Not what I expected – CloudExplorer for Cloud Drive Review

The Amazon interface stinks, I expected that. I was hoping for more from this app. While it does do what Amazon does it misses in a couple of critical places. First, I can't actually read the file names. The font is so tiny it's almost humorous. When you click/touch the file it expands to fill the entire screen but that's simply not enough to make this usable. Second, it seems to tile the documents and folders. A minor issue compared to the first but I would rather see the traditional vertical list I can sort. Third, and a slightly bigger issue is that it doesn't retain an index. I can see that you can't download all your files to your iPad. It would defeat the purpose of cloud storage, but not having an index means staring at a blank screen while it downloads a list of files in the directory. That's a heck of a wait. Each time you change directories. It would be better if it kept the directory list with a warning that it was being updated in the background and was not "live". This would allow you to at least look at your list of files (since your last log on) while it verified everything was actually there. Put unverified files on red or something. On the whole it has promise (simply because Amazon doesn't seem to care about supporting this service and a private app may listen to feedback) but needs to reach a little more. I didn't even get to how easy or hard it is to move and organize files. Maybe when I can read the file names I will re-visit this app. As I said it's still more than Amazon provided.
Review by dfruth on CloudExplorer for Cloud Drive.