Your virtual guide to Kansas City’s regional public HeART experience. Navigate your way through neighborhoods and communities with the help of this app and see all the Heartland has to offer! • Learn about each heart’s artist and their inspiration • An interactive map allows you to traverse neighborhoods to find new hearts and track what you’ve seen • Explore curated heart collections on Parade Routes, unlocking badges by checking in at all local artist hearts
Has been better in the past
This is the third year I have done the Parade of Hearts, and it is by far the worst. I love the hearts, but the app is horrible. The app crashes constantly, where the only feature that will work is the QR code scanner. When it crashes, the map, the home page, the routes page, and the list of hearts isn’t visible. As a side comment unrelated to functionality, a good majority of heart descriptions have glaringly obvious spelling errors that would be easy to resolve.
Year 3 more app issues
This is the third tour of the hearts and this is the most issues with the app.
Kinda useless…
QR code scanner doesn’t focus to scan the hearts, I have to use the camera app first before it reroutes to the app. Also the integrated map doesn’t show your current location to see where the nearest heart is at. Could use some updates to improve this experience. Would be cool if you could have an imbedded photo library to take photos at each heart location and the ability to share to social media or something.
2024 glitches
I loved this app until this year. Many glitches. When scanning QR code it brings up white screen and won’t count check in. You can manually check in but then that doesn’t add it to your total. The new counting feature is a good idea…if it worked. Only 2 of my first 5 show counted. One of the biggest issues that should be fixed is that the hearts don’t change color on the map once you’ve seen them! I believe they were either blue or purple last year and this year they’re black and don’t change. This makes it harder to navigate with the map and is a bit frustrating. If these areas could be changed it would be a great app!! Update: new version updates don’t work. I deleted and reinstalled the app and only 3 of 4 hearts change colors on the map indicating I’ve visited and the Home Screen now edicts 0% seen instead of 4% even with the screen refresh.
What happened to this app?
The previous years it worked flawlessly! The 2024 version doesn’t change the colors of the pins, freezes when using the map, doesn’t immediately update, the scanner is nearly worthless. It used to be fun to see what might be around your current location, but now it’s too cumbersome. You’re already out of the area by the time it decides to show anything.
2024 glitches
I loved this app until this year. Many glitches. When scanning QR code it brings up white screen and won’t count check in. You can manually check in but then that doesn’t add it to your total. The new counting feature is a good idea…if it worked. Only 2 of my first 5 show counted. One of the biggest issues that should be fixed is that the hearts don’t change color on the map once you’ve seen them! I believe they were either blue or purple last year and this year they’re black and don’t change. This makes it harder to navigate with the map and is a bit frustrating. If these areas could be changed it would be a great app!!
User Location on Map - We've added user's location pin to the map screen to help identify what hearts are nearby! Scanning - Updates made to the app's scanning feature to pull in a full camera that allows you to zoom and auto focus on the heart's QR codes Progress Heart and Routes - We've updated the app to account for the hearts scanned and checked-in manually.
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