Timehop - Memories Then & Now Reviews

by Catzac

Loved Timehop....until the last few weeks. Was dis one chef from my Facebook and since then I can’t log back in with my account. It automatically asks to connect as my husband with no option to switch to my account. No idea why it goes to him as he’s never logged into FB on my phone and does not have the this app app himself. I co reacted support...told me to log out and delete FB app and this app app. Log back into FB the reinstall TH...which I have done multiple times without success. Tried it with my cell phone number which didn’t work either. I’ve logged into FB from my laptop to make sure TH was still active. Finally tried it on my iPad and was able to connect with my FB. But no carryover when I tried again on my phone. Unfortunately I can’t go on my iPad every day to check. Lost my almost 1000 day streak because of this.

by Iluvspolo

I’m a long time streak member of 1600 days. The new retro format is terrible, I have zero interest in it and now skip over it every day because it is so frustrating. The quiz is not challenging or fun and with no reference to the question when giving the answer from the previous day it is very unsatisfying. There used to be music and fun/shocking trivia that I looked forward to every day.

Also since the update none of my videos load and the ability to click and see the post in the native application is gone. All bad things for Timehop.

I miss the old this app and hope that the developers will spend some time addressing the concerns in the reviews because it used to be a great thing to open up each morning.

by KHoilett

this app used to be one of my favorite apps. Now I’m experiencing 4 issues. The first one being that none of my memories from a year ago load anymore, unless they’re just pictures I took on my phone; no Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram won’t show those memories from a year ago, but have no issues with showing multiple years prior. I have removed apps from the connection of this app and put them back in, in hopes of fixing the issue, but to no avail. The second issue, which I have seen reviews that everyone is experiencing, is the increase in ads. It makes Timehop interface a little tacky the way they’re placed, and sometimes can be a little tricky to just swipe pass them seamlessly. The third issue is that a lot of times when I would click on the memory to get redirected to the original source, when I would click back into this app, the whole thing resets from the beginning as if I had just opened Timehop anew. It’s very annoying, especially when I’m about 7-8 years’ worth of memories deep, only for Timehop to go back to the beginning as if I had just opened it. The 4th and final issue is the amount of notifications I get per day to check it. One notification is enough to send, and it’s super annoying when I’ve already checked it for the day and I get two more notifications telling me to check it before the day ends. Please fix these issues. Timehop used to be very useful, but the minor issues make it a bit tacky.

by Breezymm93

I honestly love Timehop, but there are a few kinks in it that make me give it only 3 stars. I have it synced with my photos app and it can never seem to pull in my old videos which makes me a little sad; especially since a lot of them are of my kids. The other thing that I don’t like is that it won’t take me to the photo or video in my photos app if I tap on it, but it will if it was posted to social media 🤷‍♀️ I don’t post every little thing on social media, so I would love to be able to go back and see photos and videos that are on my phone without having to sift through them myself.
Regardless, I still use Timehop every day and love to see what it does pull in.

by Consumer 2016

I'm sorry team, I know you are excited and you wanted to ship, but I don't think any users were asking for this update. At least not enough to outweigh the fact that many of the features that your users like and consider an important part of Timehop , are missing now. I know you'll be adding back some later, but as of right now it's frustrating that I can't do things I used to be able to, all for a design update that I honestly don't consider an upgrade. I don't care how hip my tweets look or that my photos are now in frames. I can't access my original tweets any longer or click on the links within them. I can't really scroll past large photo sets, or easily past whole years like I used to be able to. You put design over function and now your users are upset and potentially permanently lost. I know I'll keep using for a little while because I'm addicted to myself, but that won't last forever if every time I try to use Timehop , the features that I got the most utility out of aren't there, and the experience is negative each time instead. Did you survey your users about what mattered most to them? Did you look at metrics on what features were most used? Did you do any user testing with actual loyal users? Maybe you did all of this, but for someone who got this update out of the blue, I am both not happy and am passionate enough to write this, but how much I care for your app won't last long. --user since it was just a daily email back in 2012.

