Misleading app description & upgrade prompts
This app is misleading about what is included in the free version (not the paid version), and also in how it tries to get you to upgrade to the paid version without telling you thats what youre doing.
To be clear: the free version (i.e. the app advertised and downloaded here) does NOT include a weather forecast and only has 1 programmable radio button, not 9.
Otherwise it tells you that iCloud must be activated (even when it already is) and asks you to "subscribe" to activate those features. Sounds like youre subscribing to some kind of data source within the free app, right? Wrong. The "subscribe" option asks you to log in to the App Store — at which point you are buying the paid version.
It doesnt tell you youre making a purchase, and the prompts deliberately try to hide that fact. As does the description of the app here (arent those features included?). Luckily I didnt put in my password to buy the app, and when I tried to program a button and it finally mentioned "the paid version" I realized what was going on.
Very shoddy and shady, dishonest salesmanship. Dont con your customers into paying for an app without explicit knowledge that thats what theyre doing. Gross.
Bahgail about
Best Clock Radio-Podcast