Shows promise, but too cute for its own good if they don't improve it – Oovium Review

I like this app, in theory. I really like new UI concepts. But, the authors are almost too cute with it here- it needs work. Not much is obvious and the help is *very* thin. You have to go to their website to get complete help- something you can't do with a WiFi iPad outside of coverage. It would be better to have the help self-contained. Overall, it is clever. But it also crashes very frequently, and I've given up using it because I can't get an aether saved. Once the app exits, it's gone- it's not there if I come back a few days later. I've redone the same calculations 3 times now. I'll have to go back to Excel until a better version of this comes out. So, yes, they rethought the UI, but to the point that NOTHING is obvious. I appreciate the aether concept and floating cells, really I do. I love mind maps and this is the mind map of math. Just they need to be more reliable around saving and managing multiple ethers. But sometimes do you really have to reinvent every last shred of UI concept- even the ones that are good already? Update: Oovium updated yesterday claiming to fix numerous crashing bugs. I quit using it before since it crashed and lost my data before I could even save it. Now, it crashes at launch. Launch, crash, launch, crash. The splash screen is up for just a fraction of a second. I have iPad 2 with the latest OS updates. I power cycled it just to make sure to clear out the memory, to no avail. Launch, crash... I'm not sure what type of QA these folks do or what design methodology they use. The app has been useless to me from the start, despite my hopeful optimism for its outside the box design. Sorry...
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