Should be used as an example of how not to write an app

This comes from a Hipstamatic fan.

I’ve only used maybe a hundred apps or so, but this is far and away the worst. It is unbelievably poorly thought-out, the most kludgy and difficult to use of them all. It might only be 99¢, but the aggravation that you are saddled with for that is an insult.

Pros:

A moderately fun adjustable filter that produces a sometimes pleasing result. Though one whose novelty will wear off quickly.

Cons:

- Every time you shoot, you are prompted to save or delete the image - and it is S L O W. So be prepared to spend lot of time between captures. If you save the image, it takes even more time.

- When you save an image, you better mean it, because to delete it you have to leave the app, open your image library and delete it from there.

- When you export the images into your computer (I’m using Aperture on a MacBook Pro), all that come over are regular, iPhone pictures! The whole Tintype vibe is MIA! So, it’s ONLY for sharing from your phone to a few social media sites. In other words, to get them onto your computer, you would have to email them to yourself, because a wired download gets rid of the tintype effect that you bought the thing for in the first place.

- And guess what on the social media? Only Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram. Nowhere else.

There are no preferences to overcome the above genuinely idiotic forced maneuvers. You can not, for example, select to save images as you take them and keep the camera free for another shot. What would be the big deal? You can always delete them later. Instead, you have to operate your device constantly in between shots.

If you don’t mind molasses slow operation, constant dialogue boxes asking you over and over again to do stuff every time you snap a shot, and the inability to export the images, this app might be for you.

This is a horrible app. The developers should be fired for incompetence. They must have wanted to recreate not only the look of a tintype, but the cumbersome feeling of having to drag a darkroom around in a horse cart and the feeling of having to assemble a wooden camera and insert a plate for each and every shot.

Unusable. This is the only one-star review I’ve ever written.

BriBek about TinType by Hipstamatic