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What is the most DISAPPOINTING APP you bought?
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okcupid. but it was free. but still.
oh and also guitar capo because it doesnt like to register straight-on touches & i'm not a fancier of The Strum
iMPC Pro because it was supposed to have been an upgrade but Retronyms removed major features and has never bothered to restore them.
+1
+2. Genome is more latent than the bus service round here.. and it cost more than a tenner.. i feel sick now.
Probably Thesys and Different Drummer, both because they are on the higher end of the pricing spectrum and I never had the time patience to figure out what to do with them.
Another popular one that I regret (for now) is DrumPerfect, but that's more about how poorly it runs on my iPad2. Not crazy about the workflow/U.I. either.
Pretty rare that I regret any type of synth or drum app altogether - if they work, I can probably do something musical with them. The MIDI and effects apps have lower success rates because it tends to be all or nothing with them.
iMPC Pro because all the videos and at the end is not working as it should be and is really expensive
tabletop is the shittiest piece of app ever done for iOS.
Fretboard almost 13 Australian dollars and completely unusable
~~pianist pro ( out dated )
~~Thesys ( Tiny wrong design)
~~FL studio HD (no AB/IAA )
~~Bassline （no AB/IAA and useless standalone)
~~Zed synth ( confusing )
~~iSequence ( no AB /IAA )
~~Tabletop and IMPC pro ( no AB/IAA and never listen to Musicians want and ego)
~~Mitosynth ( complex interface and buggy clipping noise sound )
~~magellan ( ugly old fashion and whammzy)
~~Z3TA+ ( tiny , wrong design and lose interest)
~~ lots of BxxxSxxx sequencers
My best synth is PPG Wavegenerator
did you mail him? try to ask why
iMpc Classic ... Fortunately it was on sale and kept me off buying iMpc pro...
Auria for me too hopefully the new version will be better.
Mostly cheap impulse-buy instrument apps that turned out not to have AB or IAA support; this happened mostly when I was just starting out...but, latest in that category is Roland Sound Canvas...I'm counting on it getting support for one or the other soon, otherwise that might be my 'most disappointing' one...
This is not correct. You can send each line out via separate midi channels. You may have meant more than one "track" but this isn't a sequencer it's a arpeggiator.
This whole thread is negative by nature but it's my least favorite aspect of the internet these days. People sure do like to whine and complain.
I don't mind it so much. Folks will mention an app I find indispensable (Auria) as one they find impossible and I am simply reminded that we all process information differently and that everyone's got toast. But there are also some indications of 'here be monsters' and that might give me a moment's pause when in a random 'acquiring' mode.....
They were thinking $$$$$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$.
Sampletank, got it on a sale just because it was, then instantly regretted it.
@Carnbot My regret with Sampletank is having got it for the convenience I don't actually use it. Hate it when you make a practical buy that turns out to be impractical (for me)....
On the contrary, if complaints are backed up with valid reasons why a particular app hasn't lived up to it's promise, then this is useful information for potential customers and could save them the disappointment of a bad purchase. Scanning this thread some apps are regularly being listed, which should sound warning bells to our dear readers.
I actually don't think people complain enough these days. There seems to be a new air of 'put up with it' , probably why in general products, services and customer support are getting worse.
In the old days you could take a broken product back to the shop - now companies hide behind websites and overseas call centres. Letting off steam on a forum is sometimes one of the few ways of getting a company's attention.
I agree, I purchased for the same reason. I'd played with the free version and so knew what to expect! I thought seeing as there is so much in the app some of it would be useful. But I just find the sounds so uninspiring, the interface too somehow...
Right but almost all of the posts in this thread don't mention valid reasons, just a list of which apps disappoint. To me it shows more about the person writing the post than it does it does about the app itself. One man's trash is another man's treasure or however the saying goes. My remark was really not specific to this site but more about the overall tone of negativity I see everywhere on the internet these days whether it's politics, religion whatever. I guess I have chronic internet fatigue syndrome.
Hell yes if I bought a guitar or some piece of hardware that wasn't up to snuff I'd take it back. In most cases here we are talking about something that costs a few bucks and you can always ask for a refund from Apple, there's nothing stopping people from doing that and I don't think Apple is hiding customer support overseas, not sure about other app developers. I do think you're more likely to get a company's attention by contacting them directly than blowing off steam on an internet forum. If you're offering valid critcisms that's one thing but if you're whining and complaining that's different. I've made plenty of (hopefully helpful) suggestions to developers myself
My remark really wasn't meant to start anything just a casual comment which maybe I should have kept to myself.
