Dayta ($1.99) is a powerful, design-y data tracker for your iPhone. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and have found it surprisingly feature complete for a v1.0 application. In fact, the only real problem has been finding ways to use the app in the Dayta day (so to speak).
Fill ‘er up
From the very first moment you load Dayta up, it’ll be up to you to figure out exactly what to use it for. The whole app is organized around tracking and displaying statistics over a given period of time.
You can assign each data set (e.g. My Weight) its own icon and unit type, and you can even sort all of your data sets by folder (Folder name: Why I can’t lose weight; Data sets: donut intake, poutine intake, etc.).
Once you’ve established a given data set you can add your data by using a numpad or a set of Plus and Minus buttons. By default, Dayta considers each input separately, and this has worked perfectly for helping me track my weight. I enter my weight once, at the start of the day, and leave the app alone until the next morning. I’ve set a goal within my Weight dataset and Dayta has done a great job of helping me track my progress, especially with its handy one-tap graphing capability.
Extra Tracking Features
The default settings are ideal for tracking things like weight, but Dayta also includes a few extra features for those who would like a little more tracking flexibility. If you’re tracking a daily budget, then you can instruct Dayta to “consolidate by day”, so that each time you enter a purchase, it affects your total budget (you won’t be able to name specific expenditures, though).
However, if you’re tracking something like the number of coffees you drink in a given day, you can have Dayta “consolidate by day” and “reset to zero daily”, so that you can create a daily account of your caffeine intake, instead of a growing tally of coffees (which would be a lot less useful).
Conclusion
Dayta is a very functional app as it stands, but I find that it’s almost too open in its design. It may be useful for a great many things, but users like myself may need more flashing neon lights to show me exactly how I might want to use it.
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