Posts tagged: iPhone app
I really wish Tumblr would change the icon on the official Tumblr app. It’s starting to feel dated. Kind of like an early 2000’s Volkswagon Jetta. Cool for it’s time, but past it’s prime. That thick chrome rim and the corny dotted background. I think it’s time to get it up to snuff with the cleaner, crisper, more refined look the web interfaces are taking on.
This Tumblr app on the iPhone is suprisingly nice (despite the absolutely atrocious icon and the horrible name). For simply viewing your dashboard, and quickly and easily “liking” or reblogging posts, I think it’s a more pleasant and “quick” feeling experience than the official Tumblr app.
Because you tap through posts one by one, and can even play them sequentially with timing in a slideshow mode, it just feels snappier, and somehow easier to me than either the Tumblr app or the MobileSafari web view. And for those people who like to reblog posts a lot, this app make the process incredibly easy.
It uses some Growl-like visual feedback notifications which, although a little over-done, are actually quite nice. And it shows activity on your own posts (likes and reblogs by others) in a familiar way with links to the pages.
It’s nowhere near being a replacement for the “real” Tumblr iPhone app (the new version of which looks great and should be out any day). But it does have some really good ideas and executes them very well. I hope they keep developing it.
