I had the Launch Console app and it was great. The format and display was cool— felt like I was part of the space crew preparing for launch. It notified me when a launch was scrubbed, still on, minutes away, and the compass told me exactly which direction to look. The compass even buzzed and highlighted the “engaged” look when I was facing the right way.
Then I got the dreaded notification that the Launch Console app would be dissolved, and I need to download SpaceCoastLaunches.
It’s terrible. I don’t get any notifications. It’s hard to see when a launch has been scrubbed. The compass feature is constantly malfunctioning— every time I open SpaceCoastLaunches , it tells me to face a different direction. I nearly missed a launch because of this. It doesn’t look nearly as cool. There’s no settings feature to adjust notifications or anything. The only benefit this one has is that it gives you a lineup of upcoming launches. The old app did that, too, but it was in different tabs and kind of hidden.
I’m going to look for a new app. I loved the old app so much because I would always get the news before all my friends. I don’t know why they changed things.