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Inventory Management - Tali
Versus Dynamics LLC · 648 ratings · ★ 4.2
4.2
★★★★★
648 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 45 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"work"
12 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App is continually screwed up more and more.. The app used to be well set up well and was user-friendly and easy to figure out and use. It was reworked several times, into something that’s absolutely confusing and doesn’t make sense anymore. Even the name of the app has changed with ne…" - NeverStopLearning
2
"free"
12 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "positives outweighed by fundamental design flaws. Took this on a test drive as I seek a new tool for keep track of a constellation of things from consumables like medical supplies to tools, kitchen items, and music gear. The UI appears to be nicely designed, blending well with the feel o…" - Exigently
3
"inventory"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very unreliable. If you want to use this for your business get a real inventory solution, this app will leave you high and dry with no support from the developer. We have moved away from it and now can focus on running the business and not the drama of the …" - BusyDudeGuy
4
"times"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App is continually screwed up more and more.. The app used to be well set up well and was user-friendly and easy to figure out and use. It was reworked several times, into something that’s absolutely confusing and doesn’t make sense anymore. Even the name of the app has changed with ne…" - NeverStopLearning
5
"purchase"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App is continually screwed up more and more.. The app used to be well set up well and was user-friendly and easy to figure out and use. It was reworked several times, into something that’s absolutely confusing and doesn’t make sense anymore. Even the name of the app has changed with ne…" - NeverStopLearning
6
"crashes"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashes on startup. After this update the app crashes on startup while trying to restore for the cloud" - SF-Fimprac
7
"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App is continually screwed up more and more.. The app used to be well set up well and was user-friendly and easy to figure out and use. It was reworked several times, into something that’s absolutely confusing and doesn’t make sense anymore. Even the name of the app has changed with ne…" - NeverStopLearning
8
"able"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unable to restore app after lifetime purchase was paid. I purchased the lifetime license for this app. I got a new phone and was not able to restore the app immediately. I’ve now been able to get it. Downloaded on my phone but it will not restore my purchase of the lifetime license. I would like…" - Redfox3588
9
"been"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unable to restore app after lifetime purchase was paid. I purchased the lifetime license for this app. I got a new phone and was not able to restore the app immediately. I’ve now been able to get it. Downloaded on my phone but it will not restore my purchase of the lifetime license. I would like…" - Redfox3588
10
"developer"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very unreliable. If you want to use this for your business get a real inventory solution, this app will leave you high and dry with no support from the developer. We have moved away from it and now can focus on running the business and not the drama of the …" - BusyDudeGuy
11
"screen"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App was “free” upgrade the other day, but failed to work, now it’s $250. Boy, I feel so suckered. Was conned into downloading this the other day with the promise of a free Pro upgrade. App installed fine, but the “in app purchase” consistently crashed the app over the several hours I tried it. You click on the u…" - EthericMustard
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App is continually screwed up more and more.
The app used to be well set up well and was user-friendly and easy to figure out and use. It was reworked several times, into something that’s absolutely confusing and doesn’t make sense anymore. Even the name of the app has changed with newer updated versions. I regret buying it now as the changes are making the purchase so not worth it.
Glitch
When I try to take a sku pic it crash
Help
App is not working anymore
Crashes on startup
After this update the app crashes on startup while trying to restore for the cloud
Unable to restore app after lifetime purchase was paid
I purchased the lifetime license for this app. I got a new phone and was not able to restore the app immediately. I’ve now been able to get it. Downloaded on my phone but it will not restore my purchase of the lifetime license. I would like to have that restored I still have the receipt in my purchase history from May 4 of 2020.
Very unreliable
If you want to use this for your business get a real inventory solution, this app will leave you high and dry with no support from the developer. We have moved away from it and now can focus on running the business and not the drama of the inventory system.
ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
I have spent hours upon hours inputting inventory only to have it ALL DELETED. First time I thought it was a fluke, then it happened AGAIN and AGAIN. Do NOT recommend. ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
Crash, buggy, expensive and no support
I did not feel like posting a 1 star review, I took the time to read through the various comments and send the developer an email on support. The developer responded with a very rude email, many of which can already be seen on versions reviews. The app was part of a promotion and made free for indie app Santa on 13th December. There are other apps that do a lot more in a much more convenient way for much lesser. The developers and support for those apps do not give you an attitude for getting things wrong, instead if he had simply offered a resolution and not been rude this review would not have been 1 star. It is the experience with this app, the developer that is 1 star
App kept crashing
Update: I’m just addressing the developer’s response. No one is spamming you. They are just reviewing your app based on their experience. What do you want them to say? The app didn’t work. If you are going to offer a promo, make sure it works or at least know how to address user’s concerns. Trying to get pity, getting defensive or threatening to raise the cost of the app is not the right way to respond. Good luck with your app, I genuinely hope you do well!
