Idea Growr

- September 8, 2016

Everyone

Productivity

( 1,235)

Description

When an idea pops up, quickly write it down and get back to sleep or your meeting (or both). Add notes and improve on your ideas by answering questions about personal motivation, the business side and much more.

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FEATURES:
✔ Write down ideas & notes
✔ Pictures
✔ Record your voice
✔ App provided question sets
✔ Create your own question sets
✔ Share or backup ideas using apps like Dropbox and Gmail
✔ Use #ideaname to link in notes to idea with name: Idea name
✔ No ads or in app purchases

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★ "Easy to use, simple and straightforward UI" - OmegaDroid
http://omegadroid.co/manage-ideas-thoughts-idea-growr/

★ "Answering questions keeps you focused while conceptualizing the plans." - SmartPhoneApps
http://smartphoneapps.com/idea-growr-app-for-android-review/

★ "It’s simple yet very reliable. Check it out." - Dottech
http://dottech.org/130320/android-review-idea-growr-app/

★ Featured on App Deals of the Day - Gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/06/app-deals-of-the-day-android-iphone-ipad-windows-phone-117/

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EXPORT / SHARE

You can export or share a .zip file that will include all your ideas (or a single idea) and picture and audio files.
As an alternative you can simply export a text file.

IMPORT

You can also import these ideas. This enables you to share a single idea with someone, or for instance move all your ideas to a new device.

Since you can create question sets the other device might not have, answers to those questions will become notes.

In this blog post I explain importing screen by screen:
http://www.juliushuijnk.nl/2016/04/idea-growr-update-import-ideas-from-zip-file/

ONLINE SYNC ?

At the moment there is no a real time sync feature or web based interface. The main reason is that I only want to enable this feature if I'm sure I can do it right. It has to be robust and safe. I have not yet had the time to fully learn these skills, so for now the next best thing is the export & import feature.

PASSWORD PLEASE ?

The app does not come with password protection. If you want to lock you app for others who have access to your device you can try out app locker apps: http://beebom.com/2015/04/best-app-lockers-for-android

PRIVACY & OWNERSHIP

Everything you write is stored only on your device and will always be yours.
This application uses Google Analytics to anonymously track usage.

Have fun and let your ideas grow!

Reviews

4.2

1,235 total

5 648

4 335

3 137

2 54

1 61

Wayne Hynd

Wow! This seems great. I have ADHD, so it is no problem generating a lot of "great" ideas! However, how much time would I save if I used this app to weed out the productive ideas from the ones which, while good, may not be feasible given my skills, talents, time available, and personality. I've only used it a few minutes, but it's so well designed and the questions are so well formulated, that I had to give this initial review right away. I will come back as I use the app more, to make any revisions to this review.

Asyraf Ahmad Saferi

Good for research student I'm currently doing my Master degree and find the apps useful for writing my ideas on my current and possible future researches. Sure, you can maybe use Keep/Evernote, but having an exclusive app for the task is much better, imho. Although, at the end of the day, pen and paper probably still the best option, but nothing beat this while you are on the go/commuting.

Very helpful, highly recommend it It's clear the developer really put some thought into the questions and other related content within the application, going beyond other apps of this type by not just creating an idea platform but actually including very helpful substance within it. Helped me get out of a rut with many of my ideas that were "stuck" a bit ,and gave them the kick-start they needed to move forward productively.

Esm K

Awesome for quickly jotting down ideas! Love the questions to concretely plan for future development. 4/5 because the import picture didn't work. It became a greyed placeholder image after selecting a image.

harold sam

I really loved it. Helped me a lot with my Novels. Everything seems superb now. Thank you for answering us consumers. Have a good time and a nice day

Brandon Plumbo

Great tool! I was considering creating something like this for myself because I always find it useful to write my ideas on paper, and slowly progress them into something tangible. When I came across this app, I was ecstatic. I, however, wish it allowed me to create new question sets without going directly to settings. This goes for other features of the app as well.

User reviews

Wayne Hynd September 24, 2016

Asyraf Ahmad Saferi September 24, 2016

August 16, 2016

Esm K August 30, 2016

Julius Huijnk September 8, 2016

Did the 'take picture' work for you? Also, it might be a permission issue in your app settings. I should fix that in the next update.

harold sam August 12, 2016

I really loved it. Helped me a lot with my Novels. Everything seems superb now. Thank you for answering us consumers. Have a good time and a nice day

Julius Huijnk October 19, 2015

Since I now (v1.43) have a working search feature, do you still need the folder system?

