reinstalled. Clearly the app is very buggy! Much safer bet to just use a basic timer and a piece of paper to track your time!

The app has a really nice user interface and does exactly what it claims. The only issue I have is that is does not have an Apple Watch app built in. It seems like it would be easier to start and stop timers without having to worry about remembering to pull out your phone. Overall a good value for the price point but it is lacking in a key feature that would make the app more user friendly.

This app has made tracking my outside time very manageable and fun. I love looking at my progress, seeing my best and worst days. Seeing the total number of hours I’ve logged YTD is very encouraging too. I didn’t make it to 1000 hours this year, and the app never guaranteed that goal to me; however, I’ve logged more hours in my adult life than any other year and couldn’t be happier.

Great, straightforward app! Part of an amazing movement/brand! Hoping we'll someday get: 1. Able to choose a date to start the cumulative hour count from. (It defaults to installation date.) 2. The ability to link profiles across devices. (I'm not the only person who takes my kid outside!) 3. The ability to track different activities or people outside. For instance, I don't count our 1 mile bike ride to school for our overall hours or organized outdoor sports but I know it would add up over time. Or for families with more than one kid, they might need individual timers for the kids' different schedules. Love this app and use it every day! Hope it becomes even more useful in the future!

Absolutely love the concept, but the app has some annoyances, including a big at the end of the month. Today is Jan 31st, and in the monthly view, the last few days of December show up. Those dates incorrectly show the January data for the same date (eg, Dec 30 shows the hours I logged for Jan 30). Now I’m wondering if my total is wrong too? And I don’t see how to export the data so I can track it some other way. It’s leaving me a bit demoralized.

We love this app and it really shows how much (or how little in the colder months) we spent outdoors. One suggestion that would make this perfect: an Apple Watch version! We often leave cell phones behind as they distract us from our surroundings so being able to track on the Apple Watch would be amazing!

For a paid app, I am pretty unimpressed with the features. For there to be additional payment requirements for exporting to pdf, using the map features, and the badges, its certainly frustrating. I subscribed thinking that the map would have a bunch of outside things to do but it included basically anything that google maps would show. I can use a timer and a piece of paper and eliminate this entirely. I love Ginny’s ideas and podcast and am really surprised with this as it doesn't seem to be up to par for her work typically.

It does what it needs to do, right? It tracks the time based off the timer. It does not make it easy to add or subtract time for the main account without doing the math myself. Why can I easily add and subtract from the subsequent accounts but not the main? Also they should add a place for weekly totals or at least compare last week to this week. Lastly, the journals for each day should have a total for the day and include the totals for each time the timer is started and stopped.

I am 1000% happy with this app! It is so easy to use. I don’t mind not being able to track more than one child, it actually helps me to see it so simply anyways! I track the majority of our time together anyways! If your on the fence about whether or not to buy the app just do it!!!! For a couple dollars it is way worth it to me!

The app team got back to me pretty much right away with my problem! Great customer support. And I do love the app. The hour badges are fun to get; it is an incentive to get outside more with the little one! ***** I use this to keep track and love the idea. But with the latest update, I can’t seem to put in hours for Friday & Saturday. I will keep using it the best I can but please fix!

We started using this in 2023 to track our outside time. It's so easy to use and there can be multiple profiles to track separate people's time if you want . Pictures and journal entries can also be added to your time tracker on the calendar. You can export a pdf to have a document of all your outside adventures.

This app is so glitchy! Half of the time I use the timer, it doesn’t keep running once my phone locks. If I let my phone lock on it’s own/don’t press the lock button while it is running, is usually works, but not always. But it’s very frustrating when it can’t be trusted to do basically the sole purpose of the app. Waste of money, in my experience. Which is a bummer because I was so excited to use it to make our 1000 experience more accurate and easy to track.

Tech support was very prompt when I asked for help with the family sharing portion of the app. Wish I had realized that the “family sharing” meant you all had to purchase the app multiple times across whatever device you want to use it on and that it only allows you to track one kid at a time. The family sharing they promised was the only reason I bought this app instead of using one of the numerous free apps out there that do the same thing. Wish I could return this app. I’ll be using a free app and not recommending this one from now on.

We are no this app but sometimes Mom messes up and forgets to start or stop it at the correct time. It would be great if we could verify or correct the times logged as a feature. Either way, I love it and love the idea…. Even if i have to set my oven timer to remember to turn it off when I’m logging the time missed… the next day. Lol.

