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If you haven’t heard yet, Tumblr is micro blogging done right. Think the ease of posting to Twitter with the features of WordPress. The main draw of Tumblr are the various post types. It has specific styles and settings for text posts, image posts, quotes, links, etc. Signing up takes seconds and you can post to your Tumblr via email. Friends can share Tumblelogs (a Tumblr blog) and all post to one central location.
All these things make Tumblr ripe for mobile use and to test things out we’ve set up our travel blog with Tumblr.
aTumble dashboard
With a Tumblr account, its easy to start and join multiple Tumblelogs. aTumble makes jumping around different Tumblelogs a breeze. Once you sign in with your Tumblr account, a list of your Tumblelogs are displayed and you are given the option to set one as your default.
Text post
As you can probably see in the screens, the interface leaves a little bit to be desired, but the simplicity makes using the app very easy. Another sore spot is the aTumble dashboard (which hangs and freezes sometimes). It doesn’t bother me because I never find myself using the dashboard, even online on Tumblr.
While traveling I’ve had my connection drop and a post not make it through but aTumble displayed an intelligent error message and gave me another shot at updating (every app should be able to handle errors, but some still manage to get it wrong).
aTumble is available now for $0.99, a fair price for this handy app. In the future I’d love to see an updated UI and some more features added but for now aTumble is more than capable of handling my Tumblr needs.
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Clark is a web designer and developer living in Austin, Texas. He runs ClarkLab, a small web firm with an ever-increasing Android focus. He's a big fan of usability, standards, and clean design.
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Hi guys! Glad you like aTumble. If you have any more suggestions feel free to get in touch.
Good luck on your road trip! I’ve started following you. Look forward to seeing your updates.
Matt @ Stupid Ventures
Love the tumblr service, it’s somewhat like twitter but less pointless, but 0.99c is still too big a threshold for me to start using it on my phone. Sorry dev, it looks awesome though.
“0.99c is too big a threshold”???
you got to be kidding…
last week i read about someone saying easyMoney is too expensive (5$ or so for a near complete accounting app)
get real people developing software takes lots of time and this time has to be paid somehow. .99c wont even buy you a beer.
i more and more doubt if i should continue developping my own android app. don’t want to get rich on this but i’d like to have my hours paid at least partly…
I completely understand you! .99c are really cheap. Althoug, my problem is a lack of a credit card -_- in germany it’s rather unusual to own one, so I’m stuck to the free Apps at the moment -_-
I signed up for yet another creative outlet.
I really like its possibilities.
Maybe I’ll Tweet less or stop posting/reading Facebook.
Not a bad app. I really hope it gets further developed. I want the audio and video before I use it regularly. Also, it is fairly sluggish. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Hi Guys,
thanks for the discussion.
@voxdan… we’re working on implementing those features. The tumblr api is pretty restrictive on what you can and can’t do with the dashboard and we’re trying to sort that out first (it’s the most popular feature request from users.)
Best,
Matt @ Stupid Ventures.