# Collab Portal — user reviews

> 90 indexed App Store user reviews of Collab Portal by Ideagen Limited, rated 2.70/5 from 13 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/collab-portal/id501101411/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/collab-portal/id501101411.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of Collab Portal?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Simple and secure
- 🚀 Fast document loading
- 👍 Intuitive layout
- 👍 Slick UI
- 👍 Useful on the go
- 👍 Nicely organized
- 👍 Great for project planning
- 👍 Secure file storage
- 👍 Access files anywhere
- 👍 Task function as to-do
- 👍 Simple collaboration platform
- 👍 Good for small teams
- 👍 Web interface superior on iPad
- 👍 Makes good use of time
- 👍 Easy to collaborate
- 👍 Access important files when traveling
- 👍 Approve team's work remotely
- 👍 Best collaboration solution
- 👍 Upload pictures from phone
- 👍 Clean interface
- 👍 Updates on activity feeds
- 👍 Suggested files bonus
- 👍 Access sales presentations
- 👍 Work offline on iPad
- 👍 Commenting makes a difference
- 👍 Discovering information and adding value
- 👍 Review files, assign tasks
- 👍 Keep team productive remotely
- 👍 Upload photos from brainstorm sessions
- 👍 Suggested files and favorites
- 👍 Get important content out of email
- 👍 Collaboration a breeze
- 👍 Don't need laptop
- 👍 Sharing, collaborating, working on content easy
- 👍 Manage files in one place
- 👍 Suggested files incredible
- 👍 Take photos and upload genius
- 👍 Get documents needed
- 👍 Find approvals quickly
- 👍 Suggests files team is working on
- 👍 Productive commutes
- 👍 Essential for business
- 👍 View, share, comment on files
- 👍 Reminds and suggests files
- 👍 Pushes documents for review
- 👍 Journey to work productive
- 👍 Access shared folders
- 👍 See comments, updates, approvals, actions
- 👍 Downloads files offline automatically
- 👍 Magic for travelling
- 👍 Never without critical document
- 👍 Easy to use with web app
- 👍 Suggested files works out of office
- 👍 Document viewing without internet
- 👍 Mark approvals on the fly
- 👍 Keep in touch with work on the move
- 👍 Great for field capture
- 👍 Well done for brilliantly designed app
- 👍 Revolutionise enterprise collaboration
- 👍 Recommended feature genius
- 👍 Best way to manage files on the move
- 👍 Just what we've been waiting for
- 👍 Work on the go effectively
- 👍 Instant access to business content
- 👍 Huge improvement
- 👍 Great look and feel
- 👍 More user friendly than website
- 👍 Changes how I use Huddle on the move
- 👍 Best of Huddle in palm of hand
- 👍 Easy to see workspace activity
- 👍 Read and review documents
- 👍 Set tasks for subordinates
- 👍 Sleek task management app
- 👍 iPhone essential for business person
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 Very good
- 👍 Love it
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 👍 Simple and easy to navigate
- 👍 Share amongst teams
- 👍 Application looks clean
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Brilliant app
- 👍 Brilliantly designed app
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Fantastic
- 👍 So slick
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Great update
- 👍 Makes collaboration a breeze
- 👍 Makes it easy to access information
- 👍 Super easy to navigate
- 👍 Ensures I have all information
- 👍 Access all my important files
- 👍 Super easy to use
- 👍 Approve my teams work
- 👍 Loving this app
- 👍 Best collaboration solution
- 👍 Uploading pictures directly from my phone is amazing
- 👍 Clean interface
- 👍 Updates on activity feeds
- 👍 Suggested files is also a bonus
