# Beeper OLD VERSION — user reviews > 178 indexed App Store user reviews of Beeper OLD VERSION by Beeper Inc., rated 3.98/5 from 314 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beeper-old-version/id1551695541/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beeper-old-version/id1551695541.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 193 · 4★ 41 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 55 ## What do users think of Beeper OLD VERSION? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Amazing app - 🚀 Helps stay off Instagram reels - 🚀 Ideal to avoid using Instagram REELS - 🚀 Great app to prevent doom scrolling - 🚀 Finally, WhatsApp on my iPad - 🚀 Universal in more ways than one - 🚀 Excellent app - 🚀 Fantastic! - 🚀 Incredible, but - 🚀 Great for syncing apps - 🚀 Fantastic - 🚀 Life changing - 🚀 Brilliant idea and app - 🚀 Great unified chat app! - 🚀 Amazing - Looking forward to its evolution - 🚀 Clever, intuitive and very useful - 🚀 Best messaging hub out there - 🚀 Seamless messaging experience - 🚀 Finally, it's here ! - 🚀 Excellent app overall! - 🚀 Very useful - 🚀 Magic - 🚀 Fantastic - 🚀 All in one messaging + super functional - 🚀 Nothing like this!! - 🚀 Great start - 🚀 Life changing - 🚀 Dream solution! - 🚀 Best invention of my life - 🚀 Works great with amazing support. - 🚀 Life simplifier - 🚀 Fabulous - 🚀 Incredible - 🚀 THE messaging app - 🚀 They mad the impossible, POSSIBLE! - 🚀 best way to iMessage **Cons** - 🐛 Laggy and connection issues - 🐛 Occasional crashes - 🐛 Fumbled their lead chasing perfection - 🐛 Keyboard hangs while writing messages - 🐛 Randomly disconnects from some apps - 🐛 Doesn't allow clicking anywhere sometimes - 🐛 Doesn't show newer messages from Facebook - 🐛 Meta will send you a warning for using it - 🐛 Bridge disconnected issues with Instagram - 🐛 Doesn't work for most messaging platforms - 🐛 Always disconnects Instagram account - 🐛 Huge white screen blocks keyboard - 🐛 Very buggy, but worth it - 🐛 Discord and Slack integrations aren't ready - 🐛 Doesn't work on iOS 15.7.6 **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to delete or hide conversations - Lag between typing and text appearing - Limited selection of connected apps - Inability to import iMessage history - Unreliable for sending/receiving messages - Crashes and bugs with WhatsApp integration - Inability to sign in without desktop app **Most requested features** - Add more customization options - Implement voice message support - Add more messaging platforms like GroupMe - Ability to see when people are online and read receipts - Implement dark mode - Add more control over media downloads - Ability to add multiple accounts per platform - Improve desktop app experience - Implement iMessage integration ## Newest reviews (16 of 178) ### 4/5 — Good app but... *2025-03-19, version 2.5.3* There are a fair few bugs. I wish I could add multiple accounts from the same app, Like 2 Instagram accounts. I also would like a possible return of imessage integration. ### 4/5 — Amazing app *2025-02-26, version 2.5.3* Honestly an amazing app. Helps you stay off instagram reels. Though there are times when app is laggy and the connection between insta is broken. And with the new apple update for icon customization, beeper remains an eyesore as it’s colours doesnt conform well due it’s use of gradients. The design can be more minimal like its desktop counterpart. It’s original icon looked very slick. ### 4/5 — No more REELS *2025-02-23, version 2.5.3* Ideal to avoid using Instagram REELS! I had the bad habit of scrolling when opening the app when I simply wanted to reply to messages. By using Beeper it saves me from wasting my time and I can continue to write to people on IG. The text message display is okay. ### 4/5 — Great app!!!! *2025-02-20, version 2.5.3* I love it! Like everybody say, it help with the phone addiction! But i was wondering if a upgrade could include the fact that we see when people saw our messages and when they are online please? Thanks! ### 4/5 — Social Media Detox *2025-02-18* Because of it’s all-in-one functionality, I use it in place of my social apps, to prevent doom scrolling. Only thing that’s stopping me from reaping the full benefits of this is that Beeper no longer supports loading the entire video that I’m sent from apps such as Instagram. I spoke with Beeper representative & they informed me they are working to have this function up & working again, but for now four stars. ### 3/5 — Fumbled *2025-02-16, version 2.5.3* Fumbled their lead chasing perfection. ### 4/5 — Finally, WhatsApp on my iPad *2025-02-12, version 2.5.3* Keep up the good work guys, but the app is still a little bit rough around the edges, looking forward to further updates ### 2/5 — Used to be great *2025-02-04* Beeper has slowly fallen further and further since their Wordpress acquisition. The iOS app hasn’t been updated in months while constantly crashing when trying to load photos and some functionality I relied on getting unceremoniously removed while being gaslighted by the customer support into telling me the app never supported those things. I literally used to be able to use Facebook messenger without a fully active account before Wordpress. Now they’re like “the app never allowed Facebook messages without an active Facebook account” It sure did. It was literally one of the top reasons I used this app. Now it crashes like 75% of the time opening a discord chat when trying to load it. Closer to 100% if it has an image it needs to load. I’m giving it two stars because best feedback I got is at least the notifications work well enough to inform me to go open the respective chat app. It’s basically all I use beeper for now, a single stop for chat notifications, not the actual chats themselves. Cause either I literally no longer can use it for them or it crashes the majority of time I attempt to load them. ### 4/5 — Amazing but.. *2025-02-03, version 2.5.3* Would be an amazing app if Instagram wouldnt block your account once you connect this app with your account. I was so happy to find an app that would finally help me stop scrolling for hours on Instagram 😭 ### 3/5 — Shows lots of promise… *2025-01-23, version 2.5.3* Beeper shows a lot of promise but still requires some significant optimization on iOS. Keyboard hangs while I’m writing a message. Sometime the app doesn’t allow me to click anywhere. Some messenger like FB or Insta apps randomly disconnects. ### 2/5 — Meta will send you a warning *2025-01-21, version 2.5.3* This app is excellent if it worked. I’ve been looking for a way to reduce my screen time on Instagram without losing access to dms of my friends. I used this to catch all my dms from Instagram and it worked…. for only one day. After that, I was logged out of my Instagram account and Instagram issued me a warning of suspicious activity and remove any third party tools or get banned. I’m sure this isn’t completely Beeper developers fault. It’s probably Meta’s fault as they likely want ppl to access their servers and keep people addicted which would give them the profit. So sure I give Beeper a 2 stars, cuz it does what it’s supposed to do. However, if people can’t connect their Meta accounts and actually use the app as intended, it defeats the purpose of Beeper. ### 4/5 — voice messages *2025-01-19* I love this app, I'm trying to cut down on my screen time and it's been great for eliminating scrolling from my communication! Lately it's not showing me voice messages from Instagram though, they show up as "unrecognized blob attachment type"? Might be because of an Insta update - they were working before last week-ish. Thank you for the app! ### 2/5 — Needs Refining *2025-01-13, version 2.5.3* Worked really well initially but now if I try to use it for Instagram I am stopped as the ‘bridge disconnected’. Likely to do with how Instagram reported to me that it detected third party usage. Irritating as it’s an amazing concept but not worth losing my Instagram account to banning over. Ideally something needs to be done about that before it’s a perfect app. ### 4/5 — Nice but needs work *2024-12-30, version 2.5.3* As someone who used to work in third party message storing and parsing I understand how hard it can be to work with these service. Would appreciate some better integration with Insta but the hard to use part of it is also kind of the appeal ### 4/5 — Cool app but still lacking in features after 18 months *2024-12-10, version 2.5.3* I've been using it since June last year and it's been good. However I've gotten frustrated with often messages not displaying in notifications instead it says that someone messaged but not the content. It doesn't work with unstable networks the messages struggle to send and if they fail never retry automatically unlike every other app. The app wide search doesn't actually search in chats only people/groups. We're still far from being able to completely remove the existing apps, I constantly have to open them. I might come back to it in the future but for now I'm off of it. ### 2/5 — Always disconnects *2024-11-26, version 2.5.3* It’s good but always disconnects my Instagram account like every 2 days which is my main use for it so not very practical ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Garbage *2025-03-07, version 2.5.3* Doesn’t work for iMessage, waste of time and they’ll probably steal ur contacts to sell them ### 1/5 — Need desktop app to use phone app *2025-02-19, version 2.5.3* Are there any