hip: Birthday Reminder App

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1. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Declining quality. I’ve had this app for several years and it keeps getting worse. Mandatory ads that are sometimes impossible to close will pop up before you can access any information. Trying to scroll through your birthday listings can mean having to watch an ad. The intrusion of ads has ruined this app. Now looking for replacement for this app.

2. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   An app that was once great, is now full of ads the moment you open it.. Dear hip developers, you NEED to tone down the ads, the moment I open up the app EVERYTIME is a 30 second ad and even when you finish it, I move a little bit throughout the app and BOOM, ANOTHER AD. I’m about to move everything I built in this app to another app. Either change or I’m leaving. A 5 out of 5 star app is now a 1 out of 5 star app. Change how aggressive ads are or bye bye.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   They limited the app. I was really looking forward to enjoying this app but the free version is limited to 5 birthdays which is ridiculous. Then it’s hidden behind a subscription.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   So I have to pay now???. I’ve used this app for over 4 years with NO PROBLEM! All of a sudden I start experiencing the app force closing whenever I try and open it. I HAD to deleted it and re downloaded just to find that all my data is gone, but there’s also a limit of up 5 birthdays that I can add on my account and if I want more I have to pay a subscription! 😡 This is very upsetting, this was my favorite app to use and I even recommended it to so many people because it was free to use … So disappointing

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   It’s dumb. Only lets you add like 3 birthdays. It’s not free. You have to pay to keep adding. It’s so dumb.

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Pay for app and then pay more for ad free?. Used to be a great app and then suddenly they want MORE money to get rid of ads. Bummer.

7. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Stopped working. I have been keeping track of all my friends’ birthdays on this app for many years. Never had a problem. It worked beautifully. All of a sudden everything I have relied on is missing. All my important dates are gone. I am devastated. How do I get them back?

8. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

   App’s notifications always has issues. I have had this app for a few years and very disappointed as the notifications usually do not work, and I always have the latest iPhone Pro, so not sure if they are not updating the software for Apple iPhones. But the main purpose of this app is to get notifications.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible App. Can only add 5 birthdays before they make you pay

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Need to pay. It does not say on the App Store that it has any in-app purchases. It does. Please change this

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Used to be good. Used this app for years and loved it. Now it won’t let you add new people without upgrading. Some of us have more than five friends whose birthdays we’d like to remember.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    cant use for free. you have to pay for more than 5 events, but its marketed as free

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Subscription required. You are only able to add 5 events without paying money in a monthly subscription… Do I have to say any more?

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    terrible DONT GET. u can only add 5 birthdays, if u want to add more u have to pay

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    R.I.P. Hip.. App is broken. It used to work fine. Now it won’t let me add any more friends birthdays. It says I need to upgrade to a paid version when I try to to add more. Sigh. Another one bites the dust I guess. It’s also suggesting I pay in order to export them so I can move to an app that works. So I will have to manually add 29 friends birthdays to another app that actually works. Thanks a lot HIP. Maybe should rename your app RIP.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pay to have?!. I hope you don’t have more than 4 people in your life! Because if you do then you’ll have to pay to remember their birthdays! I have severe ADD and can’t remember anything for the life of me and this app could’ve been super helpful but because of their pay limit it makes it stupid.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    NO RESPONSE TO MY MESSAGES. I tried to contact customer service for several weeks, no response to my messages. So I paid for the application for life, but having changed my phone, it is no longer associated with my iCloud account (changed too). So I lost all my data. Unless customer service answers me today?

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Ridiculous subscription cost. You can only have 5 free event reminders. And the subscription is dumb. Better off getting a rolodex like the boomers

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Locked behind a paywall. Makes you purchase a subscription to do a lot of basic things, such as adding more than 5 reminders.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Don’t be fooled. I was so excited to get this app and started to input birthdays but after 5 birthdays you need to upgrade and pay….Useless, so many free apps out there. Don’t waste your time!

21. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

    Notification Do Not Work. I downloaded this app specifically to notify me of upcoming birthdays. I have notifications enabled on my phone and the app still didn’t notify me of birthdays. I missed several people’s birthdays. Unless there’s another reason for use of this app, I wouldn’t rely on it for the reason I did.

22. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

    Too many non birthday notifications. I added only 1 reminder, but I received too many non birthday notifications from the App like promotion, features etc.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not good. I have this application for a long time. Now they are requesting me to update and pay for new version. Otherwise the application is refusing to show me my store birthdates. very bad!

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not free, which would be fine if not for ridiculous pricing. Make no mistake this app is not free. You can add 5 events as a free user. Didn’t even get through my immediate family. The free tier is useless, but it’s a very clean app so I looked at upgrading. I thought a one time buy of 2-5 bucks would make sense for an app like this. It’s just a date tracker after all. Nope, it’s a subscription??? For an app like this?? Absolutely nuts.

25. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    Crashing constantly. I’ve been a user and subscriber for a couple years now. It worked great and wonderful until latest update with iOS. Now it opens and immediately crashes. It’s not useable. I sent a message to the developers support with no response. Hopefully they get it fixed and I can revise my review.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Loved this app until this week. The app was great until this week when it suddenly stopped sending my carefully entered reminders. The app says I need to turn on my notifications. Well, duh! I have never NOT had my notifications on since I got the app over a year ago. But this past month it stopped sending me reminders and thinks I don’t have my notifications on. I have missed several of my friend’s birthdays. Will be looking for another app.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    You have to pay to remember more than 5 birthdays. Huh?. Super simple app too.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Free version only allows 5 birthdays?. Outrageous

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    PREMIUM PREMIUM PREMIUM. Can't have more than 5 dates unless i have premium

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Worst app not recommending.. Worst app ever and worst customer service. I kept sending emails but i have not got any reply yet. I am a paid customer since i got my iphone. Recently my phone crashed and reached out their customer care but no one replied….