Everyday

I’d been using this app every day for over a year and it worked pretty well. I did experience crashes when trying to save an image to the camera roll, but the app did make it possible to take daily pictures and make a video of them. I resorted to screen captures instead of saving images to the camera roll. So far so good, until I bought a new iPhone 11 Pro. All my previous images are still there, but now the viewfinder frames the photos completely differently than they were before. I thought this was due to the new front-facing camera maybe having a different field of view, but when I leave the app and take a selfie normally, it’s completely different from the framing that’s presented in the app. In other words, I would get results more consistent with my Everyday history if I stopped using the app and just used the selfie mode in the iPhone. I could accept the one time disruption in the orientation of the images captured with the app—it’s not ideal and is antithetical to what the app is for, but stuff happens—BUT the new framing/view is just terrible for self portraits, making my face tiny and capturing far too much of my torso. It looks distorted and I don’t know why that is. Hopefully an update fixes this and I can resume my project without too much of a gap.

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On paper this app does everything I want it to do. And I’ve been using it for years. Unfortunately it progressively is getting harder to use without frustration. Every time an update comes out I get excited that a bug may be fixed, but instead some new quirk pops up. It’s been this way since the iPhone X fist came out. And just yesterday I started a new timeline for a new year. And now on day two the eye, mouth, and nose alignments give me a different photo than the original just one day ago. Using the semi-translucent overlay over yesterday’s photo doesn’t work either. And because it’s based on calendar date I can’t do anything but throw away the first photo or wing it until I accidentally get it to match. The latest update says there’s a new version coming in 2019. And I’ll keep using the app until then because of emerita mostly. But if you haven’t started on your goal of taking consecutive photos, I recommend looking around to see what else is available, because these quirks will probably not be going away any time soon.

It's frustrating, these apps that are almost great. Main problem: the mirroring effect. You take one picture but it spits out a mirrored image (different picture). The option that allows you to match your face up to an outline of your own face is so unthought through. Your matching your face to a mirrored image. Unless you are a model with a perfectly semetrical face you're gonna be off. In matching with grid they need one more grid line on horizontal plane to help with angle. You can line your eyes on the horizontal and nose in the vertical from a whole bunch of angles so it doesn't do the job. Easy fixes, but when people buy it anyway why spend money to fix it? There's a rhetorical answer for that question, but like the app makers, why would I bother?

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I'm also an indie app developer, so I'm highly sympathetic to the economics of the App Store these days, which is honestly really tough. So I get why there hasn't been an update in 3 years, because I suspect the money isn't there, and the app is more-or-less feature complete. BUT... there's a terrible bug where taking a picture any time mutes my volume. Which caused me to miss my alarm once until I figured out what was going on. I emailed them a few months ago to see if they would fix it, and received no response. At some point if you're not going to update an app anymore and it’s badly buggy, you have to pull it off the store, especially if it's a paid app. That time has long passed for this app.

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This app no longer works with iOS 12. It doesn’t have permissions to access the camera and you can’t grant them from the phone settings. I loved this app, but I’m so sad it doesn’t seem like it’s being supported any more. I emailed their support a couple of weeks ago and never heard back. Previously I had written this as a review: Apps serve a specific purpose, and the best apps fit a specific purpose so well, it defines the niche. Everyday is one of those apps. I can't imagine a better daily photo taking experience. Everything from alignment, onion skin, and even playing them all back at whatever speed you want. You can even export the movie when you're done. I'm impressed with how well done this is and how much I like using the app. Keep it up Everyday People!!!