Comprehensive is an Understatement

What We Liked:

Life Topix is like the ultimate mommy binder that has all of your essentials in it – school schedules, shopping lists, appointments, bill payments, hand-written notes, to-dos etc. Only you don’t need a HUGE binder, you just need your device. You don’t need to flip through sections, chug the thing around (lose it in my case and forget to use it).
I also MUST point out that it does an excellent job of adding repeated appointments. Life Topix does the best job I’ve seen of scheduling repeating, simple subjects. If you teach the same subjects day in and day out, and don’t want to do a separate class or lesson plan every day – this is a great choice.

Go ahead and schedule reading every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (or any other combination of days) at 10 a.m. for one of your children over an entire semester and hit go – done. This is one area where a lot of planning apps DESIGNED for homeschoolers don’t perform well. Of course, if you do want to add individual tasks for each of your children for special projects you can go ahead and do that too – there’s a variety of ways you can approach it depending on your preferences.
I also really like the attractive, day-planner style calendar – you can see at a glance what is happening as well as adding and modifying the schedule right from the calendar. Expensive paper day planners be gone!

The ability to add content to the app from your Mac is also a great plus – I personally know moms who’ve looked for desktop integration in their planning apps just so they don’t have to peck away on the iPad keyboard for SO long.

Above all in addition to the extensive help that you can access within the app, Light Arrow, the creators of Life Topix are incredibly responsive. I’ve been in contact with them about a few questions I had and suggestions for improvement. Not only did they respond to me quickly, but they also implemented some of my feedback into their latest release. How much more can you ask for?

What We Didn’t Like:

With an app this comprehensive that functions so smoothly it’s hard to find much to dislike. There IS a learning curve, but the support is excellent – ask if you need help. The only things I can think of that could be added to make the app even more ultimate are a meal planner that integrates with the shopping list and an in-app address book that would populate reminders for birthdays automatically if birthdates are included and that moms could look up addresses and phone numbers in to do the old fashioned stuff like writing snail mail thank you notes etc.

Overall:

Life Topix is not only the most comprehensive planning and organizational life management app that I’ve ever seen, but it also does the best job of scheduling simple repeating school subjects for homeschooling moms. Say good-bye to your mommy binder – this app also keeps track of appointments, to-do lists, shopping lists, your finances, tracks your weight, and a whole lot more. Comprehensive? That might be an understatement.

Appsforhomeschooling.com about LifeTopix Calendar, Task Lists, v6.0