I’m really excited about our new iPhone app! If you have our old app, you will need to download this one as a new app, not an update. This has to do with the way the first app was built and because I wanted The Daily Digi listed as the developer on this one.
I’ve received lots of emails and comments from people saying they love the new app! We would love to see some reviews and ratings being added to the store if you are in that club! 
Let’s take a tour of what this app can do. There is probably a lot more to it than most people imagined before downloading.
Here’s the first view you will see when you open the app:
Scroll down a little and you will reveal the Flickr group feed:
Open one of the Posts from The Daily Digi and this is what it will look like:
Open a Digi Show post and this is what you will see:
Click on the action button in the bottom right corner and get these options:
When you click on Share you will have the option to tweet, post to Facebook, or email. Since Twitter and the iPhone are integrated, if you have logged into Twitter once, you will not need to login before sharing. Facebook will require a login.
You can add any of The Daily Digi posts or layouts from the Flickr group to your My Inspiration by touching the “Add to My Inspiration” button:
If you go back to the main screen in the app and touch “my inspiration,” you can see everything you’ve added there and access them easily.
Touch the “Challenge Me” tab and get ready to challenge your scrapping self! If you don’t have any active challenges, the app will show you a note to add a new challenge by clicking the +. After tapping the +, you will see this screen:
Touch “Start New Challenge” and watch the tiles flip over to reveal your challenge:
After accepting the challenge, it will be added to your active challenges list:
Once your challenge is done, and you mark it completed, you are instructed to upload the image to our Flickr group. After the layout has been added (and approved), then you can attach the layout to the challenge:
When you select the layout, the image will be pulled up, and you can confirm it (note the layout below is not mine, just chose one as an example):
This is what you will see when your challenges are completed:
When you tap to see your completed layouts, you will see them all lined up nicely, almost like a badge:
Tap on one of those little badges and this is what you will see:
The layout will be displayed with whatever challenge you attach it to, as you can see, this layout doesn’t really follow this challenge…lol…again, just an example.
The biggest question from you lately has been, “Are you going to do an Android version and when?” Yes! We are working on an Android version. Finding Android developers has been more difficult than I ever thought it would be. I have not forgotten our Android users, I promise!
This app works on iPhones and iPod Touches, so go download and start challenging yourself!
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Hey everyone! The app should be fixed! My programmer took a look at it (while on vacation, because he’s awesome like that) and it was an improperly named image in a post that iOS couldn’t handle. That image name has been fixed which fixed the app issues.
I don’t think you should have to reinstall the app since it actually wasn’t an app issue, but an external factor from the site feed causing the problem.
However, if it is still crashing, give it a fresh start by reinstalling.
Thanks for letting me know about the issue!
From the little I was able to play, this app looks great. But now every time I launch the app it gives me the “loading” message then exits out. I’ve tried several times to get back into the app but so far nothing has worked. Here are some of the things I’ve tried:
1) exiting the app and restarting it
2) deleting the app and reinstalling it
3) exiting the app, shutting off phone, restarting phone and app
4) deleting app, shutting off phone, restarting phone, reinstalling app
5) deleting app, sync’ing phone
6) deleing app from phone, deleting app from iphone library on computer, shutting off phone, reinstalling app from app store on computer, sync’ing phone
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1. I think this problem started after I added a layout to “My Inspirations.”
I hope I’ve given enough details of what’s happening and what I’ve tried.
Robin
Hey Robin, please see my note to Ruth below.
Steph,
I am having problems similar to Jen. I can’t even get the app to come on. I push the button and it starts to load and says “loading”, then it crashes. I have unloaded it once, reloaded, turned phone totally off, unloaded, turned phone totally off, reloaded. I keep getting the same result – starts to load and then crashes. I followed the info you asked for above and have version 5.1.1 and and IPhone 4.
Anything else you can think of?
Ruth
I did message my developer, but I know he is on vacation through the weekend, so we won’t get an answer too soon. If there is a bug, I am confident he will be able to find it.
That being said, several hundred people have downloaded the app and 3 people have commented with issues here and I’ve received one email. I did some Googling and came up with some possible solutions:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57331922-233/how-to-fix-95-percent-of-ios-app-crashes/
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/howto_fix_crashing_apps_your_iphone_and_ipad
(although I don’t really recommend restoring it)
Hi Steph,
so I did all the stuff above yesterday – tried the app several times yesterday – wrote the note above then went to bed – this morning, it appears to be working – who knows! I’ll let you know if I have any more problems – thanks for your help!
Yes! yes! An app for Android too, please.
Ive downloaded the app to my iPhone. Im lost on how to use it. It just keeps going around and around it wont load anything. It is taking forever. I turn it off and go back to app a lil later Still doing the same thing. How do you get the challenge part to work?
I read this from the app!
how many badges has Katie earned so far? 
Steph is going to have to design a new “Super Badge” for me because I’m going to earn so many badges with this thing!
I love it, it is so much sleeker than the old one. I do have one problem though, the app force closes when I try to choose ‘My inspiration’
Make sure you have the most recent OS update and/or power down your phone all of the way (not just in sleep or screen lock) and restart it. That should fix it.
I’m sorry, it didn’t fix it. I have a IPhone 4s.
BTW it worked until I had added some inspiration.
Please go to settings> about> version and send me an email with that information as well as exactly the steps you are going through before the app crashes and we will see if we can duplicate it. Help(@)Thedailydig(dot)com
I’m not having that issue and I’ve not heard of others having it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a bug. If it is a bug though, we should be able to find it and duplicate it.
You may need to try reinstalling the app as well.
I have reinstalled it and now it works. Do you still need the information?
Nope! Not if it’s working well for you now!
Ok, I’m waiting the Android one too
Me too re: android version!
I am so SUPER DUPER excited about this new iPhone App! Downloaded it couple of days ago. Thank you so much for making learning Digital Scrapbooking so easy and thank you for providing TONS of inspirations!
I would love an android version!
Yeah Anroid!!
Wow, this looks awesome! I can’t wait for the Android version!
Sarah DG