Clumsy and poorly implemented

Why do apps like this exist? Beesy attempts to do too many things — none of them are well executed, integrated or ordered. The app uses numerous hints and arrows to direct a user but it’s like a keystone cop directing you to keep going around and around a traffic circle. There is even a “help” system built into the pre-defined set of notes; it’s just another layer of lipstick that cannot hide the undeniable. This app is ugly to view and it’s a fright to try and use. How integrated teams would use this reliably is beyond me. If I was forced to use it I would just go back to a notebook and pen… And, having reviewed this for a full evening, I would never inflict this on my team. There are numerous in-app add-ins — I tried the Reminders full synchronization and I could not get the sync to work. I was drawn to this app by it’s integration of the Livescribe Pen but bringing in notes to this environment will just get them lost in a closed loop. There is virtually no integration with outside apps save for a PDF export function that is an in-app purchase. In this age of app extensions and interoperability between apps, this version of Beesy feels like something from the Windows 95 world; not iOS 8. A simple workflow from Livescribe to Editorial and Omnifocus pretty much solves what Beesy is trying to do and you get all of the other goodness of those 3 apps.

Brad Gibson about Beesy, v2.50