Roland Sound Canvas:well,no need to explain i guess but i still have hope they will improve it--------Oscillab:sounds cheap/thin,a lot of essenatial features missing (example:swing)----iMaschine:ignoring all the iOS standards is just...well...ignorant-----Animoog:it was always way more often not working (IAA/AB) than it did.And i payed full price for it.
An app has to be inspiring or intruiging in some way in order to keep a user's attention thru the learning curve. Sometimes an app gives immediate gratification, sometimes initial gratification, followed by disappointment, sometimes it takes a lot of effort before you actually get what you were hoping to get out of the app. demos and tutorials are important because they give us a vision of "ooh, here's what I can eventually do with this app"
all that to say, [edit] there is one app I was disappointed in, I was excited for its potential, but never got past the difficulty of operating it. It might not even be that difficult to use... it just didn't draw me in enough to keep me going. I haven't touched it in forever.
On the other hand, Fugue is an example of a very gratifying experience and made me want to play around with it and see what it could do. Totally free, totally simplistic sequencer, but something about the design just invites tinkering. and that did it for me, sucked me right in. I've really only played with it twice I think... each time a 90+ minute jam session. With a few quirks ironed out, I would have had no disappointments even if I'd paid $5 for it.
I can't see that's true for this thread, the majority of replies have listed why they find the app disappointing. People on this forum as a rule are generally very constructive in their feedback, even if it's bad.
Nope. Best way to get a response from the majority of big companies these days is to stick something up on a forum, Twitter, Facebook etc. These guys pay millions for good PR, they'll respond very quickly if it's threatened by negative public feedback. From Dell to 1&1 I've had support requests completely ignored until I posted something on their Facebook page or hash-tagged them on Twitter. Oh how they jump then.
For small developers though the direct approach is a nicer way of going about things as it'll help them refine their product.
BUT, if companies ignore your support requests or complaints and you don't share your bad experiences of a product or service online then you're leaving other customers open to having the same bad experience that you have.
Apathy rules?
"Best way to get a response from the majority of big companies..." man, this may be true but it seems like the equivalent of complaining loudly to your waiter at a restaurant, in the hearing of other diners, hoping to get a free dessert or have the manager waive your bill. ...
We must not be reading the same thread.
I totally agree that this forum is usually one of the better, more civil forums around. My remark was probably more because of my fatigue of the negativity I see everywhere else on the internet. Keep it constructive!!
No apathy here
I count 19 posts who name one or more disappointing apps with no explanation and 19 posts with explanation.
So we're even!
(not really important, I was just bored)
I should have commented on why I found Votan Telepathy disappointing. I could not get any useable sounds from it. The community shared sounds were awful to me. Accessing the community was hit or miss. I contacted the dev and he acknowledged there were problems, but I never saw them resolved throughout the updates.
OK, I'm going to have to count them now: 21 comments with reasons why, 14 without. More than twice the comments in this thread have said why they find the app disappointing.
Or the equivalent of going into a shop to complain and letting other customers in the queue hear the bad experience you've had with the shops product or service.
Big companies are hiding behind a firewall of website forms and telephone systems that keep you hanging on for hours, passing you on to the next unhelpful department, and then saying they'll sort out the issue but forget you ever called as soon as you put down the phone.
By going public you alert other potential customers to a problem, and are more likely to get a fix for your issue. Yes it's negative, but the World isn't full of fluffy puppies who want you to tickle their tummy. The internet is chock full of sales pages, blogs with sponsored 'reviews', adverts and YouTube videos selling how great products are, this needs to be balanced by real-life experiences from customers as we're relying more and more on online shopping and recommendations. If an app is created by a company with a record for bad support, or it crashes on an iPad 2, then I want to know about it. If I'd been warned about previous purchases I've made I would have saved a ruddy fortune.
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I completely disagree and if you expect this thread to do anything with regards to developers fixing bugs just because people complain about their apps in here you're delusional. iOS app devs tend to listen to feedback quite well and those developers that don't won't listen to people venting on forums either.
That being said, I'm considering closing this thread for exactly this reason. If you have problem with an app, contact its developers. If they don't listen to you... yeah, maybe make a thread here if you feel like you need a place to vent.
But just collecting everybody's more or less justified reasons to hate a particular app seems a bit... I don't know... pointlessly negative?