Original review:
When they had the one day sale offering lifetime pro for free, it conveniently kept crashing. I tried many times that day and on different iOS devices I owned. Now that the sale is over the in app purchases works again. Humm🤔
Original review:
When they had the one day sale offering lifetime pro for free, it conveniently kept crashing. I tried many times that day and on different iOS devices I owned. Now that the sale is over the in app purchases works again. Humm🤔
App crashes when attempting to upgrade
When attempting to upgrade the app, the app crashes and closes out. You offer this in app purchases for free. You go to upgrade it and the app crashes. The device I am using is an 13 pro max with current software. I did not try it on my iPad, so I don’t know if its just an iPhone issue. My review was left out of frustration and could of been handled differently. I think in the same way, after getting so many 1 star reviews might have played into how your response was worded. Along those lines though, I feel you thought I wrote my review with malice. Missing out on the free offer did play into my 1 star, but mainly the fact it crashed repeatedly was a bigger factor. The developer seemed to treat me as I was lying. The app crashed. If you share an email, I will be willing to,share step by step what I did that ended in this error. I rewrote my whole review to show you my good faith. Sorry about the multiple times this was submitted through writing. App Store keep closing out and I lost what I wrote. Please forgive me for the way my first review was written. This is why I just rewrote the whole review. Looking forward to maybe figuring out the problem with the way the iPhone handles your app.
App was “free” upgrade the other day, but failed to work, now it’s $250
Boy, I feel so suckered. Was conned into downloading this the other day with the promise of a free Pro upgrade. App installed fine, but the “in app purchase” consistently crashed the app over the several hours I tried it. You click on the upgrade and BOOM!! - back to the Home Screen.
Well, I tried it again today, and the same upgrade held out as a carrot to install this app is now an extra $250.00 if I want it! Hooboy, feels super scammy. Unless the developer can convince me otherwise, this seems like perfect fraud to increase download numbers with the promise of something that somehow is impossible to claim. Obviously the $250.00 option now works, what a bummer it had a “glitch” and crashed when this phantom promotion was active? Considering reporting this to Apple’s developer police, I thought it was a temporary problem but now I can see how this could be the perfect crime to game the Apple ratings system.
Well, I tried it again today, and the same upgrade held out as a carrot to install this app is now an extra $250.00 if I want it! Hooboy, feels super scammy. Unless the developer can convince me otherwise, this seems like perfect fraud to increase download numbers with the promise of something that somehow is impossible to claim. Obviously the $250.00 option now works, what a bummer it had a “glitch” and crashed when this phantom promotion was active? Considering reporting this to Apple’s developer police, I thought it was a temporary problem but now I can see how this could be the perfect crime to game the Apple ratings system.
Bad app to work
Horrible app and support never responds
Unstable
Constantly crashes and is unstable. Deleted after it crashed 7 times in a row on multiple devices.
Junk
New update is junk lost all my inventory and app keeps crashing! I should of known better then to put all my inventory in one app!!! To make matters worse for this to happen during the busiest time of the year! Great job!!!!
Crash
When I try to get the pro version for free, the application closes, crash when I go to the link
In-app purchase causes app to crash on v3.0
Refer title
App crashes on purchase screen.
You had one job…
App crashes when attempting to upgrade to pro
Upgrade does not work
Crashes when trying to upgrade
$79.99 for an app that’s unstable and crashes frequently 😒
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Dose not work on iPhone 8 Plus
Can’t use on an iPhone 12 max Pro
Doesn’t work to go onto the continúe screen on my iPhone 12 Max Pro.
Sad but true
Problem that you can’t add prices under 1$ and support website doesn’t work
Awful
Found 3 separate bugs when I got the free trial, not user friendly and way too expensive.
Unsatisfied customer
Still have yet to receive my refund. This app just isn’t what I need I stated this Jan. I received a response in February following up on the package which.
