Using Basecamp on your iPhone
Ever since I started using the iPhone I expected there to be a glut of decent Basecamp apps due to both being slanted towards a design and tech savvy audience. Also, due to a very capable API, Basecamp seems the ideal focus for an application that could offer high-productivity benefits and hence demand a fairly high price on the App Store.
However, I’ve been largely unimpressed with all the offerings I’ve tried. I’ve used Minivan for a while but it has often suffered from poor responsiveness and isn’t easy to use across multiple projects. Outpost appears to be flavour of the month with a slick website and top billing in a recent 37Signals mailshot but the reviews on App Store are dreadful [though it's fair to say the app may have been through several development cycles since]. And hence I’m currently trying out Groundwork, which seems good so far though there’s definitely room for improvement.
In short, none of the apps tested yet seem to be clear winners and I’d even go so far as to say none are yet worthy of anything other than infrequent or urgent access to your Basecamp projects.
