# ESChat (Push-to-Talk) — user reviews > 21 indexed App Store user reviews of ESChat (Push by SLA Corporation, rated 3.10/5 from 32 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eschat-push-to-talk/id556874325/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eschat-push-to-talk/id556874325.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 11 ## Newest reviews (1 of 21) ### 2/5 — Poor app overall. Mislead by their marketing *2016-03-22, version 1.8.5* WAVE or Zello would be a better option ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-09-21, version 23.2* Won’t open after newest iPhone update. ### 1/5 — No volume *2025-05-07, version 23.0* The volume on the app is so low you can barely hear anything with it on maximum. The idea of the app is nice but they should focus more on it and fix these issues instead of ignoring it for so long ### 1/5 — Crashes upon opening *2024-03-09, version 21.1* iPhone 15 Pro and every time I try to open the app it crashes before even starting to boot up. Must fix asap, need this for work! ### 1/5 — Bad *2021-11-25, version 17.1* Keeps turning off my music in the background ### 1/5 — Can’t stop calls from coming in *2021-09-28, version 16.4* Use to use push to talk from bell, you could change yours status to unavailable wich block all incoming calls. You can’t do that with this app. So to solve this problem I keep installing and uninstall the app. Wonder who said ‘that’s it’s, this app is ready’ Please try your products before releasing it. ### 1/5 — Sound *2020-09-29, version 15.1* These app keeps running on the background. It Interrupts other apps sounds with out ESChat being use. Pls fix ### 1/5 — No audio since iOS 13.3.1 update. *2020-02-01, version 14.3* Useless at this point. ### 1/5 — Not user friendly *2017-11-29, version 11.0* This app isn’t user friendly by any stretch of the imagination. Picks whatever channel it wants and will not stop playing until you sign out. UI is cluttered and a pain to navigate. ### 1/5 — Can't logon *2014-12-09, version 1.6.7* No forgot logon/password tab. Unable to do anything and customer service has been no help. ### 2/5 — Dark mode? *2020-01-18, version 14.3* How do activate Dark Mode for Eschat? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ESChat with 2-way radio *2021-06-19, version 16.3* Been using ESChat with our MOTOTRBO digital UHF radio system at work for about 4 years now. It was a bit tricky to set up the JPS Interop hardware bridge with our donor radios but once that was set, so were we. I set up 10 talk groups on ESChat (each with its own donor radio) and the performance and versatility of the system is excellent. In our warehousing system we use automation that at times needs maintenance and IT support; this was often hamstrung by having the equipment vendor talk to my electricians and machine operators via acoustically-challenged portable phones; it took ages to troubleshoot equipment issues. ESChat solved that. When we’ve had serious downtime issues I’ve had my machine operators and electricians (onsite) using their radios and talking to my controls engineer & IT support rep (offsite) and the OEM tech support rep (1000+ miles offsite) on ESChat working together on the problem. Worked like a dream. High quality sound and easy comms for everyone. And getting the non-users set up in ESChat took me 5 min on the admin portal once they downloaded the app. Fast and easy. We are able to link other sites together on common talk groups, all we need is to get them set up on donor radios and hardware. Even a simple 1-donor radio interface would allow multi-site shared communications with Motorola or non-Motorola hardware. Digital, analog, whatever. We set up this system ourselves after a stupidly long wait for Motorola to roll out a ROIP solution for our Mototrbo digital system. A few years after we opted for our own great DIY solution Motorola came out with theirs: capital costs were unjustifiable and the monthly user fee too high. The startup costs for us we’re a small fraction of what Motorola needed and the $5/month per user ESChat fee can’t be beat, for what you get. I’ve installed the app on 2 Sonim phones used in our Dept trucks and they are always on, with geo tracking forced on so we always know where our vans are. I’m in Canada and we had Bell show us their ROIP solution (Bell Push-To-Talk) and it was a joke. An expensive joke, as befits Bell. It can’t touch what we’ve done on our own with ESChat, a reasonably small up-front capital investment and a bit of fiddling and innovative learning at our end. Plus with our solution we are online no matter the mobile provider of our smartphone users (we couldn’t tie in a US or non-Bell user to Bell’s Push To Talk system). As of this writing (June 2021) I see that ESChat has partnered with Telus for ROIP options. It might be worth a look to see what they offer vs just downloading their app and using on any other mobile provider’s platform. ### 5/5 — Finally a reliable app! *2020-10-07, version 15.1* Implemented this app at work. All security employees are now communicating with it and honestly it has improved not only our communication but as well as our workflow! Fantastic! ### 5/5 — Great *2019-09-21, version 14.0* This app is very rodgers ### 5/5 — Excellent *2018-12-06, version 13.0* This app is perfect for my uses. I just press and talk and voila my iPhone is a walkie-talkie. We can see each other on the map or send messages. Customer support helped me get it all set up in five minutes. ### 5/5 — Excellent App excellent company *2018-09-28, version 12.4* I am impressed by the ease of use and customizable options of this application, a huge amount of information available in regards to use. GREAT JOB!! ### 5/5 — ESChat *2012-11-09, version 1.2.0* This app is outstanding it works great.. Thank you. Rich ### 5/5 — It's about time! *2012-09-28, version 1.0.3* Fully encrypted PTT and messaging. Now we are talking! ### 4/5 — Works well for what it is for. *2021-07-12, version 16.3* Operation is good on the app. Hoping for an audio/ Bluetooth update so that music or other audio on Bluetooth is not interrupted or ‘paused’. Does not work well with CarPlay. ### 4/5 — iPhone issues *2018-05-08, version 11.4* Been about 2 weeks and the app keeps opening itself. Close the app and few minutes later app reopens again. Uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times to no avail. Rebooted phone, reset network setting all failed. ### 3/5 — Not Intuitive, Poor Design *2013-01-04, version 1.2.0* Simple idea yet they managed to poorly design the interface - also the app has fewer features then promised (Map function does NOT work). Still trying to figure out what advantages this app may have to others like Voxer but I haven't found any. From a business user's standpoint it's clumbsy and unintuitive. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-04.*