Storing and Accessing Data

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Hi, i am in the process of building a small app for a charity swim.

It is a very simple app that allows the participants to enter in their training records each day, in the build up to the race day. They will be training for 12 weeks in total, and the app will allow them to enter in the following each day.

01 - DISTANCE
02 - TIME


I am trying to decide if i should get the users to sign up and store their information in a database, OR if i should just allow them to use the app straight away, and then store all of their info within the app.

If i didn't add the Sign Up and database feature, the app data would load quicker etc, however if the person loses their phone, they will have no way to recall the data that they built up within the app.

Can anyone offer any advice on this, should i store to a database or internally? Is there any other pros / cons to either option? Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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How many transactions are we talking about per day for the next 12 weeks.
( Number of participants times number of training sessions )

If the volume is not high, then it might be as simple as the participants sending you an E-mail every day with their results and you enter the results in an Excel spreadsheet. No app. needed.
You can even build some nice graphs using that data .

Cheers ... McBie
 
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Thanks, the organiser of the event wants to use an app.

The user will most likely enter their data in once a day, maybe 5 times a week
 

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