iPhone App Review – Photographer’s Workflow
by jandrews on Jan.25, 2010, under Software
Photography is one of my hobbies. Sometimes I’ll do a wedding for a little extra money, sometimes I’ll shoot models. Trying to keep track of everything is a pain. Last night I was organizing apps on my iPhone and decided to look for some new ones while I was at it. I came across one called “Photographer’s Workflow”. From the images in iTunes App Store it looked like it did pretty much everything, and it was $3.99. Cheap enough for me to want to give it a try.
I downloaded and synced the app to my first generation iPhone. The first thing I noticed was that it requires use of Google Calendar. I give it my gmail account and password and it connected. Fulfilling that requirement, I attempted to add a project.
I add my project and the app crashes. I go back to the app, and enter the project. None of the information is there, and there’s no way I can see to delete the project and start again. I add another project, and wouldn’t you know it happens again. App == FAIL.
This app looked so very promising. I was really upset about the requirement for Google Calendar. I don’t want all my business information on the cloud, I’d rather have it sync to iCal through iTunes, or at least have the option for it not to use Google, and just keep it on my Phone. I couldn’t get a project to work at all which means that the application was totally useless to me.
I have contacted Apple for a refund.
Don’t waste your time, the app needs a lot of work.
January 26th, 2010 on 12:21 am
Hey James,
Sorry you had a problem with our app. This has been tested extensively and we have found no bugs. We have also had many users report no issues at all with the app so it concerns me you had the app crash and I would be glad to find out the root of the problem for you, just shoot me an email if you would like help. I also totally understand wanting to link directly to the native calendar but unfortunately apple does not allow this at all. That is why Google calendar is required (and we did state this in the description to be very clear to everyone what the app does).
Again sorry you had a problem, contact me if you would like to have me troubleshoot it for you.
Mark
January 26th, 2010 on 1:29 am
Hi Mark,
I do have a 1st generation iPhone so I am not sure if the problem is related to that or not. It crashed, and the project was empty and there seemed no way to delete it. I gave up in frustration.
I did noticed the Google calendar. Since the app wasn’t very expensive, I figured I’d try it out anyway. I personally would rather have the Google calendar to be optional, and just be able to backup the data to iTunes. Or have it be able work with a webdav calendar which I could set up on my server in my home.
Not sure what we’d need to do to trouble shoot the problem, but I’d be willing to give it a shot. Let me know what steps I need to take.