Love this app so far 4/5
By Gliding_swan
Hi, "I just wanted to say that I really love this app. Just one question, can you please maybe make it a little bit more accessible? Like in the albums part, I can't access the videos right. I can only access 1 out of 4. I needed to access them for my dance class. Thanks.
Notifications don’t go away like they should 4/5
By Dermit Dad
This is a great app. My child’s high school marching band uses it and it’s very handy. We used it extensively during our trip to Disney World. My biggest gripe is that when I follow the notifications to read the newest messages, it still shows the red dot on the home screen as if I didn’t read it. I then have to go back into the feed and open it again. Even then, it’s rather slow to make the red dot go away. I practically spend more time going in and out of messages and waiting to make sure the dot disappears than I do actually reading the messages.
Editing privileges 5/5
By Joy Mack
I’ve been using this app for years and am a member of over 20 bands. I use this for family, friends and church volunteer groups. The bands that I’m a manager of, I would love the option to be able to edit posts of others. I will ask other members to post information and I will look over and double check for miss-spelled words and content. I have to text them to correct the post instead of being able to quickly edit it myself. It would be great if managers of the band had the permission to edit posts from others. Right now, I can only delete the entire post, which is not helpful unless some posted something inappropriate.
5 stars with google calendar 3/5
By kenchesler
Best app for bands to organize. But the fact that i cant sync/export calendar events to & from my google calendar is a major pain point. Seems like a simple feature to implement. C'mon ya'll. W/out it band is 3/5 with it, its 5/5
A must have!! 5/5
By chantel glitters
I LOVE this app!! ❤️
Terrible 1/5
By Aifos98
Terrible
Great app! One idea 5/5
By John 3:16-21 ❤️
Love this app!!! One suggestion, could you please make it so that in the group chat areas it allows bold, italic, and underlined words? I send devotionals to my friends through BAND, and it would be awesome if it kept the words bold/italic/underlined! Thank you! Love BAND!
Can not enter verification code 2/5
By T_Crawford
I just tried installing the BAND app and after completing the registration info, was required to enter a verification code which was auto generated and sent via SMS. The issue is that I cannot enter the code as it does not bring up my keyboard to type it in and when I try to copy & paste the code, it only pastes the first (of four) numbers. I’m stuck and cannot complete the process. I am running iOS 13.3 in an iPhone X.
Apple Watch? 4/5
By bmackr
This app is great for our community group to keep in touch. However, I’m taking away a star because it doesn’t work with my Apple Watch and I miss some chats when they are first posted. I hope this is an update that is in the works?
Great Concept - Very Annoying Notifications 2/5
By JessicaKnits
I like that our club can communicate freely or cheaply using band. However, I get more notifications from Band than I do from my active group. So I’m torn between having notifications on and constantly being annoyed or notifications off and missing most things. Really crappy design and makes me want to drop band and communicate the old fashioned way.
Not satisfied 2/5
By Jencooper08
Hard to navigate, not intuitive.
Problem with settings 1/5
By CA_resident
Every time I go to settings and email notification, the app gets stuck. I’m trying to disable email notifications, but I can’t because of this.
Other than that, app seems to work fine.
TSS tss tss 1/5
By sicdil
It won’t let me pass the login nor sign up, it just keeps loading and I kept the app open for hours. I even used WiFi just Incase my phone network was the problem, still doing the same thing.
please reorganize. Not enough hours of the day to use. 1/5
By please reorganize
There does not seem to be a way to separate info updates from band responses which causes confusion and frustration for users. And, there needs to be a way for team or band members to be able to solely respond to individual band members.
When team members respond to particular questions which could just be shared with the coach, all of the team responses are listed within a single feed which makes it impossible to find salient information pertaining to logistics and so forth. Is there a way to separate team announcements from team responses. This way, the users do not have to spend a lot of time reading the team parents responses when trying to find game day info.
And, is there a way that parents can directly respond to individual members such as the coach so that the rest of the “band members” are not inundated with “band” member responses such as “Johnny is not feeling well” and “Jim is taking a test” and so forth.
Thanks.
Terrible Company Stay Away!!! 1/5
By Norcalie
They deleted our local and highly active airsoft group out of nowhere. It’s been around for almost a year. Band fully locked me the admin out of my account for 7 days, and now I have access to my account and I can’t communicate with any of my 700 plus members or any previous chatrooms or direct messages I had with members. On top all this all the members of the group lost all contact info of their fellow members. This is complete censorship! They emailed and told me that in their terms and conditions when you sign up they have the right to delete your group for any reason and theirs nothing that can reverse their decision. I asked for their superiors contact info but they keep ignoring the request. Complete waste of 1000s of hour of work on this group.
Shut a very active group for no reason 1/5
By Purplezg
Not using this app again shut a very active group that is part of a big community for no reason no warning etc. Discrimination against airsoft group
Beware Band Will Delete Your Group! 1/5
By DaDestroyer2002
I just wanted to let anyone that downloads this app to create a social group that Band can and will delete your group at anytime without a reason, which is what they did with ours groups!!! They will freeze your account for 7 days so you don’t know what’s going on and they delete your band group without a reason! All your members that try to access the group will see a message saying you are restricted by admin which is you and shows a icon asking members to leave the group and you will lose all your member contacts as you can only talk to members in groups that you belong to.
