At some point, without updates, it's likely that the app will stop working in future versions of Android and iOS, and if the developer isn't going to start working on it again, the strobe implementation he has is actually useful enough that I may need to write my own version.Īs many before me, I stumbled upon a non-functional PitchLab on my iPhone, as well as threads like this on the internets.
In any case, I've reached out to the developer to see if I can find out anything more. It's quite possible that whoever held that patent decided to continue causing a problem, which might also explain why there is no other app that has a similar (ie, actually useful) strobe display. It may also disappear from Apple's store, but in that case, there is little you can do.Īs to why it stopped being maintained, it may be that the developer simply lost interest, but I also recall noting with concern one update including a note about changing the strobe display to avoid infringing on a patent. I'd actually suggest making a backup of the apk now, if you have the app installed, as it may well disappear from Amazon as well at some point. Doing this, if you have access to your own copy somewhere, should be completely legal. My own solution was to pull the apk from my old phone via adb, store a backup of it, and then use adb to sideload it onto my new phone (keeping a backup of the apk as well). If you purchased a license, it is also perhaps a complex question as to whether downloading and installing a pirated copy would be legal, though that carries its own risks. This requires installing Amazon's app store, which you may or may not want to do, but it should work. Regardless of the removal reason, it is still available for Android via Amazon, just not Google Play. It appears that the app was removed from Google Play in 2017-12 this may have actually been automatic. The most recent update for Android on Amazon, which is the same as on my old phone, is 1.0.20 from 2015-11, and for Apple, it is 1.0.21 from 2015-12, which just fixes an Apple-specific crash. It appears the most probable answer is that the developer simply stopped supporting the app entirely. I was rather surprised to find Pitchlab gone from Google Play when I reset my phone, and so have been on a bit of a search to find out what happened (which is why I'm now posting here, the only place I've found where others are discussing it). (Short, practical answer: it is still available for Android through Amazon.)
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