Currently using GroundGame2 on a local race on an iPhone 6s. How does GroundGame2 deserve 1 star? Let me count the ways.
1) It takes FOREVER TO LOAD. 10-15 minutes and 8-10% battery just to update data. I’d hate to see what this would look like for a Senate race where there’s a whole state’s worth of data to load. There’s gotta be a simpler process to check for updates to entries. And while we’re talking about loading...
2) It doesn’t load properly at least 65% of the time. Meaning running through the aforementioned startup process again. Logging out, logging in, even uninstalling and reinstalling hasn’t fixed any of this.
3) Frequent crashes. I’ve had this crash while I was in the field and lost all my data over the course of an afternoon. I’ve also had it never leave the “load loop” where the campaign data shows up in the overview but isn’t accessible via the main menu.
4) Data disappearing, houses not logging entries, and generally having to go back 2 and 3 times to re-enter one house that keeps showing back up in the not canvassed pile.
5) The battery drain is worse than many games I’ve played on my phone. Good luck using this with other mapping programs, lest your phone battery be dead in 2 hours. (I had to get a portable power bank to handle being in the field for more than a couple hours.)
6) Nonexistent technical support. Good luck calling Moonshadow and getting someone who can do anything more than sell you this godawful app. I left a message for their team and it’s been almost a month and they haven’t even given me a call back to say “I’m sorry, we’re looking into this.”
I don’t normally write reviews trashing apps, but honestly I think a 200-level Comp Sci class with some basic SQL knowledge could come up with something better and more efficient. This would be a good app, too, if it worked. I hesitated giving it 1* because the mapping function is quite nice, but it just isn’t enough to make up for everything listed above.
Use any other canvassing app. Even a pad and paper and some Excel prowess would do you better than this.
