Clorox Pool 4+

Useful but not super detailed or educational.

I have been using this app for two pool seasons now. I find it helpful as I am not a pool person, but I am very familiar with water parameters as I keep many fish tanks. That said, I wish it had a feature to input all the Clorox pool products I have in my inventory and help solve the problem with what I have. I agree with some of the other reviewers - it feels like they are trying to sell you a new product for a new problem, but knowing a lot about water parameters because of fishkeeping and knowing how costly it is to keep it clear in a 75gal or 125gal, it makes sense on the scale of 1700gal or more. It keeps pushing the 3-in-1 clarifier, but it's out of stock everywhere, making me believe it's not in production anymore. I have the clarifier plus algaecide product. It would be nice if the app could say use X amount of one with X of the other from my stock. Anyway, I like the app for its ease of use but would love more info/education on problem-solving and the different uses of all their pool products. Such as the Crazy Carifier vs the Super Water Clarifier, knowledge is power and this app can be so much more. I am already a Clorox Pool customer and wont use anything else but its hard cause I can't walk into my ocal pool store and talk to someone About Clorox Pool because they don’t sell it there so it would be nice to rely on the app for that.

Wish it helped more with measurements

I downloaded this app because one of the Clorox products I bought said it would help convert measurements for the exact amount of water I have in my pool. Unfortunately, it didn’t really do that well. It does for some of the Clorox products, but it seems like the biggest goal of this app is to sell you Clorox products and not help the consumers who already purchased the products. To get conversations for any product I seem to have to provide test results. I couldn’t find any way to just pick the product I have and see instructions converted for the amount of water I have. I wasn’t interested in this app logging everything for me or providing suggestions. I was hoping buying Clorox products and using this app would help me convert measurements. It would have saved me a ton of time (and I would buy more Clorox products) if the app would show me all of the products for pools, let me pick one and be shown instructions for the amount of water I have in my pool. It would also be useful if the conversations it did provide could be shown in capfuls where applicable. So instead of saying I need .4 pounds tell me to add 10 capfuls or 1 cup or something that would be easier to measure. Maybe an option to show in either weight or capfuls/cups would be great.

Broken

I don’t normally spend the time to write reviews, but this needs to be brought up.
I’ve used this app for a while now, well over a years time. The functionality used to all work, but know when you do a test strip scan, it shows you the proper results initially but if you wish to go back (even a minute later before closing the app) and look at the result again, the display won’t show the proper results due to the fact that the screen is formatted for the “liquid” test. (and not the test strip)
This has been broken for months. I wrote Clorox about it and got the basic response that they know of the issue and will have to fix it in a newer version.
Looking at the version history it somewhat appears they are not really motivated to fix this or any other issues with the App as there have been no version releases for about five month at this juncture.
In addition, I see other reviews stating that the app continues to log them out and thereby have to log back in every time. That is happening to me as well.
I committed to this system (and the purchase of Clorox products as well) as a simple, non frustrating way to maintain my pool. I guess it’s time to look for something else as this app no longer fills the bill for that.

Developer Response ,

The issue you've described has been corrected in the latest version.