plans to release a version which you don’t need a desktop computer to set up? I can’t download the app on my desktop (work) computer, so can’t use the phone app :( ### 1/5 — Instagram threatens suspension *2025-01-29, version 2.5.3* The app worked amazing at first, but Instagram blocked it and threatened my account with a suspension if I continued using it. Would love to use this app but can’t in its current state ### 1/5 — Seems useless without messeges *2025-01-22, version 2.5.3* I tried the app with facebook messenger and it does not work. It shows a couple of older messages but does not now anything newer than 2 months unless sent after the installation. Also facebook marketplace messages do not show up at all. ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-01-17, version 2.5.3* There is no way to use this application without the need of a MacBook or Desktop. The ability to sign in our out of social accounts is not available on this application. You can't even sign in to this app without verification of another. What's the point of this application? ### 1/5 — Great idea if it worked *2025-01-10, version 2.5.3* I wanted an app for messaging on instagram without having to have the instagram app accessible on my phone. This app worked to successfully connect, but within a day I got message from Meta warning me, something about third party or bot accounts, and it immediately stopped working on messenger, and then continued to work intermittently on instagram for a bit. I'm not sure the point of the app if it doesn't work for most of the large messaging platforms. ### 1/5 — Don’t use with Instagram *2024-12-14, version 2.5.3* My Instagram account got suspended within a day of connecting it to this app, do not use it ### 1/5 — Got in trouble for using the product. *2024-11-14, version 2.5.3* I hooked up all my clients including discord, but after 2 days of use, I got an email saying they deleted my discord connection because they couldn’t handle the load. So I uninstalled. It’s not that great anyway. ### 1/5 — Where is Apple iMessaging?!?! *2024-10-25, version 2.5.2* Beeper is of no value if I cannot include iMessage in Beeper. D’oh! ### 1/5 — Beeper is a mess *2024-09-29, version 2.5.2* For whatever reason, and this could be because of privacy reasons rather than beeper, but this app is not at all reliable. You’ll often get notifications with no content from someone, the app interface is too minimal, and images always come through crunchy. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Perfect solution to quit scrolling *2025-03-01, version 2.5.3* I find myself reliant on Instagram messages to stay in touch with people, and I've been looking for a long time to find an app that lets me message people without getting sucked into Instagram reels. This has been infinitely helpful. ### 5/5 — yeahhhh! *2025-02-04, version 2.5.3* I’ve had it for a few days and it works great! currently on my Instagram withdrawal journey and this has been helping me. it’s like a nicotine patch 💗 ### 5/5 — Amazing app ! Just one thing missing... *2025-01-16, version 2.5.3* Great app, everything I needed except a dark mode icon and maybe some shortcuts actions so we can automate some tasks. Please! ### 5/5 — Thank you for this *2025-01-03, version 2.5.3* You really built something extremely useful! Thanks for this ### 5/5 — Universal in more ways than one *2024-11-21, version 2.5.3* So incredibly useful to have a tool that lets me use whatever messenger I want (or all of them) on whatever platform I want. It’s nice not being at the mercy of the whims and development pressures of 10 different messenger teams. If Beeper is there I’m connected with everyone. Keep it up! ### 5/5 — Super great app *2024-11-08, version 2.5.3* Wouldn’t recommend if you’re concerned about personal data. Im not really sure what their profit model is. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2024-11-05, version 2.5.3* Works well for Instagram, no more brainrot ### 5/5 — Great *2024-10-12, version 2.5.2* Love the ability to get Google messages directly on Apple. Wish we could get iphone messages on Android. ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2024-06-13, version 2.5.0* There are still features that I would like but this makes it so useful to have all the chats in one place. ### 5/5 — exactly what I was looking for *2024-05-16, version 2.4.2* if you’re trying to use social media less but still want to keep in touch with people in your DMs this is perfect. Yeah it’s bare-bones but that’s kinda the point… it could be a little faster and more optimized, but i’m sure it’s gonna get better over time. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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