Tag Archives: Crap apps

And the Academy Award for Dumbest ‘I’m a Mac’ Spoof goes to … The Rating Game promo video. My bad – the full name of the app is The Rating Game with Hope Dworaczyk, and it’s described as the hottest entertainment App available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. …

Weather HD for iPad is easily my favorite weather app for the iPad. It gives a quick rundown of the basic current weather conditions and forecast info, and offers a beautiful UI. So without even taking a moment to properly look at the App Store description details, I grabbed Weather …

How does an app with a 1.5 star rating from over 30,000 (mostly complaining and ridiculing) reviews, and as close to zero functionality as anything that ‘s ever hit the App Store, get ranked the Number 1 Free App? That ‘s the very fine question that KRAPPS are posing today …

What will they think of next, those ever so clever iPhone developers who help make the App Store such a wonderful place.  We already have the devs who produce dozens of apps that all do essentially the same thing but manage to occupy 10 screens in iTunes “ see this …

It ‘s been a KRAPPy weekend for me.  Not a crappy weekend by any means, but a weekend full of KRAPPS.  KRAPPS is an iPhone site that I ‘ve been following for a while.  They offer a scathing, humorous take on a lot of the real dross apps that make …

I really liked the idea of this new app from iPopetz – called Monkey – and the look of it, when I noticed it amongst newly added iPhone apps earlier today. Sadly, this one is definitely filed under Big disappointment for now. The app is supposed to be a ‘true …

A software engineer who wrote what he calls a “terrible” and “crap” app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple’s App Store, where it’s now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download. We’ve talked …

I’ve been wanting to lay off posting on the growing (and awful) trend towards producing large sets of iPhone apps that all do the same basic thing (and charging for each one), but I keep seeing worse and worse examples of this dodgy practice. Last night I saw an example …