Chewy Apps

I just downloaded one of the coolest looking apps ever onto my iPhone. But I don’t use it.

Diacarta is a calendar app that lets you create and view calendar events in a rather unique way. I don’t want to try to describe it when a picture is worth a thousand words, so here:

You have an AM and a PM for every day, and you can graphically see when your appointments are, and you can associate one of many icons to each appointment. It’s a very beautiful app, but there were a couple of problems:

1. When an event goes over an AM/PM boundary, it is confusing to see what is going on.
2. Some very basic icons are missing. There’s no icon for a meeting. Or for games.
3. I still don’t know what the button in the bottom-right of the screen does.
4. No iOS 4 support. It would be nice if it had fast switching, but it doesn’t.
5. Many of the icons are small and hard to touch. Often, there’s space around them that could be included as touchable area, but isn’t.
6. I thought I’d be able to change the start and end times of an event by dragging my finger on the circle. No such luck.

All these things are forgivable, though. There is one thing that is not forgivable. There is no iCal or Google Calendar integration! I spend quite a bit of time looking for it, because I just could not believe that a calendar app would not have this feature. It’s not in there. So now I have to see if they’ll ever come out with an update with Google Calendar support. I won’t use the app until it does.

Update: The developer contacted me and told me that several updates are in the works. Several of my wish list items will be addressed, including the big one! Can’t wait.