Names in a Hat App Reviews

Spending money on an app that doesnt work? Please learn from my mistake.

It doesnt work!! Does not select names at all

Worked just fine the first time I used it, now crashes every time I try to draw names again. Hasnt worked since the very first time. This is a SUPER simple app that youre charging money for. Fix the bloody thing.

I have a summer job as a camp counsellor and this is EXACTLY the sort of app I needed. Great for teachers, coaches, or anyone who has to manage groups of people. You can divide people into any number of teams, randomly order a list of people, or simply pick a name from a hat without having to go through the trouble of making several slips of paper and finding a hat. Its easy to customize, easy to organize, and all around easy to use. Im really glad I found it.

Should have the ability to accept the name... I was trying to choose names for secret Santa and people kept getting their own names, then we had to restart... If you could accept or decline the name it would be a lot more beneficial

Unable to edit past names. Please update for a better score

Theres got to be a better way of inputting 100 names in this app other than me typing them in one at a time.

A complete waste of $0.99. The interface reminds me of iOS 4. No joke. But whats worse is that when Im tutoring a group of kids & I want to shuffle their names in random order (so each can take a question), it works fine... despite all the tapping I have to do to get there). But when I want to do a second round, I have to tap a total of six times just to shuffle their names again. Might I add that theres a plethora of unnecessary taps & that the options (animations) are relatively slow. A complete waste of money & time!

Could get it to work:(

How hard would it be to make an app that actually shuffles names in a hat if thats what youre looking for this app does not do that it is a POS and a complete waste of $.99! I want my GD money back!

This app does it all!!! (especially if youre looking to draw names out of a hat). Hopefully the next update comes with fedoras or pin wheel hats

Because I dont see a hat anywhere. 5 stars though because it does exactly what I needed it to do.

works very well only suggestion would be if you could save a list

I would like to be able to save different lists. Like two or three different sets of people. Maybe a set of places to eat etc. That way I dont have to retype evertyhthing. With that its a 5 star app, and Ill update my review. One other suggestion. Add more keywords, like random decision maker, random name picker, etc. Youll sell a lot more, because its a cool little app.

Please update it so I can save the teams. Also, the e-mail function does not work.

I downloaded this before I updated to OS4 and it worked great. Since I have updated it crashes every time I try to run the actual randomizer. I was gonna use this for my fantasy football draft order. Looks like I wasted $1.

I open the app, press either button to start selecting names, and the app just closes. It worked one time, and since then, it closes every time. The app support link takes me to a blog of some kind, with no way to submit a support request. It is a neat idea, but I feel like a schmuck having paid for an app that says it works on the iPad, but for me clearly does not. Two stars...

This app allows the saving and random sorting of names of people, and also allows them to be assigned to a user-specified number of teams of any size. And, as youd expect, the names of the people are saved between launches so you dont need to reenter them each time. But the major shortcoming the app has is that, incredibly, it doesnt save the names of the teams between launches (even though you "save" them in exactly the same fashion as you save the names of the people, by entering text and pressing a "save" button)! Like many potential customers, I want to randomly assign people to tasks, equipment, rooms, etc, (all of which can be represented in the app as "teams"), on a regular and repeating basis. The people names and "team names" mostly stay the same from day to day. But having to reenter all the team names each time I launch the app makes the app basically worthless to me - it drives me back to using pencil, paper, and a hat, which gets the job done faster! Thomas Peters, please fix this bug so your app has real value. And if he doesnt, please, some other developer step in and create a competing app that does the job. There is easy money waiting to be made here! The only other apps Ive been able to find which are similar assume you only want to create two teams. Whoever steps in to provide this simple piece of functionality ought to be able to make a very good return on his investment. Also, Thomas Peters, if you do fix this app, please do add tags to it to make it show up when potential customers search for terms such as "pick teams" or "random teams" or "random names". I forget exactly how I found your app, but I know it was harder for me to find than competing, similar apps. Yours is the best if youll just fix this one glaring problem! Addendum to my original comment: Five months has transpired since I authored my original comment, begging the developer to fix the gaping bug in this app. There has been no reply, no update, no nothing. Meanwhile, a new app, "Team Shake", has appeared in the app store, with the functionality I was requesting. (I have no affiliation with "Team Shake", other than being a satisfied customer). I have thus lowered my ranking of "Names in a Hat" from 3 stars to 1, and, apparently like its developer, am henceforth abandoning it.

App closes every time I try to use it. Glad I wasted 99 cents :(

I bought this for use in the classroom. I teach six different classes in a day and it would be nice (and EASY I would think from a programmer standpoint) to have multiple rosters stored from which to draw random names each day. Until that happens, this app, which I bought over a year ago, stays off my iPhone.