Where's the Fun?
There’s nothing fun about an app that starts nagging you for a review before the very first click to check it out. And then keeps nagging you for the review every single time you click on something else, for at least 8 more more times before it finally stops.
I realize it’s a free app so my expectations were low to begin with, but the UI is counterintuitive with navigation that is a total guessing game. The default color palette all but obscures the icons, and the icons themselves gave no pictorial clues as to what each button represented, nor were there any tooltips to guide you. When I finally randomly clicked on the setting icon, which had almost no color variant between the icon object and the background, there was a setting to customize some of the colors, including an option for a dark interface background, all of which should have been the default color palette to begin with, for the sake of legibility.
But wait! That’s not all. I guessed that the free version would be limited to 3 tunings. No problem there. I even looked for a paid version that would allow more than 3 tunings. Nothing. Opportunity missed. I’d have paid for more tunings.
Now, if you wanted to change the 3 default tunings to something else, the available options were to rearrange the order or delete the tuning. Not clear that you wouldn’t be deleting that tuning from the app rather than deselecting the tuning as 1of the 3 preselected tunings. So I took a chance with one of them in case it was gone forever. It deselected as I had hoped. Phew…
I’m not done! Setting asked if you wanted to clog up the screen with instructions, which I chose not to enable, mainly because I usually don’t need them. Apparently, those "instructions" included a tip about how to select new tuning to replace any of the three defaults you may have "deleted", aka deselecting the tunings you didn’t want, the instructions were to swipe the tuning you wanted to add (remember you are still in SETTINGS) and the adds would appear on the Home Screen, instead of appearing in settings as the deselects were. WHAT?
So, you assume it’s time to return to the Home Screen, but you were so distracted by the tuning selection, you forgot about the fact you could see the nav icons because they were too light for the default UI background, so do another random search for Settings icon to go back in and change the background so you could see what you are doing!
Now, bear in mind, while all this happening, you’re still fending off nag screens begging you for a review! Way to go, Developer! You earned your way to a 1-star rating! Happy now?
I realize it’s a free app so my expectations were low to begin with, but the UI is counterintuitive with navigation that is a total guessing game. The default color palette all but obscures the icons, and the icons themselves gave no pictorial clues as to what each button represented, nor were there any tooltips to guide you. When I finally randomly clicked on the setting icon, which had almost no color variant between the icon object and the background, there was a setting to customize some of the colors, including an option for a dark interface background, all of which should have been the default color palette to begin with, for the sake of legibility.
But wait! That’s not all. I guessed that the free version would be limited to 3 tunings. No problem there. I even looked for a paid version that would allow more than 3 tunings. Nothing. Opportunity missed. I’d have paid for more tunings.
Now, if you wanted to change the 3 default tunings to something else, the available options were to rearrange the order or delete the tuning. Not clear that you wouldn’t be deleting that tuning from the app rather than deselecting the tuning as 1of the 3 preselected tunings. So I took a chance with one of them in case it was gone forever. It deselected as I had hoped. Phew…
I’m not done! Setting asked if you wanted to clog up the screen with instructions, which I chose not to enable, mainly because I usually don’t need them. Apparently, those "instructions" included a tip about how to select new tuning to replace any of the three defaults you may have "deleted", aka deselecting the tunings you didn’t want, the instructions were to swipe the tuning you wanted to add (remember you are still in SETTINGS) and the adds would appear on the Home Screen, instead of appearing in settings as the deselects were. WHAT?
So, you assume it’s time to return to the Home Screen, but you were so distracted by the tuning selection, you forgot about the fact you could see the nav icons because they were too light for the default UI background, so do another random search for Settings icon to go back in and change the background so you could see what you are doing!
Now, bear in mind, while all this happening, you’re still fending off nag screens begging you for a review! Way to go, Developer! You earned your way to a 1-star rating! Happy now?
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