Kestrel LiNK

The app was buggy to start with. Now with the update, it won’t log at all. My Drop is now useless since the only way to use it is through the app. I wasted my money. NOT HAPPY ! ! Good work! This is a follow up to my earlier review. The new revision fixed my logging problem. Gave you five stars for excellent customer support!

The latest update 12/7/23 causes the app to freeze and crash

This app is extremely buggy. It crashes while downloading data, it randomly stops downloading, says it has never downloaded data then does, says it has downloaded complete to a certain date when in fact it hasn’t. I use about 100 of these sensors for environmental research and I experience problems with them about 80% of the time. Absolutely would not recommend the DROP product.

App needs more work. My drip never seems to connect automatically, and most times I have to sync the logs manually. Even though I’m in the same house as the drop all the time, usually the same room (it hangs under a crib), I always need to reconnect. A watch complication would be nice with a reading and time since last update. Then at a glance I could see temp of the drop and that it’s been, say, 4m since the last update. I’ve also experienced an issue where I open the app and all my data is gone, it was like opening the app for the first time, that was super frustrating the first time it happened. It’s happened again, I’m tempted to blame the fact that I’m on beta software for the problem, but not sure why that would cause the issue in their app.

This app which supports the Kestrel Drop, a solid albeit imperfect product, is an improvement over its predecessor as it provides a look back at calendar day readings. I could be wrong but one thing I do not see that it’s predecessor had was the ability to manually reset the log so one could get the high and low readings for a specific time period, for my purposes, a calendar month. If this is in fact the case, it represents a major shortcoming in my opinion.

Neither of my two D3 loggers will stay connected. They connect, tell me to update my firmware to use the app in settings and then they disconnect, which prevents me from updating the firmware.

Please make the app compatible with Apple Watch! Thank you!

If you can, stick with the legacy app. The new app required updated firmware on the drop devices. Updating the firmware bricked the devices. Company did replace the devices for us, but the app still falls short of what the legacy app could do.

Works great with my Drop D3. Only issue is that it ALWAYS shows the battery as almost dead. Would be great if it showed accurate battery level.

What an improvement! This app excells in all aspects. Thank you Kestrel.