Spayrroe

Wow, hmmm, probably should have thought about that. I use the iPhone app. Like I said, everything in the app is pretty great, this is the only inconvenience I've experienced that I would be over joyed to see changed.

These are the two biggest things I would love to see from this site/the app. I would love if while posting a field note, I could get the screen to rotate sideways for easier typing. I sometimes have to cache with a 5 and 2 year old (in fact, 7 of my current 11 day streak have been with these little helpers), so it would be great if I could do a search based on "stroller accessible" or "recommended for kids". It would greatly reduce the amount of time I spend screening caches to plan out the next few days worth (usually based on what errands need run and what caches are convenient and possible for us). Everything else about the site and app are awesome, by the way. Even these two issues are really little things that while I saw there was forum space for suggestions I thought I'd post them. Thanks! Spayrroe

Okay, so I'm going to admit here and now I didn't read the whole thread, and I'm basically just giving my review of the app. That being said: I would give this app 6 out of 5 stars. I know I was kinda like "wow, $10? I've never paid that much for an app!", so I downloaded the freebie trial one (I think it'll let you nav to like 5 caches or something like that). My iPhone was the only GPS unit I had at all back then, so I used the free/trial app to nav to my first cache and completely fell in love. A lot of times now when I have like an hour to kill because I don't want to go all the way back home before having to meet someone or go to an appointment, I just fire up the app and tell it to find me nearby caches. As far as I understand there are no GPS units that allow you to seek on the fly like that. I also like that you can see everything about the cache, description, attributes, size, difficulty, terrain, hints, photos, inventory, recent logs, EVERYTHING. Oh, and you can log your field notes (Found It!s or DNFs, along with all the other kind of note types) right from the phone. Another nice feature is that when you're doing a long run (like my pal and I went after 6 on a stretch of trail the one day), you can fill out your logs and have the app 'save' them until you're ready to just post them all at the end. Oh, and my GPS read seems to be like spot on most of the time. As far as needing a premium membership for the full functionality, I'm going to have to beg to differ. I'll admit I don't have too many finds yet, and I did take almost a year off, but I bought this app after my first find. I only very recently upgraded to premium (only because during the above mentioned stretch of trail with a friend, he had a premium membership, so we found one that I could only log if I upgraded), but used the app before with no problems. You can't see premium member only caches on the the app (just like you can't on the site), but the regular caches have full functionality. You can still use all the other features. Now, I do have an unlimited data plan on my iPhone. So, I will say that I'm not sure how much it data it uses or anything because I don't have to pay attention to that. That may be a factor one has to consider before deciding to use a smart phone as their primary GPS. In short, I believe this is well worth the price you pay. This is especially worth it if you have no GPS unit to start as $10 is significantly cheaper than any GPS unit I've seen (and this is tons more convenient anyway). It might be less worth it if you're stuck on a low level data plan though, that's something I know nothing about. I hope this helps at least someone, lol.