Spark - Shift Calendar

Update: The staff here reached out quickly and is rectifying the issue with me. Solid customer service!!!!! So I bought the original leaky nozzle app back when it first hit the market for $6 or $7 dollars. Which was pricey for an app at the time. This app did exactly what I needed it to do and so well I convinced plenty of others in my department to download it. But just recently one of my kids must of accidentally deleted it from my phone and upon a reinstall it asked me for a login and said I only have 30 days of free trial. Ummm since when is this a trial? What about my $7 I paid back when that was just that — a lifetime membership fee to have the app. Disappointed

This app has been amazingly simple to use, as well as being customizable and having the ability to share makes it an awesome tool to keep our family informed of each other’s always hectic, ever-changing schedules. Having two jobs, leading both our department hazardous materials response team, and the Honor Guard can lead the wife and daughter to wonder when I may be strolling home to visit. By adding this user friendly app to my phone, I have been able to maximize quality family time and allow others, by sharing of schedules, to know when I am not available for work. By doing this I have found that we may spend more quality time as a family. Being able to create custom events allows us, as a family, to add all the daily events easily, and within in seconds, create and share those together without conflict or confusion. Truly love this app!

I've had this app for years and years (near its inception) but have unfortunately become less and less happy with it. The annual renewal fee, not so happy about that..... that wasn't the deal when I initially bought the app. But, it's less than 10 cents a month when broken down, so that's more irritating on principle (not honoring your initial offering and "grandfathering in" earlier purchases) Mostly, I ended up using it for tracking trades which works well. Wasn't a fan of the layout in the "stats" section an update or two ago, but the red/green/gray weren't a bad addition. And to their credit, over the years they have corrected many issues as they were identified (like the hours being off by a minute when scheduling a day). Truly it's not a bad product, and I'm sure they have reasoning for the business model...... over all worth it, but I've found other methods for the functions of the app I use. I won't be using it, or paying the annual fee again. The kicker that ruffled my feathers (as small as it may seem) was changing the name AND logo at the same time. They changed the name a couple times over the years, but it still had "cal" or "scheduler" or at least one word from each previous name, so I could app search (which is how I quickly bring up my frequent apps), but this time nada. Spark, that's all it's called and didn't make sense from "fire house scheduler" "crew cal"...... like I said, I'm sure they have their marketing reasons, but it's beyond me. Bottom line, it's still an easy trade tracker, you have options for tracking vac, comp time, FLSA cycles (I set that up myself), etc. Just not so happy about a constantly changing interface.