Apps Review: iWorry App

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 12:42 AM

All humans experience uncertainty from time to time and worrying is a normal response to uncertainty. If you are overly affected by too much worrying, the good news is that, there is now an iPhone app that can help you to manage worries better. The iWorry app is a worry journal app that helps users to handle their worries and problems better than a normal notepad. The iWorry app is developed by a Malaysian-based company, Pringgle Media. Pringgle Media is focused on developing intuitive and easy-to-use applications to the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. The iPhoneMalaysiaBlog team has the opportunity to interview the Founder and Chief Software Engineer of Pringgle Media, Mr Waihon Yew recently. Below are some of the information that we have gathered about the iWorry App from him.

The iWorry app can enable users to jot down their worries in a worry list the moment they occur in order to get them out of their head quickly. While doing so, they can also assign a tag to a worry for easy retrieval and filtering later on. Users can also schedule a worry time. Only at the appointed time that they can view their worry list. “This serves to discipline users to worry only at a specific time.” said Waihon Yew, founder of Pringgle Media.

When the worry time is reached, users go to a chosen worry place where they can be with themselves and think through their worries. For each worry, they can either delete it from their list if it is no longer relevant or note down their decision such as a solution or action for follow-up. A decision tag that summarizes the decision made can be chosen. “There are some time-saving features that users will find handy such as viewing only those worries associated with a specific tag and deleting multiple worries at one go.” said Yew. Using this way, users can tackle their worries in a more systematic and holistic way.

Below are some of the screenshots of the iWorry app:-

Those worries updated with a decision are captured in a logbook, which is separated from the main worry list. The logbook is grouped by decision tags. Within a group of worries, users can further filter the list by a worry tag. Those worries no longer relevant can be deleted from the logbook. “Users can also password protect iWorry to prevent undesired access to their private information.” said Yew.

Below are some of the key features of iWorry app:

* You can schedule your worry time and worry place

* You can enter your worry and put a tag on it for easy retrieval at a later stage

* When you think through each worry in your list, you can write down your decision, action, solution, or other remarks; delete it from the list if it’s no longer relevant; or keep it in the list for future review.

* You may delete multiple worries at one go

* You have a Logbook that keeps all reviewed worries for future reference

* Unlimited number of worries can be stored

* Web resources related to worrying

System Requirements:

* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

* Requires iOS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 tested)

* 0.7 MB

The iWorry Apps is currently available for downloads at the Apple’s AppStore. There are 2 versions of the app i.e. the iWorry(standard) which is available at US$2.99 and iWorry Lite which is available for FREE.

To see how the iWorry works, below is a video on the iWorry App:-

All in all, i think this is a great app that can serve its purpose. Congratulations to Pringgle Media on the launch of the iWorry app. i am sure we can see many more great app coming from this company in the future. Malaysia Boleh! :-)