Roam Mobile

Now with Face ID this is actually quite a good app. The team keeps making it better. If security for roam depot was more clear this would be an amazing app.

I’ve been using Roam every day for many years now, mostly on my computer. Today I discovered the “native view” and it’s everything I wanted on the mobile app. No more startup delay, fully responsive, and very native-like. I wish the font was smaller/like their original design but apart from that it’s 5-stars from me.

For an app that is a few years old and from a company that has raised millions, it’s really pathetic. Not sure what they’ve blown all that money on but it sure isn’t this app.

Steve Jobs once said “we don’t ship junk at Apple” - this app is obviously Roam’s contrarian take on this premise because they clearly do ship junk at Roam. the effort and thought that’s gone into a crucial tool/interface here is embarrasing.. (yet I still use roam desktop! what does that say about me?) I don’t think the team cares, so I’ll just leave this here and wonder if maybe in a couple of years they decide to rebuild their mobile app to be usable

The roam website lets you scribble directly into roam, but the iOS app doesn't allow it

I simply get a blank white screen when trying to open the app on iPhone 11 Max with the iOS version.

App won’t load

Ouch. I hadn’t typed much but suddenly the page went blank and the reappeared with everything I’d typed gone

I’ve been waiting like 1-2 years for Roam to finally create an iPad / mobile app and when they finally do its unfortunately quite a disappointment. I’d be a lot less tough on them if they weren’t charging $11 per month but at that price you really would expect a first-rate software product. This feels like a web-app inside a mobile app (and indeed doesn’t show up in the app list on iPad). It is a nightmare to use with magic keyboard because the keys constantly stop working and you have to kill and restart Roam. The design / UX doesn’t feel finished. It works ok I guess but very disappointing considering how much I am paying for it

After waiting so long for Roam to deliver a usable mobile experience… this is not it. Right now it’s worse than using mobile Safari and borders on unusable. I’ll re-rate it if an when they fix the problems.