Informant - Agenda, Tasks, Notes Planner Reviews

Bait and Switch

SDCardioDoc

Formerly the best calendar app... now the worst. Features I previously paid for have all been removed. Look elsewhere— don’t need to use a calendar program that gives me a false sense of confidence that I can depend on it, only to be later held hostage to a nonsense subscription scheme!

file a complaint to Apple, & do not buy Informant 5

org app pro

This company is a shakedown. They already have our money for this app, the priciest I have ever bought for mobile, but they have now trapped my data and made the app literally nonfunctional: I went to change a simple setting within the app, version 4, and was booted out to a webpage pushing version 5, WHICH IS SET ON AN ENDLESS LOOP. The app will not let me back in, by any means, to use it! Apple needs to boot these guys. File complaints.

Used to be 5 star

Moderation4Me

I’ve lowered my five star review to one star. They want me to now pay for feature I've used for a few years. No update as to why.

We have to pay extra now for what we already bought and had awhile ago.

Michael_Anjello

Why are they forcing us to buy the subscription based app. I can’t believe they hit their loyal followers with this.

Detail-oriented, Design limited

jdexe

I used Informant for 5 years because I liked having one iOS app for calendar, tasks, and contacts. I went off it for a year and a half, frustrated with company support and with the glitchiness of task and contact data handling. But I'm back to using it, having missed Informant's deep customization of tasks and events. I still wish it could do better. I worked with task managers Omnifocus and then Things for several months each. Their design, support, and integration of GTD method were superb. But their limited incorporation of calendar events was hard for me to work with. I found calendar apps Fantastical and Readdle's Calendars 5 so much easier for adding appts, with their natural-language input. The task apps and Fantastical were also more attractive than Informant. But they lacked Informant's broad options for displaying and repeating events. So, I'm now back to Informant, with its myopic ethos of "if the code is right, everything is right." I know that support will continue to frustrate, that Informant's clunky interface will slow me down, that its outdated look will disappoint. I'll use Fantastical for natural-language input of appts, and I'll pine for the clean layouts of Omni and Things.

Asked To Pay Again For Functionality I’ve Already Paid For

INTEROBANGirl

I don’t mind paying for upgrades, but I do mind paying for something, functionality I’ve had for years suddenly disappearing, and then being asked to purchase that functionality again. This is a great product otherwise.

From love to hate

remedialmusic

I’ve used this app for years. And USED to LOVE IT. I even encouraged others to buy it. Now, all of a sudden, I can’t see my tasks anymore and all I get is some infuriating ad about buying a new subscription. Um. No. I just want the original $15 app i paid for, thanks.

Use to love

DMR731

I use to love this app however it seems like I keep paying for the same upgrades.

Honest Review by former PI Fan-boy

Billy G. Gruff

So, after paying for the app ($5) & paying for the sync service ($25/year) & paying for the desktop app ($50), Fanatic Software removed the task list, notes, contacts, etc. - everything except the calendar from the app. Guess what? The only feature I used was the task list. That was the only feature I cared about. In order to get it back you now have to pay $3 per month, or a subscription for $25 annually. If you want to use the mobile app with your desktop, that amounts to $50 a year. Hey, Fanatic Software? F you. Seriously. F you. You're not the only game in town. I'll find another app to do what I need to do, even if it costs me twice as much to use it. If you put a gun to my head, I would take the bullet before I paid you clowns another effin dime. ¡Adios payasos!

Evil Plan to Make You Upgrade

NiceIdeaToo

Alex and co. responded to one user that the move to a subscription model and version 5 vs. upgrading version 4.xx is not an evil plan to make users upgrade by holding functionality or access to the users own data hostage. Unfortunately, the “bug” that cripples the app has never been fixed. You know, the “bug” that Alex referred to that makes it impossible to use the app if you need EVER to go into Settings (due to the impossible to avoid version 5 upgrade sales pitch). I am actually avoiding going into Settings after reading the posts by others, as I don’t want to have to do the Recovery workaround Alex and co. recommended of downloading a file to my desktop, sharing the file with the Informant app, etc. every time I accidentally I try to go to settings and get into the version 5 upgrade loop. Without the ability to go into Settings, the app is crippled and I think I will have trouble or be unable to export tasks to another task manager and I will have to do it all manually! After being a longtime user of Informant on Windows mobile and iOS from day one, I lost confidence in the app and company after numerous version upgrade fiascos and never really got much functionality from it on iOS after a couple years of frustration and migrated a lot of task data to another task manager, but still have a lot of recurring tasks and historical data still in Informant unfortunately. I will be seeking a refund from Apple. Alex and co. (WebIS is now Fanatic Software?) should not get away with this without some financial impact.