freer, comments for Android applications and games, Androlib, Android Applications and Games directory

by freer the 11/12/2011

I Spy Analytics

Requires Google pw; ignores back button; requires permission to make phone calls; incoherent TOS.

by freer the 6/7/2011

ChromeMarks

Outstanding. Works as advertised.

by freer the 2/7/2011

Gmail Inbox Widget

Excellent functionality but: suggish response to finger presses, misses some entirely; poor color adjustment UI. Please someone do this right!

by freer the 2/6/2011

aWHMCS Official WHMCS App

Nice but limited features. App is needed only because website is mobile-incompatible. App does but should not require phone access.

by freer the 2/4/2011

Byte Map

Two of 3 menu items nonfunctional. Pretty pie charts are useless because segments have no labels. Runs on Galaxy Tab, hangs on Nexus One.

by freer the 1/29/2011

Mini Info Pro Key

Generally works great. Only 4* because meanings of icons are not documented & website is illegible on mobile screen.

by freer the 1/23/2011

Survival Guide

Nice. But distracting ads, no landscape view, inflexible chapter navigation, odd column formatting with enlarged text.

by freer the 1/3/2011

Phone World Clock and Timezone

Awkward user interface. Annoying prompt every time you exit with back button.

by freer the 1/3/2011

World Clock

Hard to believe a user interface can be so poorly designed. It's unreadable and awful.

by freer the 12/12/2010

Office Blast

Cute and fun to play once. Then too simple and boring.

by freer the 12/12/2010

Hamster Power

Cute and amusing. Distracting ads. *Huge but cannot be moved to SD card.*

by freer the 12/10/2010

MultiRemote

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/30/2010

English to Hindi Translator

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/29/2010

BeatDroid

Works well. Tracks changing heartbeat poorly. (Ought to use a decaying average.)

by freer the 11/26/2010

Thomson Reuters News Pro

Distracting background. Wastes space on small screen. Cannot open multiple windows. Not so useful as just browsing www.reuters.com or using nubinews.

by freer the 11/21/2010

Time Calculator Pro

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/15/2010

Instant Heart Rate

Appears to simply generate a random value with no connection to heart rate. Required GPS access too--WHY??

by freer the 11/13/2010

Time Calculator Lite

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/13/2010

ANDROID SPL METER

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/13/2010

Super Ruler Free

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/12/2010

Bollywood Hindi Radio Lite

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 11/12/2010

Radio RIP Lite

Loses all saved tracks on app exit or phone reboot. Sporadically stops playing (or exits live mode) when playing through Bluetooth.

by freer the 11/1/2010

Piano Pro

Works, but harsh sound and most melodies won't fit the limited tonal range.

by freer the 10/25/2010

Pianoid Plain Piano

Harsh scratchy sound; poor sustain; sporadically hangs; hard to press correct key.

by freer the 10/6/2010

Calculator Calzo Free No Ads

Cannot be moved to SD-card.

by freer the 9/3/2010

Antropia Radio for 1.6

Cannot be moved to SD card.

by freer the 7/11/2010

Chronos Lite

On Nexus One 2.2, cannot create/edit settings (force close or press ignored). Built-in (online) help is unreadable on mobile screen.

by freer the 7/5/2010

MP3tunes

Limited & confusing features. No new account creation, upload, built-in help, audio position slider.

by freer the 7/4/2010

aSpotCat (app by permission)

Pluses: Great functionality. Minuses: Suboptimal UI due to low-contrast fonts, inconsistent back button behavior, non-mobile-compatible website.

by freer the 7/3/2010

Speedometer

Startup error "contact support", notification does not go away, cannot be killed even with Advanced Task Killer.

by freer the 7/2/2010

Ruler Green

Works accurately. Low-contrast display not easily readable. Cannot show cm and inches at same time.

by freer the 6/30/2010

Linphone Video

Unpredictable, unreliable, buggy. Odd access to phonebook (no favorites visible). Error "cannot call null".

by freer the 6/28/2010

FxCalc Lite

You can see entire expression and history of previous expressions, but I see no way of editing them. Hard-to-read faded & tiny keys. No help text.

by freer the 6/28/2010

Scientific Calculator

Requires ability to intercept phone calls. Use not advised.

by freer the 6/28/2010

Advanced Calculator Demo

Completely broken (missing 9 key), and requires ability to read phone calls state which no legitimate calculator should need.

by freer the 6/25/2010

Tap BPM

Works but tracks changing heartbeat very poorly.

by freer the 6/25/2010

Nexus One torch Flashlight

A bit too complicated for a flashlight but it does work.

by freer the 6/24/2010

Alternate Calendar

Description mentions "swype", but this app has no Swype functionality that I could find.

by freer the 6/5/2010

LED Clock

Works, but: blurry display; intrusive ads are brighter than time digits.

by freer the 6/3/2010

ColorBlindnessTest

Many nice pictures but no instructions.

by freer the 6/1/2010

Tube Tempo BPM

Works but hard-to-read display, odd clicking sound, and undocumented additional features. Needs online help and settable averaging interval.

by freer the 6/1/2010

HSTempo

60 BPM displays as 30. No online help.

by freer the 5/28/2010

Blonde jokes

Some duplicates; most not funny; some poorly punctuated; some ungrammatical.

by freer the 5/26/2010

Switch Network Type 2G / 3G

Works but annoying notification that cannot be switched off.

by freer the 5/26/2010

OM SDCard Wifi Access

5* because it works, then -3* because of security hole -- keeps on quietly running after user has exited with back button. No way to make it quit.

by freer the 5/26/2010

Show and Switch 2G/3G

Works, but annoying notification.

by freer the 5/20/2010

Tubaloo

All this does is let you connect to a proprietary paid service. No way to specify a SIP server to connect to.

by freer the 4/26/2010

WhatIsMyIp?

Works perfectly and is easy to use.

by freer the 4/26/2010

Cinema

Works perfectly. Easy to use.

by freer the 1/25/2010

Calculation Display Calculator

Takes over phone ringing.

by freer the 1/11/2010

Thermometer

On Nexus One: Reading temperature, please wait; waited forever, no reading. On G1, same result but does work sometimes.

by freer the 1/11/2010

GeoPicker

Works. Bouncing animation is slow and annoying. No way to find out accuracy of the current location, so you could unknowingly get the wrong address.

by freer the 1/9/2010

SipAgent

On G1, force close. On Nexus One, can dial out and connect but no sound in either direction.

by freer the 1/3/2010

Truphone

When I dial a test number, it instead dials an entirely different number, and then I get a repeated recording "one hundred and thirty one good bye".

by freer the 1/3/2010

Sensor List

Provides no units.

by freer the 12/29/2009

OCMEC Clock Widget

No +5.5 timezone

by freer the 9/2/2009

Loan & Mortgage Free

Poor user interface, limited.

by freer the 7/1/2009

Screenshot

Incoherent instructiions. Have rooted phone, can get screenshots of green android, home screen, and screenshot app, but not of browser screen.

by freer the 6/29/2009

Simple Weather

Limited functionality, no weather detail, one city only, cannot display both F and C temp.

by freer the 6/10/2009

Real Programmers’ Calculator

Apparently intended as a joke. But it's not funny. A waste of time, space, and bandwidth. Not recommended if you pay for download bandwidth.