Clear for iPhone is the new Tweetie. The UI designed by Impending and Realmac Software is incredibly fresh, and they eschewed buttons—the tired interface tool that has been around basically since we evolved away from the command line—and truly embraced multi-touch gestures in a fantastic way.
Like any 1.0, Clear has a couple rough spots. Some find it confusing to pull down just a little in a list to create a new item at the top, but pull down more to move up to the list of all your task lists (alternatively, you can pinch in a task list to bump up to the master list). Clear also doesn’t sync or otherwise work with other task management services yet, and for now it is just for iPhone.
But what is here so far is wonderful. Clear is an instantly iconic app for this new era of multi-touch computing. My hat is off for the teams at Realmac and Impending.
Screenshots don’t do Clear justice. Even if you don’t need a task manager or have an iPhone, take just a minute and watch the demo video. Clear is just 99¢ in the App Store.
From strictly a “List View” perspective this is pretty innovative. The sounds queues could really appeal to people giving them the “Yay!” moment when they complete a task. Video Games like World of Warcraft and its Quest System have been utilizing this stuff for years.