Will not work correctly
When I open the app it gets stuck on a page that details what it does but I can’t move paste the page. Also it looks like there’s a blue button at the bottom but the button is cutoff because the page won’t move. So I can’t honestly say how this app works.
One star
App won’t load right on launch. The txt is so big the continue button is blocked by bottom of the phone black line. Can’t size it smaller. No scroll. App is completely non functional. I deleted it re downloaded it several times restarting phone and resetting network settings in between. This non functioning app won’t let you past the opening screen. Totally rooster-blocked from any all functions
Doesn’t work
Freezes on screen that gives breakdown of app benefits
Wouldn’t open
App wouldn’t open on my iPhone 7
Don’t subscribe
They’ll charge you 50.00 without your say-so. Buyer beware.
Cannot use for free
They allow you to input about 5 items before you get the pop up that you cannot continue without a “free trial” followed by a $40/month membership. Boo. I want an app to keep up with my many books here and in my classroom. This isn’t it.
Can only add 5 items
You have to pay to add more than 5 items. Other than that, I liked using it to add up my closet value but I can do that on my own for free.
To pricey for what you get
I downloaded the free one I was impressed so I bought the pro version for 79.99. That was a mistake, didn’t do much more than the free one. I expected a lot more. For the money.
Not free
I filtered the list for free apps and this one came up. It’s a nice app and will do what I need it to do but for a very small startup the price is a little steep.
You can only inventory 10 items but you have to pay
I think it should state on here that you can only upload 10 times and anything after 10 items you must pay for! Would have been nice to know before I installed it.
Ybarra
To manual to type products and not linked through sku to web products for purchase options
Confusing to use
Confusing to use no instructions or examples, but I bought the unlimited so I have to figure it out. No Youtube videos to watch.
URL
It’s great that you can add a URL however without being able to tap on it and having it take you to the site this feature is worthless
positives outweighed by fundamental design flaws
Took this on a test drive as I seek a new tool for keep track of a constellation of things from consumables like medical supplies to tools, kitchen items, and music gear.
The UI appears to be nicely designed, blending well with the feel of iOS. It is also fairly easy and intuitive to set up templates, tags, locations, and so on (though I would have liked to see more icon options-maybe including emojis). The data use and privacy policy are more palatable than options like Sortly, which makes extensive use of identity-linked data. The option to buy a lifetime license is also quite nice. Lots of potential.
However, that’s where the pros seem to end for me, and that’s pretty far short of what an app like this needs to be able to do to satisfy my uses for it. The problems I’ve identified so far, in a nutshell:
• Search by barcode/SKU doesn’t work (exact matching enabled).
• Data export does not include photos.
• Items of the same type can be put into folders but they cannot be grouped for overall quantity across entries/boxes/locations.
The last problem seems pretty fundamental to the way the app is structured. Inventories tend to be nested nested (e.g., items inside boxes in drawers at locations). Let’s say you have 10 boxes of your favorite chocolate bars. Each box has 5 bars. Three of the boxes expire in a month, 3 expire in 4 months, and the other 4 expire in a year. Each box has a bar code, which you can scan when adding the item. So to inventory these chocolates you would want to be able to track the boxes, so you can eat the ones expiring sooner before eating the ones expiring later, and the overall quantity of the bars (50). Unfortunately, this app does not allow you to do this in a useful way. You could enter each box as an item, use the handy SKU barcode scanning feature, and track the quantity of chocolate bars in each box. And you could add the expiration date as a custom field. But then you will not see the total number of bars across all your boxes-only the number of bars in each box. Moreover, you will have to have a distinct name for each box even though they are the same (other than the expiration date). You could instead enter the chocolate bars as one type of item with a quantity of 50, ignoring the boxes, but then you cannot distinguish subsets of bars based on properties like location or expiration date. Perhaps there’s a workaround I haven’t figure out yet, but the lack of a hierarchical structure is pretty glaring. It seems like a mistake in the basic design that should be at the core of any inventory app. Instead, this app appears to have a flat structure and tries to make up for it with tags. The same problem affects locations: you can add locations and shift items between locations, but you cannot add nested locations. I can add the northeastern drawer of the bed in the upstairs bedroom as a location, but I cannot add the upstairs floor, bedroom, and bed drawers as levels in a nested hierarchy. This again collapses something fundamentally hierarchical into a flat structure, with each location floating free from the others. Thus the app lacks the flexibility needed to manage all but the most basic inventories.
