Syrinscape Fantasy Player

It’s easy to tell this app has … seniority, to use a polite term. It faithfully recreates the look, feel, and functions of the web version, bringing the powerful sound triggering and mixing and editing capabilities to my phone. My soundsets and campaigns are synced well, and it’s impressive how much flexibility is packed into this small form factor. But in the end, I can’t use it. Whatever system APIs they had to contort and bend to make all of this sound engineering go are either not modern or not standard. Sound does not persist in the background; pulling down my control center or locking the screen unceremoniously cuts off whatever is playing. More crucially, sound is not routed in such a way to let iOS know anything is actually playing, meaning I can’t AirPlay my soundscapes to my TV / sound system, or cast them to my DM’s chromecast, or punt them over to a bluetooth speaker. And there’s no Apple TV app on offer, so in the end there’s no way to get these lovely noises to my speakers. While running this system on a phone is impressive and neat, actually using it in a real world setting is not something I can do right now.

This app is simply not optimized for an iphone, maybe other devices are better suited but the display doesn't format correctly to fit my screen. The devs seem to have attempted to force the format of the browser player into a mobile app but the proportions get skewed to the point unuseability. Secondly, the app does not continue playing in background so you cannot close the app or have autolock on without risking death to your party's immersion. These fixes will drastically improve the app. Looking at other reviews it seems that this has been an issue for years that has not been addressed. *** Additional info: I prefer the app to running syrinscape off my laptop because the stereo speakers I use (JBL partyboost) only work on a phone. This is another product review I'm about to write... :(

I’ve really liked this program…until now. First issues came about when the only form of purchasing a sound set was through PayPal (a horrible thieving company). Now, I just reloaded the app after iOS 17 (doing a clean phone restart) and found many sounds have been removed from the app!?! Some were free from prior years others from purchases packs. I’m really saddened that this is the direction this company is going.

Does not support Safari and will not work on Imac to log in. It would have be good if they develop this to be Apple friendly.

There is no option for me to create an account to use the app, if I click not now, the app crashes. Also the page is too big for my screen so I can’t see some of the apps content at the top of the page. Was really hoping to use this app for DND

DMs are left playing sounds via bluetooth with delay or tinny device speakers instead of AirPlay 2.

It amazes me that, after all these years, the interface for this app is still so horribly designed. Many of the controls are located right on the edge of the screen, some are even cut off by the edge. Attempting to use these controls is difficult at best, often activating some of the iOS gestures. How has Syrinscape not kept up with this App as newer phones and iOS updates have released? It’s inexcusable.

Subject says it all. The user interface feels like it came from a 1998 Gameboy. If they update the interface then I’ll give this a 5. But for now it’s just not usable.

Not sure what to make of the app. It crashes, screen isn’t responsive. Seems overly complicated

Navigation on the iPhone is practically impossible. I can’t get to the sets I’ve purchased. I can never figure out how to get the right sounds to play when I get lucky either.