Filament Swatches User Reviews

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Has potential

Not many apps to take inventory of your filament so was happy to find this one. However most of my spools don’t have a tag and I can’t enter it manually. When you try to save a custom under material there’s nothing to pick and won’t let you save. Would be great if it wasn’t just a nfc tag maker and you could scan the qr on most filaments or at least put them in manually. Other then that the app is clean non cluttered and has a lot of potential.
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Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your review! You can create a new material type in the „Materials“ tab. After that, the material picker will show it when creating a new filament. I should probably add some info text or create a few default materials to make this more clear. The idea of the app is to create your materials in the app, so you can write the information onto generic NFC tags. You could then stick these NFC tags onto filament samples of the corresponding material. At least that was the original use case I developed it for. If you have more feedback or questions, feel free to reach out to dev@jonasfrey.de.

Nice app. Just what I was looking for. A few suggestions.

A few suggestions to make this app even more useful.
1. Give an option to search
2. Give option to group by color/brand or any attribute.
3. Would be great to have an option to add custom attributes to filament. If that is too complicated, having a “notes” attribute will do for now.
4. Make this app open source if not already so others can contribute. I know iOS too :).
5. Add iCloud syncing so swatches are stored across all my devices.
6. Give option to export everything to an excel/svg sheet. Import option would be a bonus too.
7. You made this app very good, please add more functionalities. Having some form of discord server will help share more info.
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Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your detailed response. I will see when I have the time to implement those. Regarding the source code, it is already available on my GitHub under https://github.com/iComputerfreak/FilamentSwatchesApp. Feel free to open a pull request if you want to contribute :) Keep in minid though, that I started this app when I was still a student so there is no real architecture behind it right now. I am not sure if a Discord server for only us two would make sense at this point, but if you are interested in contributing, feel free to reach out to me at dev@jonasfrey.de and we can exchange Discord usernames :) Kind regards Jonas

App doesn’t work

Pretty much as the title say - app doesn’t work

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your feedback. What exactly does not work for you? On my phone, all features work as expected. Feel free to reach out at apps@jonasfrey.de with more information so I can help you out :)