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Gootasks / Geetasks

Mark (guest) 30 Sep 2010 08:13

Hi everyone,

first of all, I'm an enthousiastic user of Geetasks and I have no affiliation with Gootasks whatsoever.
I accidentally stumbled upon this website (http://www.gootasks.com/en/) and it seems to me that this app shares a lot of features with Geetasks. Not only has it offline Google tasks support, even the UI and the UI-features (like swipe to indent) are very similar.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention, it seems that it's becoming more and more important to keep adding features (like the discusses IPad support), since the compitition is not exactly standing still.

Or is Gootasks a side-project of Geetasks?

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Jesse (guest) 30 Sep 2010 13:56

It strikes me as a poorly coded ripoff. On this forum I've seen Denis put a lot of thoughtful deliberation into how to implement various things, and GooTasks just "happens" to go with the same ones? But even calling it a copy would be giving it too much credit. The interface is unresponsive, and based on other posts in this forum, the developers seem pretty shady. Occasionally you come across a free gem of an app, and the cliche "you get what you pay for" doesn't apply. This is not one of those times.

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Denis Altudov 30 Sep 2010 16:15

Similarities were the first things that caught my eye - even before the app launched their description of it looked very familiar. :)

I wouldn't go as far as to call it a rip-off, and at any rate I definitely need to step on it now that they are on my tail.

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Denis Altudov 30 Sep 2010 16:13

Oh yes, they've been on my radar since few weeks before they launched. I'm keeping an eye out for this sort of things. :)

I hear ya on the features. I am starting work on iPad version this week!

Also bear in mind that GooTasks is not exactly free. Judging by their reviews many users who thought it's free end up very angry when they encounter in-app purchase necessary to continue using the app.

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Jason (guest) 03 Oct 2010 02:09

If the in-app purchase was the only problem of Gootasks!
I've encounter as related in another post a loss of many lists. After research in the reviews on AppStore I discovered that I am not alone. The lists have been irremediably deleted and this is completely unacceptable.

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Jason (guest), 03 Oct 2010 02:09