# Tree of Life - ToL App — user reviews > 12 indexed App Store user reviews of Tree of Life by PappCorn SAS, rated 4.10/5 from 13 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tree-of-life-tol-app/id821256110/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tree-of-life-tol-app/id821256110.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not ready for prime time *2017-10-06* This would be better on a much larger display. The design really doesn’t work for small displays. It’s too slow an navigation is very awkward. ### 1/5 — Fascinating data, terrible app *2016-02-07* This app is not fit for the App Store. It should be removed. It is unusable due to design and performance issues. It's very slow to draw the tree or zoom and pan. The layout makes it impossible to navigate. The search stops working after a few searches and doesn't take you to the search results, making you hunt around for a green arrow in millions of possibilities. It's a wonderful dataset, if a little too academic, but the app is terrible. Do not waste your money. ### 3/5 — Good concept but navigation is clumsy *2024-10-15* It would be better if you could search terms from the home tree. For example, searching “Monarda” turns 0 results, so you have to go find plants then narrow it down. It would be a great resource if it wasn’t for that barrier ### 4/5 — You guys are scary detailed. Kudos *2024-01-13* Thanks for all you do in keeping us updated on the Animalia family tree. The only annoying thing is that too many extinct species don’t show nothing on Wikipedia or Google. Gah lol 😅 ### 4/5 — Update *2019-08-21* Still waiting for the update !! ### 4/5 — Excellent! *2018-06-17* The amount of information is comprehensive and well organized. If you want to have a better grasp of all living things and their interconnectedness, then I highly recommend this app. It’s worth the $7. There are a couple things that can be improved though. It would be cool if there was an option to search for a family from the menu screen and work backwards. I also found that there are some scientific names that are different depending on the academic source (eg: the app uses pinophyta instead of coniferophyta), it would be helpful if the app recognized all additional names that a phylum or family may have as some people may find it hard to navigate when there’s only one accepted name. Scrolling around on the map causes lag and it takes a moment for new areas to load, which doesn’t make the app very fluid. Also hitting the ‘back’ button takes you back to the menu screen (it would be much better for it to return to the last page you were on, it can be a pain to find your way back to where you were looking). Anyway, I’m very happy with the app, these were just a couple peeves that I have. Thanks for all your work! ### 5/5 — Fantastic way of exploring evolutionary relationships *2024-08-18* I'm an Environmental Studies undergraduate student looking to go into ecology and evolutionary biology for graduate school. This app is a wonderfully informative and fun way to explore evolutionary relationships and timelines, as well as an incredibly potent visual representation of the diversity of biota. I highly reccomend this app as a way to expand your knowleddge of taxonomy and evolutionary biology for biologists... And I also reccomend it for non-biologists to get a sense of the scale of life on our planet. Hats off to the creators! ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2023-09-17* Brilliant app, thank you. I hope development continues. ### 5/5 — Trouble *2023-01-29* This app is in trouble. I do a search for Animalia, and it turns up nothing zip nada. What’s up with that? I was actually looking for a Taxonomy app, not a phylogeny app. I changed my rating to five and deleted the app. **Developer response:** Hi Bill. This is because the official term we have for animals is "METAZOA". Animalia is just one of its synonyms. I should be able to fix this by enabling the search feature to find synonyms as well. I apologize for the issue ### 5/5 — Good app *2021-12-20* I like this ap. I am on n IPad and it shows everything fine ## Most praised reviews (2 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wow *2016-08-23* What an app. This is the best phylogeny app I could find ANYEHERE. Get it for sure. ### 5/5 — Awesome!! *2014-02-23* I love this app! Really fun to browse through the different trees :-) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*