At Once ($0.99)
Version – 1.0
REVIEW – “New app helps you stay connected while on the move!”
How often are you walking down the street or around your house trying to update your status on Facebook or Twitter? Or maybe sending an email or texting a friend? At Once is a creative app that allows you to view what’s in front of you using your iPhone’s camera while you type out messages!
The interface is extremely simple. When you open up At Once you’ll see whatever the camera is facing behind a transparent keyboard and buttons. As you type your message you can
easily keep an eye on what’s in front of you! Just above the keyboard are several buttons that will allow you to select what service(s) to send your message to when you are finished with it.
In the upper right corner of the screen is a settings button. This will take you to a screen where can set up the various social networks that this app supports. The supported interfaces include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and your email which does not need any setup within the app. Setting up interfaces
is simple, all you have to do is touch the network that you want to setup and enter your username and password.
There are a few other settings as well which include the ability to automatically shorten any URL’s that you might add to your message. You can also turn the camera off if you find it distracting and even set it so that the app will warn you if you go over the 140 character limit that is placed on Twitter status updates.
The concept of this app is simple but it does what it sets out to do quite well. I have not found a more simple way to simultaneously post to several social networks than this app. Unfortunately because Apple’s SDK does not allow it, there is no way to send SMS
messages directly from this app. It does, however, have a “Copy” button that will allow you to quickly copy your entire message and then paste it into the Message app manually!
The only real bug that I was able to find in this app has to do with the camera feature. If you decide that you want to turn the camera off because it is distracting it is not applied right away. After you push the button you have to close the app and open it back up for the changes to take effect. This is not a huge deal, but the app doesn’t say anything about it, and if you wanted to use this feature to turn the camera on and off based on whether you were moving around or not it could get mildly irritating.
With that said this app works extremely well and even offers a landscape mode in the paid version! If you are constantly updating your online status and would like an easy way to quickly update them from your iPhone, then you should definitely check out At Once by Reditus Solutions!
- David H.
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Developer – Reditus Solutions LLC
URL: http://rediapps.com/
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