How do you take AWAY features and charge more? – The Christmas Gift List Pro Review

I had the original version of this app for years, and really liked it. It helped me manage gift giving and budget for my very large extended family. Now, they have renamed the version I had as “lite” and made me pay again for a “full” version which is not as good as the original. NOT COOL. To make matters worse, they took away form of the features I liked about the original. -Now you have to re-type store names over and over again -The dial/menu that remembers past entries is gone -in an effort to use useless pie charts, it actually removed some functions that let me look at projected budget vs amount spent, including per person. -I used to save my Christmas lists from year to year. All that data is gone. -Once you enter a gift for a person, you can not delete that gift if you change your mind. It will remain in that person’s list, including impacting the budget calculation, unless you switch the status to “idea”. This is odd and annoying. -When I try to enter info for gifts similar to ones already on the list, it waits until I finish typing all the info and try to save it, then gives me a message “gift with this name already exists” then deletes the new entry. Very annoying. I thought I was doing the app developer a solid by paying for what I thought would be an updated and improved version of an app I’ve used for several Christmas seasons. I wish I had NOT bothered. The current version is awful compared to the pre-2017 versions. I think the reason it has 4 and 1/2 stars is because of old ratings from people like me who liked the ease and convenience of the old app. Don’t buy this app! Look for a better app; use Numbers spreadsheets; notes, or regular old paper and a calculator.
Review by Jamelyn on The Christmas Gift List Pro.