Products · Broad category
Free apps
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Free apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Free apps push users into subscriptions after installation through aggressive prompts2026-05-11
- Swipe-back doesn't work on iPhone Safari; close button is hard to find2025-08-16
- Every action requires passing through interstitial ads, with bad UI and UX2020-09-08
- Young children get steered into ads they don't know how to navigate away from2019-08-29
- Settings window steals focus when timer ends, so typing can accidentally change settings2014-08-23
- Login fields are unlabeled and registration fails with email as username2010-09-17
- Unclear whether username and password fields are for registering or logging in2010-09-17