Weird and unintuitive, with no contact linking

Just downloaded this on the promise of doing group management. My 60 second impression is ’stay away’.

IMPORTANT: Interact doesn’t support linked contacts, so all those Facebook friends that you also have in your phone contacts will now show up TWICE in Interact (Apple smartly links these in Contacts, so you don’t have to worry about this). I’m pretty sure this oversight alone makes Interact pretty much fail at the promise of simplifying your contacts.

Interface-wise, it’s non-standard and unintuitive. For instance, they have a toolbar but choose not to implement Apple’s toolbar UI (e.g. the one at the bottom of Mail), and they use the ‘+’ symbol when they mean a checkbox. There are many other obvious examples like this that increase the learning curve. More troubling, I’m not sure what I should *do* in any one workflow or area - the next steps seem are not obvious that make me wonder why Im looking at this screen or widget. I’m a UI designer by trade and this stuff is really amateur work, and makes their other rather complicated app Drafts look straightforward.

As you can tell, I think I wasted $5. This was after reading a bit about it beforehand including other reviews. Didn’t think it’d be so bad.

NickPunt about Interact Contacts