Top 10 Passionately Despised Mobile Apps In 2014

Mobile apps makes life easier by offering entertainment when one is stuck, streamlining out grocery lists and calendars, and making it easier to collaborate with peers and co-workers. However, while apps may be convenient and efficient, users are not afraid to air the shortcomings of their apps, even minor ones. Here are the top 10-app pet peeves experienced by mobile users. We hope that it will drive apps developers to work around these defects, avoiding the rage of peevish smartphone users.

1. Too Many Emails

We already spend quarter of our day dealing with emails; no more is required. Someone you have not spoken to from day one in college joined Spotify. Your neighbor added you to LinkedIn. Who cares?

Even if it is important to be aware what current your friends are doing, these notifications are sometimes annoying. Therefore, apps should either filter or forego these notifications and only give up notifications of people in our “close friends” list or of people who we frequently interact with. Indeed, you can adjust setting, but spammy notification emails should not be the default.

2. Irrelevant Push Notifications

Indeed, most of us put family members and close friends into our list of Facebook, in order to stay well-informed of what is going on in their lives. But we are not interested to know each time they change their profile or upload a photo. These push notifications annoy us especially when they are delayed- it is not breaking news at all when someone else broke it days or hours before. These push notifications seems to be irrelevant to us.

3. When Amazing Apps Are Abandoned

When an app’s developer builds an amazing app but later abandon it, the users may abandon it too. An app can be fantastic but can be a little buggy due to failure to be updated for a long period.

4. Frequent “Rate This App” Requests

Positive ratings of an app store pushes downloads. But sometimes we are having a lot to do, and we were only using the app to make our task easier; we do not want to be redirected and stopped from what we are doing in the name of rating the app. Indeed, when a user delete an app, no need of requesting for a review because if he/she deleted it, the review would be negative. Request to rate an app should only slide in during a major update.

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5. Connecting to Facebook Unreasonably

You may be having many apps connected to Facebook, but you only use few of them at regular basis. There is no need to open up your data for all the other apps, especially if you will gain nothing through the connection.

6. Full-Screen Ads

Sometimes you are very busy opening an app and full-screen ad pops up. That is very annoying, and the user has to sign out. However, if he accidentally accepts add instead of exiting from the page, he is directed to the app store thus adding more frustrations. This should be avoided by the app’s developers at all cost. Stirring up animosity does not convince the user by any means that your app is the best and is worth a download.

7. Video Ads

Video ads are sometimes interruptive and invasive, particularly when the other sound preferences of the user are turned off. We understand that you are hunting for an extra coin, but it should not be at the expense of the user comfort.

8. Non-Wrapping Text

It is not everyone who can read small font. If users are zooming, the text should wrap in order to avoid dragging the screen across manually reading each sentence. Utilizing responsive design is the only way to solve this and nothing less for us.

9. Non-Retina Apps

The app snob may have something against non-retina update. There should be no excuse for a new app to be released lacking full retina assets.

10. Desperate Petitions for Followers

Whenever a user delete an apps, there is no need to request the user to give you another chance, and you will ensure that the app satisfy him; you could have done that before to avoid disappointing the user. We don’t also like being requested to like the company on Facebook or follow it on Twitter.

The ball now is on the apps developers’ court, to do their best in avoiding the wrath of apps users.