Orenda
Category : Productivity
Reviews (30)
Best app I've found for calculating saturation index! The dosing is also super helpful. I would have given 5 stars but wish I could change default settings for my personal hot tub. I'll keep looking to see if there's a way to change default settings.
Samsung phone. In my app settings it says NO PERMISSIONS. It is a great app for water balance. Pool has never looked so great. If you're a pro, download this app, it will save you time and chemicals. I'm surprised it's not a pay app
Orenda's 2.0 upgrade is fantastic! This goes way beyond a dosing calculator and provides important supplementary information on industry concepts and practices, especially in areas that help with 'the long game' of preventing water quality problems and protecting plaster. Every pool professional should have this app.
App still will not work without access to my photos, media and file despite notice that "Pure Planet Science & Technology, Inc. 10/7/19 We don't want access. That was an error that we had to hire better developers to figure out. We didn't realize it was happening, and when we did, it took a long time to solve. Turns out it was something buried deep within the code about how we save and share dosing results. Should be fixed now."
It does calculate the LSI and gives dosage suggestions but it requires to enter your targets everytime again. It also doesn't remember the last test result. So every time you have to adjust all numbers of both the actual and the target.
I clean pool for a living and the reason others give this great app 1 star are really silly/lazy and probably fall for conspiracy theories really easily. This app has helped me save chems while keeping my pools looking great. We implement this app with my pool company and has helped us all. Sad to see some not appreciate this app for what it does. I've tried other and doesn't do anywhere near the same.
Tried to use, but as it has been mentioned by many other reviewers, the first thing it does is request access to your phones images, contacts, etc. If you deny the app, it shuts down. With all of the malicious apps now, that's not worth it. Don't waste your time.
For no reason should I need to allow access to my contacts, make/receive phone calls & txts, and all media to use a calculator. No thanks. *update* still requires access to photos & files to use but you're trying to fix this, have made progress and that means a lot.
Great app. You will find a lot of information because you can use the app to listen to the podcast while you work, so you will have fresh information. You also can contact Orenda with questions, or even you can thank them for all the great help they give us.
This app was useless to me. It has no option to switch from imperial to metric. If you live in the US & still stuck on the tired old gallon and F° it probably works but what app today can't switch to litres & C°? Ridonculous. Get with the times Orenda.
I have been reading the reviews, they keep claiming that the issues have been resolved, I just tried to download the app and it's asking to access my contacts, photos, etc to continue, I would love to use your app but not in thsae conditions, I want my privacy respected.
not only is this app inaccurate, which can have disastrous repercussions, but requires access to text ,phone calls, contacts. why in the world does it need that to do chemical calculations?!?!!!
Any time in need to calculate what and how much to add for the pH I have to delete and reinstall, because the app will only calculate pH once per download. This is the second time I've made this review and I've yet to see any fix or acknowledgement of the issue.
What is essentially a glorified chemical calculator should not require access to make phone calls or send texts - either this is a scam app or just really lazy/sloppy app development. Fix it, and I'll happily use your app & rate it accordingly...
Please help me understand why this app continues to ask for access to my photos, files, contacts, etc. This has been mentioned numerous times in the past and you have said it is fixed, why do you want this info?
I've been using this app on a daily basis for about 3 months and it has been wonderful!... until today. It suddenly will not calculate dosage for pH. Thanks for the let down. How much acid would you add to 1million gallons of water to take it from 7.9 to 7.4?
Hands down the best tool we have for our pool service company. it's easy to use and even gives dosage recommendations to balance the pool. this app and the Orenda products have helped us turn problem pools into easy maintenance pools.
I dont agree with the acid dose recommendations (too low) or that you can have a perfect LSI with zero stabilizer but everything else is on the money.
The app still requests access to Photos, Media, and Files on my device as of 8-JUL-2021. May try the app again at a later date.
Great app to help balance your pool chemistry. Make sure to read the user guide to understand the LSI calculation. Really helps!!
Why does the app need access to files and photos on my phone? Immediately uninstalled because no reason a pool app should need access to anything on my phone.
Access issue is still there, despite their insistence that it was fixed (back in 2019???) Uninstalled.
I just now installed the app, made to the permissions page and Im already uninstalling it. You have no need to be in my phone for any reason guys.
It seems you also fixed the metric for Pool Volume Calculator. Thank you, great app!
requires you to allow it to make and manage phone calls to use it. heck no!
Don't understand why app requests access to phone and contacts. Seems unnecessarily invasive.
I love this app and I love orenda in general. They are wonderful educators and I use thier products daily on my pool routes. You should defintley download this app. Good luck with your pool 😎
As of 06/03/2021 it still requires access to contacts and photo's. I uninstalled it.
My company tried using this but it doesn't take into account failing equipment or water being added weekly, still asks for permissions
Very useful for helping you decide what to change and how, to get your pool into balance. A comment about the permissions required. When first opening it asks for photo and files permissions, BUT if you agree, then exit the app and remove permissions the app still works. The only thing it can't then do without the permissions is add the attachments for emailing the results.