Just downloaded today and it’s easy enough to use - very basic in a good way. I decided to buy the extended version/“membership” for $20/yr thinking it would give me good ideas for outdoor activities - but all of the recs that come up are indoors and…not activities? Several hotels, a casino, a shopping mall, a metro station?! Very unhelpful. I can type to search parks and splash pads, but I could have Googled those and saved $20… I think they need to work out some kinks here because as is it’s not helpful.

I just started with this app, and I love that we can track multiple people! My only wish would be that I could simultaneously use timers for different people. In the summer, we go out at different times for different amounts of time, but we can manage with single timers.

This is one of the worst apps I’ve ever had the misfortune of using. It NEVER works properly. When I time our outside adventures, more than half of the time the timer doesn’t save our hours. Instead it says it “saving” until I close the app and reopen it. Once the app is reopened all time is lost. The concept of 1000 hours outside is fantastic. This app is literally one of the most basic apps I e ever used, it simply needs to track outside time and can’t even do that! Don’t waste your time or money, there are much better time trackers!

The 1000 hours outside app is incredible! Before I purchased it, I was starting a timer on my phone and keeping track of our days and hours outside on a note on my phone. I love how easy this is and that we can go back and easily see our hours every month.

I love thus app it lefts me manually enter or adjust our time. It’s clean and simple, and worth paying for. I do however wish there was a widget. I frequently forget to stop our timer when we come inside, so it would be nice to have a widget from and center on my phone showing me the running timer.

When I first downloaded the app, it kept crashing, so I left a review stating my frustrations—I received a reply in about a week that stated the issue had been resolved. Now that I’ve been able to use the app, I can say it’s been so great for tracking our hours. Thank you for all your help!

I was on a long walk and started my timer and out my phone in my pocket. When I ended my walk, it had only recorded 5 minutes of my walk. Then I did another test and started my timer and took my kids on a walk to the playground. Again, it stopped. This time only recording nine minutes of my time. Super frustrated! Seems like something a free app would do, not a paid for app.

We are really enjoying this app! I love being able to keep track of our outdoor time and I like being able to save journal entries and photos from the day. We haven’t had any of the issues mentioned in previous reviews, so I assume they’ve been fixed since then.

I love the app! I love how you can set a timer or put in the hours yourself when you forget. But what I would LOVEEEE is to be able to add your friends so you guys can “compete” to see who is winning. My friends and I are tracking our hours and wish we could add each other as friends to watch our progress. I think it would a lot of fun!

Overall I like the app and it helps keep us on track for our goal. However, given that the main feature of the app is the timer, it’s frustrating how often I start the timer, leave the app, only to come back to the timer not running and that it didn’t track my time at all.

I love this app! It’s helping me get outside with my family more. I wish I had a function to log sessions though. If you get outside multiple times a day and forget to start the timer, you have to add up the time. Logging sessions with different locations and “tags” could be a fun what to track the time outside with cool graphics at the end of the year.

This is my first year doing 1000 hours outside and I’m loving the app so far! It’s really easy to track how much time I’m spending outside with the stopwatch and I like the calendar view. The badges are a nice touch to keep you motivated and share on social media. I recommend it for anyone doing 1000 hours outside challenge!

Love the new update that shows the time spent outside as hours and minutes (ie 1:30) vs the old version that didn’t show anything less than an hour on the calendar view. Despite our cold midwestern winter, this app has really helped motivate all of us to spend more time outdoors - so thank you!

I LOVE the podcast. LOVE the idea but I absolutely HATE logging the time. Yes it has a timer feature but to backtrack (I forget to hit start and stop a lot) is a pain. You can’t just put in 17 minutes-you can only put in the decimal tracking. And I’m trying to log every minute we can (both parents work full time) so we want every minute to count! I don’t have time to do a calculation- I’ve got two kids under the age of 3! Please fix this (or give people an option)!

The app works really well and I’ve seen how they have implemented ideas from previous reviews. I’d love to see widgets! Lock Screen widgets to track daily/weekly totals and Home Screen widgets to see the stop watch or calendar. It would make the app much more functional for me.

This app allows our family to easily track our hours outside. I love that I can add journal entries and photos to log our most treasured family memories. The badges motivate my kids to earn more hours while taking on all nature has to offer.

I really like this app! An alert or notification would be really great to remind me that the timer is still running. I accidentally left it going for 45 hours. Clearly we were not outside that long. Something to prompt me to check the timer that is still running would be really helpful!