iPhone App Reviews

On the plus side: it will track up to 15 separate web pages.  It’s also easy to set up and monitor; all you have to do is type in (or paste) the web page address you want Internet Alert to watch and then press “save”.  From there, whenever the page is changed or updated, your iPod Touch or iPhone will make a cartoon spring sound (boing!) and a notification badge will appear on the Internet Alert icon.  Open the app, select the web page that’s been updated and you have the option of viewing the script changes to the page or visiting the page in Safari.

 

I have a few websites and blogs that I follow closely, sites that alert me to app price changes, breaking news, long form journalism and blogs of various writers I like.  Although I have all their RSS feeds in my RSS app, there are some sites whose updates are more important to me than others.  If there are changes with them- any new articles or posts- I want to know about them as soon as possible.

  

In that respect, Internet Alert is a neat app.  As a utility, it is useful and something I could see myself using day after day.  If I were looking for a job, Internet Alert would be my right hand in keeping me in the know, because as they say, the early bird catches the worm. 

 

On the minus side: although I like this app, there are some pretty big minuses.  First, there’s the cost. Internet Alert is a pricey $4.99. Although that price includes six months of service, there’s nothing in the app description or Modern Digital Media’s website that discloses what an additional subscription rate might be. It could be as low as .99.  If so, I think I’d probably pay that.  If it was a little more than .99, I’d have to think about taking out an additional subscription.  If it was another $4.99, I’m certain I would say “thanks, but no thanks”.

 

So in the end- at least to me- the minuses of this app would appear to outweigh its pluses.

 

Version 1.3

Tested on an iPod Touch 3.1.3