Works well
I use the app to access board books of three different organizations. I have had a glitch or two with access over the years but it has otherwise worked flawlessly. I have noted that new content uploaders can occasionally miss the last step to making content go live for readers, this has led to situations where they think material is available and it isn’t. That is the only real issue I have seen with the usability. I have never had to call customer support.
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Subpar functionality
While it is helpful to have an app that allows voluminous board materials to be presented digitally, the functionality of this app is indifferent. The markup tool can be glitchy: sometimes it simply doesn’t work, and the tool has to be closed and reopened. If that doesn’t work, the entire diligent app must be shut down and restarted. In my case, the markup pen always initiates in red rather than black despite the fact that I have instructed the app to save my last settings used. Unless I want all my annotations to be in red, that means each time I want to use the markup pen I have to set it to black.
Much more annoying, this app frequently requires using a password, which itself must be changed frequently, to access materials. This despite the fact that after each time after re-entering my password, I am told that Face ID will be used for my next login. I would say that about 1/3 of the time this isn’t the case. Needless to say that can be very annoying when the app exits in the middle of a meeting.
I have discussed this over an extended period of time with diligent technical support where I am assured that there’s nothing they can do.
I would strongly encourage anyone looking for digital access to board materials to consider alternatives to diligent.
Much more annoying, this app frequently requires using a password, which itself must be changed frequently, to access materials. This despite the fact that after each time after re-entering my password, I am told that Face ID will be used for my next login. I would say that about 1/3 of the time this isn’t the case. Needless to say that can be very annoying when the app exits in the middle of a meeting.
I have discussed this over an extended period of time with diligent technical support where I am assured that there’s nothing they can do.
I would strongly encourage anyone looking for digital access to board materials to consider alternatives to diligent.
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Public Board Director
Horrible suite of applications, not integrated, not intuitive, like 8 spoons and no forks or knives. Obviously a PE firm cutting R&D to milk user base. No AI functionality. A new entrant will steal this entire market.
Makes easy things hard every single time
Just the worst
Expensive - but outstanding
For serious board work on a secure platform this app is just outstanding. (I dont understand why some of the negative reviews - spammy??? There is zero spam!!)
Only use this app if you love spam.
Unprofessional. I have to use this for my boards, but then I get constantly targeted with “news and insights” banners, side bars, emails. This is nothing more than advertising for Diligent. And it is not possible to disable this infuriating feature.
Dear Diligent, I am not some dumb advertising hoarding. Please stop spamming me and just do the job you are (very well) paid for.
Dear Diligent, I am not some dumb advertising hoarding. Please stop spamming me and just do the job you are (very well) paid for.
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Huge improvements
So much better than previous years. Almost identical user experience as the web app. Quick tech support. Love the ability to download my board papers and use it without internet, especially as someone who travels often.
Board member
This app is awful. I have been unable to access my important board meeting because it never accepts my password. My assistant has changed it for me four times and two years. I either have to show up unprepared ( unacceptable) or I end up borrowing my colleagues’ computers the night before meetings . Horrendous
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Great app, many improvements
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Irritating
This is a weak product. We have been using it for board meetings for years and it just barely gets the job done. The reason we keep it is inertia and habit, not because it is actually any good.
Great Application
The board's application makes it really easy to keep track of my meetings on the go. I love the UI and feedback. It's really improved in the last year.
Terrible app
Consistently cannot get into my boar books. Terrible
Battery Drain
This app drains the battery of an iPad at a very rapid rate. Battery will be fully drained in a couple of hours when using it. Needs fixing!
The app sticks on a page
Often find that the agenda or briefcase page does not appear
Poor design, flaky so have to delete and redownload app, too many ads…
I have to use this for work so no option. Other reviews are right - it’s full of spammy ads that you cannot get rid of even though your company pays to use the app, the new landing page is not fit for purpose and makes no sense and you have no option to change it, updates don’t necessarily get pushed out so that you have to delete the app and all the papers you have downloaded on to the ipad to start again (I’ve had to do this multiple times…) and the general user interface is poor. Can’t search while not online, can’t delete annotations from multiple books at once… I could go on…
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Battery usage is off the charts now!
I use this app a lot (have to). Recently it is eating my battery (albeit iPad now also functions as a body warmer!) I’m not sure what has changed but please developers take a look, I can’t even last a day now with my iPad! Functionality is OK and can make notes on papers/save etc. But not the easiest thing to navigate and would prefer if it ran off the single login rather than yet another password, but battery is now a big issue for me
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New version not an improvement.
The new home page shows information I largely do not want, such as a Resolution I should allegedly have voted on 2 years ago, and cannot be tailored or deleted. Can we have an option of opening on the Current Books page?
Burning through my battery on iPad
Love this app, however since upgrading to the latest iPad, this app is burning through my battery and making my iPad very warm when using it. I used to be able to use the app for two full days of meetings, now it barely makes it through one day. iPad diagnostics show no problem with the hardware.
Missing basic functionality
The software does not allow URLs to be created for board books, individual pages or other content. This is critical functionality that has been in competitive offerings since day one. This is a showstopper. Do not buy until they fix it.
In addition, if your company enables MFA, then users cannot switch between board books without logging out and logging in again. Since Diligent does not play nicely with my password manager, this is a real pain.
In addition, if your company enables MFA, then users cannot switch between board books without logging out and logging in again. Since Diligent does not play nicely with my password manager, this is a real pain.
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Apple Pencil 2 problems on iPad Pro
Seriously clunky in using pen with Diligent. Apple Pencil used to work well with iPad. It is now so bad, I can no longer make notes
Oh and stop the pop up’s and ads. We’re busy
Oh and stop the pop up’s and ads. We’re busy
