Windows Phone App Review: Clearer

Clearer for Windows Phone

The other day we took a look at the Windows Phone app Cipher, a gesture based To-do list manager. We and then received several tips suggesting some other gesture based To-do listing manager for your Windows Phone, Clearer.

In many means Clearer is just similar Nix just with a chip more features. Which is meliorate? Both Windows Telephone apps practice what they do really well. I'll try to pause the differences downward in a chip but for at present, if you like gesture based apps Clearer is well worth a try.

The layout of Clearer has your category lists actualization on the primary screen of the app. From there you lot accept diverse gestures to add categories, delete categories and view the associated lists. When you first launch Clearer, you will be walked through a tutorial. Watch closely and if you miss a step or need a refresher course, yous can admission the tutorial from the settings.

Clearer Tutorial

Just walking through setting up a category and list with Clearer, if you lot swipe downwards you create a category and your keyboard appears to let you give the category a name. When washed you will see a new imprint with the new category and a number (zero) on the left side of the banner. This number represents how many tasks or items you accept listed inside this category.

Just tap on the number and you are sent to the item/task creation screen. Swipe downwards to add items (repeat equally needed) and pinch the list to return to the category page. If you swipe to the right on a category or task banner, that particular is deleted. If you slide a task to the right, it is marked completed just not deleted. To reorder the tasks or categories, just tap, hold and slide the imprint to where you want information technology.

Clearer Settings and Live Tile

Clearer does have a three-dot carte on the task/list view. From the three dot menu, you lot accept button controls to contact the developer, rate the app, share the app, and view the tutorial. You can too change the color of the list banners, the brightness or use a pic from your Pictures Hub as the background.

As with Null, Clearer does have live tile support that volition show the total number of outstanding tasks/items yous accept. Nonetheless, Clearer'due south live tile flips to testify you the categories and tasks/items associated with each category.

So which is improve? Zero or Clearer? Both are very nice Windows Phone apps. Clearer gives you lot a little more than customization tools (alter the color of the banners, use a picture as the background, etc.) while Zero is slated for a back-up feature. Clearer as well has text machine correct to assist y'all type more efficiently and a more effective live tile.

I do similar the confirmations that announced as you slide banners/categories ane mode or the other on Clearer. If y'all're not sure which fashion to slide, if you slide ho-hum enough you volition grab these confirmations and be sure yous're heading in the right direction. It makes for a friendlier user interface. I spent a little time with Naught reminding myself what left or right swipes meant.

All in all, I liked Clearer. Until the dorsum-up feature is up and running with Aught, I'd take to requite Clearer the nod. And even when the back-up feature goes online, Clearer may still get the nod. I liked the text auto correct, color options, live tile and slide confirmations. Clearer was more than stable than Zero, not crashing once. Don't get me wrong, Zippo is a good app but Clearer gives you more bang for your buck (for the fourth dimension existence).

There is a complimentary trial version of Clearer bachelor that is fully functional only limited to only on listing category. The total version volition run you $.99 and yous can find Clearer hither at the Windows Telephone Market.

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