Very buggy and extremely slow to load needs a serious fix!
This app used to work reasonably well, but somehow now it is super slow to load and to load content. In some cases the content never loads and all I get is a blank screen! In our most recent session of Forgotten Circles we tried to use app narration but every screen took minutes to load while we were forced to stop our game and wait for the spinning load circle to produce my purchased content, only to finally end with a blank screen without narration. I have spent way too much money on several game narrations to now have an unusable product! You have to fix this app!
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Worth it for the acting and music alone but fire the app team
Bought for Kinfire Chronicles. The acting is fantastic, ambient noise effects is engrossing and the music is beyond 5 stars.
Only issue is the app not able to back to previous selection and due to story choices and branching the app sometimes does and doesn't include options. Sometimes it takes you to the next story card automatically and other times it doesn't.
I feel the app team is perhaps overseas support team that could care less about the Forteller company.
Only issue is the app not able to back to previous selection and due to story choices and branching the app sometimes does and doesn't include options. Sometimes it takes you to the next story card automatically and other times it doesn't.
I feel the app team is perhaps overseas support team that could care less about the Forteller company.
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Great voice acting, but unusable interface.
My group held off playing Sleeping Gods until the voice over became available, but after just two sessions we’ve gone back to the story book.
The app is not intuitive at all. There are 1 second recording screens with every entry that seem totally unnecessary. It’s often unclear if we’ve selected the correct recording after just a few branching selections. Numerous times we’ve missed important information because it’s either non existent or too easy to skip over. It became apparent that we still needed to verify every entry with the storybook halfway though the first session.
On top of it all, the app will crash sporadically, sometimes in the same place over and over and sometimes randomly. Until the interface is completely redone, my group won’t be using this for any game. Nor would I recommend it for anyone. An incredible disappointment. Buyer beware!
The app is not intuitive at all. There are 1 second recording screens with every entry that seem totally unnecessary. It’s often unclear if we’ve selected the correct recording after just a few branching selections. Numerous times we’ve missed important information because it’s either non existent or too easy to skip over. It became apparent that we still needed to verify every entry with the storybook halfway though the first session.
On top of it all, the app will crash sporadically, sometimes in the same place over and over and sometimes randomly. Until the interface is completely redone, my group won’t be using this for any game. Nor would I recommend it for anyone. An incredible disappointment. Buyer beware!
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Good voice acting, iffy interface
Picked up Sleeping Gods to use with the start of a new campaign and while the voice acting a great, the app really seems to struggle with the multiple branching paths of some of the stories. Often I have to click through multiple times to get to the next selection and going back always results in a blank screen, requiring me to go all the way back to the beginning of the section. I found myself needing to consult the story book every time to make sure something wasn’t missed. I think the app needs an interface rework to function with more complex games like sleeping gods where it’s not just one segment to read at a time, but a branching narrative.
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Typical App Process Crap
In order to look at the app, you have to create an account. You may just want to see how much these add ons will cost you, but the app doesn’t display that, nor does it tell you before you create an account and login to find out that they are not using the Apple app purchasing system. Instead, you create an account and then the app tells you to go to their website. Stop wasting people’s time just to get their info.
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Nice acting, buggy interface
Seems to have trouble with the many forking branches of Sleeping Gods. Often clicking on a choice does not send you to the relevant next clip. Going back will just show an empty set of options. Only by going all the way back to the story selector and then going back into the story can you find the rest of the clips, but even then you can’t tell what you’re supposed to play without referring to the story book.
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Landscape mode. Playback issues after switching apps.
This iPad app needs to support landscape mode. Unless I’m doing something wrong, it’s always sideways on my iPad.
I run this app, play audio for frosthaven, then I’ll switch to another app to track my initiative, monsters, etc, and when I switch back to forteller for the next section, it fails to play any audio when the play button is tapped.
I have to then tap the back track button and then forward track button and the play button a few times before it will start playing audio again. It’s frustrating.
Also I’ve noticed some of the audio clips, upon tapping play, will cut off a tiny bit of the beginning and it’s odd. This can cut off part of the first word of a sentence sometimes.
