Nice tech, mediocre app – ReadMe! (Spritz & BeeLine) Review
Needs some serious usability work.
- spritz login should be an SFAuthenticationSession, rather than the custom Safari window that won't let me copy in my long password
- no need for library to fade in - just show me my books right away
- you want my to burn ? my books? Really? The bookshelf is a bit much, but the match is going overboard
- if I tap on a book, I want to read it immediately, not see the option to rename it. Put the in the edit mode with deletion, following iOS conventions.
- lacks continuous scroll mode. I'm using the app for Spritz, which makes more sense in a continuous context anyway, but previously I stopped using Kindle because it didn't support continuous scroll.
- on the Spritz selecter, two magnifying glasses icon is confusing - the part you move should be a handle, and it can still have the move icon.
- far as I can tell, no way to zoom images. Many books have maps with small details you need to zoom in to see.
- I like that you don't add copywrite info when I copy text from a book.
- not updated frequently enough - no iPhone X support over a month after release.
- the loading screen "applying Beeline reader" when flipping to the next page is disruptive. Maybe preprocess the next page, since that's at least predictable - you don't need to do the whole book.
- bug: Spritz advances faster than the pages turn to keep up.
Review by Luqavi on
ReadMe! (Spritz & BeeLine).