Super!!!
Downloading may lead to disappointment
I see now after I downloaded the developer mentioned in these reviews this is a side project and full functionality for Gdrive isn’t the priority. I wish I had known that before having to buy the app but apple buried the review and response.
Given the current state, I’m requesting a refund. Couldn’t get it to work with anSE3 using a Google Drive sync profile.
If it was free or freemium with trial, it would be no problem. I probably would have just found something else and not posted this.
What I experienced…
There’s some features that don’t seem to be bugged out, but just plain missing:
App doesn’t support tags even though floccus does seem to sync them. New links get added to the very bottom (if they do at all). No way to sort by add date. The custom sort doesn’t do anything. App’s search function is so unusable in a retro, early internet way. ex It is searching the middle of words and returning too many results. e.g. adding spaces before and after “ test “ as a search term will still give you contests, attest, testify, etc.
Things that might be limited to my profile and devices that may mean this is an extremely bad fit for my needs:
I have about 1700 links. Maybe that’s too many for this app. If so, there should be a warning about loss of functionality. The app did its initial download and then kept freezing. Restarting didn’t help. It kept registering a swipe up scroll action with a touch, which would trigger random links to open. The share from browser function just brought me back to the floccus app where it would freeze. The plus button would freeze and get stuck in an animated x position. Adding links manually in the app would only work sometimes.
Response from developer
Thank you for your honest feedback! Some functionality is still missing, I agree. It seems that it's not clear what the custom sort does. I will improve the search thanks to your feedback. The freezing is the most severe problem in your review, this is a known problem, happening, if you have too many bookmarks in the same folder. It should get better if you sort them into folders. I will try to improve this. Given that I have to pay 100$ every year to Apple just to be able to publish the app on the App Store, I still think it's fair to put a price tag on it. Refunds are always possible, of course, if the app doesn't suit your needs.
Simple but great
Okay but minor issues
Has stopped syncing with Google Drive
Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback! My efforts on floccus are separate from my job with Nextcloud and I will not stop to support other syncing methods like Google Drive if I can help it. I will investigate the issue you have brought up and fix it as soon as possible :)
Don't keep tabs open, just use Floccus!
My preferred provider is Nextcloud Bookmarks, which also has tagging, but unfortunately this version doesn't expose or support the tags, perhaps because it works with Google Drive or WevDAV? That would make it a full 5-star rating from me.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for your feedback! Support for tags is definitely on the to-do list :)
Fits My Needs
Response from developer
Thank you for your review!
Good but can be better
Broken
Response from developer
Thank you for your review, the latest releases should fix this :)
Doesn’t even remotely work with WebDAV
Neither xbel or html book ark file format work. The problem seems to be far too fundamental than that, like possibly at connection establishment and whether to accept the server certificate or not. Too many privately owned NAS systems with WebDAV are serving self-signed certificates. And whoever wrote the code was too lazy to do any error checking, and showing any message to the user.
Too bad. Because the extension for desktop browsers works well.
Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback! Early versions of the iOS were still experimental in 2022. Nowadays it should be much more stable and a lot of issues have been fixed. If you like, I recommend giving it another try :)
