Bad update
For development/product team, please add back the more detailed graph! It was my favorite thing about this app.
Great resource
Fantastic app
Distiller is great starting point
Great with the update
Where are the old graphic
Missing graphs and scans
Redesign is nice, loses info
Update doesn’t address major flaws
#1 - the fact that you can’t *permanently* keep your lists sorted in a specific way. For example, if you wanted to sort a list in alphabetical order, leave and then come back - the list will have reverted back to the default order(date added). This drove me absolutely crazy in the previous version, and it is so frustrating to not see it addressed here.
#2 - loading times. The older version took forever to load just about anything on the app. This has not been addressed, and even scrolling through your own lists have loading timeouts. That’s just unacceptable.
#3 - the UI itself. There was a clear effort to make navigation easier in this version, but now the text and images are so big there’s barely any information on the screen at a time. It’s like using your iPhone with large text accessibility mode. And with no options to change this, it’s another star knocked off the review.
To summarize: if you’re using Distiller to find reviews of specific products, you’ll probably find this app useful. But if you want a way to catalogue and rate your growing collection, then just create a spreadsheet. That’s what I’ll be doing, and not renewing my Distiller Pro subscription when my current one expires.
Response from developer
Hi slimpunk, thank you for taking the time to leave this detailed review. It's helpful information that can help us make improvements with future versions. I can address each point here: #1 - This is a great quality of life improvement, and one that I have passed along to the team to discuss for implementation. Thank you for sharing it. #2 - This is something I'd love to get more information from you about. Load times should not be significant at all, and it's something we've worked quite hard on improving. Internally testing load times, even on profiles with a huge amount of reviews and lists, are actually quite fast. If you'd be open to sharing some information with us regarding your device type, OS version, and what your username is, we can get to work on figuring out if there's something causing this issue. We're at hello@distiller.com and would love to work on this for you. #3 - This is an interesting issue that we're hearing from some specific device/OS combinations. By default the text is normal sized and absolutely should not look like it's using text accessibility mode. Again, if you'd be open to reaching us at hello@distiller.com, we'd like to get more information about your device, because as I said, this is absolutely not supposed to be how it looks. If you take a look at our screenshots in the app store, that's an accurate representation of the design. Thanks again for all of the detailed points, they're very helpful. We'd love to hear from you to work on fixing some of these problems. Thanks again!
Excellent app for the spirits aficionado
I also love the way it allows you to catalogue and track what you have tried. I can't remember everything I've tried and when I tried it but as long as I take about 5 minutes to work out a few of my thoughts and add the drink to one of my lists, I know that my impression will always be there to be quickly recalled on my phone.
