Cosmic-Watch

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1. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Confusing App. I purchased this app and I find it very difficult to properly use. I like the concept. Better user testing before releases might have exposed some of what I write here. The tutorials are not in sync with the new 2.0.2 version on my iPad. The music is a feature that needs an off option. The website help for version 2.0.2 is not helpful. Consider a single tutorial per feature and verify what icons relate to what the screen displays. I prefer instructions be written and not spoken. Currently, I feel I wasted my money. Sorry, I know you meant well but Apple users expect much better user experiences.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Waste of time. Easte of tome

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Waste of Money. I spend $5 on an app, and it says Location Services aren’t on, and they are SO ON! I was excited to use this app too. It doesn’t work.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App can't determine location. App can't determine location. I was try to open and close App many times.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Pretty but lacks functionality. I've been doing Astronomy for over 20 years and can say this app serves very little purpose. Doesn't help you locate anything in the night sky nor educates in any way. Save your money.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Cosmic watch. Waste of money

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Brilliant, except.... How am I supposed to enjoy the great work put into this app when it can’t even find my location!? The app is virtually useless with that error. Do your job, devs. It’s not like integrating location services is hard.

8. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

   Can't figure out where I'm at. The app cantvfigurevoutvwhere I am at even though I gave it permission to. I did a search for the major city I live near and it couldn't find that. The closest place it could find was hundreds of miles from me. The help feature is pretty much useless. It only tags the buttons with names but doesn't tell you what they do. All in all I was pretty frustrated with the thing.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Really Needs Feature Updates. Cosmic Watch is very pretty, but is sorely lacking in numerous features to make it useful: 1. Disable auto lock! This would be an interesting charging stand clock if it had this feature! 2. Remember my settings! I shouldn't have to roll back through all the beautiful menus to re-enable my desired configuration at every launch. 3. Add portrait mode. 4. Add alarms. 5. Fix text scaling on the clock numerals on the iPad. As it is, every few seconds, the numbers rescale for a moment. It looks unfinished. This clock app has potential to be the absolute best one on iTunes. I'm hopeful it'll get there. Right now, it's beautiful...just not useful.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    More than a pretty picture?. Beautiful app, but I haven't figured out how to use it for anything yet. Seeing stars, constellations, planets from 'space' isn't useful in any way for us ground based mortals. Save your money and just watch the demo video; it's just as useful without having to muck about trying to figure out what it does.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Used to be good.. The latest version is a mess though. Too much information that you can't turn off. For example, if you turn off orbits and do fast forward they return when you speed up to 1 day/second. Not only does that seem unnecessary in itself, you have to go back to options to turn them off again. I won't recommend this anymore.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Solar System wrong?. Just downloaded and paid £4.99 for app. Looks okay so far apart from one huge error - Earth is on the wrong place in the solar system or rather at the wrong time. It shows Earth in position of its orbit around the sun at end of July. It’s now January and would expect it to know that as it knows the date and time! Possibly I’ve still to figure this needs setting up?

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Nice but.... Awesome app but it would be especially useful if they included degrees in the celestial sphere for precision placements. I’ll give y’all 5 stars and feature your app when u include it.

14. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

    Good but..... This is a great app but it needs some work on the touch interface. I know there are apps out there that have a more responsive and smoother feel to the panning and zooming. The notification bar is also annoying and in the way. Also my location seems to randomly change. Glad you guys don't make apps for drones. Other then that it is a cool educational app.

15. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Overdue for update to handle arbitrary iOS/iPadOS device screen size. I like this app - the graphics are nice and the alerts are interesting … but that the app has to be opened every so often to refresh them is slightly annoying. However, there’s a big minus in my opinion: this app needs to be updated to handle arbitrary sized iOS/iPadOS displays and external displays for those iPads which support them. Please, developer, take some time to do so.

16. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    It’s called Cosmic Watch. Don’t forget.. This is an excellent application, and it’s extremely well thought out. The attention to detail is absurd. It’s gorgeous. I could do without the branding tho; I don’t need to see that it’s called Cosmic Watch on every screen. Aside from this being annoying, it also blocks what could be showing on the screen - a star or constellation this is probably more interesting than a brand.

17. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Technical problems. It seems on my iPad Pro it will not run at all. Update: the program is working well now.

18. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good idea not done well. As long as the center of the Earth is "fixed" in the middle of the display, zooming pushes all that makes this app useful goes off screen. You need to be able to move the Earth off center so as to be able to see all the information. Without that it all 'pretty' but little real functionality.

19. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Not useful in rural areas. Sorry, this seems like a useful app but is useless if you are not located near one of the cities in its database. The closest city to me is 100 miles north. To be a truly useful app for astronomy, it needs the ability for the user to enter his lat/long or use device gps for location. Wasted 3.99. Nice looking app and probably useful if you live near one of the built in locations.

20. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    It doesn't know where I am. I use a few location sensing programs. This one can only place me within 60 miles of where I am. Then, it marks a spot on its globe nearly 1000 miles away as my location even though the location it sites as where I am is a bit less than 60 miles away.

21. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Meh. Looks good but the locations are rubbish my nearest is London about 20miles away.

22. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Slightly disappointing.. When asked to select the location, the nearest one I can have is 35 miles from me. That's not so good is it?

23. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Interesting displays. Has interesting displays to show the universe around while showing the time. I like the sunrise and sunset notifications. An excuse for a tipple at sundown. Not sure what other functionality I can find.

24. ★★★★★поймать конкретное событие в небе

    Good App. Fantastic UI, it would be great to add features like 1) Precession circle to show the north pole over time 2) Ecliptic North Pole and South Poles and their meridians 3) Galactic center and anti center and lines Good have features which are desktop features of stellarium Also background of the sky with varying grades of electromagnetic like visible light, microwave, gama , uV etc just like in Star walk 2 Overall super app, but needs improvement, with about said features app rating will be 5/5

25. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    WONDEFUL App!. I am thoroughly enjoying this Cosmic Watch App. Loven all that it has to offer. The only thing missing is the “Equation of Time” option aka Analemma; the Sun Graph. The Infinity Symbol of the Analemma upon the “Crossbar of Time and Space” reveals the Suns gradual path from the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. This is my only reason for not giving it five stars. Other than that, this App is SPECTACULAR! Thank You fir all the hard specialized work put forth.

26. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Precise. This is the first app I have ever bought It delivered the experience I requested apart from one feature I would hope the update allows me to hold my phone and see from a first person perspective Otherwise this app is accurate and has many features with an interactive interface Thank you for a great tool

27. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Mostly awesome!. The graphics displayed are amazing. The information displayed is extremely useful. The app location is within 50 miles of the physical location. The problem is the app has the date wrong. Today is July 31st and the app says August.

28. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    I wish it had an alarm. I love this app and would give it 5 stars if it had an alarm. I would love to awake to see a different view of Earth. Hopefully that is in the works.

29. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Love It!. I would give it 5 stars if it had the option to switch to a 12 hour clock and got rid of the Cosmic-Watch logo in the uper left hand corner. It's just so big. Would love to see just the beautiful 3D design without all of the mess in front.

30. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Amazing but a couple suggestions. First of all I love this app! It's gorgeous and exactly what I was looking for. That being said, there are two requests I have to the developers. Please can you make the sidereal option stay when I switch over to it so I don't have to change it to sidereal every time I use the app? Also if you could make it compatible to be a watch face for Apple Watch that would be amazing! Thanks!!