Extremely frustrating
I hate this app and I hate that I have to pay a subscription to get any usability out of it even though the creators use our reports for grant-funded research.
It’s maddening how little ability you have to track your symptoms along with specific suspected triggers. After you have enough reports the app will tell you about allergens that correlate to your symptoms that you have no way of tracking because they’re not in the very short list that can be mapped and graphed. You can’t get any more information about them at all. If the app has enough data to tell me I may be allergic to plantago, let me see when and where its pollen was highest! And if you’re telling me there’s a ‘strong’ link between my symptoms and grass, while you’ve graphed grass pollen as low everywhere I’ve been while having symptoms, let me see why you’ve come to that conclusion.
Sometimes it will treat all ‘other allergens’ as one category - e.g for alerts, other times you will be unable to use ‘other allergens’ as a category - e.g for mapping and graphing.
It also won’t let you edit a report once created. Forgot to change the date on it? Too bad. You’ve just added some more uncleanable noise into your data. And then you don’t seem to be able to export anything about your reports or the behind-the-scenes analysis either.
It seems to be trying to be ‘user friendly’ and ‘simple’ by having very stripped down allergen information. But that only works if what you are choosing to show is exactly what users want to see. If it’s not, you just create frustration and resentment. Just let me see whatever analysis it’s running to come up with triggers. You say “you’re in control of your data” on the user page, so let me actually have it.
It’s maddening how little ability you have to track your symptoms along with specific suspected triggers. After you have enough reports the app will tell you about allergens that correlate to your symptoms that you have no way of tracking because they’re not in the very short list that can be mapped and graphed. You can’t get any more information about them at all. If the app has enough data to tell me I may be allergic to plantago, let me see when and where its pollen was highest! And if you’re telling me there’s a ‘strong’ link between my symptoms and grass, while you’ve graphed grass pollen as low everywhere I’ve been while having symptoms, let me see why you’ve come to that conclusion.
Sometimes it will treat all ‘other allergens’ as one category - e.g for alerts, other times you will be unable to use ‘other allergens’ as a category - e.g for mapping and graphing.
It also won’t let you edit a report once created. Forgot to change the date on it? Too bad. You’ve just added some more uncleanable noise into your data. And then you don’t seem to be able to export anything about your reports or the behind-the-scenes analysis either.
It seems to be trying to be ‘user friendly’ and ‘simple’ by having very stripped down allergen information. But that only works if what you are choosing to show is exactly what users want to see. If it’s not, you just create frustration and resentment. Just let me see whatever analysis it’s running to come up with triggers. You say “you’re in control of your data” on the user page, so let me actually have it.
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Mmwmwmmwmmw
Free version is terrible now
The free version of this app used to be great but it is now terrible. Don’t bother downloading unless you’re happy to fork out for the subscription. The screen is crowded with UPGRADE TO PREMIUM everywhere getting in the way so you can’t see anything. Can’t click on any local stations to see details (which you ARE allowed to do in free version!!) because a whole screen pop-up saying ENHANCED MAP ZOOM BUY BUY BUY takes over even though I’m not trying to zoom.
If I can’t access something in free version, then just make it so my clicks do nothing. Stealing the whole screen to shove BUYBUYBUYSPENDSPENDSPEND in my face is infuriating. If the free version is supposed to make me want to purchase a subscription, it’s not working. I have never wanted to disengage with an app faster. Truly a shame because I used to use this frequently to submit symptoms data. You’d think exchanging data would be worth a damn but apparently not.
If I can’t access something in free version, then just make it so my clicks do nothing. Stealing the whole screen to shove BUYBUYBUYSPENDSPENDSPEND in my face is infuriating. If the free version is supposed to make me want to purchase a subscription, it’s not working. I have never wanted to disengage with an app faster. Truly a shame because I used to use this frequently to submit symptoms data. You’d think exchanging data would be worth a damn but apparently not.
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GGeghin
Pay app
Used to be free but just like anything else you have to pay a subscription. No thanks.
MMkgregory
Terrible
Ruined a good app, totally useless to me now. I need to know when certain plants are in season, now you want $$ and it’s not worth it. But of course you will have some excuse as to why you charging. This new technology wasn’t worth the upgrade!
Kkasbah70
👎 Bad Update. Inaccurate. And costs.
The newest “pretty” update that the developers say they had no choice but to build is so dreadfully inaccurate, and the details of pollen levels is hidden behind a paywall. The developers admit they receive government grant money for this project, then they charge the user. Doesn’t see right.
AAaronEd
