RNLI Pager 4+

Love this app, fantastic to see the alerts for any rnli enthusiast. Would be perfect for a Apple Watch app so that could get notifications on my watch face as they happened. Maybe one day.

This is obviously a hobby project for the developer which is now 4 years old, so it would be unfair to expect it to be as polished as a commercial app. The couple of problems I found with it are the notifications are always something like 25minutes late, although this might be a deliberate delay by the RNLI to stop people rushing to the station to watch the launch. I also noticed that despite me only selecting a handful of stations near me, the app would randomly have a fit and start spewing out notifications for every launch in the country. I’ve just had about 5 notifications in quick succession for stations as far apart as the Thames and Poole, the others I would have to look up on a map.

Really great app! Downloaded recently and it worked the first time I opened it and subscribed but as I went back on it, it will stay open for a few seconds before exiting back to the home page. Other than that it’s an amazing app that lets you feel a bit more aware of what the RNLI do, would be great to get it fixed though.