Pinger: Call + Phone SMS App Reviews – Page 2
5/5 rating based on 686 reviews. Read all reviews for Pinger: Call + Phone SMS App for iPhone.
Pinger: Call + Phone SMS App is free iOS app published by Pinger, Inc.
Pop up ads and audio are way too distracting
Mattybrapz31
I know these Aps need to make money and advertise but this is getting ridiculous on this ap. An ad should not take over your screen and certainly should not have any audio unless you want to click on the ad. Heck I have my iPhone silent mode on and the ad still has audio playing in silent mode. Make the ads less overpowering and turn off the sound or you will lose me as a user.
Not a free app beware
Carl X SMP
Before even start using it ask to add minutes, $1.99 for 100 minutes. It’s not free. Waste of time as there are many others completely free of charge.
Tacky Ad Situation ?
Sabor Místico
5/27/20: My sincere thanks for responding to my review! Still, your statement was partly generic. At no time did I say anything about “wanting your ads to disappear.” The problem that I was reporting was the *obstructive positioning* of your ads and the *nature of their content* (for more than a week the same dating fetish ads from one particular company popped up continuously on my screen, to the exclusion of all other ads). Thankfully, the fetish ads appear to be gone now, after a recent update. However, another ad issue persists: after reading a single txt message (and now sometimes before even reading one) a full page ad pops up and takes over the entire screen. This only makes me want to ignore it altogether. So I close the app without reading the content. Update: I checked several times and the ad that blocks out the entire screen most often is one that reads: “Who Are They Messaging?” However, the bottom line is that there really are any number of other ads that pop up and do the very same thing, and the situation has gotten noticeably worse since these types of obstructive pop-ups started. This type of gimmick does not inspire goodwill towards your advertisers, that’s for sure, and constitutes a serious decline in the functionality and quality of the app itself. ——————————- I used to like this app a lot but the recent setup causing an ad to pop up and fill the page immediately after every txt I read or send is excessive and unwelcome. I am also surprised and turned off by the constant presence of ads for what seems like fetish “dating” apps. I can’t see any reason why I should be receiving ads like that on my phone and it makes me want to use this app less - or even rethink using it entirely.
Greatest app in the worLD
devon schooler
Great reception great reviews great prices great free stuff
Ads are getting worse and worse over time
1001_apps
The ads are slowly and systematically getting worse and worse over time, like you are trying to condition your users to tolerate more and worse over time, like boiling frogs. We now have full page ads that pop up frequently and sometimes play sound without touching anything. AN AD SHOULD NEVER PLAY SOUND UNLESS A USER CLICKS TO PLAY SOMETHING, AS IPHONES ARE OFTEN USED IN WORKPLACES WHERE UNWANTED SOUNDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The ads seems to require clicks in different locations to dismiss. Are you trying to see how much users will tolerate?
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jahemushd
When I was on pinger I got a text from a random number. The person with that number ask inappropriate questions. So I deleted the app.
Great app but I find pricing of extra minutes odd
Conni2you
I recently downloaded this app to use as a back up phone line for business purposes when I do not want to have my personal cell number show up on someone’s caller ID. It automatically came with 60 minutes of free talk time. First let me start off by saying that this app works really well. I have had very little issue with it with the exception of a few dropped calls but I don’t think that was because of the app itself… I believe it was due to either not having a strong Wi-Fi signal or the other party having bad cell service at the time. Also the sound quality is a little muffled or quieter compared to when I call from my regular cell line. It’s almost like it has a little bit of static or something like that. Some of the people sound like they’re holding the phone away from their face when they are talking. It is not terrible… I can still here and I understand what people are saying to me but I do notice the difference in the sound quality. I will say that I am the one making the calls and I don’t typically get incoming calls to the app so I don’t know how quickly it is at with incoming calls. There is a little bit of a delay with incoming texts but nothing crazy. Now about the minutes.... as I said it automatically comes with 60 minutes of talk time and I believe that 60 minutes renews every month. If you want to earn extra minutes you can watch quick 15 to 30 second videos to earn a minute and sometimes two minutes per video. They also have offers to sign up for certain services or to take surveys to earn larger quantities of minutes. I have never signed up for the services or done the surveys because the little bit of investigating that I did in regard to them just seemed like you had to jump through a lot of hoops. Also I was concerned about having my information possibly sold to a third-party so I just avoid those. Then there is the option to purchase minutes. The first option is to purchase 100 minutes for $1.99.... That does not sound too bad. The next option is to purchase 400 minutes for $9.99… That’s the one that I find odd. Typically I have always found that when you have certain levels or amounts of things that you can purchase… The more you purchase the less expensive they will be. So if 100 minutes is $1.99 then you would think 400 minutes would be around $8 or even less. I would be better off purchasing four of the 100 minute packages for $7.96 then to get 400 minutes for around $10. The next package is 1000 minutes for $18.99. That does give you a little bit of a discount but not much. If I could I would suggest possibly offering a little bit of a discount on the 400 minutes. It does not have to be much… like $6.99 maybe. Anyway other than that one issue with the Minutes the app has been very useful. I hope that this review helps in the decision making process. Edit: I have had this app for over a year at this point. I can’t remember when I got it but I remember when I did it had a different name and within a few weeks the name had changed to Pinger. Anyway I had previously said that I thought you would get 60 minutes of free talk time every month. I have not used this app in a few months but would send a text or make a call on it at least once a month to keep my account current. I have started using it more regularly again and it dawned on me that I probably have a couple hundred extra minutes now since I have not really used it but kept the account going. When I went to look I saw that my minutes were the same amount as when I had stopped using the app months ago. I know there has been changes and updates so I’m guessing that they do not give you 60 minutes for free anymore. Even with the 60 free minutes I still had to purchase minutes but if their are no more 60 free minutes a month then I don’t know if I want this app anymore.
Great text app
TeeShirt
Except for 3 things... On iPhone I have background refresh turned off, yet it shows that Pinger lowered my battery by 30% in background overnight. Delete and reinstall did not solve the battery drain. Ads on iPhone take up 40% of the screen. This really needs to be brought down by half. When I try to use this as a phone number for 2 factor authentication it is not accepted. I found another text app that does work for this, so it is possible. And other app manages to keep ads to maybe 15% of iPhone on bottom .