Kickstarter for iPhone

The app would open, but none of the new projects would show up. No matter if the app was updated or not, I had this issue. Pretty useless if I can’t scroll new projects.

That’s all they are selling on Kickstarter anymore. You won’t get burned too badly on small ticket items; but anything that seems too good to be true, is a scam.

I like Kickstarter. I use Kickstarter. Be aware however that the minute you actually use it you are committing yourself to a never ending stream of “Trending Kickstarter” email spam that will never stop no matter how many times you ask to be removed from the list (I believe these are multiple actors who exploit the same tagline). Is it Kickstarter’s fault? Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn’t matter, whatever the reason it’s a major issue that you will deal with if you use this app.

Update: Wow, I’m shocked that I’m reading my original review and none of these issues have ever been addressed. I remember being at a conference where the new Kickstarter CEO said he wanted to make improvements to the app and company. That was…4 years ago? And since then, the Project Alerts feed has become completely useless. A red number appears in the Activity bubble, but when you tap it, it goes away and say you’re up to date. Like, why even have that feature if it is so useless? Also, there’s no way to look at upcoming projects in specific project types in the app. Anyway…yeah, I like Kickstarter as a company, but the app is junk. <br/><br/>Original: I will say, the Kickstarter app functions just fine in its current form. However, there are a number of things the developers could do to make it great or stellar. One thing is allowing the user to pinch and zoom into listings. Sometimes there are pictures that are difficult to see in portrait mode. Sure, you can sort of zoom in, but you have to keep both fingers on the screen in order to keep the picture where you want it. Even then, one needs to move the picture around in order to keep focused. Of course, this wouldn’t be a huge concern if landscape mode didn’t block out most of the content on the page, necessitating the use of portrait. Another issue is that the app just doesn’t have the same filters to see projects that the website does. There’s currently no way to see upcoming projects unless they’ve already been bookmarked. And speaking of bookmarks, I use the same bookmarked searches EVERY TIME I’m on the app. Why then do I manually have to go through Kickstarter’s default views EVERY TIME when I only want to see the views I’m interested in? The last issue is really with Kickstarter itself, not specifically to the app, but this seems like the best forum with which to lodge a complaint. I’ve sometimes preordered or backed things post-campaign, so even though I missed the campaign itself, I’m very interested in following the updates because they concern me, too. Yet, even though I bookmark the campaign page, I don’t see the updates in my feed or email. I manually have to go back and check those pages now and then to see the latest. By the time I think to check these campaigns, several updates have gone by wherein there was pertinent information. Gamefound doesn’t have this issue. Too soon to tell if BackerKit does. These all seem like very simple UI fixes that are well overdue, which is why I’ve subtracted a full star for each one. Oh yeah, and another review just reminded me…dark mode would be nice. Very strange that isn’t on this app at this point.

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deeply compromised and embarrassing new policy.

Even when you have all notifications turned off, you get spam email about signing up for various kickstarters.

While on average I have received many of the items from projects I supported, I have had two outstanding projects now approaching 3 years with no delivery, no communication, no resolution. When you reach out to Kickstarter they hide behind BS excuses. I haven’t supported a project since and suggest that you avoid this app until they get their policies updated to protect supporters