by Regulationnaughty

Not sure if it’s because I have my phone set to upload full versions of my photos to the cloud and they have to download every time I want to see them, but this app doesn’t load any photos half the times I open it now.
I used to really love Timehop, every morning I like to look at my memories, now I just see grey screens that say “1 year ago” and it makes me want to scroll through the photos on my camera roll just to see what they were.
I deleted Timehop a while ago out of frustration, and then I forgot why I didn’t have it anymore haha. So I re downloaded it a couple days ago, but the problem is still on & off. I had hoped it would be fixed after all these months since I last used it.

by 2hellwitit

It seems that every time that you do an update you change the ways that things are done and you have to figure it all out again when you could do it without even thinking before the update. I have been having issues with Timehop stopping every 2-3 days I go on (I’m currently on day 201) and when I click on the widget agin it starts all over from the beginning and when I get to where I was if I click to save photo it shuts down again. I have shut off and restarted my phone but the same thing happens. I’ve made sure I had string internet connection but it still stops. I was hoping that this new update would fix this issue, but unfortunately it did not and now it stops every time I go on. Is there going to be an update to fix this issue. I have contacted Apple thinking it was a problem with my phone, but this app is the only one that stops like this. And they said it was an app issue not an issue with my phone.

by Levi.levitated

I love being able to see what I posted, where I was years ago, reminisce about the past, and be reminded of moments of my life (that I documented) that have brought me to now. I really do enjoy this app.

There are a couple things that I wish would be changed/updated for easier accessibility though. I’d like to have the ability to be directed straight to my past Tweets, and Instagram posts from this app - that would make my experience even better than it is.

Also, I’m pretty bummed out about the limited options when I’m doing a then/now image. I always have trouble with my ‘then’ posts being cut off at the very top, and when I’m trying to have my ‘now’ photo not do the same thing, I wind up with four fingers on my iPhone X screen...just trying to keep the images in place so that I can save it. I really dislike how they “snap” back into place, and if you save it with any room outside of the image, you’ll get that awkward space. Let us move our photos around more? & give us more than ONE option for the size of the then/now image? Having these abilities would be like GREAT - I’d probably use this app every day again. Please look into it? 🥺👉👈

But still, love Timehop itself.

by Mary23456789

I check Timehop every day and I’m now up to over 400 in a row. Just part of my OCD I guess. But enough about me. I really enjoy Timehop because it takes me back to what was important to me three or four or even more years ago as opposed to now. I also enjoy seeing the pictures I took in the past. Sometimes I’ve lost track of them and it’s good to get a chance to save them again.
One criticism I have is that I sometimes come across misspelled words and incorrect dates in your retro videos. I realize you like to sound young and hip, and probably only hire young people for that reason, but it might be good to hire a few people over 40 as proofreaders. Other than that I love Timehop .

by Danielanddan

I downloaded Timehop recently suggested by my boyfriend and I felt it was an awesome and fun app to check the memo everyday.

But I also noticed, me and I think for many other people in today, we are so used to just taking a picture for everything not only for something we really want to save, like just taking a pic for memorize something or sharing with friends in social app, but we are so lazy to revisit the pics in photos and remove them. So it ends up with we have many pics that we actually don’t want to keep.

I’m just wondering will it be nice to let Timehop have the functionality like a delete button for the picture, and the picture will be deleted from the photos app (the cellphone itself) too once use presses the delete button. That would be so convincing for users and which at least will even encourage me to use Timehop everyday to not only reviewing the pics but also as a chance to keep our album clean :D

by Ninjamusicmom

I really do appreciate this app. It’s fun to see posts from this day several years ago. Sometimes it reminds me of things I had forgotten! I like how you can click through to open the entire post in Facebook, if you want, and see all the comments. I’m coming up to my 1,000 day streak, so I’ve had a lot of time to think about two things I would change. They are both in the Rewind portion. First, that screeching tape rewind sound effect is dreadful. I want to hear the narration sometimes but I do not like that horrible screeching. It goes right through me- not a great way to start the day. Second they have icons at the bottom of the page when they are playing the top hit from today that actually cover up the title and year of the song. Every time! So frustrating! Other than that Abe keeps it entertaining and fun!

by Augzea

I use this app every day, I loved the concept from the beginning. Still like the old format better, but used to the current one now so it’s been fine.

