The ShapeUp Blog

Just a small update on what’s happening:

Right now we are working on a new version of the ShapeUp Club iPhone app where we focus on making the sync much faster and much more stable. We will also reinvent the “Custom measurement” in the add food section as many users have requested this. We are working on finding a way to make it easy to understand and use. If you have any ideas about this please contact us about it.

We have also submitted a new version to Apple with some important bugfixes, hopefully it will be released faster than the previously version.

At the same time we are working with the website to create a fast and easy-to-use experience. We have got great feedback from you so keep on contacting us with ideas and comments!

As you can understand there is a lot to do right now at Sillens AB, to be able to make all this happen we need to hire someone who can help us with the ShapeUp Club website. If you are interested please contact us for more information.

Thanks for using ShapeUp Club!

Regards, Martin

Hi!

A few words regarding the bugs and you..

Since the release of ShapeUp Club 2.0 we have run in to a few problems, which mostly seem to regard our ”old” iPhone users. The sync function has been a bit buggy for some of you and Martin has now worked really hard to try to find out what the fault might be. Now we got a clearer look about these bugs that you have reported to us and we will send an update for the iPhone application to Apple tonight.

With this said I also must add that this update will fix some of the problems regarding the sync, but we still have a few questions we need to straighten out.

We apologize very much for all of these problems, and would also like to send a huge thank you to all of you who have reported these bugs to us!
So, thank you so very much for your co-operation and also for being so patient and kind to us!
Your nice words about ShapeUp Club keeps us motivated to work even harder and make this service to the absolutely best calorie tracker both online and on your mobile!

And, as the work progress we will hopefully soon have a perfectly non-buggy version of ShapeUp Club available! Thank you for sticking with us!

During this time of debugging we will not leave you without new features and updates to the online service and the application. We are constantly working with new ideas to make ShapeUp Club better then best, and are as usual welcoming all of your ideas and thoughts with open arms.

Yours Truly
Tove

Hi!

Just wanted to tell you that we are working with the problems some people have when syncing your data. One good thing is that we don’t need to submit a new version of the iPhone app to get it working as most of the syncing is handled online. But we will however submit a new version with some bugfixes hopefully tonight or tomorrow to fix some bugs in the iPhone app. So please if you know any important bugs in the iPhone app just post in the forum or send us an email so we can fix it.

Some tips and info when syncing:

• Try to always use WIFI when syncing, we recommend you to sync maybe once a day
• The first time you sync it can take very long time, please wait
• Don’t exit the sync, it can damage the data (fix for this is coming)
  

Thanks for all your help with making this the best iPhone app / online service and also thanks for your patience! We are doing all we can to get it working for you all as soon as possible.

Best regards
Martin, ShapeUp Club

Yes! Finally, after all this time, ShapeUp Club 2.0 is released on AppStore! So, be sure to update to the new version!

As a thank you to all of our loyal users we would like to give you one free month on ShapeUp Club Online. To activate your online account, tap the sync button in your iPhone application, enter your email address and follow the instructions you receive in your mail.

Hopefully you won’t get any problems with this, but if you do please contact us at contact@shapeupclub.com

Yours truly
Tove

So, we finally got hold of Apple and asked if anything was wrong, and why this update has taken so long.
They were really nice, apologized for the delay and explained that they were swamped with work.

But they promised to approve the application right away, and it will be uploaded in the nearest days! 

//Tove

Today was the first day of school for me after the summer break. (For you who don’t know I’m studying biomedical science at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.)
So now I try to equally divide my time between studies and Sillens AB.

Molecular biology, theory. Great fun, huh

Our hopes were to have the update for ShapeUp Club ready and released before I went back to school, because of the extra amount of time the startup of the website may take. 

Well, this didn’t happen, but I’m sure we will manage anyway, just let’s hope Apple approve ShapeUp Club 2.0 soon!
A bit biased maybe, but I use the new 2.0 update daily and it’s so good! Wish I could share it with all of you. Even if you don’t sign up for the online service, the improvements in the application have made it so much easier to use ShapeUp Club.
(And if you can’t wait to see what it looks like, you can watch these tutorial videos and perhaps get some idea of what it looks like.)

 We still haven’t heard anything from Apple, we have tried to call them and send them emails, but nothing. 
I’m really sorry, but I think we are just going to have to wait. Hopefully they will approve it very soon.

 Some news from Sillens AB is that we are now entering a new phase with the development of ShapeUp Club. During next week I, together with Martin and Mats will discuss design and functionality for ShapeUp Club on new mobile platforms, exciting! 
Will tell you more about this when I know more myself and when we have come to some conclusions.  

Bye for now!
Tove