Oblique Strategies SE App Reviews

The app is good though I do wish there was an option to turn off shuffle when coming back to the main menu from the settings and the information, basically being able to lock the same card in place or having a history/undo feature would be great.

The app is great and functional - and I love that there’s a widget! Just wish it was more functional. It doesn’t seem to rotate strategies or give you an option to refresh it. Only deleting the widget and then re-adding is what seems to switch it up, which is cumbersome. This would be the most useful widget in the App Store if it was a little more dynamic, I want to shuffle it easily as I flick thru my home screens between other tasks….please fix!!

would love to see a smaller widget option tho

Please support black background widgets! Ive had this app as a big widget on my home screen for years. Just wish it could be white text on black. It seems that’s only supported when entering the app, but not for widgets.

You’re missing the blank card. That’s the most important. Please add a feature for adding cards of our own.

It's Oblique Strategies for the iPhone

Any card you see will cause you to have a new perspective on whatever difficulty you perceive.

I love the idea of this app but I feel like it really needs user cards added. I’d love to have a custom deck, one of my own strategies, that can be mixed in with the others. This would be huge as it allows my older self, full of creative ideas, to give my future self little barrier breaking advice. Please add custom decks!!!! Thanks :)

I wish I'd known about this years ago! I formerly toured in a metalcore band and now compose & produce ambient/psytrance electronic music. I came across Oblique Strategies while reading up on Brian Eno's process. I've often used constraints to attempt to get unstuck. However, these cards offer many more methods. I once read a book called "One great insight is worth a thousand ideas". These cards will lead to many great insights.

Love the paper product. The app is nice. Very clean. Minimalist. But the daily widget on the home screen has never worked for me. It just gives a blank box. None of the suggestions to fix the widget worked. But the new version fixed the problem

Love the paper product. The app is nice. Very clean. Minimalist. But the daily widget on the home screen has never worked for me. It just gives a blank box.

I agree with the other reviewer that said this was the best of the oblique strategy apps, given that the user can modify the screen presentation and also choose between the different set versions. A bargain for two bucks.

I love my deck on the studio and it’s nice to have a portable version too

Been a fan since these were on paper and on my Palm pilot. Nothing fancy, just beautifully minimal to spur a random thought to generate creative thinking and application.

This is a great app, but it would be great to have a function for adding our own cards to the deck.

These directives are logs for stubborn camels that got stuck. It’s a pretty versatile thing...read the manual.

Simple and minimal; exactly as it should be. The only thing lacking is an option for the widget to switch from light to dark automatically with iOS system setting. Add this and it’s perfect!