Not ready – Memos - Search Screenshots Review

I just requested a refund for this app, but I think I was unfair to the developer in my “problem description” to Apple, where I wrote “Doesn’t work as described.” That’s not actually the problem, and I want to encourage the developers to keep working on this app because I think it has a lot of merit. It was just too frustrating to want to actually pay for it at this point — I felt like deleting it out of disappointment. If I were really generous I would have said “Keep my $5 and work on your app” but I wasn’t feeling charitable. I will though keep my eye on it and re-purchase if the reviews indicate certain changes have been made. I can even understand this app getting 5 stars for people who are using their phone as a note-taking device on a regular basis, because the main feature works: text from photos. So what’s the deal? I think the concept is good, and the OCR engine appears to be very good. I turned an almost illegible screenshot into a useful note. The text-detection engine is pretty amazing: it zeroes in on even tiny bits of text in photos I wouldn’t have even considered. But therein lies the problem: my recent family dinner at a restaurant resulted in 25 pictures in the queue simply because there were menus lying around, and THERE IS NO WAY TO SUPPRESS THEM. There’s no way to scroll farther into the past without scrolling past those 25 pictures every single time I use the app. Sure, you can search, and that’s another feature that appears to be impressively good, but without scrolling through initially I don’t know what to search for in my many-years’ library, and I need a way to eliminate photos: not interested, never want to encounter this one again because the text isn’t meaningful. Really, many 100s of photos whose text is absolutely useless, but only one long scroll available. So, that’s it: I’m impressed with the technology but the program design needs serious improvement. I’d be willing to click on each photo once if it would go away, but not encounter it over and over forever. (If I’m missing something here I apologize, but there appeared to be very few options on offer.) Had to flee.
Review by mahu (what do you mean this nickname is taken?) on Memos - Search Screenshots.