Review: You Are Wanted! App
What it Does:
This application was seemingly designed as a way to show your friends that they are wanted.
The Walk Through:
After installing this app you are prompted to invite friends to use the app along with you in the usual fashion. Whether or not your friends accept the application does not keep them from appearing on the Ten Most Wanted list that the app generates. I know this because I have only one friend using the app and there are still nine other people on the Wanted List with her. This wanted list is displayed up at the top of your screen as a picture thumbnail of your friend, their name and their 1-10 rank. Your friends profiles are not accessible via the Wanted List.
Every day that you log in (after you are asked to invite more friends) you gain twelve action points. To get to the section of the app that allows you to use action points you have to skip through an ad flash page, which is annoying on any app but worth it if the reward is great enough. In this case, it is not worth it. The action points are used to move your friends up and down your wanted list. This is the only interactive part of the app and it doesn’t make any sense to me. I can spend action points to move a friend up or down my own Wanted List, but there is nothing that they can do within the app to move up or down. If you were looking for an app that would allow you to interact in some way with other people, or rob stagecoaches this is not for you. What are these friends wanted for? I will be giving one extra review point for the cool splash art however.
The idea, I suppose was to rank your friends 1-10, but to my understanding of the app, I am the only person that can see how they are ranked so even the social awkwardness of friends seeing who you like more than them isn’t there. Is this for people who forget which friends they like the most? Beats me. The name suggest a wild west kind of theme and sparks the imageation but fails to deliver anything. There are section links within the app but each one just links you to other app pages so you can install them. All of them but one are things like “Attractive Friends” and “Smart Friends” and have nothing to do with the You Are Wanted! app. The app does run smooth, does not hang, and does not give error messages. This is mostly do to the fact that it doesn’t do anything, but ease of use has to be worth something.
It is this reviewers suggestion that if you are looking for a friend ranking or comparing app that you go ahead and skip this one. However if you would like this app, it can be obtained for free from You Are Wanted!
Score: 3/10. Move Along, Cowboy. Move Along.
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