- 👍 Access sales presentations and collateral
- 👍 Work offline on my iPad
- 👍 Noticed comments and commenting
- 👍 Discovering information and adding value easily
- 👍 Access to sales presentations
- 👍 Work offline on iPad when traveling
- 👍 Commenting piece made a difference
- 👍 Review files, assign tasks
- 👍 Keep my team productive
- 👍 Upload photos from whiteboard brainstorm sessions
- 👍 Suggested files and favorites
- 👍 Get most important content out of email
- 👍 Collaboration a breeze
- 👍 Working on iPad means I don't need to lug my laptop
- 👍 Sharing, collaborating and working on content has never been so easy
- 👍 Manage all my files in one place
- 👍 Suggested files is incredible
- 👍 Take photos and upload to huddle is pure genius
- 👍 Get the documents I need to work on
- 👍 Find approvals quickly
- 👍 Deal with them
- 👍 Suggests files my team are working on
- 👍 Makes train ride productive
- 👍 Makes iPad addiction productive
- 👍 Makes commutes productive
- 👍 See what's going across the teams
- 👍 Great update to an already excellent app
- 👍 Uploading now made simple
- 👍 Collaboration is easier than ever before
- 👍 View, share, and comment on all the files
- 👍 Reminds and makes suggestions of files
- 👍 Pushes all the documents I need
- 👍 Journey into work has never been so productive
- 👍 Awesome content and collaboration app
- 👍 Best app on the market
- 👍 Simple, clear, but full functionality
- 👍 Access all my shared folders
- 👍 See comments, updates, approvals and actions
- 👍 Figures out which files it thinks I will need offline
- 👍 Downloads them for me automatically
- 👍 Amazing magic for use when travelling
- 👍 Never be without that critical board document again
- 👍 So easy to use in conjunction with the excellent web app
- 👍 Suggested files works perfectly for me when I'm out of the office
- 👍 Forget other productivity tools
- 👍 Works perfectly
- 👍 Document viewing without an internet connection
- 👍 Ability to mark approvals on the fly is a huge time saver
- 👍 Love the suggested files
- 👍 So good to keep in touch with my work whilst on the move
- 👍 Great for people in the field capture documents
- 👍 What IS accessible is well done, clean and easy
- 👍 Makes it easy for a team to collaborate
- 👍 Fantastic cloud app
- 👍 Use it every day
- 👍 Absolutely excellent
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 All businesses should be using this
- 👍 Simple and easy to navigate
- 👍 Share amongst field based or long distance teams
- 👍 Application looks clean and easy to use
- 👍 Works on iPad
- 👍 Can add Task, change due/start dates, set in-progress etc
- 👍 Offline Tasks
- 👍 Offline Files
- 👍 No need to authenticate again when viewing file
- 👍 Brilliantly designed app
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Best way to manage files on the move
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Just what we've been waiting for
- 👍 Fantastic
- 👍 So slick
- 👍 Work in the go effectively
- 👍 Instant access to all my business content
- 👍 Love this app
- 👍 Huge improvement
- 👍 Great look and feel
- 👍 More user friendly than the actual website
- 👍 Changes how I use Huddle on the move
- 👍 Best of Huddle in the palm of your hand
- 👍 Easy to see what's going on in your workspace
- 👍 Read and review documents
- 👍 Set tasks for all my subordinates
- 👍 Sleek task management app
- 👍 Beautifully designed
- 👍 iPhone essential for any business person
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 Very good
- 👍 Love it
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 👍 Simple and easy to navigate
- 👍 Share amongst field based or long distance teams

