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8 apps · 2,828 reviews held · 1,329 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

1.9star
How angry
47%
Negative reviews
9%
Room to enter
7 of 8
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: login & auth. 8 of 8 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 7 of 8 still carry accuracy complaints.

4 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,329 negative reviews.

Accuracyhigh

4.6% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 61 reviews · 7 of 8 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 61
  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS1star· Aug 28, 2026

    Fix your app — Not only does it give the wrong location it also give the wrong time stamps

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS2star· Aug 27, 2026

    Inaccurate location — Very unreliable and inaccurate location. Too many ads. Nearly useless for its intended purpose.

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS3star· Aug 25, 2026

    Notifications — I don’t know what’s going on it doesn’t show that I need an update but yet my notifications are way off saying I’m leaving home when I’m getting home letting my family know I’m home before I’m even there or showing me in a restaurant I’m not in I’m two restaurants away I would like some help because I like the app before it started all this I don’t want to have to delete the app if

Sync & dataelevated

1.7% vs 0.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 23 reviews · 4 of 8 apps · 2.0star mean

What they said · 3 of 23
  • Habit Tracker1star· Aug 22, 2026

    Bait and Switch — I bought the premium version year ago and when they updated I lost everything. I even backed up to the cloud but they would not restore my purchase so I lost years of data. Put these guys in jail.

  • Habit Tracker1star· Jun 26, 2026

    Not syncing — I originally set all my habits on my iPad and then it synced up perfectly with my phone. I then recently got a new iPad and tried several times to sync it with my phone. I tried everything. All iCloud settings are enabled. I googled and double checked everything but it is still blank on my iPad. How do I get this to sync on my iPad???

  • Habit Tracker2star· Mar 28, 2026

    Deleted progress — Great app but it deletes your progress if you change you goals. I’m tired of missing out on my history

Named problems · 2
  • Sync fails between devices5 of 23
  • Everything gone at once3 of 23

Billingelevated

43.9% vs 30.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 584 reviews · 8 of 8 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 584
  • Habit Tracker2star· Sep 3, 2026

    Nice but a few drawbacks — The family share doesn’t work. Paid for family premium access, followed the directions on both Google and the customer service but still didn’t work. For personal use I do enjoy the app. But the whole reason for getting it was to be able to do a 75 soft challenge with family.

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS1star· Aug 30, 2026

    AWFUL — The last update or two have made it essentially useless for iPhone (15 pro max). My daughter left a location, drove to 2(!) others, and went back with ZERO change to her location other than MULTIPLE timestamps at a few minutes apart for the same place she was originally!!!! I already paid for my fourth year or I’d be cancelling. This is so useless.

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS2star· Aug 30, 2026

    They've lost the purpose — When we first downloaded this app years ago, it was great, very useful. Over the years they've just chased the money. I can no longer sign up for notifications of my wife or kids arriving/leaving certain locations without upgrading, even if I remove a place and try to add one, so having the same amount of places I previously had, can't do it. They are constantly pushing

Named problems · 4
  • Price judged too high for the value39 of 584
  • Trial converted without clear consent11 of 584
  • Cancellation blocked or broken5 of 584
  • Charge the user never authorised5 of 584

Supportelevated

9.6% vs 7.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 127 reviews · 7 of 8 apps · 1.6star mean

What they said · 3 of 127
  • Habit Tracker2star· Sep 3, 2026

    Nice but a few drawbacks — The family share doesn’t work. Paid for family premium access, followed the directions on both Google and the customer service but still didn’t work. For personal use I do enjoy the app. But the whole reason for getting it was to be able to do a 75 soft challenge with family.

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS1star· Aug 29, 2026

    Double billed — I love the benefits of the app, however I’ve double billed for months and every time I contact support, I do not receive a response. I’ve done everything their chatbot recommends and still get charged for 2 memberships.

  • Life360: Family Safety & GPS1star· Aug 24, 2026

    App randomly stops working — Always have to have everyone “refresh” more trouble than it’s worth. Not reliable. Suddenly doesn’t register then when you reach out to tech support it’s the same response asking everyone to log out and refresh. Not helpful in the middle of day when you’re concerned about where your loved ones are.

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,329 negatives
  • Performance147 · 11.1% · 8 apps
  • UX56 · 4.2% · 6 apps
  • Ads51 · 3.8% · 8 apps
  • Limits & caps24 · 1.8% · 6 apps
  • Login & auth22 · 1.7% · 7 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after tracker apps, in their order.

Who they're for
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Google
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App Store
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Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “tracker for” and “tracker apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Shut out by device or contextAndroid 7 · Apple Watch 626
  • Wants lesstoo many features 7 · just a basic one 38
  • Wants it to plug inApple Watch 34

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 8 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 2 of 8 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
mLite: Find my Friends Phone$9.99–$109.99 · 9 tiers8.1% of 260
Life360: Family Safety & GPS$7.99–$24.99 · 6 tiers4.1% of 148
iSharing: GPS Location Tracker$3.99–$79.99 · 7 tiers3.6% of 111
Tally: The Anything Tracker$2.99–$59.99 · 6 tiers2.6% of 310
Be Closer Phone GPS Tracker$5.99–$19.99 · 10 tiers2.3% of 132
Habit Tracker$4.99–$12.99 · 6 tiers0% of 130
Find My Friends Phone - iMapp$2.99–$59.99 · 10 tiers0% of 76

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new tracker app?

8 apps compete on this shelf, holding 2,828 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, accuracy, runs in 7 of 8 of them at 4.6% of negative reviews against 1.5% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in tracker apps?

1. Accuracy: in 7 of 8 apps, 4.6% of negative reviews; 2. Sync & data: in 4 of 8 apps, 1.7% of negative reviews; 3. Billing: in 8 of 8 apps, 43.9% of negative reviews; 4. Support: in 7 of 8 apps, 9.6% of negative reviews.

How many tracker app reviews did App Imp count?

2,828 US App Store reviews across 8 apps, 1,329 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.