Goodnature

Very smooth and well designed app that is easy to get started and use with the “SmartCap” for rodent traps. One drawback is regarding privacy and the location of traps registered within the app. The location is used by GoodNature to generate a publicly viewable heat map of where kills have taken place - and the app does not provide any means for users to opt-out of handing over this information…. This might seem harmless in densely populated urban areas, but in rural areas (such as farms), information displayed on this heat map is hardly “anonymous” and can quite clearly be associated with the owner of any large section. If you are concerned about privacy for any reason, I would suggest manually entering 0,0 for the coordinates until the app developers add support for opting out.

Hi Goodnature, I own a small pest Control business to in California. I have used A24s for about 2 years now and I love them. I own approximately 22 traps and have achieved roughly 300+ kills so far. I am a huge proponent of your product. I don’t know if the chirp is coming to the US but I hope it does. ❗️please allow the app to function as a kill locator/map with out chirp so it can be used in the US. Keep up the good work!!! P.S. will the A12 ever be sold on the states?

It would be a big help to have auto sign in enabled when you get out to the bush to check on the traps and one has forgotten to enable mobile data. Having to manually log in when it’s wet cold windy, glasses are in pockets some where and you’ve hiked over a km to get to the trap is the definition of app rage. How hard can it be to have auto log in. It’s not like there’s a security risk at stake🤦‍♂️

Great concept but fails to deliver. It simply refuses to notify me of a kill unless I physically wake it up. This defeats the purpose really. A replacement Chirp made no difference. It won't sync readily and if it does, I could probably light a fire and cook the dead rat in the time it takes. Sorry but I wish I'd purchased the original counter instead. Shane

Trap is great. Chirp and app are useless. Changing location settings to “always on” drains your phone battery significantly throughout the day. Chirps don’t sync, keep having to wake them up. Which means physically going to the traps each time so no real point in having them.

Fix the location services. You only need peoples location when they are using the app, not constantly.

Just wondering; why does this app require so much personal information? The trap is connected via Bluetooth, so you don’t actually need share precise location data to pull details such as kills, bait and battery level. The privacy policy references the privacy act of 1993, but this was amended in December 2020. You don’t need all this data to make my app work with the trap. Please stop requiring it to “make the application work” or for certain features “to work”. Just no. Please. You don’t ALWAYS need my precise location. Stop harvesting data which will inevitably be featured in some future data breach. I look forward to better privacy practices for this application, especially considering that your traps aren’t exactly considered cheap.

Chews through phone battery doesn’t seem to work on “location services only when using”. Love the trap but app needs more thought put into it.

Wondered why my phone battery started running flat throughout the day. Checked battery usage and this app with tracking turned on was sucking up 39% of my phone battery.

After an initial bumpy start with the app it is now working along with the a24 trap which had its first kill within an hour of setting up. From what I can tell most of the negative feedback on the traps is from incorrect set up. Placed correctly I can say from experience these work very well