Personal Data Explorer
A Digi.me Platform Experience
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3.83
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- The concept of collecting and reviewing social media data in one app is appreciated.
- Some users find the app interesting and believe it has potential.
- Great user interactions and programming quality praised by a user.
Cons
- App has multiple bugs and reliability issues, such as needing constant reloading and syncing.
- Lacks local storage option for data, relying instead on cloud services.
- Syncing with third-party apps is often unreliable and problematic.
- User interface is described as unintuitive and cluttered.
Most mentioned
- Connection issues with third-party services like OneDrive and Twitter.
- Performance issues, including slow loading and freezing.
- Frustration with the lack of offline access to media and local data storage options.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2023-09-26 |  | | Any time trying to add sources it would pop up warning saying source not added looks like u cancelled before being successful, but I would the previous page would say finished and to close window to go back to main thing working on or app. |
| 2022-07-15 |  | | Dangerous; avoid if you use your device as a sat nav. This app will intermittently override every other app and launch itself without warning, including overriding any "driving mode" set by device or apps. This is extremely distracting (at best) but as the app screen is white this can wipe out your night vision when driving in the dark. It should not be available in this state. I reported this to the support team over 3 months ago and they have not resolved the problem. |
| 2021-05-19 |  | | No good for me, to much going on at the same time and I never got started it kept saying it was updated but I couldn't find my files anywhere |
| 2021-03-21 |  | | I've been a user of this thing ever since it was just a nifty desktop program called SocialSafe years ago, and it worked great: you get a local copy of the stuff you put up on the internet. Then it got renamed to digi.me, and still worked for a little while after. And then some time later they announced that the concept would be pivoted to mobile, but I kind of forgot about it and didn't really think to give it a go up until just recently. It's certainly a little different from the desktop/PC version, but not always in great ways. The same fundamental concepts behind digi.me remain mostly the same, you get a local-ish library with a copy of things you've put up or otherwise done on social media sites, or a few other sources, at least up to whatever the individual services' API limits are if you've been on say Twitter for example for a really long time and have a lot of tweets. I say local-ish because there isn't an option to select on-device storage, however you can choose between your own Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or Dropbox account, which for all intents and purposes is good enough because you can still get at what the app saves to it. However, the way it stores stuff is a bit of a head-scratcher, and would require a fair bit of reverse engineering to get anything usable back if for some reason you didn't want to or found yourself unable to use the app to view your stuff anymore. The way the old desktop version stored things is much simpler in comparison and barely requires effort at all to figure out what went where. Syncing definitely seems to be much clunkier from both a UX perspective and a practical perspective, as other reviewers have alluded to. Although it claims your stuff will be automatically updated, I've found that hasn't been the case and you have to launch the app (& unlock) to get it to fetch new posts. It used to be on the PC version, you would set a time for it to launch, and then it would launch at that scheduled time, do its thing without requiring you to unlock, and then you're good to go. There's very little indication of how far along things are (namely the lack of a progress bar), as the most descriptive thing you'll see is "Getting content from ...", but you don't really have much of an idea as to where it's coming from. Again, on the PC version, you would know exactly which service is being fetched from, and a progress bar to indicate how much more it had to do yet before it was done. And quite possibly one of the biggest drawbacks is that unlike the desktop version, it doesn't download media for offline storage and instead opts for you to fetch it over the internet whenever you go through your stuff. Now, I understand that it would be pretty impractical for the app to download local copies of your YouTube videos for example (the desktop version didn't either), but the fact that this version doesn't bother with saving simple things like Twitter or Instagram images means that you really only have a partial offline copy of your stuff. Text is unfortunately really all you're going to be able to view offline. Although I haven't really given this part of it a go, there are apparently a selection of a few other apps that can use your library through a "swipe-to-share" model which seems like a neat little thing, though development is very limited and the amount of other apps that do have this can be summed up as a handful. Overall, I hate to say it but this new mobile version is very much a disappointment in comparison, and if you had to ask me which version I would rather have, I would still have to say that the desktop version by far comes out on top, namely because it just worked without too much fuss. |
| 2020-12-21 |  | | Great principe, but I can't connect on any drive, it always gets a timeout. Why should we store our data in a drive ? Why couldn't we store it locally ? I'll review this rate when I'll be able to connect. |
| 2020-06-29 |  | | The idea to collect and review social media footprint to one big bunch of data in a single app is great. 👍 However, execution needs a lot of improvements to work on. The app for example is pretty slow, features should be a bit more customisable based on what kind of data is available to collect... And also authentication process needs some fixes e.g. for Twitter. Hope developers could solve these problems - I'm pretty sure it could be a cool and useful one after all. 🤞 |
| 2020-05-23 |  | | Awesome app based on awesome user interaction based on awesome programming. Worth every dollar you make, if you spent as much time at this app as you do or ahem should do at your job, theres no way your living as a low income citizen of the US. Just saying, this thing is extensive and def been collaborated on in all the right ways. |
| 2020-03-02 |  | | Only installed this to use with UBDI. Retrieved zero data points from facebook, youtube, pinterest, or flickr. Only worked with twitter. BIG waste of time. Useless. |
| 2020-01-31 | | | Horrible app. Needs constant reloading & syncing. Will sync for 8 hours, then need more resyncing. Customer service available, but was treated as if I was annoying them. Deleted. |
| 2020-01-18 | | | Often not working. It's connection to 3rd party apps and 3rd party data sources is unreliable. I love it when it does work. |
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