Introducing Roger, an accessible walkie-talkie style messaging app for iOS

In my previous post when I was talking about my notification problems, I forgot to mention that I am using an iPhone 5s. I am also running the latest iOS 9.3. I have recently re-installed this app. When I first installed it a few months ago I was able to except the notification dialogue with no problems. This problem has only occurred after I deleted the app and tried to reinstall it. It is very frustrating not to be able to receive notifications from this app!

How odd. I wonder if it already excepted your yes as I think the info is still in iCloud. It could also be a software issue with the phone itself and not the app. I would leave a voice message with the developers via the help menu and see if they can try and solve the issue.

Good luck.

My Roger username is rowdyamerican. I will go and sign up for the beta now. I'd be willing to help any way I can. I've been involved in several betas in the past.

Glad that this is being looked into. I was suggesting customization of sounds by choosing what's on the phone and assigning it to a group or individual like the way Heytell does it. I' just signed up to beta test this so I'm definitely looking forward to new features and providing more feedback.

In the latest update, it says this app connects to the Amazon Echo? What does this mean?

Hi,
This app is fantastic. I was hesitant to try it out being that there are so many different apps out there, but man roger blows me away. The audio quality is far superior then facetime. Great job on the accessibility. If anyone wants to talk to me, you can roger me at:
rogertalk.com/k8tvv
Keep up the awesome work.

Hello,

I don't get the Echo thing. How do you talk to Alexa? Is it basically giving Alexa commands from Roger?

I would also like to know more about contacts. Does your contact list sync in your account? How do you remove contacts? If I double tap and hold on a contact, I only get the option to hide the contact.

Hello all,
This app sounds very interesting. A couple of questions though, do I have to already know people using this app? In other words, how would I find people to talk too if I don't know anyone using this app? I would also like to say, thank you for making your app Voice Over accessible!

To find people you don't know I guess envite your contacts. They will be able to hear the message and then get the app to respond. Also put your username out there on twitter, facebook, etc. I have my username separate from my email that I put on there so for example my roger link is http://rogertalk.com/ke7zum

hope that helps a bit.

hello lisa and all here if anyone from this forem wants to roger me use
http://rogertalk.com/harmonicaplayer
to find me and when you do please specify you found me through applevis forem thanks:)

I'm glad to be a part of the beta team for this app. The latest beta has fixed my notifications problem. I've finally been able to enable notifications on my iPhone. Looking forward to future betas.

Quick question on the public release I updated yesterday and notice that it now takes 2 taps to start the conversation. Can the button to start a conversation be easier to find as right now it's either after the suggested result I type in or above the keyboard some ware. Also is their documentation on how to use the new features in yesterday's update? For example how do I use the broadcast and facebook messenger things. And how exactly does the voicemail thing work?

Blessings and happy Saturday

Ah, it's too bad the greeting contact now does the same thing. I was using that to do an intro, or an I'm out message so those that talk to me on roger can know when I'm out and when I hopefully will come back from the meeting or what not. Does that feature still exist? Or will it come back?

When I typed and searched for greeting and started the conversation, it said broadcast. So not sure if that was the same thing or not. Lol!

When looking at the broadcast thing I don't see a way to select contacts. I see a start conversation 1 thing. I don't see a next or what not. I'll keep playing with it.

By the way what if the contact is not on roger but calls your phone and leaves a voicemail anyway. Will you be able to still respond to them via roger even if they don't have the app? What if they call from a lanline etc. I don't want to accidently tern clients off from calling me.

You are using it right. What's going on is no one on your contacts is using the app hence no contacts. Try speaking to someone in your contacts list and they will get a link to listen and download the app.

Hmm. The voicemail feature might be useful when I travel for a business conference internationally in a few years. Cool. Are there instructions to disable it? I mean once I get back home. Lol! Or will I get those when the feature is turned on?

Hello all,
I have just started using Roger, and I am figuring out how things work. My roger username is Lisa1 I would like to make new friends, and have people to talk too. Thank you.

I can't get the broadcast feature to work. Here are the steps I take

1. Tap my name.
2. Tap add contacts
3. tap broadcast
4. Tap start conversation.
5. Tap the mic and speak.

After this a thing should come up where I choose who to send this to. This doesn't work on my end. No list shows up as far as I can see. Any advice her?

Odd. Then what is the broadcast contact doing in there, or is that now the greeting thing? I thought I followed the instructions the dev gave me over rogher but i probably misunderstood them. Yeah probably a picnic error again. Lol!

Is there a way to listen to your own messages that you record? Some people are able to do this with something in there contacts called Roger Bot. I don't have this in my contacts, in stead I have something called Alexa, which I have no need for. How can I get rid of Alexa, and replace it with the Roger Bot?

Try searching for it. Rogerbot as one word. You cannot use this to listen to your own messages in other conversations but I do use this when out so I know if I have a good signal or what not.

Nice. I updated last week, but will check it out.. Thanks for such a wonderful app. Is broadcast used the same way I've been using it in the version I'm using now? Oh boy that came out wrong. Lol!

Hello,
Over all I am enjoying this app, but I can't use it very much anymore. It is seriously draining my battery a lot. I always remove it from the app switcher when I'm not using the app, but that really doesn't help. I have an iPhone 6, and the only other kind of apps that even come close to using this much battery power is my GPS apps. That is to be expected from them though. I hope this battery issue can be resolved, so that I can use this app a lot more. Thank you.

Yep I told the devs about it and they want to fix the problem as well. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

http://rogertalk.com/raajan

As my subject line states, I am not having the battery drainage issue that some others are having. That might possibly be because of the fact that I am running a beta version though. I'm not sure. Although even when I was running the regular builds I didn't have a battery draining problem either.

I can't remember if I put my Roger username out here or not. If anyone wants to add me, my Roger username is: rowdyamerican You can also use the following link

www.rogertalk.com/rowdyamerican

One suggestion I've been hashing out with the devs is the ability to gain a better contact manager. Fornow when you hide a contact it disappears from your recents list and you have to find them again. I misuderstood how that feature works, so I'm getting this out there for those of us who have already hidden contacts. I hope this helps someone. And any suggestions would be welcome.

I think having a switch to turn listening your messages on or off is a good idea that way everyone is happy.