Acrobits Groundwire Reviews – Page 5
4/5 rating based on 73 reviews. Read all reviews for Acrobits Groundwire for iPhone.
Acrobits Groundwire is paid iOS app published by Acrobits
Terrible! The update wipes all settings!
ThisIsMyPublicNickname
I'll start by saying I like the product and have been using it for a couple of years now. What happened in the latests update is that it completely wiped my account settings, forcing me to re-do them (which takes about 20 long minutes). The personalized setting which were tweaked to fit our phone system as well as personal preferences are the result of a couple of years of trial and error. This is definitely laziness and negligence on part of the developers.
Piece of crap
95762xxx
Does not work with iPhone 6. Videos are useless. Preconfigured setups are simply incomplete and don't work with the sip providers. They load a few parameters, not all, and if you want to spend 6 hours doing trial and error you can get it to work, why should you have to? Don't buy.
Used to work, now it's junk!
DrGuinea
This used to work flawlessly before it updated, then it wiped all my settings! Now it can't receive phone calls when registered with my phone system, even though I entered the same settings. Thanks for the update!!! Can I get a refund???
Used to work.
Ghostio
This software used to work well, but the quality has declined a great deal. I started using Bria instead, and I now have a flawless phone system. Groundwire started causing audio problem that I think are related to memory usage, as I noticed that quitting programs fixed the problem. I am giving it two extra stars because it worked reasonably well for two years.
Developers made it worthless
speedy_rater
These guys do not test their product before publishing it. Groundwire used to work but some releases have been buggy / broken features. This last release added “Do Not Disturb” capability - permanently. You can no longer receive calls. Its been over a month and no fix in sight. This publisher is no longer compelling or viable.
Everything I need!
bones boy
Call recording, Push notifications, support for ZRTP, what more could you ask for?
Removed support for Google Voice!
Phoenix2000
They've removed support for making calls with Google Voice, which was one of the best features of the app! Please bring it back! Prior review: This is the best SIP client for iphone that I've found, and I've tried several. A little on the pricy side, but definitely worth it. Has customized setup for lots of different SIP providers, including a pretty decent interface to Google Voice. Some people seem to be complaining that it's too complicated, but SIP has a lot of options, and to support lots of different systems, a certain amount of complexity is required. But the interface is clean and logical, and once your accounts are setup, it's really easy to use. Give me flexibility any day, much better than only supporting a single (or just a few) providers.
Reply to Phoenix2000 -- Re:GoogleVoice Tie-in
JohnSkyer
Phoenix2000, GoogleVoice kept changing the way their site is accessed and the only way to keep up with it was to have the login to it thru the App, go thru the Acrobits servers, in their country, when you use Groundwire to make the call from your country. This way, Acrobits was able to "adjust" their procedure to login to GoogleVoice on their (Acrobits') end without needing to change their App programming code each time Google changed their procedure to place a call. I had to stop using the GoogleVoice 'tie-in', because of this. I almost lost my phone service because Google was going to shut my account down, thinking it was being hacked from Acrobits' country..! They (GoogleVoice) sent an eMail to me asking if I was being hacked. Not to mention, my Google login info being on and going thru their (Acrobits') server too.! There's no encryption used when you login to your accounts. It's not plain text, but it's not encrypted, like SSL. If your ISP, or WiFi HotSpot isn't secure, or you're not on your own home router with your own encryption set up, your login info is bouncing around cyber-space too. That alone is bad enough, but now, with this GoogleVoice 'Tie-in' it's also going across countries to the Acrobits server as well. Regular SIP accounts still use your regular ISP, or HotSpot connection locally (not via Acrobits servers) , so it's as good as that normally is. But that also is subject to if your router or the HotSpot is encrypted. I just simply, and more securely, open my iPad browser and log into my GoogleVoice account to place a call. Yes, it's a bit more inconvenient, but way more secure, and until another way is figured out to do it via Groundwire, it's best to do it the old-fashioned way. :) I'm still using v2.5.5 also, because I don't like this new UI (User Interface) I'm hoping a future version will allow both older and newer style of UI, with a settings choice.
From 5 stars to 1 with this bad UI update!
dannyt2
This app is still the best functioning with the most options and I had previously given 5 stars but it's usability took a step backwards with the V3.x update. They removed a lot of useful and vital information from the main call screen and put it under a separate menu. The fonts used for the numbers on the header are way too small and thin to see in the sunlight. It won't let you bold the font or increase the size. The new scaled text for 6+ is very poorly done, it expands the dial pad to very large numbers but makes the header even smaller than it was before. They need to go back to the way it was. This is one of those cases where there were NO improvements in the update only downgrades in usability and change just for change sake. Terrible!
Almost really good
me-me-now
The app works really well. I've used it for pure SIP calls and calls terminating in the PSTN. Call quality is good. I've tried other apps, and Acrobit's software is by far the best available if you want to actually -answer- calls while the app is in the background. That said? ZRTP encryption is turned off by default for inbound calls. It's a hell of a hunt to turn it on, too. This is inexcusable. Outbound ZRTP isn't available at all unless you shell out another $25. You know what? That just means I'll do it from another app--a free one, like Linphone. So the outbound price is just stupid greed--I'd pay a couple of bucks for the convenience of including it, but for $25? It means nobody gets my money. The turned-off ZRTP for inbound calls, though, and the buried setting? What, only geeks deserve private calls? It's pretty lame.