My $19.99 review – Tot Pocket Review

After a couple of weeks I have decided to uninstall Tot. This app ignites the debate between simplicity and limitations. While I respect that, I find that this app does not bring enough to the table to merit the cost. I’ll revert back to Apple Notes for the following reasons: —Apple Notes has a trash can; you can recover work —Apple Notes has enough formatting tools but not too many —Apple Notes supports encryption —Apple Notes syncs beautifully and quickly across all my devices at no additional cost —The gain of Tot is that it’s a quick little app to jot something quick does not exceed the overall robust feature set of Apple Notes. (And no, “robust” is not a pejorative term here. Apple Notes is a nice balance of features and simplicity.) I suppose Tot is good for MacOS when I want to copy and paste something quickly, or jot down something very quickly. For that reason the free MacOS app is fine. But here are reasons I don’t care for Tot overall: —For a simple app, the amount of menus, sub menus, “cog icons”, hiding-unhiding, keystrokes, “is that feature or bug?”-nonsense , etc is quite dizzying. Open and creating a new Text File (or Apple Note) is arguably just as easy if not easier but with a more robust and predictable experience. —I don’t want to be encumbered by a developers rigid philosophy and/or wonder if/when a feature will be implemented —I want a way to recover text later. History, trash can, something like that. —I don’t want or need to learn a bevy of new keystrokes. —One of their Knowledge Base articles explained a solution that didn’t make sense based on the UI I was looking at. Not a good sign. —Which brings me to this: iOS and MacOS are really really close to the same user experience —but not quite. And that makes things confusing. —I want the option to paste an image —I don’t care at all about markdown (and neither should you :) —$19.99 ...a little much and the reason I feel entitled to issue a 1-star review.
Review by Champion.#2 on Tot Pocket.