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Launch Console App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

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✓ UI is confusingApp causing my iPhone X to heat up very fast. Also the UI is confusing. It’s not easy to tell where a rocket is launching from and the main screen seems to be stuck on a previous launch from a couple days ago instead of showing the countdown for the upcoming launch..MajorJebusVersion: 1.1

✓ Useful but overdesigned.The sci-fi interface impedes the app’s primary purpose of providing simple, useful information. Launch times are given countdown-style (27 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes) instead of easily understandable date/time: why not give users the option to toggle between countdown and clock time? If the time now is 8:33am, and the launch countdown says, ‘00:00:0037’, why does the user have to mentally translate the countdown into a launch time of 9:10? Also, there’s no way to transfer a countdown value of “15:22:0019” to iCalendar to set a reminder alarm. If the app provides its own reminder alarms, it’s not readily evident. Frankly, a simple list display of dates, times, rocket type and payload type, would be much simpler to program, easier to understand, and consume the least iPhone memory & battery resources. I rate this app clever and useful, but seriously handicapped by the fact that the authors spent a lot of time inventing a confusing, science fiction-like interface at the expense of adding helpful features..JustsomeguyVersion: 8

✓ Won’t let me set upcoming launchesWhen I got to press on the rocket symbol at the bottom the screen goes black and exits the app.Bigben1326Version: 8

✓ Don’t waste your time with thisThe only thing that works is the compass pointing in the direction where are you can watch the launch if you live close enough to see one. The launch clock is about two minutes behind, which means the rocket will be in the air before the count down is finished. I have used this on the iPhone 5S and a iPhone 12 pro with no difference in performance. 80 to 90% of this app is useless, in accurate, and slow to update..JimH49Version: 8.2

✓ Almost worthlessThe positive: it gives you the dates of the Launches that’s about it. The negative: do not rely on this to notify you when the launch is about to happen I have yet to get a notification that the launch is about to happen, or as it says “just minutes away““ only to go outside where I can see it from my house to find out it has launched before the notification from this app..BledsoejVersion: 8.2

✓ So close... but no :/This app is gorgeous. Interesting. Great layout. Why 2 stars? It’s not useful! Not unless you launch the thing every morning; no, I don’t. The information is great, but it integrates with absolutely nothing. I need a push notification, or the ability to add launches to a calendar... or, we’ll, anything. As it is, you have a countdown in the app, but you better set the alarm yourself (it’s not a timer). Also, the “Countdown” page is usually wrong, differing from the next “Upcoming Mission” page’s content significantly..MackennaVersion: 4

✓ App crashes all the timeThis app has never worked for me on any of my iPhones. (5,6,6+,8+).74frisky07Version: 5

✓ Read the review from justsomeguyJust read the 2 year old review from justsomeguy and you realize that this app was thrown together (it looks very futuristic) in that it is scientific looking but functions like a disassembled Lego set. It’s way past time to get this app to function with my calendar, get the data button working and offer a better user experience just like justsomeguy suggested 2 years ago. I will offer 2 stars because it has a lot of potential and looks awesome..Rlt528Version: 8.2

✓ I’d love to give it moreSo this app is beautifully designed and simply laid out, and it’s worth absolutely nothing for the iPhone X. I tried several times to do the guided app tour and it crashed each time. I also tried several times to navigate the app by myself which, although not overly difficult, proved a great way to crash the app. When it was running I had no info showing at all and some error messages. I’d love it to work, but for this phone... it doesn’t..Version: 4

✓ Almost helpfulA lot of effort on special effects and not as much on functional usefulness. First of all mission details is void of most details, which launch site (fl, tx, ca, ak)? What about the trajectory? It would be nice to know if the first stage is planned to land for reuse. The count down is nice but how about putting the scheduled launch time, maybe add it to the anemic mission details. It would be nice to set a pin icalendar reminder, or does this actually do notifications? If so, I would like to select which ones I want to be reminded about. I wouldn’t want a 2 am wake notification if I am in need of sleep for work. There needs to be a way to stifle the music and sound effects, maybe I want to check for launches when on a call or zoom meeting and don’t want others to know. If you scroll down the app makes weird sound effects and isn’t able to get the screen to return to the main view, it requires the apps to be hard closed and restarted. This is almost a great app..NH SharkmanVersion: 8.1

✓ Very useful, but needs real time featureWe like and use this app to keep up with the space coast launches viewed from our front yard. However, having to change the countdown time to the proper local time of day is irritating and should be totally unnecessary! A few tweaks to the coding and it could easily show both timers. I would give it 5 stars if those small change were made!.JWParadiseVersion: 8

✓ Was a great app...This WAS my “go-to” app for launches when it first came out. It was the most reliable source of information among all the websites covering the launches at Cape Canaveral, FL. As I live five miles away from the space center, am a photographer and a rocket enthusiast, I need reliable and useful information. This app’s quirky countdown page has been truncated on my display to only show days and hours (not minutes) with the time display shifted to the right, moving the minutes off the screen. Also the “Mission Details” page that used to show the upcoming type of rockets to be launched has been just a blank overlay for at least a year. Then when the screen is touched, the app crashes. Also, approaching launch times, the video sometimes shows the general info video on one device and the launch countdown video live-feed on another! Please update this app..UncDaVersion: 8.1

✓ Missing Days/minutes from displayLove the idea but over emphasis on pretty screens seems to have come at the price of basic functions. I have not seen all three elements of the countdown timer at once for a couple months now. I’ve even deleted and reinstalled the app. I still get days and hours one time, hours and minutes another, then only minutes the next time. Never all three. Great app when it used to work..TheBigRocksVersion: 8.2

