Comically bad – AppZapp Notify - Personal Alerts for Apps on Sale & New Apps Review

Wow. So this is what we are left with. With App Shopper being dropped from the App Store we now how this to deal with. In theory you can add apps to get updates on pricing. In reality there are three MASSIVE problems: 1) feature bloat: so many weird precarious things added to this app that it’s nearly impossible to figure out what you want to do or what it does precisely. I hate Apple’s constant culling of features in the name of “clean interface” but this is the dark timeline of what happens when no one asks “what do people use this app for?” 2) Absolutely inexcusable brokenness of the “app alert” feature. Say you want to start following a new app to see when the price dips. LITERALLY when you search for the app, only 1/7 times does the search function not result in an error screen. So that means you need to re-attempt the same basic search function over and over again until you finally get a list of results 3) A bizarre inability to remove apps from the app alert feature. So, imagine a world in which you want to know when an app’s price drops. And then it drops. And then you buy it. Surely you’d want to drop that app from AppZap’s list because, goodness knows, you’re done with any need for any external reminders about it. But no. It’s on your list for good. You can turn off reminders, but it will always be on your list of apps you want alerts for. Why? Why not make a simple “slide to the left it offer a red remove button” feature? Who knows. The app is still useful insofar as it is an app that will ultimately tell you about price drops if you’re lucky enough to be able to add it to your alerts without 20+ error messages. But it is the most fragile, broken, enraging way to accomplish this simple feature, with buckets of useless social features and nonsense cluttering it up.
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