CircuitShepherd

In the past you would buy your app and then be happy with it. Jump a few years into the future and *everything* seem to be in-app purchases and / or monthly fees. The latter is a dealbreaker. I would gladly pay extra for in-app items if warranted, but to pay a monthly subscription for an app that is used maybe once a month. No thank you. There other tools that could be used / bought that would do the same for less than $20 a year. It might not be so much you could argue, but add all those little apps up and you’ll end up with a monthly fee that exceeds what is feasible. Put a price-tag on the app and stick with it like in the past and I’d happily buy the product. This all said; the app itself is not a bad one in any way. Quite easy to use once you get into it, but unfortunately not enough to pay the monthly fee. The free trial is more or less unuseable due to the nagging time-delay, which in all fairness was posted so that is not a negative. I will, unfortunately, uninstall it. Make an option to pay a one-time-fee and I might reconsider buying and using.

The only parts accessible are the resistor and capacitor. I would have given 3-4 stars if they had transistors available for the free version ( and the sim worked) but even those are locked behind the paywall. I understand the concept of free vs paid versions of apps like these, but the free version of CS has me wondering if the devs do. I can’t even build a transistor multivibrator circuit with the free app. I’d recommend finding another app at this point.