Is insane.
Very confusing. Is it free (Unblock), or is it $99 a year (Wordsmith)?
Can I use it?
Is Unblock free?
Holy Smoke! I can’t figure it out.
Can I use it?
Is Unblock free?
Holy Smoke! I can’t figure it out.
Why?
I don’t use werdsmith as I already have an app I love dearly. However I tried this seeing it a few times. But apart from using my hard earned cash how do I earn credits? I don’t. Why. At least use ads
Question
How do you restore past purchases on this app? Thank you.
Love this app!
Why all the negative reviews? I love the ideas it provides. Yes, you have to buy coins to purchase more ideas but I didn’t mind and it was worth it. I purchased all of it and love this app. It really is not expensive for what you get. Rather cheap, in my opinion.
I like it, but...
I love this idea. I completed the first card deck and it was awesome and helpful, and I had stars to but one more, but you have to pay for everything else!! There’s absolutely NO way to make more coins except to pay! I really love this app, but it’s useless to me unless there’s some way to make coins in the app. Like, 5 or 10 every time you complete a daily exercise or different card pack? ☹️
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Good, except...
The app works well, but I really don’t like the fact that you have to pay for star coins. It needs a daily system.
Really?
Show me a Writer that has expendable cash for this pricey application, and I’ll be in the presence of a writer that doesn’t need this application to begin with.
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I liked the app it helped me a lots, but it has a little mistake: there is no way to earn coins.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!
I am an aspiring writer, and in writing my first book, I was kind of clueless. I tried many apps to help me with outlines and ideas, even to help with writers block, but NOTHING compared to this. This is the best writing app I have ever used and it has helped me come up with tons of new ideas for my story and I MUST incorporate them into it ASAP. THAT’S HOW GOOD THIS IS.
GET THIS APP RIGHT NOW.
GET THIS APP RIGHT NOW.
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Good but Could be Better
This app has a lot of great potential and is one I’d love to explore. However, the app makes it impossible to do so. Say I’m an author, that’s my job. But my books aren’t selling like crazy so I turn to this app thinking it’s cheap and helpful with getting the ideas flowing. Then, upon opening it, I find that I get two card sets and the rest I have to spend money I DON’T have on an app I thought was free. I understand the developer must make money himself, but more card sets should be available from the beginning. Say for example, the main feature of this app, The Daily Habit. It’s on the AppStore page and mentioned in the description. If nothing else, shouldn’t this be free? Like I said, this is a beautiful app and it’s one that I wish I had the funds to use correctly. The coins should be able to be earned. Say, for example, every time you complete a Daily Habit you get 5 coins. This would make the process slow, but not impossible and the un-patient people will go straight for the option to purchase coins. I truly wish I could’ve enjoyed this app more, but the system displayed is impossible for my budget. Fix this issue and you’ll have a loyal follower.
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Shameless money grab
When you open the app for the first time, you are ”gifted” 30 credits. You will quickly notice that you must use 10 of those credits to pay for the “discovery” deck, so you can ‘find out what kind of writer you are’. You have no choice, you MUST buy it.
NB: I already know what kind of writer I am - one who can see a money-making scam a mile off!
Having spent a third of your starter credits on a forced and, in my opinion, pointless deck, you only have enough to get one of the three decks that are now in your price range. If you buy the cheapest (“daily habit”, which just tells you how to keep a journal and most writers already know how to do that), you will only have 5 credits remaining, and there are 8 decks left to buy with prices between 20 and 50 credits each.
I can't speak for everyone, but I have better things to spend my money on than information I could probably find on any half-decent writing website.
NB: I already know what kind of writer I am - one who can see a money-making scam a mile off!
Having spent a third of your starter credits on a forced and, in my opinion, pointless deck, you only have enough to get one of the three decks that are now in your price range. If you buy the cheapest (“daily habit”, which just tells you how to keep a journal and most writers already know how to do that), you will only have 5 credits remaining, and there are 8 decks left to buy with prices between 20 and 50 credits each.
