Needs some polishing – Sortly: Inventory Simplified Review

Pros: Photos Tagging Sharing Cons: - Developer doesn't quite understand iOS UI conventions. e.g.: A.) Tapping on the icon for an item or category opens up the icon picture itself. This is incorrect and is irritating since the user would expect that tapping on the folder or item icon would take you to that folder or item. Proper convention for editing icons should only be changeable via an edit button not just by tapping on it. B.) saving is a multiple tap process but shouldn't be. The user can tap "save" but under certain situations the app won't save unless the user next taps "done". - Navigating around the app is far from intuitive. - Pictures taken from inside the app are low quality. - individual items in a single picture of multiple items (i.e. a bookshelf of knick knacks) can't be tagged individually. I got the impression from the description that the user could take a single picture and then label all the items in that one picture. Instead, you have to take one picture for each item. - you CAN highlight a single item in a picture but once the user saves the annotation on the picture you can't edit the annotation later. The app burns the annotation into the image! If you make a mistake you have to delete the picture (and your annotations) and start over by taking a new picture and re-annotating. - No method to reuse a picture (taken from within the app) for multiple items. If the app at least allowed this then a picture of the aforementioned shelf of knick-knacks could be taken once and then each item on the shelf could be tagged without having to take a picture over and over. The work around for this is to take pictures of all home inventory from the camera app and then browsing the photo library for the item in question. This is a somewhat lame solution but looks to be the only option. - pictures can be annotated with outline or arrows but it would be better to also include number icons that could then be associated to a list of ALL the items in the picture. This app is a good start but appears to be designed to inventory large items not groups of smaller items.
Review by Beeblebrox on Sortly: Inventory Simplified.