Pulse
Concrete pains from app reviews — and how strong they are
- Teleprompter and captions
Scripts won't import from files
Pain 5 out of 10, noticeable. 66 reviews, in 9 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
The prompter ignores the remote
Pain 5 out of 10, noticeable. 51 reviews, in 8 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
The prompter screen won't rotate
Pain 5 out of 10, noticeable. 48 reviews, in 17 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
Videos come out silent or out of sync
Pain 4 out of 10, noticeable. 28 reviews, in 9 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
Auto captions are full of mistakes
Pain 3 out of 10, mild. 25 reviews, in 12 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
Video looks worse than the phone's camera
Pain 3 out of 10, mild. 24 reviews, in 13 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
External mic or AirPods won't work
Pain 3 out of 10, mild. 23 reviews, in 7 of 41 apps. - Teleprompter and captions
Captions in my language
Pain 3 out of 10, mild. 21 reviews, in 9 of 41 apps.
How we count
The sample is up to 500 recent App Store reviews for each of about 100 popular apps per category. We look for each need across all of the category’s reviews and check a random sample of matches by hand: at least 80% are correct.
“Pain” is a rough score from 1 to 10: half comes from the share of the category’s reviews that mention it, 30% from how many such reviews there are in total, 20% from the share of apps where it comes up. It is not search demand and not market size.
In words: 1–3 mild · 4–6 noticeable · 7–8 strong · 9–10 acute.