Looking for a Reporter app alternative?

Why people go looking

Reporter is still on the App Store, but its last update was in February 2019 and it runs on iPhone only. If you miss random sampling — being asked “what are you doing?” when you least expect it — and want an app that keeps up with iOS, that’s what ObserMe is for.

What will feel familiar

• You write your own questions.
• Questions can arrive at random moments, a few times a day, inside hours you choose.
• Answers are quick: yes or no, a number, a 1–5 scale, one choice, or a few tags.
• Over weeks and months, the answers turn into a plain picture of your days.

What ObserMe adds

• Habits and observations in one list: some questions at a set time, others at random.
• Answer straight from the notification, usually in under ten seconds.
• A Today screen with the last seven days at a glance.
• Reports for a week, a month, chosen days or the whole year, shareable as one image.
• iPhone and iPad.

What it deliberately doesn’t do

No streaks, badges or points. No coach telling you how to feel. No ads, analytics or tracking in the app. A missed day is just a day without an answer.

Good to know before you switch

• ObserMe needs an account (email and password), so your answers survive a new phone. They’re stored on our servers under your account — the privacy policy explains how.
• There’s no import from Reporter exports yet.
• You can download everything as JSON, or delete your account, any time from Settings.
• It’s free for now, with no ads.
• More on the method behind it: experience sampling on iPhone.

ObserMe isn’t affiliated with Reporter or its makers. It just wouldn’t exist without the idea. Also compared: Daylio and Exist.