First Look: Convertbot

Last October, we posted about another iPhone app -- Weightbot -- written by Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad at Tapbots. Now the company has shipped their second app, an iPhone conversion calculator called Convertbot (iTunes link).

Like Weightbot, Convertbot is a classy-looking and extremely functional iPhone app. Every detail of the user interface shows obvious thought, resulting in an app that is easy to use and look at. As with Weightbot, Convertbot also features sound effects that provide an extra level of fun.

What can you convert with Convertbot? Temperature, time, volume, work, angles, area, currency, length, mass, power, pressure and speed. How do you do it? There's a rotating selector wheel on the Convertbot screen to choose the type of conversion (temperature, for example), and a button to select the units (degrees Fahrenheit, for instance). To enter the known unit, you tap the converter display to bring up a keypad for tapping in numbers. As you tap in the numbers, Convertbot is busily converting the units.

If you're an aspiring developer and want to see a well-designed app, or if you're an iPhone or iPod touch owner who just likes cool apps, check out this US$0.99 app. There are tons of conversion apps in the App Store, but Convertbot is just too nice to pass up.

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Convertbot

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Source: http://tapbots.com/convertbot/

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Korn Matt

It's not just for mass, area and volume. Tried with speed and currency, and had the same happen. Apparently US$75 equals CAD$0. Figure they'll fix this asap as soon as the bad reviews start rolling in.
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June 03 2009 at 4:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Mish

June 03 2009 at 4:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

karinatwork

Me too! It's a little fiddly, but that's part of the fun. :)

March 27 2009 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Galley

Purchased!

March 27 2009 at 9:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

heydavila

Sold!

March 27 2009 at 9:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

glad

I love weightbot as its a great little app will probably purchase this one after the bugs have been sorted out. These guys have a good eye for user interface design.

March 27 2009 at 6:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pureadrenalin2005

It does look nice but I'll stick with one of the free conversion apps that does the same thing since I am laid off and every $0.99 I can save, the better.

March 26 2009 at 10:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iVlad

I love when designers are part of the development. very nice. i wish more developers spend time on UserInterface and design like that. =)

March 26 2009 at 9:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Max

Yes, this app looks really cool and sounds quite nice, but it simply doesn't work. I tried currency conversion with very odd (a.k.a. completly wrong) results. Mass, area and volume conversion also simply is not working and is allways returning 0.

March 26 2009 at 9:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Stanley

Despite being perfectly satisfied with the conversion capabilities of PCalc , I bought a copy of Convertbot immediately after viewing the Tapbots demonstration video.

March 26 2009 at 8:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply