My Fountain Pens & Inks评价分析

Had over 50 pens stored. Got a new iPhone and their method for backup won’t allow me to import old phone data. So frustrating

I originally gave this app 5 stars but I bought a pen that I se t back and there is no way to delete the pen, only edit. Who creates an app like this without adding a delete function? I will be deleting this app and going with the excel file I created instead.

When you scroll through the example photos for this app, it doesn’t show you how large and obnoxious the advertisements are. Swipe over to the “Ink Menu” picture and you will see the top half of the picture is blank. On the Pen Menu, that is where the advertisement is. You can turn off Google advertisements so it’s at least not a blinking-blaring flash of nonsense, but after that you get to look at Pelican, Sailor, and AliExpress ads. There has to be a purchase price or a subscription model to dump the ads. The ads are why I’m not keeping the app. If/when that gets fixed, I’d love to see a field for pen weight. That’s an important variable for a lot of people.

Not only do annoying ads take up half the screen space, you have to type everything in to get your “Ink Inventory “! If I wanted to write out a list of my inks (along with 12 different attributes) I would’ve done it already. I thought this would allow the user to scan barcodes and have a lot of information pre-populated…. Wrong! This app does nothing but give the user a format in which to enter all that information yourself. It doesn’t even group into colors. The “ink encyclopedia” only lists the brand name and the color name – gives no further information such as waterproof (or not), opacity, special attributes, RGB etc. This app is useless and I’m deleting it right now.

Thought I’d leave this review before I delete this app. I’ve wasted enough time trying to use this. The instructions were useless, ads constantly interrupting. The one pen I managed to enter never showed in the list. Such a disappointment.. Buh-bye.......

The ads are larger than the app.

If your pens are in their database, then it works great. If you have to manually add pens because they're not in the database (Noodler's flex pens, for example), then they won't show up in your collection. They'll display on the main page as having the number updated, but not actually show in the collection. Super disappointing because it was a promising app.

This app keeps me aware or all of my pens what I have them currently inked with.

This is a very helpful and useful app for those who collect fountain pens. You can put your pens in alphabetical order and you have options such as the date of purchase the price then you have the details of the pen with pictures and you can also write how good the pen is. I really enjoy this app and use it quite a bit.

This is not a bad start for an app like this. It obviously could use a fair bit of improvement but I think it’s got the right idea. Sadly it’s very slow to start the first time but once past that it’s got the fields I would expect for tracking fountain pens and ink. That said, unless you go through the trouble of downloading the pen database mentioned in the settings the drop down menus are very limited. I feel that there are a number of improvements that could be made to make data entry easier. This isn’t a pretty app or UI but I don’t feel that’s a problem due to what this app does. The UI is functional and usable at least. The export/import option is a nice touch.

This is a cool concept and definitely better than an excel sheet to track what pens are inked with what ink. Unfortunately I don’t see an option to delete pens. I’ve sold a lot specifically to cut down the collection, and it’s a shame I can’t shrink my visual collection as well

There are so many more brands out now that need to be added. Existing brands in the app need to have more of the inks listed. It would be great if we could attach a photo of the ink swatch card for each ink.

Great app to keep my collection in. Due some love: * The import export feature is bugged. I find myself editing the backup a lot before I can import it again. Luckily the app tells me why it can’t use its own backup, so editing is actually an option! * the rating feature is bugged. If I put some stars in, they will change to some number between 4 and 48! * the pen and ink databases are getting a little out of date and some entries are just wrong. Shockingly, there are no entries for a Parker Jotter or Vector. Dominant Industries are missing from the inks. * some of the suggested ink hex codes are way off. Is there a possibility of using ink swatch.com to provide more accurate codes? * would be cool if your ink entry had an option to automatically link to the correct mountain of ink page! I’d definitely support if I knew there were updates on the way!!

I like the app as a whole but tried to import the backup into my iPhone and a smaller iPad so I had it available wherever I was working. It keeps crashing out - it finishes checking the backup (550mb in size) then asks if you want to replace and then just crashes! Checking data storage shows the data has imported but app shows 0 pens and inks! What a waste of time imputing all my data. Oh and the developer doesn’t respond to emails!

It is sadly quite cumbersome to use, especially when editing an existing pen, for example to add a picture, one needs to specify to model every time. Also already deleted pictures appear in the pen overview. I do like the „ink a pen“ feature and general makeup of the app. Hope the developer fix the issues. Then it would be great!

Could use the ability to photo inks like you have for the pens.

Easy to use to keep your entire pen collection organized… Even if you just want to keep track of the ink color in each pen