Great App, Small Bug
Unfortunately, the most recent update appears to have broken the readability of widget text. In my case I'm using dark, grayscale icons on the homescreen (iOS 18 feature) and recently the text appears white against a white background. I can't read any information on direction or arrival time. Please fix!
Response from developer
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for reporting this. A fix will be pushed shortly. As far as we can understand, CTA Colors are not possible to display when in this mode, but text should be visible. Thank you for your understanding and feel free to email us if you keep running into this issue. Our email can be found on the Settings tab in the app.
Broken
Response from developer
Hi! We appreciate your concern about our loading. We use data directly from the CTA, so if their system is down, so are we. We reached out to them immediately to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. We hope you’ll give EL Tracker another try, with a better outcome.
This app rocks. I would pay $$ for it.
I got a new phone with updated iOS. Yea, hands down the best El app out there. It’s not even close. I’ve recommended this to a ton of people and would totally pay to download it. It’s that easy, convenient, and gorgeous. Devs, y’all are awesome.
What I wrote in 2024:
The devs took all my criticisms of other El apps and corrected them. The widget feature is so convenient. The app is gorgeous, intuitive, and customizable. It all rocks, but I do have to constructive criticisms related to the widget:
1. Widget sometimes won’t update. I have an old iOS device so this might be the reason, but there will be times I’ll look at the widget, sprint to catch a train, only to realize the train passed my station 5 min ago and my widget says that it was updated 8 min ago. It definitely takes away from the convenience when the widget doesn’t update automatically every time. As I said, might be an old phone issue, but might I suggest adding a small refresh button in the top right corner of the widget? Just so I can manually refresh it when needed?
2. When i can tell it’s not refreshing, I click the widget, and the widget opens the app. I would loovveee if the widget can open right to the station it was displaying instead of going to the main screen. That’s especially helpful when the widget is set to the “closest station” setting (which also rocks, btw), because the nearest station might not be in my favorites and I’d have to go search for it.
Other than those two things, everything about this app is amazing and still hands down the best app I’ve used for the El. It’s so clutch, thank you devs for taking the time to do this!
Response from developer
Hi, We really appreciate the time you have taken to write this. It truly means a lot. Consider supporting us on kofi. There’s a donation link there and these donations help us cover server costs. ————— Hi! Thank you so much for your review. 1. We’re so sorry you missed a train because of the widget not showing up to date information. We wish we could make it available for your device. However, manual refresh is only available for iOS 17 devices. This is because widgets don’t support any interactions in older iOS versions. You will see the refresh button once you update your OS. 2. Currently working on this feature!