Our band group consisted two local airsoft community groups called “Norcal Airsoft Classifieds” & “Norcal Airsofters” we had accumulated 1000 members between the two groups all from Northern California which took a lot of time to build up the group. We used it to communicate about future games, chat, trade/sell gear, and to help grow the airsoft community. We heavily moderated both groups to make sure everyone one was treated with respect. We have been using this app for a few years without any trouble and then all of a sudden our groups are gone. This greatly saddens me that the group me a my fellow airsoft player spent 1000’s of hours putting together is all gone. Band should be ashamed at the way they treat their users. They have greatly damaged our airsoft community.
Please don’t let this happen to you!!!!!
Update buggy 3/5
By prayingmoose
My app updated today and now it is barely working. It keeps saying it has timed out. Deleted and reinstalled app. Now can’t even log in due to “timed out” prompt
Shut down our large group w/o notice 1/5
By Kaelin S
It restricted access for everyone in the group. No communication to the members
working well 4/5
By I review da good ones
it’s pretty decent i don’t NEED this app but it’s nice to talk to others and bond over stuff. i had previously used Amino (like everyone else lol) for this but my favorite comic, Freaking Romance started a band for this and that’s what made me start using it. i haven’t had a problem with it so far but apparently others have.
Language Change 3/5
By chuckinCT
For some reason this app is now showing our English app in Chinese language. I cant figure out how to convert back, should I just delete it and start over?
Deleting groups 1/5
By Adsucks lot
They’ve delete multiple groups without warning or reason givin. We had worked hard and had almost 1000 members in our group this has proven most upsetting and have had no reply’s from customer service as of yet.
Beware Band Will Delete Your Group! 1/5
By angrysales
Beware Band Will Delete Your Group!
I just wanted to let anyone that downloads this app to create a social group that Band can and will delete your group at anytime without a reason, which is what they did with ours groups!!! They will freeze your account for 7 days so you don’t know what’s going on and they delete your band group without a reason! All your members that try to access the group will see a message saying you are restricted by admin which is you and shows a icon asking members to leave the group and you will lose all your member contacts as you can only talk to members in groups that you belong to.
Our band group consisted two local airsoft community groups called “Norcal Airsoft Classifieds” & “Norcal Airsofters” we had accumulated 1000 members between the two groups all from Northern California which took a lot of time to build up the group. We used it to communicate about future games, chat, trade/sell gear, and to help grow the airsoft community. We heavily moderated both groups to make sure everyone one was treated with respect. We have been using this app for a few years without any trouble and then all of a sudden our groups are gone. This greatly saddens me that the group me a my fellow airsoft player spent 1000’s of hours putting together is all gone. Band should be ashamed at the way they treat their users. They have greatly damaged our airsoft community.
Please don’t let this happen to you!!!!!
Really buggy 1/5
By Gagenova
This app is hard to navigate and is really buggy, I can’t log in or sign up with anything, it just says I am unauthorized, I deleted it and redownloaded it and it still won’t work
Worst Customer Service 1/5
By austenjames2
I am writing to share the terrible experience I had using this app. I have been using BAND on and off for a while, but when I tried to log in the app says that my account doesn’t exist. When I tried to create a new account under the same email, the app says I cannot do this because I have tried with that email address before.
I wrote into customer service, they said I was repeatedly creating and deleting accounts. This is not the case as I had only created one account ever. They said they had released my email address and I could create a new account under the same email. When I tried to do this, I was still locked out.
I wrote back to customer service again and explained that I never deleted and recreated my account. They did not respond to me until 5 days later. They said that this was impossible, and the only thing that could have happened is that I intentionally deleted my account.
BANDs ticketing system for customer service inquiries does not allow for replies. So each time I need to reply, I have to start a new ticket and catch the customer service agent up to speed. Based on the way they write their responses, I am not certain that they are fully reading or understanding what I am saying.
From what I could research, this company is not based in the US, so it is possible that there is a language barrier here. The grammar of the agent’s writing was very awkward to read. If BAND is offering customer service to a US audience, they should have agents that are fluent in the language.
So here I am, still locked out of my account without any of my history. I will be working to migrate my group onto a different platform.
Good but confusing 3/5
By soccer130611
Overall this is a good app for our group. However I find it very annoying to find a comment someone has made that showed up as a push notification. It could be in chat, feed, event sign up in feed, or in events. Information is in too many places.
Annoying, Difficult to Use 1/5
By Kanejohn125
This application keeps giving me notifications for messages and then when I try to clear them, it goes away and comes back 5 seconds later. I always have to go into the app, quit the app, and go back in to clear every notification. It’s also slow, not very nice to look at (design wise), and slightly buggy.
Unsure about safety 4/5
By ZaitwuZaatar
Helps a lot but are concerned. Is this encrypted and can you be specific about safety features?