Brandon Plumbo July 30, 2016

Julius Huijnk August 3, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. You want a link from the idea overview to the -create question set- screen? Also, I'd like to hear from the other features you'd like to see improved. Perhaps you can send me an e-mail.

noe postma June 23, 2016

Superb! But... I absolutely love this app so freaking much! It's extremely helpful for organizing my thoughts and is now an irreplaceable part of my daily life! One issue I found though, is that if I turn my phone sideways while typing answers to questions, all of the info in that set gets erased. I then have to exit the set without saving (in order to undo the erase) and retype everything. Besides that one thing, it's perfect!

Julius Huijnk June 29, 2016

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it.

Fabiel Lozada June 2, 2016

Good, try it. Nice design and UI. Needs a log-in or account back up option. I got some ideas started. Deleted the app, decided to try it again, but lost what I had started the first time around. So, not reliable (yet) against a lost or damaged phone.

Julius Huijnk June 2, 2016

Yes, deleting the app will remove all ideas. You can export all your ideas in a zip file and import them later (or on a new device). Thanks for feedback!

Perewari Pere May 10, 2016

Fantastic Very awesome app. I had an easy notetaker, but this is better on one ground: you can add more ideas to a bigger idea rather than just split the idea everywhere. It makes ideas more concise. Very nice. Awesome UI/UX

vero veritas July 24, 2016

Superior app Very useful. I need more time to explore, but deserves 5* from current experience. Intuitive. Lots of interesting options to keep the track and improve ideas over the time, whenever you can come back to them... Good job, Julius.

Julius Huijnk July 24, 2016

Thanks!

Thais Hokama May 15, 2016

I love this app. It's really helpful. Otherwise, I would appreciate a night mode. And wish I could link two ideas together. But it's a great app nonetheless.

Julius Huijnk May 17, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. How would like to link two ideas together? I can imagine that it could be nice to be able to do that via a note. That you can mention @NameOfIdea and that it turns that into a link to this specific idea.

Emil Doll May 22, 2016

Just installed and looks great!! Only thing I would change is the App Icon, please materialize

Julius Huijnk May 24, 2016

Thanks! As for the icon, your the first one to ask this, you mean that it needs a unique silhouette, slightly titled 3D? If enough people ask, I'll make an extra effort :)

Majola Walaza June 8, 2016

Maj Great for me, It's helps clear mind clutter. It needs back up or sync feature.

Jamie Hord August 8, 2016

Love this app. I use it to write out detailed information about ideas I have for new products, apps, services, business etc. I love how customizable the question sets are as I can set questions for new apps, new businesses, new products, new apps...

Pete Zenn July 5, 2016

Great little app Very useful. Use it every single day.

Jet Eloriaga July 17, 2016

Exactly what i need! Oh this is just perfect! no feature more nor less, just what you need whenever and wherever you get that eureka moment! thank you, developer!

Quick Reviews June 9, 2016

Best one for writing ideas Need more online backup solutions.

koalla .null May 6, 2016

Very helpful Excellent app, really helpful and creative

Seena Zarie May 1, 2016

Very useful Very useful and friendly app

Alex R. April 16, 2016

It's a handy app! It's a great app if you love jotting down ideas and want good question templates to work with that access the feasibility of your ideas.

Julius Huijnk April 16, 2016

hi, I'll put it on my todo list :) for now you can open a picture you have with a gallery app, and then share it with Idea Growr app.

Alireza S April 8, 2016

Privacy Nice app, but it will be better if the app uses password protecting feature.

Julius Huijnk April 9, 2016

I haven't tried it myself, but you could try app lockers: http://beebom.com/2015/04/best-app-lockers-for-android

Alexandre de P. Mesquita April 14, 2016

Great App for idea kepping

Takács Zsolt April 7, 2016

Easy to use

Luke Flegg March 25, 2016

Fantastic app by a real developer Gems like this are rare works of love. I wonder how many dreams this has helped transform into viable projects. I'd love 2 things: a (potentially paid for) option to access ideas via web (not mobile) and I'd love to be able to share my ideas + see any other 'public/ collaborative' ideas shared in a kinda open ideas community. Maybe we can 'Like' & discuss each other's ideas.

Julius Huijnk March 25, 2016

Hi Luke, thanks for the kind words. I'm now working on an export feature that let's you backup all files in a .zip with a simple HTML files. That might be seen as a step to enable more sharing. Web access and cloud sync are the most requested feature, but I only have one chance to do it right and somewhat limited skills. I'm working on that :)

Harshith Anchan March 27, 2016

Question ❓ What if some one stole our ideas

Julius Huijnk March 20, 2016

The ideas are only stored on your device, not online.