✓ Missing a few thingsThis app has a lot of potential but just isn’t there yet. The biggest, most confusing omission is it doesn’t show launch times. Just a countdown. When I’m a week out, I shouldn’t have to do math to figure out what time 6d14h32m equates to. Just let me know it’s Friday at 6am. And as others have said, it would be nice to have more mission details and to be able to have the app alert you about upcoming launches..Ratcliff851Version: 3

✓ Problem!App opens up, but immediately quits & closes as soon as I tap anything on screen. iPhone 8 with all the latest updates..RockoRyanVersion: 8.1

✓ Please give us the actual date!I want to love this app, but it’s frustrating as all get out to check to see when the next launch is only to be met with “5 days, 9 hours, 57 minutes.” So. What? Next Tuesday?? Am? Pm? The countdown is fine, but let me see a date up above it or some such..GimmethedateVersion: 7

✓ Veeery glitchyAlways wants to default to the prerecorded “infomercial” for lack of a better word, every time it gets close to an actual launch the numbers go haywire, lately there is no launch numbers at all.The big wazzooVersion: 8.2

✓ AwesomeThis app is too cool. I love being able to watch live video leading up to the launch. My biggest gripe is that they don’t just list the time of the launch, only a countdown. It’s kind of a pain to look at future launches and add the countdown time to the current time to figure out what time the launch is..De.reezyVersion: 7

✓ Need to be a rocket scientist to useI get a text, launch scheduled tomorrow morning. Set my alarm for 4am, standing outside in my shorts like an idiot. Countdown is alternating between 3 min to go and a day to go, hmmm, what does that mean? but I’m optimistic. T-0 nothing happens, scroll through my notifications from the day before and I see it’s rescheduled. Do the walk of shame back to bed. How hard would it be to have that on the display? The UI is snazzy to look at but horrific to use, and I’m an engineer..Steves14Version: 6

✓ Can’t get it to work :(Tried uninstalling and installing again multiple times but the only thing that works is the compass. Tried to click on the support link but it took me to their website and I didn’t find the support for the app. I have friends da use it and it’s really nice and informative. Gave it the 2 stars because it simply doesn’t work on my phone :(.FwsantosVersion: 8

✓ Like Sputnik crashing back to EarthThis started off as a great idea. Living in Florida and in range of launches it was very useful to know when to go outside and where to look. In the past few months it has become broken and ineffective. The latest thing to fail is the countdown clock. It stopped working two weeks ago. Before that, it stopped showing details about upcoming missions. Seems its fuel has been used up and it’s heading toward a fiery end upon re-entry..Superior WarningsVersion: 8

✓ Developers dgaf 🙂This app gave me a hope for the fist few months of using but now I’ve been looking forward to get a notification about the launch at least a minute before but I got it 21 minutes after, couple minutes before landing the 1st stage. I don’t need this app on my device anymore. I’m really disappointed. +latest updates were couple years ago so I guess it makes no sense anymore. Easier to set the YT live notifications..Youngmulababy01Version: 8.2

✓ Functionality lackingI like the app, just wish it would have some better functionality. There is an internet website version of this app that was around before they made this one. What I like about that one, and this is only my preference, is it shows the seconds in the countdown. This app only shows days, hours, minutes. Whats fun about watching launches is knowing when it’s T-minus 10 seconds especially when you don’t live by the space center. I live about 50 miles away and can’t always get to the coast to watch. Second issue and this is common with all these type of apps, it that the countdown is always off by about 10-15 seconds. Used it for multiple launches and as the countdown on the app approaches 12, 11, 10, 9. Etc. there is the rocket already in the sky heading to orbit! Contacted developers repeatedly, but like all of you here writing reviews, all go unanswered and no fixes ever..FLJohnxmVersion: 4

✓ Could be betterI like the app, but would appreciate having the date/time of the launch along with the countdown. It could easily be a two screen app, with the countdown/launch vehicle information/compass on one screen and more detailed info/link to live feed on the other. It would be nice if it updated in real time too, ie: stopping countdown if there’s a hold or informing you if a mission was scrubbed,.Apphunter5Version: 8.2

✓ Great potentialThe app has great potential but is terribly over designed. Would be helpful to have a simpler user interface. Would also be helpful to have a date and time of launch instead of an day/hour/minute count down. Close but needs quite a bit of tweaking..DeathcorejunkyVersion: 8.2

✓ Not user friendlyFirst off it showed the instructions really quick after I loaded it no way you can remember all of that. I have no idea how to work the Compass I don’t like the countdown style. It should tell the time as well as the countdown every time there’s a launch I don’t want to sit there and do the math to figure out exactly what time that is I can’t add it to my calendar so I have a reminder which is a must for me, if this was put together better, I live close enough to go and see the Rockets and was hoping this would give me better information since SpaceX never updates their website that I would know when I launch was coming and what time to leave my house to make it. Is this purposely done so tourist don’t come over to your city? I think they could take a little bit of the space-age looking stuff and make this so much better instead of worrying about graphics.KatiaggVersion: 8.2

✓ Can't trust it for launch timesAfter my third time standing in my yard staring up at the sky like I'm watching for aliens long after the launch was scrubbed because this app isn't updated until after-the-fact, this app has lost all my trust. Not only does it need to have the launch times updated real-time, it really needs notifications capability. Other than these serious flaws, it's a beautiful app. Functionality over beauty is preferable though..AleaddictVersion: 4

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