I have raised the score for it from 1 to 4

My first experience was pretty disappointing as the crashes frequently on my iOS 5.1 new iPad. Also it has very annoying glitches with its ability to rotate accordingly to tilting of the iPad.

I experienced crashes in 2 instances:

1. When trying to manipulate with the field of view to make its size just enough to fit nothing else but barcodes.

2. When trying to use the app on the iPad being in the upright position supported by its triangularly-folded Smart Cover.

I bypassed the issue #1 by switching off the blinders at all and scanning barcodes with the entire field of view.

Issue #2 is impossible to bypass as the above described position of the iPad is the best for scanning barcodes of books: it is much easier when the iPad is stationary so you do not need to manipulate with pretty heavy device aweigh. I do want to be able to use this app in this manner, but it readily crashes, sometimes right after launch, sometimes after 10-15 scans.

In another orientations the app looks to be stable until you try to limit the field of view with blinkers. So I tried to launch it in a vertical orientation and then to put the iPad in the aforementioned upright position. Well, it works but camera very often starts to behave finicky so that it is not possible to use it intuitively without a guesswork in what mysterious direction you should move a book to fit a barcode in the window. It is like as if you would have ended up in a parallel world and found out that when you try to write something on a paper in a way you are used to your words come out mirrored and flipped upside down.

So there is a huge glitch with its orientation capabilities and it seems that the apps stability is affected by it.

Now, there are huge plus of this program: it really does what it is intended to do. It scans barcodes, recognizes and seamlessly transfers them to anywhere your cursor is on you PC (I did not test it on Mac). On condition that you install on PC the Thetis software. I chose "Bonjour" protocol and automatic connection.

I love its ability to convert (if possible) EAN-13 into ISBN-10.

If there are EAN-13 and EAN-5 together, it reads and recognizes both of them, and then creates 2 separate entires for each. So, in this regard the app is perfect.

Also I like that the developers publish updates regularly, unlike their competitors.

Bottom line is that the app is useful, interesting, promising and could be a pleasure to work with once the glitches are resolved.

Dear developers, please, resolve. It is just not serious when the app crashes all the time. Hope that you will not leave my review without attention and make you app the one that rocks.

Sergey Nikonov about iCody WiFi Barcode Scanner, v2.4.1