Phosh

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Phosh, 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 11 complaints

Homepage doesn't explain what Phosh is or how it differs from alternatives2026-07-05
UI draws sluggishly on weak hardware, less smooth than alternatives2024-01-26
Phosh is so slow to use that a 2005 featurephone is faster2023-06-21
Some Phosh UI decisions feel weird, and it is slow and not snappy to use2023-05-10
Icons too small at scale 1 and no easy way to resize them2021-07-27
Default mobile UI has broken, convoluted scaling that makes it hard to use2021-07-26
Dislikes the vertical split layout used for finding apps2021-07-20
Taking about 5 seconds to open a window, such as the wifi toggle2021-05-15
Opening wi-fi settings takes several seconds, making toggling wi-fi slow2020-12-21
Apps don't work as real mobile apps; UI feels unresponsive and desktop-like2020-12-08
Closing apps requires tapping an X instead of swiping, and closing is unreliable2020-11-15