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The To-Do App That Rocked The World
- The Next Web, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:24 PM
Not since Angry Birds, has there been so much excitement around a mobile app. Even more remarkable, it’s a to-do list that has everyone talking. TheNextWeb puts Clear -- released this week on iTunes App Store -- in that category of apps “that make you re-think the way that you’ve been using apps altogether, breaking the mold and re-forming it with just a few minutes of use.”
The brainchild of development studio Impending, Clear was produced in partnership with Realmac Software, makers of popular photo editing app Analog. According to TNW, Clear is “a simple and relatively limited list app,” i.e., “it’s probably not going to make your ‘getting things done’ workflow crumble and reform around it.” Yet, “It is a very good basic scratchpad for items that you’d like to remember on a short-term basis.”
It also has what TNW calls an “intensely clever” user interface that has the potential to be a harbinger of things to come on multitouch devices. Most notably, Clear’s interface lacks any standard buttons and operates completely through gestures, taps and direct manipulation of the list items on the screen. Going a step further, TNW call Clear “the future of multitouch user interfaces.”