However, whoever is responsible for making/editing the retrovideos needs help. I’ve seen at least 3 mistakes in the past 10 days.. one video said Edward Scissorhands came out “10 years ago” right under where it said it came out in 1989 (it was actually released in 1990, which the speaker said in the video, so a little confused as to where 1989 came from). And today for A Series of Unfortunate Events, the description has it written as “Beaudelaire” children (it’s spelled Baudelaire). Yeah these mistakes aren’t a big deal and don’t affect my use of Timehop , it just comes off as pretty careless on this app’s part since these are basic things that should be checked before submitting.

Just bringing that to your attention, otherwise thanks for all the memories!

by Band_nerd789

Edited! Thanks for the fix! 😘

I’m checking this app and the first thing I’m greeted with when I open Timehop is a blaring ad. Obnoxiously loud and NO WAY TO MUTE IT. The only solution is to close Timehop , open it back up, and then scroll through as quickly as possible before the video loads, which is counterproductive to the purpose of Timehop (enjoying my memories.) Many an article on advertising best practices will tell you that most users find autoplaying videos intrusive and offensive. Default the sound to muted (like Facebook does) with an option to play the sound if a user chooses. Some people check their this app in waiting rooms, at work, during a commute or other places where sudden loud noise from their device is extremely embarrassing at best.

by Nursedish_36

If you are nostalgic and sentimental THIS IS FOR YOU !!! The cloud takes most of your pictures and put some just where it says it is in the cloud and sometimes they don’t always come back right then but time hop take snapshots of all your photos on your phone and then four years from now it posts it and your and you love it who doesn’t know anybody that’s got kids or grandkids especially babies love it and I am no exception....Having said that ...there is no way to upgrade TIME-HOP to a premium version THEREFORE it has THOSE PESKY ADs. that is the only con I can think of to Timehop but they’re cute ads ((if there is such a thing...:)) i ???still don’t know what the word TURNT means but ya gottA love those cute frames and the dinosaurs thumbs up 👍 or even that word WAAAAAAT??? Uber creative this app !! Kudos guys b. This is the only app that does this so yay time hop !!!

Ps TIME HOP ??? Can you help me out and tell me what that dang word turnt means ?? It’s driving me crazy !!! And BTW y’all are number 1 in Timehop corner .
.(((cheezy grin but cute still ))) oh and crossing my fingers 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🙏🙏🙏

by All The Nicknames Used🤔

Love Timehop, bc it doesn’t only help me get through my hard days, when a pic of my kids, nieces or my unconditional love, my nephew/my son, birth & raised by my sister & her husband, whom I lost to a home invasion a year ago. But when the kids,(all grown now) pop up, it brings a little bit of light to my dark days. Seeing my beautiful unconditional love, my nephew/first born son to us all. It reminds me, of the beautiful life we had, he was the glue that kept us all together. Seeing him during our best times, helps me remember the great years we had with him, & not think of the day, God needed a Hero, just like him, even though I still needed him more. But these memories help me appreciate the years God gave us all with him💔

by Haleyhurricane5

I’ve used this app every single day for over two years, and before that still used it almost every day with a couple of small breaks while traveling. The only thing I wish would come back is the ability to click on the part that shows how many likes and comments you had and see them pop up right there. It now takes you to Timehop (Facebook or IG) to view the post and see your comments and going back and forth between the two for every list of comments I want to see for that day gets to be a hassle and I don’t end up checking the commments at all now. But other than that I wouldn’t change a thing! I love the format and every update they make somehow makes the look even cooler. I like that you can even sync your iPhoto. I love the flashback video and the screen at the end with a new blurb every day and the fact that it lets you know how many days you’ve consecutively checked in with a banner for each year. Well done!

by Imluvndabeach

The programmers really took a big leap and moved the look & feel of the UI in a whole different direction last year. The users were livid. Quickly they not only changed back to a user interface that was acceptable but improved upon it. Kudos to them. I enjoy the ability to look back (for me) up to 7 years ago and relive great memories & photos I’ve taken. Thanks guys!

