Missing a few major points
All in all this is not a bad app, but there are a few glaring holes. The premade programs and interface seem good, but the pose base is where the issues start. The pose base has no search function. How can you have 250 poses, which are organized by sanskrit, with no way to search them besides browsing?
There are five categories beginner, intermediate, advanced, guru and "all" when searching the pose base. Another reviewer mentioned that asanas are organized into categories that dont fit i.e. an upright pose listed under seated, this is actually a mistake from the difficulty classifications I believe. When you click beginner it has "Standing" at the top, when you hit guru it has "lying on the back" at the top, so im thinking its just a title thing some programmer didnt correct. So when you go to browse by All it is just showing beginner at the top, intermediate next etc, but its calling them by catagories that do not apply at all. In my mind this is very lazy programming, beyond not correcting the error in catagory names. If there is four alphabetical lists, and I want to search all four at the same time I want a fifth complete list organized alphabetically, not just a long listing of the four lists listed seperately on the same page vertically.
As the other reviewer mentions all of the asanas have their sanskrit names, which in itself is not a big deal (I would like to learn them actually and this encourages it), the problem arises because even if you know the sanskrit name of the pose you are looking for you have to scroll through multiple alphabetical lists to find the pose, which is often not where you would expect it to be. For example the "Mountain Pose" (Tadasana) and "Half lotus" (Ardha Padmasana) both appear in a beginner level premade program and I want to add them a program that I am making, so I learn the sanskrit names and try to search the beginner poses. Hmmm not there, okay scroll down to the intermediate section, okay there is one, but not the other. Hmmm okay so Tadasana (basically just standing there) is intermediate while Ardha Padmasana (sitting cross legged with one foot on top) is advanced, and yet they both appear in the beginner programs. Combine this with the fact that there are some more difficult poses in beginner, which my doctor and physio have both cautioned me against due to back problems, and im thouroughly confused.
Like I said not a terrible program, it just seems like there were a few things left to fix and it would be a great program, but the developers got lazy and figured "good enough lets just release it".
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All-in Yoga, v1.3