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Apps you regret buying, and why

I think Tasker's effect on battery depends on what you ask it to do. If you use GPS-based location it will suck power, but the documentation explains that. For myself I use cell towers to decide when I'm at home, which works fine (obviously covers a larger area) and draws negligible power.

Personally I use it precisely because it allowed me to replace several other apps, and do a few other things. Not a power user at all, but it does a few things for me and does them well.

Beautiful Widgets I'd regret if I'd spent more than 10p on it, but it was on sale. I think I uninstalled it after about an hour - just didn't do what I wanted. And I will agree that I'm glad I didn't pay for Astro - not only are there better, but for me at least the updates started making it worse, and it ended up uninstalled.

There are others I've paid for but no longer use. To pick some examples, custom ROMs made SwitchPro redundant for me, and I uninstalled CalenGoo because I found I was no longer using it. But doesn't mean they are bad apps or that I regret buying, just that I use other things instead now.

As for app prices, what people call "expensive" here would have been cheap for PDAs 10-15 years ago (and those seemed cheap compared to commercial PC software). The expectations for pricing have changed.
 
My most recent regret is the SlideIT keyboard. I got it because the gesture typing was more accurate than Swiftkey flow and it had arrow buttons that weren't offered on Swype beta, and it had a lot of themes available.

But after a couple months, I've gone back to Swype (the official Play Store 99 cent version this time) because nothing seems to be as good for gesture typing. And SlideIT also shows predictions when typing in passwords, which isn't very secure. I'm not exactly crying over the purchase but I definitely wouldn't pay for it again if I could go back.
 
umataro42 said:
My most recent regret is the SlideIT keyboard. I got it because the gesture typing was more accurate than Swiftkey flow and it had arrow buttons that weren't offered on Swype beta, and it had a lot of themes available.

But after a couple months, I've gone back to Swype (the official Play Store 99 cent version this time) because nothing seems to be as good for gesture typing. And SlideIT also shows predictions when typing in passwords, which isn't very secure. I'm not exactly crying over the purchase but I definitely wouldn't pay for it again if I could go back.
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I use Swype over SwiftKey and, like you, tried SlideIT and hated it.

You may like Kii (free in playstore). You can have arrow keys and swipe, etc.
 
In narrowing down a call app I bought Spare Phone to see how it compared to GrooveIP (also tried Talkatone). I settled with GrooveIP which I got at a half price sale, works best for me.

Bought N7 Player because I like the UI, then bought PowerAmp and liked it's functionality better. I should have stuck with N7 free.

Don't think I paid for much else that I don't like. Have lots of "paid" free Amazon apps I could live without (and do).
 
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