Bugs Found in Planner & Journal – Zinnia for iOS
Zinnia is a dynamic and artistic tool designed by Pixite as an interactive journal and planner. This application endeavors to provide an engaging platform where users can jot down their thoughts, plan their days, weeks, and months, doodle their fantasies, and track their habits.
Elevating the traditional concept of journaling, Zinnia offers an extensive array of artistic tools and templates, facilitating users to create a curated journaling experience. It caters to diverse creative needs with its sticker packs, color themes, typography, and layout selections, thereby promoting personal expression in an organized and aesthetic manner.
The team at QAwerk conducted a comprehensive bug crawl on Zinnia and identified bugs that could hamper overall performance and user experience. We invite readers to review our findings, which underscore the importance of consistent assessments and refinements in the application development process.
Search pop-up retains previous sticker results after clearing search criteria
Severity:
Major
Precondition:
- The app is installed.
- The user is on the ‘Studio’ tab.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Tap the ‘Search’ icon in the top right corner.
- Check that there are no items in the list by default.
- Enter any search criteria.
- Check that the results list is displayed.
- Delete search criteria.
Environment:
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS version 26.2.1
Actual Result:
When the user removes all entered search criteria in the ‘Search’ pop-up, previously returned sticker results remain displayed.
Expected Result:
When the search criteria is fully cleared, the ‘Search’ pop-up should return to its initial empty state with no sticker results displayed.
Duplicate sticker entries in ‘Favorites’
Severity:
Major
Precondition:
- The app is installed.
- The user is on the ‘Journals’ tab.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Tap the ‘New Journal’ button.
- Select the ‘Start with a Basic Page’ option.
- Select page style.
- Tap the ‘Begin New Journal’ button.
- Tap the ‘Studio’ icon.
- Select the ‘Stickers’ option.
- Select any sticker category and add it to the page.
- Select the added sticker.
- Mark it as ‘Favorite’ several times.
- Navigate to the ‘Studio’ section.
- Select the ‘Favorites’ option.
Environment:
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS version 18.6.2
Actual Result:
The user can add the same sticker to ‘Favorites’ multiple times, resulting in duplicate entries in the ‘Favorites’ list.
Expected Result:
The system should prevent duplicate additions of the same sticker to ‘Favorites’.
Select option is displayed on ‘Favorites’ page when no items are available
Severity:
Minor
Precondition:
- The app is installed.
- No items are added to ‘Favorites’.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Navigate to the ‘Studio’ tab.
- Tap the ‘Favorites’ icon in the top right corner.
- Tap the ‘Select’ button.
Environment:
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS version 18.6.2
Actual Result:
The ‘Select’ option is visible on the ‘Favorites’ page even when the ‘Favorites’ list is empty, and no items are available for selection.
Expected Result:
The ‘Select’ option should be hidden or disabled when the ‘Favorites’ list contains no items.
Emotion selector traverses intermediate values sequentially instead of selecting tapped emotion directly
Severity:
Minor
Precondition:
- The app is installed.
- The ‘Daily Mental Health’ journal has been created.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Open a created journal.
- Select the mood icon in the middle of the range.
Environment:
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS version 18.6.2
Actual Result:
When the user taps a specific emotion in the journal template’s emotion range, the selector moves through the emotions one by one from left to right until it reaches the selected value.
Expected Result:
When the user taps a specific emotion, the selector should immediately jump to and select that emotion without traversing intermediate values.
I didn’t find any significant functional problems while testing Zinnia. The app comes with a simple, limited set of features, thereby making it easy to validate the main user paths. However, increasing feature depth and incorporating more complex user interaction scenarios in the future could reveal additional edge cases that warrant specialized in-depth functional and usability testing.
