Shearwater Cloud 4+

Given how fabulous and well thought out the Teric is, this app is a shocking disappointment.

Let me be clear, it syncs with the computer just fine, but there are so many little oversights in design. Most of Us do several dives in a single location, why do I have retype information that is repetitive from the last dive?

It places all info in a combined graph, which is okay, but makes the scale of temperature almost flat in my dives. We should either be able to change the scale or isolate temperature to a single graph.

I can’t believe how primitive and poorly functioning this app is. Either Shearwater is simply resting on their laurels and so don’t care about making this app appear like it’s from the last quarter century, or are willingly being negligent in its design and functionality because they hate mobile apps. It doesn’t make sense. I am a hobby coder and could (and have!) designed a better UI than what they are offering. Not only that, I get errors and bugs literally every time I open it. It’s preposterous. I know Shearwater is a small company, but literally ONE decent app dev could build something 19x better. Heck, poach someone from the Garmin app team, there’s probably 50 of them over there! Shearwater….GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND STOP BEING LAZY! GARMIN HAS FINALLY CAUGHT UP, AND NIPPING AT YOUR HEELS. THE MARKET/DIVERS ARE FINALLY TAKING NOTE OF THIS. IF YOU CONTINUE TO STAGNATE, YOU WILL BE AMAZED HOW FAST YOUR PREVIOUSLY “LOYAL” CUSTOMERS WILL ABANDON YOU. I love my Perdix 2, so I don’t want that to happen. But us customers only have so much grace to give, especially when it seems that our patronage is being taken for granted.

The best I can say about this app is the basic functionality mostly works. There’s currently an issue with the dive numbers displaying incorrectly. I see that as minor inconvenience, but it’s a little annoying how long it’s gone unaddressed.

The app doesn’t look or feel like a native iOS app. Gestures that you’d expect to work - such as swiping to go back - don’t work. Scrolling is halting and jittery. Clunky dropdown boxes are used in place of native pickers. Most UI elements are unusually large. It’s a poor user experience.

Shearwater makes a great dive computer so I had high expectations for this app. Unfortunately it doesn’t come anywhere close to meeting them. If it were any other company I would have deleted it immediately. I’m holding out hope Shearwater can get it together.