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One and two-star reviews are unusually specific about what broke, when, and what the person did instead.

Documents

872

Pain points

10

Companies

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Most complained about

Asana4
Invoice Simple2
Invoice Simple, Stripe1
Google Tasks1

Best for

Consumer and prosumer apps. Reviewers name the exact step that failed and frequently name the competitor they left for.

Where it misleads

Review text is short and emotional. Severity is easy to over-read from a single furious review.

The sharpest frictions we found here

Ranked by severity, each with the verbatim quote and a link to the original.

Invoices default to the wrong country, sending customers into a payment loop nobody notices.

Invoices are STILL defaulting to another country. When customers try to pay the incorrect invoice, they end up in a never ending loop.

Invoice Simpleself-employed tradespersonsource ↗

Payment processors hold a trades business's first payout for 14 business days, when that money was for materials.

They partner up with stripe and they allow them to hold onto your first payment for 14 business days. As somebody that's in the trades usually the payment is for materials.

Invoice Simple, Stripetrades contractorsource ↗

Invoicing tools for trades have no functioning support channel when billing breaks.

They don't have any back end support. Which means if you have a problem they have no way to fix it.

small contractor running two companiessource ↗

A trial ending locks users out of years of their own data over paid features they never knowingly used.

My free trial ended today, and I was suddenly locked out of my main calendar with a message about custom fields, which I did not use, as far as I know.

Asanaindividual long-term usersource ↗

Invoicing apps cap paid plans at a handful of invoices a month and charge extra to attach job photos.

I'm already on the $6.99 a month plan which only allows me 3 invoices per month which is pretty bad.

Invoice Simplesolo contractorsource ↗

Estimating apps ship with no parts or repair catalogue, so every line item must be typed from scratch.

There is no database available in this app that lists available repairs or products. It would ALL have to be custom created by the user of the app.

repair techniciansource ↗

Most recently ingested

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Calendars: Schedule Planner★★★2026-03-22

Great, wud like few more features in free version — Overall good app. I use this on my phone since other calendar apps won’t link w my fam, not sure why. This has been lifesaver for connectivity. Unfortunate that basic…

Calendars: Schedule Planner★★2026-03-26

Everything keeps getting wiped. — I really like this app so i ended up buying the premium, ever since then there have been a couple times where i open up the app and literally every event or task or anything is deleted.…

Calendars: Schedule Planner2026-03-30

Can’t cancel trail subscription! — Literally it will not let me cancel the subscription so my card can get charged. Really annoying and the app makes it impossible to get it cancelled.

Calendars: Schedule Planner2026-03-30

Regret of any past payment for this xhit — After paid again and again you can’t even set up repeat event . Go to heil

Calendars: Schedule Planner★★2026-04-02

Calendars don’t sync. — I cannot figure out why the app looks one way on my iPad and a completely different way on my iPhone. As of now, I can see a full list of tasks that I created on my iPad but when I open the app o…

Calendars: Schedule Planner2026-04-06

Lots of spam — I had loved this app until 2 mos ago.. I got tons of spam alerts that went directly into my calendar day, not text message, not email, but This calendar app, 8-10 spam messages a day. I finally had to tra…

Calendars: Schedule Planner2026-04-11

Used to love it — Was my first go calendar, until recently. All the drag and drop features disappeared. You can’t double click on calendar events and have them open in month view. Just a big loss of features. If it gain…

Calendars: Schedule Planner2026-04-15

Harassment — I’ve been a user of this app for years and have the lifetime access. After a new update I am consistently harassed to “upgrade” even though I have lifetime pro access. It will block features from me until I…

Run history

Failed runs stay visible. A broken connector you can see beats a silent gap in the data.

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