**Cons**

- 🐛 Clunky to use
- 🐛 Doesn't always play well with file uploads
- 🐛 Web interface superior on iPad
- 🐛 Doesn't work with newer iPhones
- 🐛 Outdated
- 🐛 Never works right
- 🐛 Nightmare with Apple products
- 🐛 Needs Face ID for sign in
- 🐛 No link to register
- 🐛 Doesn't recognise unregistered users
- 🐛 Useless without registration
- 🐛 Won't log in
- 🐛 Keeps redirecting
- 🐛 Crashing
- 🐛 Still crashing after fix
- 🐛 Doesn't keep up with iOS updates
- 🐛 Continually crashes
- 🐛 Makes iPad unusable
- 🐛 Terrible support
- 🐛 Scripted answers from support
- 🐛 Uploading photos from browser requires name change
- 🐛 Random numbers for file names
- 🐛 Time consuming file renaming
- 🐛 Crashes continually when opening documents
- 🐛 Can't log in using the app
- 🐛 No notifications
- 🐛 App not as useful without notifications
- 🐛 Crashing recently
- 🐛 Local data not syncing on iPhone
- 🐛 App crashes a lot
- 🐛 Few options for tagging
- 🐛 Doesn't allow comments to uploaded files
- 🐛 Doesn't allow adding activity/comments to posted items
- 🐛 Every note added as new activity
- 🐛 Doesn't allow adding notes/activities to posted documents
- 🐛 Doesn't allow unapproving an item
- 🐛 Doesn't allow changing team members/user editing
- 🐛 Very little useful interaction
- 🐛 Simple regurgitation of web info
- 🐛 Not impressed
- 🐛 Limited functionality
- 🐛 Doesn't appear to include 'discussions' section
- 🐛 Cannot choose no files sync without setting space to zero
- 🐛 Why download files without asking?
- 🐛 Cannot participate in whiteboards, discussions, or meeting/calendar functionality
- 🐛 Files won't open or have blank sections
- 🐛 Preventing access to information
- 🐛 Still not possible to add discussion via app or safari on iPad
- 🐛 Almost 2014 and not fully iOS compatible
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 Waste of time
- 🐛 Needs major update for document upload from scan/picture
- 🐛 No whiteboard integration
- 🐛 Dismal whiteboard integration
- 🐛 No access to workspaces or discussions
- 🐛 End up opening in safari anyway
- 🐛 Useless
- 🐛 Is there a way to access whiteboards?
- 🐛 Work in progress
- 🐛 Needs dashboard for full iPad management
- 🐛 App is not very good
- 🐛 Would be helpful to get to dashboard
- 🐛 Cannot sign in
- 🐛 Need to join from Mac/PC first?
- 🐛 Glitch?
- 🐛 Disappointed can't access dashboard
- 🐛 Had to reload old app
- 🐛 Will probably delete new version
- 🐛 Hangs, crashes, freezes
- 🐛 First and only experience not good
- 🐛 Issues with logon
- 🐛 Slow performance
- 🐛 Still having issues after reboot
- 🐛 No way to add more workspaces from iPhone app
- 🐛 Not native iPad app
- 🐛 Only in vertical orientation
- 🐛 Activity stream feature doesn't work
- 🐛 Rudimentary app
- 🐛 Not much use except task feature
- 🐛 Needs a major update
- 🐛 Less features than the old one
- 🐛 Toilet-roll view on iPad
- 🐛 File view doesn't rotate
- 🐛 All views don't rotate
- 🐛 No view Whiteboards
- 🐛 No view Discussions
- 🐛 Activity->File: no folder location info
- 🐛 Doesn't allow for making comments to uploaded files
- 🐛 Doesn't allow adding activity or comments to previously posted items
- 🐛 Doesn't allow adding notes or activities to posted documents
- 🐛 Doesn't allow the ability to unapprove an item
- 🐛 Doesn't allow changing team members or any user editing
- 🐛 Very little useful interaction at all
- 🐛 Seems to be just a simple regurgitation of info from the web
- 🐛 Not impressed
- 🐛 Doesn't appear to include the 'discussions' section
- 🐛 Cannot choose that no files sync without setting available space to zero
- 🐛 Why download files without asking me?
- 🐛 Cannot participate in whiteboards, discussions, or meeting/calendar functionality from the app
- 🐛 Files simply won't open, or have blank sections
- 🐛 Very annoying and preventing me accessing information I need
- 🐛 Still not possible to add a discussion using the huddle app or via safari on the iPad
- 🐛 It's as though the people responsible for developing don't use the app themselves!
- 🐛 Huddle is still not fully iOS compatible
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 Do not get
- 🐛 Waste of time
- 🐛 Needs a major update allowing for document upload from scan or picture take
- 🐛 No whiteboard integration also is dismal
- 🐛 App does not allow access to Whiteboards
- 🐛 One of Huddle's primary features for collaboration and sharing materials
- 🐛 That strikes me as a deal breaker
- 🐛 You don't have access to workspaces or discussions
- 🐛 So you will end up opening huddle in safari anyway
- 🐛 Useless
- 🐛 Is there a way to access your whiteboards?
- 🐛 Work in progress I guess?
- 🐛 Ok for files but really needs dashboard so I can manage the product fully on my IPad
- 🐛 The iPad but the app is not very good
- 🐛 It would be helpful if you could get to your dashboard for instance
- 🐛 PDF expert and Quickoffice are the apps that I use with my huddle workspace all the time
- 🐛 How do you sign in?
- 🐛 From the start up screen, all I get is username and password
- 🐛 Do you have to join from a mac or pc first or what?
- 🐛 Or is it just a glitch!
- 🐛 Really disapointed I can't access dashboard
- 🐛 So have had to re-load old app
- 🐛 Will prob delete this new version
- 🐛 New customer today
- 🐛 My first and only experience with huddle on iPhone is not good
- 🐛 Issues with logon
- 🐛 Slow performance, etc
- 🐛 I hard rebooted and still having issues
- 🐛 I noticed there is no way to add more workspaces from iPhone app?
- 🐛 This app does work on iPad but only in vertical orientation
- 🐛 Furthermore the activity stream feature does not work for me
- 🐛 This is a pretty rudimentary app and of not much use except for the task feature
- 🐛 Needs a major update
- 🐛 So the app's quite good but you may well want to keep using the old one…
- 🐛 In comparison to the old one whilst in some ways it's better, in others its very much _worse_
- 🐛 Worse: Not iPad! (Toilet-roll view)
- 🐛 Worse: File view doesn't rotate!
- 🐛 Worse: All views don't rotate
- 🐛 Worse: No view Whiteboards
- 🐛 Worse: No view Discussions
- 🐛 Bad [low]: Activity->File: no folder location info! E.g. I want to upload a file to the same folder…

