Phone Scale Metric Weight Calculator for iPhone & iPod Touch app review: weigh items in three different units

Introduction

This app is designed to provide you with a quick and easy way of weighing small items, and with the ability to choose between grams, ounces, and carats, you should find that all of your weighing needs are well and truly taken care of.

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While I think this is a great idea for an app, I was immediately skeptical because I know that the iPhone touch screen responds only to touch by skin or a similar material, which is why you can’t use a stylus with it.

Let’s take a closer look and see if Phone Scale Metric Weight Calculator for iPhone & iPod Touch does what it claims.

Pound of Flesh

This app features a very nice interface, and even though it is somewhat crammed with ads at the top and bottom of the screen all of the features are visible on a single screen which makes things nice and convenient.

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You can choose to weigh items either in grams, ounces, or carats, so on this basis you should be more than capable of weighing jewelry and food items without too much difficulty, right?

Unfortunately this is not the case.

I’m not sure what the actual purpose of Phone Scale Metric Weight Calculator for iPhone & iPod Touch because it definitely does not weigh items! The onscreen display seems to jump randomly from number to number with no real consistency, and even pushing on the screen with my finger doesn’t seem to make a difference.

 

No Scale Functionality

At first I was wondering if perhaps there was something I was missing, so I tried laying my phone down on a hard and flat surface but alas, this still didn’t do the trick.

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After all of my frustrated attempts to get some semblance of functionality out of this app, I decided to take a look at what the developer had written in the iTunes description, much to my dismay!

The developer includes the following note: “This app is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide scale functionality.” So what hair I hadn’t already pulled out by this point was promptly removed in a fit of rage and embarrassment!

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• There is nothing positive to say about this app

 

Cons

• Excessive and intrusive ads
• No scale functionality
• Developer states that this app is intended for entertainment purposes only

 

Final Words

I suppose my main reason for reviewing Phone Scale Metric Weight Calculator for iPhone & iPod Touch is to simply recommend that you don’t bother downloading it or trying to get any kind of use out of it.

The intention of the developer remains a mystery to me but one thing is for certain: they certainly didn’t intend to develop a weighing scale app that works.