Erika Bliss March 17, 2016

Absolutely adore this app, but I am on a tablet, my phone and my computer all day long. I wish there was a way to log into my account in a browser tab so that I could just keep flowing as fast as I am moving. :)

Julius Huijnk March 18, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. It's the most requested feature and I'd love it myself. The main things holding me back are: time, having the skills to 100% be sure I can do this robustly so the ideas are safe online. Also it will add server costs for an app with no profit. Perhaps in the future I'll be able to, but I'll first work on other features.

Apoorv Gupta March 25, 2016

Decent 4.7 stars actually. Just some intuitiveness lacking in the IdX. But quite a good addition to the app drawer for almost everyone.

Julius Huijnk March 26, 2016

Thanks. Let me know what would make it more intuitive for you, perhaps I can take it into account with one of the future updates.

Shafquat Zaman Solon March 18, 2016

Exactly what I was looking for!

Jeremy Kohtz March 11, 2016

Awesome but needs one thing Great app design. Great way to keep track of random thoughts and projects. Would be AWESOME if it had a widget to display specific ideas/notes. The more often I see it, the more likely I am to remember to use it.

Julius Huijnk March 12, 2016

Thanks for the feedback, I'll put it on my todo list :)

Aaron Kayondo March 16, 2016

Good idea!

Jaibeersingh Panwar March 26, 2016

This is an awesome App

J McG March 5, 2016

Great app Only found this app today and have already documented a few idea I had been jotting done on a notes app... much better to have the well thought out questions to help flesh out my ideas. Might I suggest adding syncing so I can move between my phone and tablet? An perhaps a section for user questions were I can share my own questions for others to use or find useful questions others have made for their own ideas?

Julius Huijnk March 5, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. Sync, and sharing your user questions is certainly on the list of things I'd like to do. Sync means a back-end and costs (and the skills to build and maintain that), so that can be tricky. But we'll see how 2016 goes :).

Sameem Monzaviyan February 27, 2016

Thank you for helping me This is well done and very handy to have in my pocket! If I may suggest the following improvements; 1. Option to secure the app with a password or pin is critical. 2. Option to add a file or image as attachments to the idea. By the way I have installed all your three apps and will write reviews on them too.

Julius Huijnk March 5, 2016

Update: v1.48 includes your requested add-picture feature. - Hi Sameem, thanks for the feedback. [ .. ] More people have asked for password protection. I'm not yet sure this is a feature that needs to be in Idea Growr. There are apps that let you put a pin code on other apps. If people keep asking I'll have to give in one day probably :)

Scotty Pittsford January 27, 2016

Perfect app For someone like me with a lot of ideas, this is the perfect way to keep track of them and to have those questions ready for me to formulate the idea more, it is really helpful to guide ideas to success. Great app!

Lyndie Witt March 8, 2016

It's pretty good I feel like a useful option that this app is missing is the ability to create your own categorized lists of questions, instead of just one long string of questions that aren't organized at all. The preloaded questions are organized, but there's no way to organize the questions you add yourself.

Julius Huijnk March 20, 2016

Update - With this new update (1.51) you can create your own question sets and for every idea select what sets you want to use. Let me know if you like the update and have more feedback.

Tomaz Kavcic January 28, 2016

Really nice app One suggestion though. I think it would be great if we can tag ideas by categories.

Julius Huijnk February 1, 2016

Thanks for the suggestion. There will probably be other updates first, like adding images, but I've written your suggestion down on my (quite large) list.

Syed Muhammad Noor-ul-Hassan February 27, 2016

You made it MAN. Sir you have made this app which proves that you are a genius.

December 29, 2015

Love this app Would like it to be multiplatform. That is, it would be nice if data was stored somewhere so that if I have an idea I can pick up my phone or my tablet or use my computer to jot my ideas. So that no matter which device I'm using I get to work on ideas that may have been started on another device.

Chen Wei Ri January 7, 2016

Great app, best app with enhancement I like how this app dedicates to serving fidgety people like me, always having random ideas and provide me with a slap reality with the questions. I think this app would be perfect if there's drawing function. This is just my idea, cheers!

Julius Huijnk March 20, 2016

While the app doesn't have drawing, you can import a drawing you made from another app into Idea Growr. Let me know if that's working for you.

Liam Beogradlija December 18, 2015

I love this app It's very easy to use. Helps me keep detailed information of my ideas. And the best part is, it has an easy export/import of data. Recently I got a new phone and was dreading the idea of having to transfer all my notes. Lucky this app has an easy way to export your notes to something like Evernote. You can also email it to yourself. All I had to do was copy/paste into Idea Growr on my new device. Thank you for this app and keep up with great work.

Julius Huijnk March 20, 2016

Glad to read you used the feature and liked it. I spent quite some time on that one :)