This is frustrating. One of my wife's favorite apps, Instagram's Boomerang, has been broken on Android 12 since release. No sign of fixing it. The app store ha

This is frustrating. One of my wife's favorite apps, Instagram's Boomerang, has been broken on Android 12 since release. No sign of fixing it. The app store has been flooded with 1 and 2 star reviews as a result. I went digging for an alternative. It's just playing a 5 second loop forwards and backwards, so it can't be hard to re-implement, right? Someone's gotta have an alternative. You have now entered the Clone Wars. Dozens of imitation apps that claim to do the same, with similar names, touting similar features. Except they are riddled with ads and often don't even do what's advertised without some big watermark or outright paying for it. I'd love to find the one that's ad-free and just does what it should but I'm wading through what looks like aisles of a dollar store. The curation has gone to hell and this isn't helping. We need better ways of sorting and filtering on the app store.