Zenlendar – calendar app – reputation?
I came across an Android app that requires all of the permissions, made by someone with a small reputational footprint. How am I supposed to install it without legitimately worrying that I am doing a dumb thing?
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I’m looking for an app that will ring a loud alarm whenever Google Calendar rings its (quiet) event alarm. I’ve been using the paid version of Calendar Alarm Clock Reminder by zzappbros but it doesn’t work perfectly. I can’t get it to ring alarms at the right times. When I tell the app to ring when the when Google Calendar Event Reminders ring, it erroneously rings 5 minutes before the event instead.
In this thread, the author of ZenLendar promoted his app. The app requires full permissions and I can find scant info about the author.
What’s a guy to do? I’m not giving my entire phone over to a random author.
I wrote to the author asking for reputation info. What else can I/we do?
Dearest Redditers,
I just want to say that I have been in communication with the Zenlendar app developers and at my request, they retooled their app permission notices very nicely! I now feel like it’s safe to install!
What the Zenlendar developers did was change the permission pages during install to clearly say what is required and what is optional, writing how the “full permissions” setting is completely optional… and they also stress that they don’t actually have full permissions. Personally, if Google Play says the app is being given full permissions, I’ll believe them. Regardless, it’s an optional setting, which is great to hear!
I didn’t end up using the app. At the prompting of a Redditor, I tried the BuzzKill app which has been working PERFECTLY for me! Search my blog for more commentary about it
That said…… I went with Buzzkill. See here