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To limiting to our trol an average home with full SmartHome implementations
This app had great potential however I am eliminating it entirely from my home control apps. You cannot count on it to control a home with over 250 devices including g Alexa, SmartThings, Somfy, Hue and many other devices. You will hit the max limits long before you could ever benefit from this app. Just opening and closing our 16 shades once a day puts you over limit not to mention doors motion sensors lighting etc Notofications just quit when you hit limit thus you cannot depend on it for smoke/co2 messages etc. The SmartHome industry in general is in a sad state of affairs because they have made it too expensive to manage even a small home and hit max limits forcing you to use multiple workarounds to get anything done. This will put them out of businesssoo. Instead of them making minor but powerful improvements that would make their products useful and make them able to handle the needs of their customers.Show lessdb2ace2
So far, so great
I’m absolutely loving this app, automated everything that I’d do manually from making coffee to turning the lights on as I arrive home. Excited to see what the future holds.
Feature request/ QOL improvement would be an ‘and/or’ gate functionality, to trigger multiple applets at once or require multiple inputs to trigger a single output. Currently I’m updating a Google Sheet with multiple inputs (time, location) and reading a cell update for an output (lights on)Show lessHeaps_Mad
The most important things are the hardest to do
Creating an applet seems to be the last thing the app wants you to do. From the home screen, which is a list of services you may or may not care about, there is no indication how to actually automate something. If you do manage to stumble into the screen which turns out to be for creating an applet, again the next steps are completely unclear. The app completely abandons UI conventions common to other apps for creating and managing things. You won’t find a “plus” button or a “new” button. There is no “edit” or “manage.” Just endlessly scrolling lists of things that have nothing to do with your devices or services, links to something about being a developer, lots of links to using IFTTT for business, and a couple different views to your account settings. What would work? How about the first screen being a list of my applets, with a big green button that has a plus sign and takes you straight to a new applet window? Is that not the single thing this service is for? Utterly baffling.Show lessthornrag
Negative stars if I could
Dumbest UI, and does not pull info from any service.
I have several different companies because of course no one makes everything, hence the need for an aggregator like IFTTT.
The UI ...
First, the opening screen is a giant box of boxes. Ok, great, how do I ... do anything. I have to guess and flip around. The usual UX bits aren't there, such as a hamburger menu or toolbar. And their app-specific buttons aren't very noticeable.
Also, when creating triggers, I have to put my address in every single time. Really? Sure, maybe if something happens elsewhere I might want something to happen someday, but 9 times out of 10, I'm going to be interested in things happening right where I am.
Services (then do) ...
Link the first one. Seems to go well. Except. None of the actions are pulled in. Ok, fine, so I have to re-create them. A pain, but not a big deal. Oh, except that NONE of my devices are even there.
Ok, maybe it's just that one. Nope. Link the next service. Again, takes the credentials just fine. But. Again, no scenes, actions, schedules, or devices.
Conclusion ...
Several hours wasted, thank you, IFTTT.Show lessThe Notorious t.i.g
Pretty Great (for notifications)
I got this app to basically send notifications to myself throughout the day ! It does have a lot of other features that ‘connect’ things together, but keep in mind that’s not what I use this app for! All I really use it for is to send myself reminders/notifications, and it works great for that. I get notifications when it’s about to rain or snow, when the UV index is above a certain amount, and even when the sunset is about to occur! I also get daily quote notifications, hourly “drink more water!” notifications, hourly “smile!” notifications, a happy birthday notification, etc. The possibilities are endless! Every night before bed, I also get the weather forecast for tomorrow sent to my phone! Also, I made/programmed most of these notifications myself! It’s literally so easy to do! All in all, It’s great if you want to be reminded of things, but I can’t speak on how well it connects with other programs. Thanks so much for my notifications!Show lessFancyCatherine
Frustrating
Works great with most apps and services I have connected. However it constantly forgets the TP-Link Kasa devices I have setup meaning that they sudden don’t trigger and then disconnect after failing a few times. Occasionally I get notified through the app but very rarely. It works with other services I have connected. Extremely frustrating - kind of makes the app pointless if it doesn’t work properly.Show lessFrangaMan
The new UI is Horrible/App Crashes Finally Fixed
The crashes that have rendered the last several releases unusable seem to have finally been resolved so I have gone back to my normal review.
The redesigned UI has severely crippled the usability of the app, as I notice several others have pointed out. It is difficult to find useful features, some no longer exist. Navigation is terrible. I think the new user interface has made a 5-star app into a 3/4 star app. I have gone with 4-stars since they have finally resolved the constant crashing. Hopefully they will now start working on restoring or improving the UI.Show less_KEM_
Services Don’t Work, App Isn’t Intuitive
I have been a fan of IFTTT for some time now. But recently, I tried to make connections with the iOS Contacts. Unfortunately nothing works. Adding a new card to my Contacts won’t trigger a new note in Evernote, a new Dropbox, a new iOS Reminder, a new email, or a Calendar event. The receiving services all work otherwise (with the exception of Reminders, which I was just testing—it may work, but I just don’t know).
Now perhaps this is an issue on Apple’s end. I have no clue. But if it is, it’s still on IFTTT to inform their users, since they have numerous apple integrations.
Add to that the fact that the app has become a lot less intuitive in general. Finding a list of applets is annoying. Creating applets from scratch is even more annoying. For at least the last two versions, the app is so unintuitive that it doesn’t behave any differently than if someone were trying to hide features on purpose.
Hopefully IFTTT can return to the treasured app status that it once held. But for now, I’m just deleting it. No app that is supposed to make life easier should require hours spent trying to get a very basic function—and one that was literally suggested by the app developer—to work.Show lessEliotJ2
Bring back rich mobile notifications
In your major release 4.0 you broke the rich mobile notifications and fixed with version 4.0.3. Now in 4.3 and 4.4.0 it's broken again and not fixed yet. I rely heavily on this. Please bring them back.Macstoll
Not as advertised
Found it very difficult to use. No tech support either - they direct you to Reddit & another tech sight. Was looking to automate my nest thermostat a little more but, unable to even get started!!!spewmister
