Checking Out Other Radar Apps

I have been checking out other radar apps for Android over the past few days. For years I have used RadarScope. For the most part, that program has been great. It is fast, and there have been only one or two occasions that I can think of that it hasn’t just worked.

The one problem that I have had with it, though, is the warnings text. It used the typical microscopic Android text that cannot be zoomed in, so it makes things challenging to read. I have lived with that for years.

Years ago I had also downloaded RadarOmega. That app is a bit slower to load, but when I checked it out last week, that had been greatly improved. The text in the warnings and stuff is a little bigger, so I am able to read it with a magnifier without straining as much.

The interface doesn’t seem quite as intuitive to me, but I have to keep in mind that I have been using RadarScope for years and have gotten used to it. I felt the same way when I switched from Pykl3.

There would never be a perfect app for me unless I wrote it myself, so I have to weigh the pros and cons since I do not feel like writing one.

This is why it is great to have multiple options. It’s even better when the choices are not exact clones of each other with the only difference between them being an icon or two and using different trackers.

Neither of these apps is pretty, and that’s a good thing. The go-after functionality over following the latest crappy UI trends.