The UI appears to be nicely designed, blending well with the feel of iOS. It is also fairly easy and intuitive to set up templates, tags, locations, and so on (though I would have liked to see more icon options-maybe including emojis). The data use and privacy policy are more palatable than options like Sortly, which makes extensive use of identity-linked data. The option to buy a lifetime license is also quite nice. Lots of potential.
However, that’s where the pros seem to end for me, and that’s pretty far short of what an app like this needs to be able to do to satisfy my uses for it. The problems I’ve identified so far, in a nutshell:
• Search by barcode/SKU doesn’t work (exact matching enabled).
• Data export does not include photos.
• Items of the same type can be put into folders but they cannot be grouped for overall quantity across entries/boxes/locations.
The last problem seems pretty fundamental to the way the app is structured. Inventories tend to be nested nested (e.g., items inside boxes in drawers at locations). Let’s say you have 10 boxes of your favorite chocolate bars. Each box has 5 bars. Three of the boxes expire in a month, 3 expire in 4 months, and the other 4 expire in a year. Each box has a bar code, which you can scan when adding the item. So to inventory these chocolates you would want to be able to track the boxes, so you can eat the ones expiring sooner before eating the ones expiring later, and the overall quantity of the bars (50). Unfortunately, this app does not allow you to do this in a useful way. You could enter each box as an item, use the handy SKU barcode scanning feature, and track the quantity of chocolate bars in each box. And you could add the expiration date as a custom field. But then you will not see the total number of bars across all your boxes-only the number of bars in each box. Moreover, you will have to have a distinct name for each box even though they are the same (other than the expiration date). You could instead enter the chocolate bars as one type of item with a quantity of 50, ignoring the boxes, but then you cannot distinguish subsets of bars based on properties like location or expiration date. Perhaps there’s a workaround I haven’t figure out yet, but the lack of a hierarchical structure is pretty glaring. It seems like a mistake in the basic design that should be at the core of any inventory app. Instead, this app appears to have a flat structure and tries to make up for it with tags. The same problem affects locations: you can add locations and shift items between locations, but you cannot add nested locations. I can add the northeastern drawer of the bed in the upstairs bedroom as a location, but I cannot add the upstairs floor, bedroom, and bed drawers as levels in a nested hierarchy. This again collapses something fundamentally hierarchical into a flat structure, with each location floating free from the others. Thus the app lacks the flexibility needed to manage all but the most basic inventories.
How do I add quantity in inventory free version?
I haven’t had to use in over a year and I cannot find where to enter quantities. I do remember it being difficult not just enter the name and location but going down many steps to enter 1 in the quantity. I don’t want to use this but my boss does.
N O P E !
Soon as I opened this app, never clicked sign up or consented to a transaction of any sort, they want 100 $for a year subscription, and when I tried to delete the app, it was super difficult, and As I did that, noticed my name was on a subscribed list! 100$ for a folder… really?
中文很难吗？
那么多年了更新一下中文？很难吗？
Warning:Paid App
After trial app costs $48/yr or $80 onetime
Love it!
I breed small animals and am required to keep inventory of all animals that are and have been in my care, per my USDA license. I absolutely love all of the options and fields you can add, as I have a lot of specialized information I need to record. I almost passed this app over because I was looking for an app that would work with my Bluetooth barcode scanner. Little did I realize I was running it in IOS vs HID mode. Once I switched modes I was able to scan with my Bluetooth scanner vs. the built-in scanner, which for me is much more convenient. I purchased the full version and plan to recommend this app to fellow breeders.
Order
Order in error. Don’t know why. How much is this. Can you cancel do not know how to use. Old man 75
great looking app but needs more work
Interface is nice. But starting with importing. There is no way to map fields. How do you import significant quantity? If this is not the objective of this app ok but for any real inventory use, i just dont’ see it yet. User needs to be able to manipulate data much more than is doable here. Price levels, product numbers, sku’s etc etc (ok one field for SKU). On the right track but for heavy lifting of inventory data. Not there yet. Also i think a mac desktop app is a must for this to be a complete solution.
Sentiment summary
81%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
15%
Negative (1-2★)