Improvement 3/5
By Heazykvng
I think there should be a last seen section in groups and there memebers
Or they should be a last seen sort arranging the members the most recent online in the group with the date
Please improve this on your next update
Great way to communicate 4/5
By loraxfan13
A+
Band review 3/5
By Damon78sp
I love the band app. Just wish I could get it on my Apple Watch!
Dark Mode Needs Fixed 4/5
By DarkLighter1985
The newest update is awesome. Dark Mode is awesome, but when it’s active messages in chats where someone is tagged show up as black on black. It’s pretty much unreadable. Messages without people tagged still have white font with a black background. I’m not sure if anyone else has said anything about black text appearing in messages with tagged people in them. It just needs to be tweaked a bit.
**Edit** Update to 7.7.2 seems to have fixed it. I thought the update that was available about three days ago was the latest.
Love your app, just have 1 request 4/5
By Coach G..
If you could add the ability to add attendance to the app that would be amazing. Either by manual, or by individual pin. Athletes role only would have to check in and/or. This would be a game changer and help coaches a ton.
Broken in dark mode 1/5
By bsh12134
Mentioned chats will have dark background with dark font color
I like it 4/5
By Shannanigans Shan
It’s okay. I like it better than some of the others
Buggy 1/5
By MallaryKV
The app is really bug ridden in that when you try to play videos, it either will not play or it starts over all the time.
Hate the new added message feature 5/5
By goteebrother
Love this app. I’ve been using it for years. How do I enable dark mode?
i wish we can change the color of text 4/5
By ✨🥰⭐
and more themes please
Please change this 3/5
By Age Iron
So I appreciate that the new update adapted the ‘dark mode’ feature since I primarily use dark mode now, but I don’t understand why the feature to get rid of wallpapers isn’t available and the wallpaper is replaced by a bland matte dark blue background. Please let us use the custom wallpaper feature while on dark mode!!
Band app 4/5
By larize212
I love the BAND app pretty easy self-explanatory. The only thing that I think can make it even better is having live feeds (live video)
Badges/Notifications 4/5
By elmoremyers3
I feel like the badges & notifications are never accurate
Notifications are SO annoying 2/5
By katieqgils
This is the first time I have ever written a review for an app. But I am trapped into using this app bc my daughter’s coach selected it.
I see red notification badges that I need to see something in the app. It could be a message from our coach or a calendar update. But it is often just stickers or something trying to tell me to start another Band. Why on earth would I ever willingly use this app? Our team used the Shutterfly Share website and app last year and it was SO MUCH BETTER.
I have read that there is a way to limit these notifications but the instructions are from a year ago and it seems that the app has changed since then. It’s hard to find exactly what I’m supposed to do. It’s irritating that I have repeatedly looked in the settings for how to fix this and have yet to figure it out. Why the default settings would be so intrusive is beyond me. Obviously I am concerned about turning off notifications bc I need to receive messages from our coach.
UPDATE: I did finally sort out how to turn off “service notifications.” And yet—I still receive annoying alerts about things I do not care about and am not using the app for. Today’s was “The festivities have begun—start planning your party!” Precisely because these messages are SO ANNOYING and there seems to be no way to turn them off completely is why I would never willingly use this app. I am forced to use it bc my coach chose it. But I would never ask my friends or family to use it. Do you see this ridiculous cycle? Because it’s so annoying, I won’t recommend it. And yet I keep getting reminders to recommend it! Ughhhhhhh
Ineligible. Why? 1/5
By Wavzworld
When I signed up and told me I was in ineligible I have no idea why?
Google doc bug 4/5
By Mr.Bubbles1217
Great App, love using it for the worship band I lead. The only part that I’m having trouble with is being unable to open an attached google doc in a post. I’m not sure if y’all are aware of this bug or not. Thanks!
Confusing 1/5
By Ky bowhinter
Just doing this so it stops prompting me for a review. Band is a confusing app.
Good 5/5
By cy choi
매우 편히해요.
렉이 장난아님 3/5
By ihategermanwifi
렉 좀 고쳐주세요 진짜 저만 이런건지 모르겠는데... 밴드 렉 원래 심한거 익히 들어 어느정도는 참겠는데 채팅하기 힘들정도로 렉이 걸리면 저는 앱을 사용하기가 참 어렵습니다 정말요... 그거 때문에 밴드를 몇번을 지웠다 까는지 몰라요... 페이지 로딩 몇번씩 되는건 이제 너무 익숙해서 몇달째인지 모르겠고 대화 갑자기 크롭돼서 더보기 눌러야 나오는 렉도 왜 존재하는지 모르겠고... 카톡처럼 빠른거 안 바래요 렉 좀 고쳐주세요
Buggy 1/5
By mec0609
The app does not work correctly. It constantly says that it cannot connect to the server and gives this error message in a loop that prevents logging in. Have tried updating and deleting and reinstalling app to no avail. App says it is compatible with my iPhone and it worked when I first installed it but clearly is having issues now because this problem has been going on or over a month.
Comments 4/5
By comments on posts
I would love the availability to turn off comments for a specific post. I asked students to list the snacks they are bringing. We now have enough! So I’d like to turn off that post and not all comments.
