Shepherd
Useless. It's a well built app that is completely useless 😂🤣. I got the app because it implies that it can give you alerts for particular weather events. It lets you choose from a large variety of events and completely customize the parameters, but only checks once per day at a specified time. Total face palm. I want the app to monitor ALL day and tell me when the summer morning hits 70° so I can close the house up. I may as well just set a regular alarm and check the temperature. Dummies.
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My initial response is that the look & feel of the UI is elegant & really well thought out. Night & day forecasts are subtly shaded to show the difference when you scroll through them, & the time-setting interface for the alarm is startling & strangely pleasurable. The ads are there, but so far are unintrusive-- no obnoxious fullscreen popups that you hafta click out of just to get anything done. I really admire all that. However, having looked at the other reviews, I am anxious about trusting this app to actually go off when I need it to (I'm setting up a temp alert so that I'll know if my pipes & plants are in danger of freezing). Plus, I have seen a bunch of reviews asking for a silent alarm notification option, (& the developer's friendly responses to that feedback-- bonus points for responsiveness!), but in the actual place where you set up the alarm, there is only a button that says "turn off notification", & nowhere can I find an explanation if that means just the sound is turned off (& it will vibrate), or if it just won't notify me at all, which would be... counter to the purpose of an alarm. I think a much better design would be if, instead of 2 radio buttons for alarm sound options (Notification & Loop Mode), there was a 3rd option right there for Silent/Vibrate. Anyway, I'm looking forward to testing it out over the next few days, & will update my review as I see how it performs.
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Vázquez Software
November 11, 2018
Thank you for your detailed review. I will seriously consider the "only vibrate" option for the next update.
Thank you for your time.
Jamie Willingham
Not bad. Not configurable enough. I used Pro Weather Alert until it was abandoned by the developer. Nothing I've tried even comes close. It was so customizable. It allowed turning on and off each and every alert type, and had three severity levels for each alert type, emergency, urgent, & default. Could someone please make an alert app like that?!
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