**Commonly reported bugs**

- No sign up option
- Login screen issues
- File upload compatibility issues
- Incompatible with newer iPhones
- App never works right
- App crashes frequently
- App doesn't keep up with iOS updates
- Support is terrible
- File renaming required after browser upload
- Crashing when opening documents
- Login issues via app
- Notifications not working
- Local data not syncing
- Files won't open or have blank sections
- Crashing on new iOS updates
- No link to register
- Login redirects
- App not recognized for unregistered users
- Activity stream feature not working
- App only works in vertical orientation on iPad
- File view doesn't rotate
- All views don't rotate
- No view Whiteboards
- No view Discussions
- No folder location info in Activity->File
- Cannot choose no files sync without setting available space to zero
- App crashes a lot
- Local data not syncing on iPhone 6 plus
- Files won't open, or have blank sections
- Preventing access to information
- Still not possible to add a discussion using the huddle app or via safari on the iPad
- Huddle is still not fully iOS compatible
- Doesn't work
- Waste of time
- App does not allow access to Whiteboards
- You don't have access to workspaces or discussions
- End up opening huddle in safari anyway
- The iPad but the app is not very good
- It would be helpful if you could get to your dashboard for instance
- Cannot sign in
- Username and password only on startup
- Glitch?
- Disappointed can't access dashboard
- Had to reload old app
- Will probably delete this new version
- Hangs, crashes, freezes
- Issues with logon
- Slow performance
- Still having issues after reboot
- No way to add more workspaces from iPhone app
- Rudimentary app
- Not much use except task feature
- Needs a major update
- Less features than the old one
- Toilet-roll view on iPad
- File view doesn't rotate
- All views don't rotate
- No view Whiteboards
- No view Discussions

**Most requested features**

- Sign up option
- Face ID for sign in
- Drag and drop from Files, Dropbox etc.
- Full iOS compatibility
- Ability to add discussion via app or safari on iPad
- Whiteboard integration
- Dashboard access on iPad
- Document upload from scan or picture
- iPad version
- Add more workspaces from iPhone app
- Full iPad support (rotation, all views)
- Discussions section
- Whiteboard access
- Dashboard functionality
- Ability to unapprove an item
- Ability to change team members or user editing
- Add notes or activities to posted documents
- Comments to uploaded files
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard

## Newest reviews (12 of 90)

### 2/5 — Clunky to use

*2023-11-16, version 3.13.0*

It works but if you want to upload files from word etc in to the huddle space it doesn’t always play well and you have to go around the houses to do so.  With ios as it is now drag and drop from files, dropbox etc should work……. Web interface is superior on ipad.

### 3/5 — Update

*2020-10-09*

Needs Face ID for sign in.

### 2/5 — Crashing

*2019-11-19*

It’s still crashing even though there was a fix for it.

### 3/5 — No notifications

*2015-11-23, version 2.12.0*

Notifications do not work. Without this the app isn't as useful as it could be. Hope this will be in a coming update.

### 2/5 — Keeping it Huddle

*2015-07-26, version 2.8.0*

Love huddle but for some reason the app keeps crashing recently. On top of this no matter what settings I choose local data is not syncing on my iPhone 6 plus. Please fix ASAP.

### 2/5 — Huddle- app problems. Otherwise good web based operation

*2015-01-18*

Simple collaboration platform. This is good for a small project management team that needs to move to a database where you can link issues to deliverables. Two stars is because the app crashes a lot but the web based version is good.

### 2/5 — Needs work

*2014-07-02*

Meh. App offers few options for tagging, doesn't allow for making comments to uploaded files or for adding activity or comments to previously posted items, instead every note is just added as a new activity on its own. Doesnt allow adding notes or activities to posted documents. Doesn't allow the ability to unapprove an item that has Been sent out for approval. Doesn't allow changing team members or any user editing. Very little useful interaction at all. Seems to be just a simple regurgitation of info from the web. Not impressed.

### 3/5 — Good but limited functionality

*2014-06-24, version 2.1.2*

Doesn't appear to include the 'discussions' section, which is currently the area I most use. But apart from that, is clean and streamlined, well laid out.