I can't speak for everyone, but I have better things to spend my money on than information I could probably find on any half-decent writing website.
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Okay
I like the idea of the app and all, and I like how it shows you all the decks you can purchase, but it made me purchase the Discovery deck before it would let me look at the other choices, and then I only had enough credits for one deck, and I wasn’t even really interested in that deck anyway
Good, but unreasonable
I’ve had this app for a while but really haven’t used it until now.First off, the prompts on it are really good which is why it did get 2 stars.But the fact that there is no way to get credits without buying them makes no sense unless they’re just trying to get all of your money. There should be a way to get credits without buying them.
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I want to like it...
(Updated)
... but I learned long ago not to purchase IAP credits to unlock features in an app. You can't restore them. So if you buy a lot of credits, then need to switch phones, you are out the packs that you bought with those credits. Please correct me if I'm wrong: things may have changed.
Offer a full unlock, or even packs of cards that can be restored, and I will certainly take another look at what this app has to offer. It seems interesting, but I'm not going to get burned again.
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It’s interesting that the dev still updates the app, yet totally ignores all of the complaints about the monetization scheme.
IAP currency is horrible for anything that is supposed to last. Offering no way to earn “coins” without buying them makes no sense, unless the goal is to force your customers to re-buy everything later on if they upgrade/replace their phone, or have to reinstall the app for any reason.
If they were to sell the additional card sets for actual money so they could be restored, or offer groups of card packs for sale – like $10-15 for “full access” – I would buy them. No question.
I will not support this form of IAP. Ever.
... but I learned long ago not to purchase IAP credits to unlock features in an app. You can't restore them. So if you buy a lot of credits, then need to switch phones, you are out the packs that you bought with those credits. Please correct me if I'm wrong: things may have changed.
Offer a full unlock, or even packs of cards that can be restored, and I will certainly take another look at what this app has to offer. It seems interesting, but I'm not going to get burned again.
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It’s interesting that the dev still updates the app, yet totally ignores all of the complaints about the monetization scheme.
IAP currency is horrible for anything that is supposed to last. Offering no way to earn “coins” without buying them makes no sense, unless the goal is to force your customers to re-buy everything later on if they upgrade/replace their phone, or have to reinstall the app for any reason.
If they were to sell the additional card sets for actual money so they could be restored, or offer groups of card packs for sale – like $10-15 for “full access” – I would buy them. No question.
I will not support this form of IAP. Ever.
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Instant Paywall
You're blocked by an instant paywall as soon as you start using this app to unlock the features it was made for and you downloaded it for in the first place. Scummy business practices, stay away.
I'm Disappointed...
I like the concept of this app, but the fact that you have to spend money on it without other choices is disappointing. If anything I would suggest being able to watch an advertisement for 5 or so star coins, or even a daily bonus system would work. The 30 (-10) star coins they give you at the start isn't enough to buy the pack they described the whole app about. Ironic much?
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Very useful app for writers!
This is a great way to make sparks fly in your brain, real inspiration and ideas for brainstorming. I don't mind supporting developers; there's a huge amount of time and energy to create these things, and if you don't support the creators they will have no incentive (or economy) to make or update things in the future. This app can really be applied for more than just writing. I'm also using it to focus and create ideas for my photo art projects. Very attractive app, too.
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Good premise, bad delivery.
I would much rather sit through ads than be forced to buy "star coins" to unlock the feature for which I downloaded this app to begin with. They give you 30 coins. Then force you to buy their basic "What kind of writer are you?" package for 10. Well, now that you've slogged through that waste of time, the "beating writers block" bundle (the one this entire app description implies this whole app is about) is 30 coins in and of itself. If you're in my situation, where you are just stuck while writing, don't expect this seemingly free app to help without a price.
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I want to love it
But its not something i want to pay for when im just starting, i would have donated once i got the hang of it but now i have a practically useless app because i cant unlock more
We Need More
The decks I have used so far have helped me a lot, however I don't like paying for star coins. There's no way to get free coins. You need a daily star coins system.
