The performance of this app continues to improve. Reliability is getting better for readers using the app. It does need to get better at serving readers, however.
It finally incorporated note-taking, which is nice. But competing apps better support a scholarly readership, by allowing the export of succinct notes, with associated citations. This is important to someone who reads to write about what they read and well with the bounds of respect for copyright. It’s not an offense to copyright to quote or to use one’s own notes written in one’s own words. And auto citation with notes extraction actually would promote respect for copyright.
I haven’t used the app much to play videos, but my few times doing so have worked OK.
I have used this app with Apple’s tvOS to play video, and that worked out fine for me at the time.
Most of the time I use the app to read ePub and PDFs on iPhone or iPad and that has worked for me.
I’m looking forward to the app supporting font embedding, so that ePUB ebooks I read can look as good in FluxPlayer as they do in Apple Books, for example. Even if font embedding isn’t supported, a good starting point would be to let readers select from a collection of open source serif, sans serif and mono spaced fonts.
Finally, I’d like to see app notifications convey more information when content is added to my collection. I’d like to know what has been added when it is added.
In time the app preferences for what can be auto-downloaded versus downloaded on demand versus just streamed could be made better. Users with access to large collections of content might, for example, want one category of content or one subscription to auto-download, but to receive a notification (with information) about other content, and downloading it on request.
The all or nothing proposition now offered is not that convenient. There may be some content you want to know can be available to you any time you are not connected to the Internet, and you don’t want to have to think to download it. Podcast apps have mastered these sorts of controls.
I also use FluxPlayer app on Mac. Most of my comments here apply to that version of the app, as well.
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