iPhone Review: LOLCats vs I Can Has Cheezburger
3 Comments// Posted in Reviews, iPhone by Sean on 09.22.09.
I’ve been using the iPhone app LOLCats for a while. Every once in a while I get in a lolcat mood and spend an hour giggling profusely over kittehs. For a while it was the only iPhone app worth getting to view lolcats. But today I noticed there was app made by ICanHasCheezburger.com themselves (basically the official lolcat database, as much as it can be at least). I had to immediately compare the two to figure out which one provides the best lolcat experience.
 LOLcats |
 I Can Has Cheezburger |
First let’s look at what both apps offer. Both have lite versions that display ads and both give you a simple lolcat viewing window to go back and forth between lolcats. That’s all you can really ask for and want from a lolcat app. And that is the biggest problem with the LOLCats app.
Since the latest update, the LOLCats app integrated the OpenFeint platform into its system. OpenFeint is a platform in many iPhone games that integrates achievements, chatrooms, and leaderboards throughout different games. OpenFeint is a really awesome idea. But the problem is that LOLCats isn’t a game. The leaderboard and achievements consist of how many LOLCats you’ve looked at. I didn’t even mind this though, except for that fact that the app initially opens up into a menu contains these things. You then only have to click “Browse lulz,” but that’s just one more step in between me and ceiling cat. I Can Has Cheezburger (ICHC) instead opens directly to the lolcats viewing screen. Simple and how it should be.
The ICHC app also allows you to view their other LOL sites as well, such as Failblog and others. This is a big plus for me since Failblog is equally as hilarious as ICHC.com. One might think that it is unnecessary and just clutters an app that would otherwise be exactly what you want and nothing more. But to access the other sites’ content, you have to touch small button that is wonderfully place and not in the way.
Another feature ICHC offers that LOLCats does not is the ability to upload photos from your camera (either by taking a photo within the app or taking a photo from your library) to their sites. It has roughly the same editor that their site does for creating and uploading LOLz, and you can even save the LOL to your photo album or email it.
One thing though that LOLCats does have over ICHC is that you have a favorites list where you can save the links to LOLz that you like to view later. This enables you to go back to a LOL later without having to save it to your phone. I personally could care less about saving some photos to my phone though since it’s easier to get back them that way anyway, in my opinion.
Conclusion
I Can Has Cheezburger offers a highly superior product than LOLCats, offering a LOL creator/submitter and access to other LOL sites such as Failblog, while LOLCats only offers a cluttered home screen with meaningless achievements and leaderboards.
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