Google Tasks on iOS

Ouch. Sorry to hear about your loss. Google Tasks undocumented APIs have several rather nasty problems in them, and if a developer doesn't know where they are exactly, they will lose innocent tasks or even entire task lists. I know because I stumbled upon these myself in my exploration process, and coded GeeTasks in such a way as to avoid these issues.

Re your backup plan: your trick would not work the way you expect it to work. If you lose the data again, and launch your spare copy of GeeTasksLite it will attempt to sync and then immediately replace its local copy with the Google's copy that is now missing a bunch of stuff. Only data modified on the device will be spared the overwrite - so I guess if you could walk through each task and modify it before syncing, then the app will attempt to copy them back to Google's site. But you are too likely to forget to do that.

I do plan to add a timemachine-like feature of preserving the historical copies of your tasks in the app, in the format that lets you also export them (e.g. Excel). I have an item for that in my own to-do list. However, please do not purchase my apps (or any other apps, for that matter) based on promises of future functionality. Also note that this will most likely be exclusive to the Pro version.

I also reported them to Apple for investigation of this suspicious French review thing. I'm sure Apple will figure out if anything is improper here. It certainly does look out of order.

For your deleted tasks and lists: GooTasks use a sqlite database. When information are deleted from this kind of database, some (partial or complete) data can be kept in memory to be reused the next time the data is inserted for performances reason. Although there exist no procedures or tools that I know of to help you recover that data, the best solution remains a hexadecimal editor or a notepad or similar to open the binary dump of the raw database file and try to recover some of your lost data. Of course, if you can access to this file on your iPhone and if you didn't deleted the app. Hope this will help.

Hello Oliver.

Maybe you could explain why you have over a 1000 reviews in France and only 6 reviews in UK, while your app works in both languages and UK is actually a larger market? A compelling explanation of the two orders of magnitude difference would certainly go a long way to alleviate any suspicion.