Roam Mobile

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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.

Sadly this just doesn’t feel or behave like a native app. It just feels like the mobile version of the website inside of an app. The mobile site of Roam always had plenty of issues and many of them have been transferred over to the app, such as the judderyness of the UI and the slowness to launch. The slowness is okay on the desktop as once you’re ‘in’ Roam it stays live in your browser tab and you don’t have to relaunch it. On iOS however the Roam app often gets killed in the background – I’m guessing due to memory constraints – so relaunching is a common thing and the slowness becomes a burden. But the biggest problem remains just simply entering text. New bullet points don’t default to beginning with a capital letter, the toolbar that sits on top of the keyboard has a mind of its own and often hides what you’re writing and typing in general within the app just doesn’t feel pleasant in any way. Nothing’s smooth or responsive. Unfortunately the app offers few advantages over just having the Roam mobile site bookmarked on your Home Screen. That wouldn’t be a big issue if the mobile site was a joy to use, but it isn’t. I’m sure the Roam app will improve with time. But its current state and functionality is a bit disappointing :(