Perhaps a revision bug? 1/2 of my timeline photo screens show dark screens with no sign of progress to upload the missing photos. Guess I’ll start looking on Milk Cartons to see if I can find my missing pics.... 😉

by Chantraine1975

Facebook’s memory feature is OK but to see past posts on Twitter, you have to download and figure out how to use it, and they make it more difficult every year. Luckily there’s this nice app, this app. I’m really enjoying getting to see everything I posted in the preceding years. I really love the RetroVideos that tell you all about what was going on in history and culture. I would like to see more of This Day in History. I think they could add another page to each day’s this app. Also on the Facebook posts, it only shows the comment I made on things I shared and not the entire post. I’d like that fixed, please. All in all, great app!

by Jdrocker101

I love Timehop and always look forward to my memories of years past. But lately, I am a little confused about the RetroVideo. Where are the usual 3 segments? It’s irritating and boring to only see one RetroVideo. I miss the 3 segments; I miss seeing the hit song of many years ago. And I find the trivia question irritating because when you post it (upside down) the next day, I can not remember what the question was, so I get annoyed. Go back to the usual format. I also miss seeing my links in Facebook when I would click on my post. I am in the 2 year club, and working on 3 year club (although I have had Timehop for longer), but it may not be worth it. It’s not as fun anymore.

by Lynnekaren

October 2017:
Thank you soooo much for finally bringing back Swarm check ins!!! You’re back to 5 stars for me!

May 2017:
I just would like to know if swarm/foursquare updates are EVER coming back??
You want me to tap; fine I will. You don't want to show the day of the week; fine. You insist I see practically 1 ad per picture; fine!
You want to highlight my text from FB (which is so stupid, but whatever); fine!
But my favorite part of Timehop was seeing places I visited and where I traveled to!! You removed that!! I may not have always taken a picture to remind me. If this isn't coming back, I'd like to know because I will finally give up hope on Timehop.

March 2017: I lost my streak a couple weeks ago when you didn't bring back scrolling & Swarm/Foursquare checkin's.
And your latest update STILL doesn't include that.
I can use Facebook for the rest of my memories & wont see the stupid ads either.
I don't need you anymore.

January 2017: PLEASE, bring back the old Swarm/ Foursquare check ins!!!!!!

Besides seeing photos, one of my favorite things this app did was being able to see where I went years ago!

If I wanted Snapchat I would be using Snapchat.
Please GO BACK!

by Ziachiquita

I have one form of notification turned on for Timehop, just to remind myself to check it and keep my silly streak going. Good, great, whatever. I open it usually within an hour or two of the first notification of the day. The first of TOO MANY. I don’t need constant reminders at regular intervals to check the stupid app. I checked my this app not even 10 minutes ago, and roughly three minutes after completing the day of memories, I received ANOTHER notification “reminding” me not to forget this app! This is not the first time I’ve received additional annoying notifications after completing this app for the day. Please correct whatever issue it is causing the annoyance. If I completed it, there is no need for me to see “your day is waiting!!!! Don’t forget to open me even though you did two minutes ago!!!!”

by I Just Want Opacity

Lately Timehop hasn’t been as buggy as my last review (in 2017 there was a bug that would constantly cause Timehop to crash) but now these Ads are playing before I even get to them. For instance there will be an AD in the middle of your memories, so if you have about 8 or 9 years worth of memories, near the 4th or 5th memory you’ll see an ad. Ads are fine when they’re quiet and you’re able to just scroll past, but lately they’ve been loud videos and they play before you scroll past AND after. It’s frustrating to say the least, most of us look at this app when we’re bored, and in public. I do not want to buy this app to get rid of ads but what about a volume control option?

by Michael Rogers

The ads obviously are necessary, but why do I need to click on something that requires me to kill? “Choose your weapon to wipe out 20 things!” Really? Not really a cut on this app, just really a comment on whomever chooses their ad choice AND placement. I’m sure there is an algorithm that figures out when and where a game ad goes, but I guarantee that IT’S WRONG. Seeing snippets of my past? Yes. Having to select a specific weapon to destroy things and/or people to finish seeing snippets of my past? NOPE. 4 stars for compiling memories, but minus 1 star for the inconvenience of having to think about destruction. We already have enough reminders of that... How about place things that make you smile?

by Alyb303

Great app love how it connects all my apps and shows me what I’ve been doing today the last few years. If I could give one criticism I don’t like how if I’ve already checked this app I do get another notification later in the day and if I check it I get yet another. I get constant notifications to the point I’m contemplating deleting it because I already checked it.... don’t notify me again? It’s the same all day I don’t need to check it more than once a day. Other than that love Timehop and use it daily and I hope something is done about the annoying notifications