Leave a Review VoiceThread
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The concept is here, just not enacted correctly. Voicethread has a great concept. You create an account, you create your own recording, and there you go. You can share ideas, videos, stories, and your voice. You can try to teach others or create a presentation. Following, any other user can comment on your work. They can provide text or their own voice, their comment adds to the presentation. This is really cool. However, it isn't that simple, as you may want it to be.
The desktop version is there, you can easily create them. It is intuitive. However, the application itself is just... Bad. For people to see your creation, you must make it public. However, you cannot do this action through the app, thus people can't find your voicethread. In addition, it is hard to maneuver and use. Voicethread's concept is solid, just their app isn't.Show lessAPWH-Joe
I never want to use this app again.
This app was a little hard to navigate. Like many other apps, it can be helpful to have a step by step tutorial, or guideline bubbles. The app also crashed and deleted my work in progress. The app is also very unorganized. There is no option to organize comments, unless you are the owner of the original video. This wasn't very helpful for the assignment my class had to do. It would be better if the comments were easier to access rather than having to open the video itself and tap on the icon, with the exception of when a new comment is added. I also think the notifications should pop out without having to click on the new comments section and waiting for it to load. It is also hard to find other people's video, it may be better to have an option to search for the creator. VoiceThread claims to be "perfect" for education, but it still needs a lot of work before becoming "perfect".Show lesssvargh
It's alright...
My AP World History class had to use this for one our projects. The goal of our project was to portray our character's reactions and feelings regarding a famous explorer's voyages (Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Rabbani Sauma, or Marco Polo). In my opinion, the mobile app is pretty basic, as you can't really personalize your comments or add more than one picture to the voicethread. I much preferred the desktop version, but even that had its problems. The major thing that bugged me was the inability to move the location of comments, as sometime my comments would just bunch together at the end of my group member's voicethread, ruining the flow of the whole thing. I commented a little later than my group mates, and so, most of my comments sounded like the were just plugged in randomly at the end, negating my ability to actually have a conversation through comments like we had planned to. Sharing was a bit of a pain too, as sometimes my partners couldn't view my voicethread or couldn't see their comments on it at all. However, I did like the ability to use either recordings or text as comments, as that gave me some leeway and helped make my project a little more interesting. I probably wouldn't use it again, if I had the choice.Show lessTeriblé
Okay - needs work
It is much more difficult to use the app compared to the PC. Also, while playing the VoiceThread, it is difficult to determine who says what and when. One large problem is that I could not add comments or voice in the "creation" process in which I could only add the pictures. I could only add such things under "editing" mode which was confusing. Also, my fellow students and I have had trouble sharing VoiceThreads through the app and have had to resort to using the PC version in order to share our Voice Threads. Also, the search bar never was able to work. Our group even added obscure tags to our presentations and we still could not found ours. Aside from the negative, the app works with no crashing or other technical bugs.Show lessAppredeem
Mediocre
My experience with VoiceThread was nothing short of disappointing. I was aware it was for creating videos and small clips or comments that could be used for projects or interactions; I used it for a project as well. Unfortunately, while it was relatively simple to use and play around with, I found it had many annoying bugs. My app very frequently crashed while in the midst of opening another person's presentation or video they made or even while writing a comment. I also found that the app did a poor job of explaining how everything contained in the app worked. It would have been very helpful if before or while playing around with this app if there had been a tutorial video or even small instructions on the screen when venturing to use new features you had not yet tried. Also, the app version lacked some of the features on the desktop version of VoiceThread. It would have been nice if the app had been a comprehensive combination of all the features. I wish it was more organized as well. The fact that you could not easily search and find other people's VoiceThread's was also irritating at times as well. The sharing process took longer than expected. This app shows potential, but some bugs need to be fixed first.Show lessMattjamesmartin
Just... No.
I would give this zero stars if I could. Both the app and the desktop website are absolutely terrible. They crash constantly, and the app requires you to log back in every two minutes... Until it just decides that logging in is for weenies and starts telling you that your login is invalid. And just to top it all off, after it tells you you're a weenie and can't log in, it crashes, because you know, it has a reputation to keep up, obviously.
And now this is a personal message to VoiceThread itself.
VoiceThread, we had a good relationship at the start, you know. There was me, a simple user with a whole new website ahead of me to explore and interpret (since I didn't want to watch that hour long intro video). And then you just crushed me out of your life, VoiceThread, my love. I miss when I could login to your server and be welcomed and accepted. And then you left me, blocked me, kicked me out from even your public gallery. What happened to my account? Our personal relationship, VoiceThread? I even tried to start over with you. I deleted and re-downloaded. And even then my login was rejected... Is your cruelty boundless? How many times can you crash before I burn? VoiceThread...
Never again.Show lessIdle artist
Needs a lot of work
The idea of VoiceThread is a cool idea but it could use a lot of changes. First of all, having the ability to create only a small amount of VoiceThreads (I think 5) before you need to pay for them is a major inconvenience especially since it took me 5 practice VoiceThreads to finally figure out how the app worked. Additionally, from what I've seen, when you comment on someone else's VoiceThread, the comment is automatically placed at the end of the project causing a sort of ambiguity as to what the comment was referring to. With a little work, this app could become somewhat decent.Show lessFickNahey
Dissapointed would be an understatement...
I got this app for an AP World History project and we intended to use it for it's simple functions. Only creating a slideshow of images with text comments. After I made one I attempted to share it. I did but no one else could find it. In fact, I couldn't find theirs either! So we're all stuck there not being able to search for the projects. We created a page with the links to all of our projects and for one of them only I could open it. The rest of the group was denied access. I'm not sure what's wrong with your sharing settings but they need to be fixed. Not to mention the lack of capability from powerpoint-like options. I would suggest to find another way and not download this appShow lessNick.merlino
You could be so much better
I understand that many apps are created because they would be convenient compared to the websites they are such as Voice thread. Voice Thread is not all bad- because the iPad has a microphone, I was able to do the speaking part for my Voice Thread, however if paused or anything that did not stop it, the app crashed, how annoying do you think that is when working on a project for school, after finally finishing my Voice thread, I went to share it, now this was my fault when creating my account it stated that it could not send I looked and realized my mistake, I incorrectly put in my email, so just make a new one and re record the thread I thought. however i tried but no it would not let me make an account again, using my non school account, I made a new one and when trying to email it I could not because the school accounts would not allow me to send an email to them. Finding out a had to go onto the computer to copy the link, I could finally upload it to my blog and email it to my fellow partners. but that last part was on the computer and not the iPad shame on you Voice thread app creators. other people in my group had trouble to , one of them was never able to do the project, please fix it because it looks like a good program for projects.Show lessOdidjfbdisjsizzkz
It's good, but there's one thing I don't like...
I only made one recording, and it's already telling me I need to upgrade it to make another recording. The upgrade is too expensive for me to get. I might just delete the app. I think that I should be able to make more recordings without having to pay for an upgrade.Farm Girl17
