FRED Economic Data

The entirety of this app is carried by the data they provide, and rightfully so. However, if you are going to make an app at least have some developers on the team with UI experience. This is truly an eyesore to open and the website is so much better. With that being said, and I know this is a real reach here, but it would be awesome if you could include widgets of at least our favorite's. Would be awesome to not even have to open the app and just see the real time market data.

It is very nerdy but I absolutely love to have my fred data handy and ready to pull out for quick conversations about the economy. My biggest problem is how clunky, buggy and unreliable the app can be. For example, I tried to show my friend a CPI chart that I had made on the PC with CPI Less housing and Core CPI. But when I went to show the graph on the expanded horizontal view, it bugged out and did not show half of the data. I wish that this app got a good overhaul or at least regular bug fixes.

Text is too small and inconsistently sized, chart captions are impossible to read on the home screen, and there’s a lot of wasted screen space in my iPhone 13 Pro with the bottom third of the screen being completely empty. I feel unhappy, overwhelmed, and lost trying to get information out of this app. It feels like it was designed on a computer then shrunk down to a mobile phone screen. The user interface is out of date and does not adapt to larger screens. It’s time to completely rethink your strategy for this app.