Several Problems with Zillow for iPhone

soundsgoodtome
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First, let me say I realize this is v1 of this app, but honestly it just seems like it was released before it was finished.

• The main view, selectable by the lower left button, is incorrectly named "Street View." Um, Google much?? This is *not* street view! This is Map View. Street View is something entirely different, so this button should be renamed.

(Ironically, when looking at the details of a property, the top left arrowed button is called "Street View," and the top right button is called "Map." Yet -- tapping either of these buttons takes the user to the exact same place: Map View. (Weird.)

• No bookmarks?? So, each time we manually enter an address, there's absolutely no way to save that address for future reference. You have to type it in manually, every single time. Wow. This is a major oversight.

• Scrolling and zooming are excruciatingly slow and produce unexpected results. When I pinch to zoom in or out, I never seem to end up where I thought I would. Engineers, please look at the Google Maps app for the iPhone, and use that as a standard for how maps should behave.

• Also please incorporate the gestures that Google Maps does. For example, tapping once with *two* fingers zooms out one level. That's extremely useful!

• I live in a nice Los Angeles neighborhood, and the homes on either side of me are on the market. One's been listed for only 3 weeks, but the other's been listed for 11 months. Yet -- Zillow shows *neither* as being for sale. (I assume that's about Zillow's data more than the iPhone app, itself.)

I'm eagerly, eagerly awaiting updates to this app.

Thanks.

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May 09 2009 - US

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Rebekah Bastian, "Rebekah"
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Thank you for downloading our app and providing your feedback on it! You're right, it's V1 so we don't have every planned feature implemented yet (we wanted to get it out there so we could hear from helpful users like you what features were the most important... such as saved favorites).

I agree with you that one of our biggest areas for improvement is the map. It's surprising to me how difficult it was to implement (we had to start from scratch) and now we see a lot of areas to tweak to make it load faster and have more intuitive interactions. So thanks for bearing with that - we're working on it!

You're right, the listing data is the same as on Zillow.com. While we do have most of the listings in the country (over 3.3M) there are still some that we do not know about yet. We're getting more all the time though.

Again, thank you for your feedback, and please keep an eye out for updates to our app!