Clear - a fresh look at lists

Well known among Mac users Company Realmac Software, The developer of popular applications such as Analog, LittleSnapper, Courier and RapidWeaver has decided to test the market iOS applications. Together with Milen and Impending It was developed by a task manager Clear, a preliminary review of which you could already read on our website. Yesterday, the application appeared in the App Store and we decided to get to know you on a novelty.

Since the announcement around Clear was great excitement at the beginning of this week's App Store censors even had remove fake called Clear Todo, simulating the interface has not yet been released at the time application. What is so innovative offered us Realmac Software, you ask? It's very simple, the developers decided to abandon loaded with all sorts of UI controls in favor of minimalism, and the active use of multi-touch gestures. The idea has been fully implemented and we can see that the Clear all of the screen space is used for maximum benefit.

As you can guess, Clear minimalistic interface means that many familiar features had to be abandoned. If you actively use, and you can not do without these powerful tools for businesses planning how Things, OmniFocus, and even on the "unpretentious» Wunderlist, you are unlikely to be enough functionality Clear. App from Realmac Software is one hundred percent focused on the private, home use for maintaining a list of daily tasks. In it there is no synchronization capabilities, tagging and specify the time and date, moreover, the size of the problem is limited to only one line. Drawing a parallel with social networks, Clear - is a kind of Twitter among the tasks of managers.

Exterior applications undeniably stylish and attractive, but personally I have when meeting with Clear there was a feeling that my iPhone in the hands of some miracle turned into a phone with Windows Phone. I can not get rid of the feeling that application developers were inspired Metro interface, but in general I have nothing against it.

When you first start Clear meet you a little help with your application, then you will see your first list of tasks that will help familiarize yourself with Clear in practice. As I said before, great attention is paid to gestures rather than conventional taps. So in order to add a new task you need a little pull-down list of tasks, or if you want to add a task between existing, use gesture pich-to-zoom. Delete tasks or mark them made possible strokes left and right. If you pull a little harder to do list, you will proceed to the screen that contains all of your to-do lists. Pull again and get to the settings screen.

If you do not like the standard color scheme Clear, it can be easily replaced. Total application has five preset themes and a certain amount of bonus. One of them you can get zafolloviv Realmac Software tab «Follow the Team», for the second theme on your iPhone must be set Tweetbot app. It is unknown whether there is a Clear still hidden bonus threads may in use there is still something interesting. Another feature of the color schemes gradient is present in each of them. The developers are investing in has more functional than aesthetic value. By the logic of development, top, darker things from the list visible to the user and it is more important to execute. Elementary, although we can not say that it is not effective, way of issuing priorities for tasks.

Summing up, I want to say that really happened Realmac Software to create intuitive applications with amazingly easy control to which you absolutely do not have to get used to. For the majority of users who do not need a powerful tool case management, Clear will be indispensable in the planning. If we talk about the future prospects of the application, the version for the iPad, and even more so to wait for Mac does not make sense. I can not imagine that the big Clear screen will look just as stylish and impressive.

Given the interest with which people greeted the announcement of the Clear, it is believed that such an approach to interface design and the active use of multi-touch gestures can take note and other iOS developers. So that in the future we have all the chances to meet the vast App Store similar applications.