Great voice quality, but horrible battery drain!

Compared to many other voice chat apps, this app has an interface that makes it possible to switch between conversations and chat without having to switch between many screens. The sound quality is the best Ive ever heard in a voice chat app for iOS.

However, the above comes a huge cost in battery. All is fine as long as you talk directly with people one-on-one, but, once you start talking in groups, your battery and mobile data valance quickly disappear. I was using it with 2 small (about 15 people) groups, and, in the course of a day, Roger would consume half my battery and nearly 100MB of data. Over a month, thats about 3GB of data, just to keep up with only 2 groups.

The battery drain, though, is the reason Ive stopped using Roger. No matter how good it sounds, I cant have it cut my battery life by half. Ive gone back to other voice chat apps.

Finally, while its nice to be notified of new messages in many situations, sometimes, you dont care. Roger is very very bad when it comes to leaving you alone. You can mute a conversation, but only temporarily. If you decide you would rather turn off Rogers notifications entirely, youre endlessly hurrassed by the app to re-enable them: every time you open the app, every time you send a message, etc. This behavior seems extremely user-hostile to me, and a main reason Ive stopped using Roger.

In closing, it sounds great, but the battery drain, crazy data consumption, and the way it hurrasses you with notifications that you cant disablemake this app not worth your time.

Bryan Smart about Roger Talk, v1.2.5