Epic Win

I’ve been testing Epic Win, a simple todo
management app by Supermono, for the last couple of weeks. I've got to say its pretty damn good.
For those not familiar with todo apps, by simple todo app, I mean Epic Win allows you to create todo reminders with the options of adding alarms or repeating the todo with all the repeat options you’d expect from a decent todo app. It doesn't allow for project and/or checklist creation. As a point though, it doesn't aim to do these either.
So why do I think Epic Win is good and what makes it different and stand out from the plethora of other todo apps out there? Quite simply, it adds an element of fun to todo management in the form of simple RPG elements and loot. Probably the best part of this is it doesn't take itself seriously from an RPG point of view and the loot you get is done in an almost mockingly comical RPG style. In addition to loot you also have an avatar that levels up as you defeat the items on your list. XP (experience points) as assigned to the task when creating it. You assign the xp in 50 point increments ranging from 50-300 points. Supermono recommend assigning do values based on task difficulty to make things more fun and to help rank tasks in your todo list. Tasks also have a choice of 5 skill areas to be picked on creation which the xp also feeds as well as your progress to next level. These skill areas are Strength, Stamina, Intellect, Social and Spirit. So if, for example, you have to load up the car with heavy suit cases before going on holiday you might want to assign this to strength. Maybe you have to call the mother-in-law, this could be assigned to Social or maybe Stamina if it's a bit of an arduous chore to do.
Now you may be thinking this sounds like a lot of effort when all you want to do is create a reminder on your list of jobs to do. In reality it only takes a couple of seconds to set the xp and tap on of the 5 categories. If however that couple of extra seconds to make a todo list more interesting sounds like too much, Epic Win isn't for you. If having a little fun on the side at the same time as getting things done sounds appealing, it almost certainly is the right app for you.
Epic Win has generally been made with a good amount of polish too. The look of the app is clean, the sound effects are great and they way you have to hold down the little xp star on each today to make your avatar beat up the job is great. It even takes him or her longer to defeat the bigger point scoring jobs before the explode not bits and suck into your loot tab.
On the subject of tabs, there are five of them at the bottom of the screen. Quests, Beaten, Profile, Loot and Options. Quests is your todo list. Beaten are the completed todo’s which you can go into and redo them to re add to your quest list and save time by not having to recreate the job from scratch. Profile shows your avatar’s progress across the 5 stats and towards the next level up. As your level up the character description changes and so does the appearance. The Loot tab has two options, a map view which has a tiny avatar on a wavey path which list how far you've travelled and graphically shows how far you've got to go to the next loot item. The other screen in the loot tab shows crap load of empty boxes and as you scroll down the loot you have randomly unlocked populated in its corresponding box.
There are a couple of minor bugs that I've reported to the developers and they are very responsive at replying on email too. The two bugs are on setting the alarm time, sometimes it doesn't update properly and I've had to redo it and the app icon badge counter doesn't update until you open the app that day. Fortunately I've found myself opening the app and trying to think of some quick 50xp point worthy jobs to do so I can get some more xp for my character. Sad I know but it did make me actually want to get more done which is a very positive thing for your todo list.
Over all for me, I’d give Epic Win 4/5 due to the couple of bugs and it could do with an auto snooze function like Due has, otherwise, it's a great little productivity app.
- Veiledbunneh
Images borrowed from official epic win developers website