Astronomy Picture of the Day App Reviews

please produce a paid version without advertisements!!!

Another APOD app undermined by developer greed! It was bad enough when the ads were confined to the info screen, now they span the display! We come to look at beautiful space images and learn about the science behind them--not to be bombarded with ads! Do we really want to see a banner ad about dandruff shampoo for men?!! So much for the other worldly experience! What made this especially troubling was that the app was a NASA service and had the NASA logo on it--our publicly-funded projects and government efforts should not be open for advertising dollars! Now, its become fully private, but the ads have become more of a nuisance. Happy to donate to NASA or the app developers, but lose the ads! A NEW PROBLEM: THE INTERFACE They have changed the swiping action--you now have to swipe to the LEFT to go back a day which is backwards from how it used to work and how most other apps work. Very bad, and counter to the general GUI for iOS apps. OTHER ISSUES Could use a thumbnails view spanning weeks. Could use a single button save photos to the camera roll. Could use a full screen mode, so the image takes over the entire display. OLD: Now that the app uses the NASA logo for its icon, it means it looks exactly the same as other NASA apps--which is visually confusing. IN THE PLUS COLUMN It has a spiffy gallery feature that shows the photos for many days. Its a quick way to find appealing photos. It also has two key features that make it better than the other leading astro pic of the day app, TwilitSky. It can save the photos to the I-device Camera Roll and doesnt have the fractured glass image that appears repeatedly in TwilitSky. As a result, its still the apod app I use most often! Its also a universal app meaning it works well on the iPad, too, providing great views there.