Favorite Color Personality Test 1.0

Many personality test apps are scams, but that doesn’t mean you have to avoid them. What it means is you have to understand that most of these apps are meant for entertainment purposes. Few of them are actually based on research.

Bad UI

Unfortunately, many developers leave their apps out to rot. It’s the case of Favorite Color Personality. It still lives in the days of iOS 3, and that includes a UI that’s tailored for devices with 3.5-inch screens. The idea is nice, and it’s a fairly straightforward. However, the layout is so badly optimized for today’s phones and firmwares that even the ad banner fails to display, essentially making $0 for the developer.

False marketing

“Find out secrets about your personality from your three most favorite colors. You will be surprised with the results.” That’s the whole description. Normally we don’t have a problem with fun apps, despite the fact that they’re essentially spam. But the developer is required (by the App Store’s guidelines) to specify that it’s meant for entertainment purposes, that it doesn’t have any scientific background, etc. Or, if it does have scientific background, then it should state that as well. Because, who knows, someone might be told some inaccurate things about their personality based on their color choices.

Test results are general and predictable

The app generalizes quite a lot, and the descriptions are very predictable. For example, “You care creative, caring and artistic.” Or, “most times, you are looking for some change in your life.” I think that describes about half of the world’s population. And it’s not very probably that half of the world’s population has the same three favorite colors, especially when you have choices like cyan, indigo, and gold. Just saying.
 

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