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Spelling, grammar, AND FACTUAL ERRORS galore!
“Ironis a mineral that our bodies need for many functions...”
Throughout the ferritin page, the author fails to use proper spacing between words, like this:
“Your body needs the right amount ofiron. If you
have too littleiron, you may developirondeficiency
anemia. Causes of lowironlevels include blood loss,
poor diet, or an inability to absorb enoughironfrom
foods. People at higher risk of having too littleironare
young children and women who are pregnant or have
periods.
I have boldfaced the oddly strung together words in this short paragraph, and have italicized a phrase with rather clumsy wording. These errors are not outliers; the entire app is constructed this way.
In addition to spelling errors, the author has posted not one, but TWO DIFFERENT minimum/maximum levels for each blood test. The titles in each range box read EXACTLY as follows:
“Clinical Female Adult Range (after man...”
“Clinical Female Adult Range (before m...”
In both cases, the title abruptly stops — there is no endparend to the parenthetical phrase, just dead air, and there is no way that I could discover to see the rest of the line. The reader is left wondering if the wildly divergent values would have made sense with that information. It gets even more confusing when you consider the values in each of the “Clinical Female Adult Ranges” because they are so very different from each other. One claims the minimum to maximum normal ferritin range is:
“12 mg/dL to 263 mg/dL”, but the other claims:
“11 mg/dL to 122 mg/dL” is accurate!
How can they both be correct? Perhaps if we had access to each box’s entire title it would make sense, but as is, I’m left with wondering if my current level of 153, which is smack dab in the middle of the normal range of one value really is normal since it’s well over the maximum level of the other posted range.
Any app that can only be used in portrait mode on an iPad is annoying, and not worth keeping solely for that problem.
All in all, this is an entirely useless and frustrating app. Were it just the English abuses, I might have given it 2 stars, but since the facts themselves are suspect, I find myself searching for a negative number of stars to award to this app. Since negative numbers neither exist in the AppStore nor in the real world (I’d like to buy negative 3 apples please), I will have to be satisfied with just one star, and be even more satisfied with a better app!
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So far, this is my only complaint and i am still looking for a better app that will service my needs.
Useful app that can be improved further
Updated version is useless!
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Rating
Pretty Face, But Needs Help
If you create an iOS app, you should keep the platforms in mind; iPhones work in portrait mode, but iPads also work in landscape mode. Any app I use more than twice needs to work in landscape mode on my iPad. So this one is not long for my world.
I found the graphics pretty but distracting, just due to the flashing movement, but I keep thinking of the many patients I've known who could not tolerate the sight of all those needles and all that blood. This app is for them, not for medical professionals.
I really do love the intention here, and the basic foundation. But it needs professional help. Even the home screen on the iPad has a problem. The introductory paragraphs are at the bottom of the screen, in a text box which does not scroll, so this useful information just stops dead. And then
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Aces.!
Informative. BUT
Mr
Blood tet
Good PowerPoint presentation, but that's basically it…
Second, the flash animation at the top takes up way too much real estate. Just show it on the opening page, or allow us to slide it upwards.
Third, simple change, is navigational bars. When the text runs off the page, I haven't yet figured out how to scroll. Plus I used the app more than once before I figured out there was more than one card in each set.
With those three minor changes, you'd add a star to this review and make yourself a mandatory app in my health workflow. Thanks!
