Goodnature

The one thing that irritates me about this app is that if I bump my trap while moving near it, it will often interpret this as a strike. It then reduces the predicted number of available strikes by 1, which makes the refill warning happen sooner than it should. The app needs to offer the ability to remove a false strike from its count.

The app is frustratingly useless. It won’t sync. I get notifications but they don’t appear on the kill list - presumably because it won’t sync. I just want to know if it gets something or not. The only up side is the tracking/ordering of consumables. C’mon guys, the chirp function is why we purchased it. Make it work as advertised.

53% of my day’s power consumption is this app - when I haven’t even opened it. 😳 All I want is to know when to go looking for a dead rat before it starts to stink unbearably. Traps are fabbo. App isn’t.

So you load the app, tells you you must have location services on all the time. Makes no sense. App says I have 3 “messages” or something. Impossible to clear. I have to remove the chirp device to enable synch. Just odd really. Thinking of deleting and just counting the kills, makes more sense.

All I want to be able to do is know how many shots my trap has made so I monitor the gas cartridge charge and thus know when to replace it. Instead Goodnature provides an app that requires me to give up personal information - doesn’t connect to my mobile device easily - asks for useless information to be provided for Goodnature’s benefit only - and wastes my time. All I want to do is kill rats and mice and visually tell when my traps consumerambles need replenishing. I don’t want another piece of electronic junk integrated into a simple mechanical device that a bunch of IT clowns think might be what I require to kill a rodent. Bring back the option of mechanically recording the shots fired & provide the app based electronic BS to those that want it. I would purchase more of your super expensive traps if they didn’t require connecting to an app and the stupidly unfriendly human interface required to use them. Your loss, whilst the A24 traps work well, I have just as much success with my Raticator ones.

Chirp is Bluetooth only so the requirement for location on at all times is useless. Need to shake chirp in order to sync with Bluetooth. Not very practical for a live trap on a tree or post as the chirp is full of lure and you can’t easily detach the trap each time. A small button in order to Bluetooth. So essentially it’s a wasted battery stuck in an otherwise clever trap.

Absolutely useless application. So incredibly frustrating. Stay away!!!

Sent in video of faulty design chirp as they requested but no response. Been waiting 3 months for a simple feature request to clear misfires when the trap is bumped. Constant pairing issues or misfires detected. Left a spare mobile phone paired and logged in with network access at my other house and don’t get notified when my traps there catch something. The traps are good when they work but the notifications are usually wrong or don’t work.

Unless you allow the app to know your precise location at all times, the App will not let you know when your trap has fired. More than a week after the trap fired (for 4 mice), I could smell them. Then only when I enabled both location always and precise location did the app sync with the trap. The notification badge does not clear even after you read all messages and look at every screen in the app, close all apps and restart your iPhone. When I setup my new trap, either the app or the chirp firmware, had a glitch and would not talk to the chirp ever again despite 22 support emails where they basically denied there was a problem. They finally sent me a replacement chirp but only because I raised a PayPal dispute. Every single time you open the app, the first message is that it cannot find your trap, even after you wake up the trap , with your phone less than a meter away with Bluetooth WiFi etc enabled. If these issues are important in your choice to buy a Goodnature trap, Don’t! Or make sure you use PayPal.

Just purchased the A24 kit with the Chirp cap. Have set up the trap with a camera ready to catch these damn rats as nothing else has worked yet. The app itself looks great. But there’s a couple of things that need addressing. As another reviewer commented there needs to be an option to mark a suspected kill as “Moved Trap”. Also it would be very helpful to be able to adjust the remaining strikes myself. I did a couple of test firings with the Chirp cap off, so there’s no way to log these strikes and keep track of how many strikes are remaining in the gas cartridge. Another thing is the app icon won’t remove the notification even after I’ve checked the app (iPhone X, iOS 14). So now the app has a permanent little red number 1 that won’t go away. May also be helpful to some users to be able to use the app without the location tracking, as some people are paranoid about that type of thing. A way to implement this would be to give them the option to contribute to the trapping community by proving just their suburb instead of the mapped GPS location.