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four apps belong to two category of finance and weather and visualize the results. Detail described below.
4.1 Some Apps with privacy issue
Google Translate is an app developed by Google for user to translate sentences from one language to another. The result of Google translate is shown in table 4.Privacy issue are complained by some of the users. It is reported that there are some users feel unsatisfied with the privacy feature. Some users complain user interface while others like it.
Figure 3: Google translate comment bar chart
4.2 Apps in Finance Category
One of the app analyzed by AppCAT is TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader. It’s an app that users can trade their stock, options or futures on their mobile devices. The review analysis result is shown in table 5 AppCAT finds out that this app has some problem of crash and freeze, but not too severe. And this app has a high score on performance.
Another app in finance category is PocketMoney LITE. It is an app that enable user to track their finance status and keep accounting on the mobile device. The review
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Table 4: AppCAT result of Google Translate(track id 414706506) Feature name Original rating Sentiment Sentence
PERFORMANCE 2 -0.31
Since the last update, it will not Allow you to enter a word or phrase to translate before getting a window fur "network fail"Please fix!
PERFORMANCE 1 0.00 When I type something in, it says
network error.
PERFORMANCE 2 0.00
But now theres a bug that makes the app crash, and won’t reopen unless I restart the phone, and even then it still crashes after one or two searches
PRICE 5 0.00
One day I’ll probably discover they’ve been using this App to track me in some manner and I’ll flip out, but until then, it works and the price works for me.
UI/UX 5 0.16
My suggestion is to have an option of setting a few permanent languages which are used the most, instead of the current setup of having "most recent languages."
UI/UX 5 0.38
I had a Spanish assignment and I could figure it out and the typing took forever, but the picture setting is amazing!
UI/UX 5 0.28 This is a great app, such a powerful
engine and simple and functional design, that just works!
PRIVACY 1 0.17
Anyone can access the Internet through older versions of this app by going to the Google privacy policy which brings up a browser.
PRIVACY 3 0.00
The microphone button and the handwritten button will not appear when granted
permission (version 4.0.0) iPhone 6 iOS 8.4.
PRIVACY 1 -0.22
Please respect privacy of end users as well without requiring unnecessary access to smartphones that is not required for basic functions that used to work well in the past.
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Table 5: AppCAT result of TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader(track id 375660117) Feature name Original rating Sentiment Sentence
PERFORMANCE 5 0.50 This is a great platform and doesn’t use that much memory
PERFORMANCE 5 0.50 Virtually no lag I am even able to
scalp.
PERFORMANCE 2 0.40 This application was great but
after a recent update the app now crashes every 5 seconds.
PRICE 5 0.50 I’d have to buy software that cost
a couple of grand to do what this does.
PRICE 5 0.45 Not as good for research but orders
of magnitude better for live time prices and charts.
PRICE 2 -0.80 The app has the annoying, and costly,
habit of switching a trade from sell to buy when adjusting quantity.
UI/UX 5 0.25
I love it!On my wish list, I do hope
the user study settings can be exported/imported, or sync-able via iCloud Drive.A
second wish is that users can take notes on stocks or options.
UI/UX 4 0.00 One feature I would like is ability
to keep study settings across time frames.
UI/UX 2 -0.10 However, you need to be careful
when setting up trades.
PRIVACY 5 0.50 Would like to see more emphasis
placed on security.
PRIVACY 4 0.01 It annoying to read news only based
on a security one is looking at, the general news tab will be great.
PRIVACY 5 0.43 It’s also great for having quick
access to news on the particular security you’re watching.
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Figure 4: TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader comment bar chart
analysis result is shown in table 6 AppCAT finds out that this app has serious problem of advertisement which is not satisfying users. Also, this app may have crash and freeze issue and thus have a high score (about 3) in crash feature.
Figure 5: PocketMoney LITE comment analysis result
AppCAT visualize the score of those apps to a bar chart. For app user to choose better
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Table 6: AppCAT result of PocketMoney LITE - Checkbook(track id 300715810) Feature name Original rating Sentiment Sentence
PERFORMANCE 1 0.00 Crashes constantly, adjust balance
function won’t allow data to be entered.
PERFORMANCE 5 0.19 Yes occasionally it might have
a crash issue but its still worth it!
PERFORMANCE 1 0.21
This is by far my favorite app for tracking my bank accounts, but since the latest update it usually crashes before it even opens.
PRICE 1 0.20
Don’t see a way to not have to buy the whole thing over again, since it crashed and had to be deleted it because Pocket Money screwed up the update.
PRICE 5 0.05 Will buy in the near future!
PRICE 5 0.00 I want to buy the upgrade but I’m
worried it will erase my data!
UI/UX 1 -0.40 Poor design in iOS 7.
UI/UX 2 0.00 Its got all the settings that I need.
UI/UX 3 0.00 I just wish that there was a setting
to allow rollover in your budgets from one period to another.
ADVERTISEMENT 1 0.00 The pop up ads have made this app
a living nightmare.
ADVERTISEMENT 3 0.15
I almost never write reviews, but
I must say the feature set of PocketMoney is impressive as I would expect
of a mature software package, but its very difficult to evaluate
when ads keep popping up over data entry fields.
ADVERTISEMENT 1 0.29 Thenn they added pop up ads which
will come right when you’re entering a transaction.
PRIVACY 1 0.25
No talk of encryption security;
Beware what you enter; my whole iPhone was stalled out; needed 3-4 pushes to exit & enter anywhere
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app easily.