Excellent text browser
I'm very happy with this as it makes the web less fluorescent and trying when surfing news websites, etc. My only question is whether the browser disables cookies or still stores cookies? If the latter, is there a way to 'clear cache'?
It technically works…
I got this because I’m looking for an alternative to “Text Browser” app, which hasn’t been working well lately. However, this doesn’t seem like a good alternative.
Just installed, and tried doing basic tasks like web search and browsing wikipedia. It seems to handle table formatting very badly, so what types of text actually scale with text size setting is pretty random. This can make some webpages dizzying to try to read. Similarly, some text areas wrap at different widths (corresponding with size), so zooming out to see the entire page width leaves some content tiny and unreadable.
Other people have already mentioned the pop-up annoyance with opening links. That’s not great.
Also, I find myself missing features from “Text Browser”, like the ability to use search boxes. If you want to use a different search engine than in the settings menu, or if you want to use the search function on a website, then this browser doesn’t work for you. I also miss being able to see the website as more than a dizzying page of text, and instead seeing it with some html formatting or style sheets.
I certainly wouldn’t call it a “powerful” text-based browser.
Just installed, and tried doing basic tasks like web search and browsing wikipedia. It seems to handle table formatting very badly, so what types of text actually scale with text size setting is pretty random. This can make some webpages dizzying to try to read. Similarly, some text areas wrap at different widths (corresponding with size), so zooming out to see the entire page width leaves some content tiny and unreadable.
Other people have already mentioned the pop-up annoyance with opening links. That’s not great.
Also, I find myself missing features from “Text Browser”, like the ability to use search boxes. If you want to use a different search engine than in the settings menu, or if you want to use the search function on a website, then this browser doesn’t work for you. I also miss being able to see the website as more than a dizzying page of text, and instead seeing it with some html formatting or style sheets.
I certainly wouldn’t call it a “powerful” text-based browser.
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good text browser but please remove the pop-ups!
I love a text based browser. I spent the buck upgrade to allow light theming. This is the only text browser on the app store I can find. It would be perfection if the developer would remove the annoying pop-up links that happen anytime you navigate anywhere. It frustrates me to no end (difficult to always have to use a second hand to navigate). Easily would be a perfect app if that was fixed but developer does not appear to want to since it’s been over a year. If the developer loves it so much , at least add a checkbox to turn it off to the settings menu. PLEASE.
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A good alternative for Lynx
I was looking for a iOS version of lynx and this is a good alternative. Please add an option to disable alert that pops up with every link, it gets annoying. Then it would be 5 stars.
Text based web browser
I like that you can surf the web without any graphics (occasionally I am trying to reduce my consumption of cellular data and this helps). The developer was quick to respond to bug and feature requests!
Response from developer
Thank you so much for updating your review! I appreciate the feedback, and I’m glad you like Violoncello. :)
Error loading page
I can’t access any website. It always shows error loading page. Internet connection or url address, everything is just fine but I simply can’t access.
Response from developer
I’m very sorry to hear that Violoncello is not working properly for you! I’ve not been able to reproduce this issue myself on any of my devices, and this is the first time this has been reported, so I’m unsure as to what the cause is. I would appreciate it you could send me an email at john [at] tectrasystems [dot] org and provide some more information about the issue, since I don’t have a whole lot to work with here. Thanks in advance, and I hope I’ll be able to help!
A great app with lots of features!
I have been sick of ads on the internet for very long and when reading an article I will use violoncello!
Response from developer
Thank you so much for the nice review! Glad you like Violoncello :)
