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Functional, But Concerning Practices
In general, Inkr’s speed when navigating the app and loading content has improved markedly. However, there are two big concerns I’ve had with the app:
Battery/Phone Temp: Most of the time while reading, the app will rapidly consume battery (2-3% a chapter on iPhone 14, worse on iPhone 12) and the phone will start overheating until the app is closed. This has persisted since at least December and makes me concerned about memory leaks or other unknown background processes.
Background Ads: INKR Extra promises no ads, yet I have caught the app playing ads in the background while opening chapters on several occasions. Easy to catch when using headphones or when my phone is not silenced because I’ll suddenly hear cheerful music playing unexpectedly. Why is this happening?Show lesssladbar
Poor execution
Great ideas with the ink to read for “free” and a reasonable subscription price and offering. If it worked. The app slows, freezes and crashes fairly often (iPad pro on latest update), sometimes less than a minute after fully rebooting the iPad and launching the app. Many systems are incomplete or non functional like “sales”. The tagline is “100% off” but that just means you can temporarily read the comic, not add those chapters to read later when you have time. On the contrary, 99% off means you can get all the chapters for the comic, permanently, for free or near to it. Is it sad when I want the sales to be LESS discounted?
Other failures are simple technical things like chapter downloads for later or offline reading hanging very frequently and requiring staring at the download bars or the ipad will shutoff the screen to save battery. This isn’t hard for the dev to circumvent, my ebook reader does it.
On a content note, many titles are dropped but still heavily recommended or promoted. 5 times now I have received a notification or list of recommended titles with a comic marked as “complete” with 20 chapters when the manhua has over 400. Other popular titles are marked as “ongoing” but have received 5 chapters in the last 6 months. Once again, the manhua has hundreds not translated on the INKR app but a quick google and there they are in English.Show lessThomas Doss
One major gripe
*update* I am removing another star and taking it down to a three. The app constantly makes my phone hot and drains my battery extremely quickly now. I gave them multiple updates to see if that would improve but it has not.
Don’t get me wrong. I mostly love the app. I love being able to pay a small subscription and get so much to read. Even if the stuff I’m able to read seems to keep getting smaller. But my main problem with the app is that even if you download chapters to read offline yo aren’t able to. Everytime I take a trip I download a few series to read on the plane and such. The app tells me that it can’t load them and it can’t connect to the internet! What’s the point of downloading to read offline if I have to be online to “load” downloaded chapters?!Show lessAdvent_Child