### 2/5 — Missing key functionality

*2014-03-01*

I am upset that I cannot choose that no files sync without setting available space to zero. Why download files without asking me?
The main challenging to making this a useful app is that I cannot participate in whiteboards, discussions, or meeting/calendar functionality from the app.

### 4/5 — Like it!

*2014-02-28, version 2.0.6*

Very useful on the go & nicely organised.

### 2/5 — Useful and user friendly

*2014-01-31, version 2.0.3*

Great Ap that enables secure storage of files so you can access them anywhere.  I use the "task" function as a smart to do ,it's for both me and my team.

UPDATE 31st Jan 2014
Despite updating the App again, I am still experiencing difficulties when opening files on my  I-pad.  The files simply won't open, or have blank sections.  Very annoying and preventing me accessing information I need for meetings.

### 5/5 — Great app!

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

Really enjoy using the app. Documents load really fast and the layout is very intuitive. I am particularly fond of the slick UI as well.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — No sign up option

*2024-07-06*

Only takes me to a login screen with sign up or account creation option. Just a bewilderingly dumb problem to have

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work with newer iPhones!

*2022-09-14, version 3.11.4*

Apparently you must use Touch ID or passcode, which newer iPhone don’t have (and by “newer” I mean back to iPhone 11!).

### 1/5 — I hate this app

*2022-08-03*

I work with a military contractor who forces me to use this software, it’s soooo bad, out dates and I can never get it to work right. The app never works. It’s a nightmare working with it with Apple products

### 1/5 — Broken

*2020-03-27, version 3.9.10*

No link to register.  Asking me to sign in but doesn’t recognise me because I haven’t registered.  Useless

### 1/5 — Won’t log in

*2020-03-03, version 3.9.9*

Can’t log in to use the app, keeps redirecting to a .net then trying .com no dice. Logging in fine on my browser.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work with new iOS update

*2019-10-08, version 3.9.2*

This app is great when it works!
But it doesn’t keep up with iOS updates on iPad. 
As soon as a new one comes out it continually crashes and makes it unable and frustrating.
The support is terrible. You tell them the problem as as soon as they realise they can’t fix it they just stop replying. 
You tell them the exact problem and they seem to just come back with a scripted answer. 
When uploading photos from the browser you then have to go back and change the name otherwise it just comes up as random numbers. Very time consuming when you have many photos to upload.

### 1/5 — Crashtastic

*2019-09-06, version 3.9.1*

Crashes continually when opening documents.

### 1/5 — Can’t Log-in

*2019-06-25*

Can’t log-in using the app, but can switch over to a browser and it accepts my log-in credentials without any issue.

### 1/5 — Still lacking

*2013-11-12, version 1.4.3*

Staggering that after all this time it's still not possible to add a discussion using the huddle app or via safari on the iPad.

It's as though the people responsible for developing don't use the app themselves!

It's almost 2014 and Huddle is still not fully iOS compatible.

### 1/5 — Horrible app

*2013-09-03, version 1.4.1*

Doesn't work do not get waste of time

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Fantastic App!!

*2015-01-25, version 2.4.0*

Simple and secure

### 5/5 — Getting better with every release!

*2014-02-28, version 2.0.6*

Using it now for all my meetings and project planning.  Store and share photographs and notes with my team.

Really like the recent and suggested files.

### 5/5 — Simple. Intuitive. Great app!

*2013-12-13, version 2.0.0*

Can't say enough about this app. Use it everyday.

### 5/5 — Huddle Note rocks!

*2013-12-12, version 2.0.0*

Because of Huddle Note my inbox is close to zero, finally!

### 5/5 — Great Business App

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

Great new update the notifications are a welcome edition. Love the new look and feel as well.

### 5/5 — Well done Huddle!

*2013-12-11*

Very excited to continuously see improvements from these guys. They seem to be listening to feedback and clearly adding value to mobile business apps.

### 5/5 — Good update

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

Being able to see notifications will make a big difference to me.

### 5/5 — Amazing, although my wife doesn't agree ....

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

I can *always* view all documents and view and add to the conversation threads. 
Unfortunately for my wife this makes working rather convenient!!

### 5/5 — Amazing!

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

Love the new update! Notifications in the app are a great addition cant wait for future updates!

### 5/5 — Cleaner with more functions

*2013-12-11, version 2.0.0*

Great new version Huddle. Cleaner interface and notifications so I can see what colleagues are sending me.

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