Rip-off?
WHY was my credit card charged AT ALL? This is supposed to be a FREE app unless I choose to upgrade!!! $20.77 ... BEWARE of this charge if you're going to download this app!!!
Excellent and reliable
Use this app often. Works very well.
Needs Apple Watch support
Needs to run in background.
Needs to show the last 24 hours of pressure data.
Add sun and rain icons to barometer to quickly indicate predicted weather.
Needs ability to zoom out on the graph to see more hours at once without side scrolling.
It would be cool if you could rotate the iPhone sideways so the graphs would be bigger and show more data at once.
Needs Apple Watch support
Needs to show the last 24 hours of pressure data.
Add sun and rain icons to barometer to quickly indicate predicted weather.
Needs ability to zoom out on the graph to see more hours at once without side scrolling.
It would be cool if you could rotate the iPhone sideways so the graphs would be bigger and show more data at once.
Needs Apple Watch support
Show less
Does not work with iPad on iOS10 ...
... even though my iPad has a barometer sensor. Hopeless. Uninstalling.
Fundamental error in app
Consistently hows sea level pressure (aviation QNH) as lower than 'absolute' (station) pressure (QFE).
That is possible at very few places on earth.
App is consistently applying correction for elevation ('altitude') in wrong sense.
That is possible at very few places on earth.
App is consistently applying correction for elevation ('altitude') in wrong sense.
Excellent freebie
This app works very well. Easy to read and relatively accurate. Also tested in a light aircraft at 2000 feet and was spot on pressure and altitude wise.
Bar-O-Meter
Great app. You can make a lot of different choices. Best barometer app I have run across.
Fantastic app, tons of features.
I like how the app shows the full data from the iPhone's barometric pressure sensor. Atmospheric pressure can be displayed live in any format from the entire range of standards. hPa, Torr, atm, psi, mm Mercury, and more!!! Very nice, best barometer app there is!
interesting but...
it would be nice to be able to enter the reference in inches of mercury. Currently, the entry field accepts only millibars even when the preference setting is set to inches of mercury.
Has potential if developer bothers to exploit it
This is one of those apps where there is no doubt the developer can do the job, but they just fall down on almost every other aspect.
Bar-o-meter is not much more than proof of concept at this stage and can hardly be regarded as a satisfying 'go-to' app to use. Completely flat in appearance the GUI is wholly underwhelming. As a reviewer pointed out a year ago now, the needlessly massive scale range renders the visuals difficult because one cannot deduce the pressure in a nice more traditional sense by looking at the dial.
It does have things going for it. Several in fact, but my attempts to engage with the developer have sadly come to nothing so far.
Sometimes what is needed is a team of different skill sets to make something work before bringing to market. But all too often the originator or pioneer doesn't have those additional skill sets on board, and more seriously, doesn't pursue them. When those capable of advising from the side lines are ignored, it is a good indicator the developer lost interest, even those this app was or should have been to showcase skills.
Under the less ridiculous name of 'Barometer'; can't think of the logic behind that name (who is going to find it unless by accident) there are other very nice choices that will do it for you, whether you can read the air pressure in your device directly or whether you simply use a device that obtains the data from the weather station outlets, which there are sure to be one or more within a few miles of you.
Much could be done to improve this app. It's like a company needing amalgamation or take over, but it's hardly worth paying to have the ads removed to look at it with a little less pain for the eyes. Perhaps it was only ever about the ads.
I do believe that criticism should be just and should be constructive, and never meant to denigrate a developer who put a lot of time into something but came up short for reasons we cannot know why. Personally, I think that is what has happened here.
I'd like to see the developer make a success of it. S/he could privilege it in alternative versions such as one that might be of use to pilots, this wide measurement scale is much more suited to that kind of application if the scale is rotated so as to be suited for reducing air pressure at altitude.
If you think you can help this developer out with really constructive focussed and useful ideas to make this the 'Bar-o-meter' s/he always intended, do please help out. The areas of use would be how to make the UI more sophisticated and pleasurable; unflattening it; choice of colours for different screen elements; adding additional instruments without cluttering it: enabling a more intuitive trend history test extends back in time.
Bar-o-meter is not much more than proof of concept at this stage and can hardly be regarded as a satisfying 'go-to' app to use. Completely flat in appearance the GUI is wholly underwhelming. As a reviewer pointed out a year ago now, the needlessly massive scale range renders the visuals difficult because one cannot deduce the pressure in a nice more traditional sense by looking at the dial.
It does have things going for it. Several in fact, but my attempts to engage with the developer have sadly come to nothing so far.
Sometimes what is needed is a team of different skill sets to make something work before bringing to market. But all too often the originator or pioneer doesn't have those additional skill sets on board, and more seriously, doesn't pursue them. When those capable of advising from the side lines are ignored, it is a good indicator the developer lost interest, even those this app was or should have been to showcase skills.
Under the less ridiculous name of 'Barometer'; can't think of the logic behind that name (who is going to find it unless by accident) there are other very nice choices that will do it for you, whether you can read the air pressure in your device directly or whether you simply use a device that obtains the data from the weather station outlets, which there are sure to be one or more within a few miles of you.
Much could be done to improve this app. It's like a company needing amalgamation or take over, but it's hardly worth paying to have the ads removed to look at it with a little less pain for the eyes. Perhaps it was only ever about the ads.
I do believe that criticism should be just and should be constructive, and never meant to denigrate a developer who put a lot of time into something but came up short for reasons we cannot know why. Personally, I think that is what has happened here.
I'd like to see the developer make a success of it. S/he could privilege it in alternative versions such as one that might be of use to pilots, this wide measurement scale is much more suited to that kind of application if the scale is rotated so as to be suited for reducing air pressure at altitude.
If you think you can help this developer out with really constructive focussed and useful ideas to make this the 'Bar-o-meter' s/he always intended, do please help out. The areas of use would be how to make the UI more sophisticated and pleasurable; unflattening it; choice of colours for different screen elements; adding additional instruments without cluttering it: enabling a more intuitive trend history test extends back in time.
Show less
