Informant HD

Pay for, yes. But subscribe? No. <br/><br/>And if this is a “different” app and not an upgrade, why did you purposefully gimp this version? Oh, why, to frustrate and encourage moving over to your new app, which IS just an upgrade. <br/><br/>I paid 10 dollars for this because it was everything I needed. Now it is less. Not even updated for the longer screen, and very nagging about moving over to that “New” app with the same name and functionality from the same bottom-feeding company. <br/><br/>Finding another calendar app. Putting this review on the other one as well.

This was always my most useful app. I loved it for years. Now, I’m about to abandon it. It’s useless, because on my new iPad Pro, any move in then app kicks me to some ridiculous webpage that tells me all that I already know about Informant. There’s no escape: it’s impossible to get to settings (to connect to my Google calendars) or anything else of use. Infuriating! How did you ruin such a great app?

This company is a shakedown. They already have our money for this app, the priciest I have ever bought for mobile, but they have now trapped my data and made the app literally nonfunctional: I went to change a simple setting within the app, version 4, and was booted out to a webpage pushing version 5, WHICH IS SET ON AN ENDLESS LOOP. The app will not let me back in, by any means, to use it! Apple needs to boot these guys. File complaints.

I don’t mind paying for upgrades, but I do mind paying for something, functionality I’ve had for years suddenly disappearing, and then being asked to purchase that functionality again. This is a great product otherwise.

Formerly the best calendar app... now the worst. Features I previously paid for have all been removed. Look elsewhere— don’t need to use a calendar program that gives me a false sense of confidence that I can depend on it, only to be later held hostage to a nonsense subscription scheme!

Alex and co. responded to one user that the move to a subscription model and version 5 vs. upgrading version 4.xx is not an evil plan to make users upgrade by holding functionality or access to the users own data hostage. Unfortunately, the “bug” that cripples the app has never been fixed. You know, the “bug” that Alex referred to that makes it impossible to use the app if you need EVER to go into Settings (due to the impossible to avoid version 5 upgrade sales pitch). I am actually avoiding going into Settings after reading the posts by others, as I don’t want to have to do the Recovery workaround Alex and co. recommended of downloading a file to my desktop, sharing the file with the Informant app, etc. every time I accidentally I try to go to settings and get into the version 5 upgrade loop. Without the ability to go into Settings, the app is crippled and I think I will have trouble or be unable to export tasks to another task manager and I will have to do it all manually!<br/><br/>After being a longtime user of Informant on Windows mobile and iOS from day one, I lost confidence in the app and company after numerous version upgrade fiascos and never really got much functionality from it on iOS after a couple years of frustration and migrated a lot of task data to another task manager, but still have a lot of recurring tasks and historical data still in Informant unfortunately.<br/><br/>I will be seeking a refund from Apple. Alex and co. (WebIS is now Fanatic Software?) should not get away with this without some financial impact.

Not sure why the low ranking. This is one of the best apps on my phone. I can see everything so clearly in the month view that I never use the built in calendar app.

I paid for all extra purchases but this app does not working anymore. Infinite loop of AD page on setting.