I’d like an option to have the app download the data it needs for the entire mission in one go, instead of how it currently hour glasses on each section to dl each section individually.
Not sure if there’s an offline pc version with full data of this as that would solve most of my issues.
The voice work is great but the app needs work.
I run this app, play audio for frosthaven, then I’ll switch to another app to track my initiative, monsters, etc, and when I switch back to forteller for the next section, it fails to play any audio when the play button is tapped.
I have to then tap the back track button and then forward track button and the play button a few times before it will start playing audio again. It’s frustrating.
Also I’ve noticed some of the audio clips, upon tapping play, will cut off a tiny bit of the beginning and it’s odd. This can cut off part of the first word of a sentence sometimes.
I’d like an option to have the app download the data it needs for the entire mission in one go, instead of how it currently hour glasses on each section to dl each section individually.
Not sure if there’s an offline pc version with full data of this as that would solve most of my issues.
The voice work is great but the app needs work.
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Above and below purchase
I purchased the Above and Below narration for my daughter (6) and I to play together. The quality of the voice acting and SFX is very good. I’m a big fan. However, they skimped out on some very important parts of the narration. If you’ve every player above and below you know that each story is like a choose your own path kind of story. You could go left or you could go right. You could fight the monster or you run away. Each path has a requirement that needs to be hit in order to succeed. This narration does not provide that. My 6 year old daughter who can’t fully read yet would not be able to tell me what those requirements are. I feel like I paid for a whole pie, but a slice was taken out before I received it. And this is a very important slice.
As far as the app itself goes, it seems to be fine. Pretty simplistic. Nothing too outrageous. I’m not going to lie. I wish it had a store option so I didn’t have to return to the website to make future purchases.
As far as the app itself goes, it seems to be fine. Pretty simplistic. Nothing too outrageous. I’m not going to lie. I wish it had a store option so I didn’t have to return to the website to make future purchases.
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You must gather your party before venturing forth!
This is an absolute must have. If you enjoy any of the games on their list it brings great ambience and atmosphere.
Very poorly executed with middling voice acting
I have most of the Gloomhaven / Frosthaven related content. When I recently purchased Forgotten Circles, it doesn’t even show up in my list. Now I have to go figure out how to add it.
The app is pretty pathetic. It stops and starts content, so you frequently have to replay. No landscape mode, so those of you switching between X-HAVEN Helper and Forteller get a nice reminder each time you switch back and forth that Foreteller couldn’t care less about the user experience.
To top it off, the voice acting is pretty rough in most of the Gloomhaven content. The main narration is a ridiculous english accent obviously performed by an american. If you’re used to the Steam version of Gloomhaven’s voice acting, you will be sorely disappointed. Two stars is generous… I’m hoping they improve some day.
The app is pretty pathetic. It stops and starts content, so you frequently have to replay. No landscape mode, so those of you switching between X-HAVEN Helper and Forteller get a nice reminder each time you switch back and forth that Foreteller couldn’t care less about the user experience.
To top it off, the voice acting is pretty rough in most of the Gloomhaven content. The main narration is a ridiculous english accent obviously performed by an american. If you’re used to the Steam version of Gloomhaven’s voice acting, you will be sorely disappointed. Two stars is generous… I’m hoping they improve some day.
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MAJOR BUG!
Forteller has not updated there app to allow you to login/logout of your account. This is a know issue, but until the fix it on iOS beware of this app.
My issue is a long time ago a friend logged into his account on my phone. Since then I opened my own account and bought an audio file. However, I can’t listen on my iPhone because the app is permanently set to my friends account.
Thankfully I have an iPad and was able to sign in and get my audio on that, but this app is a brick on my iPhone. And the iPad isn’t a good experience because this app doesn’t have landscape mode.
My issue is a long time ago a friend logged into his account on my phone. Since then I opened my own account and bought an audio file. However, I can’t listen on my iPhone because the app is permanently set to my friends account.
Thankfully I have an iPad and was able to sign in and get my audio on that, but this app is a brick on my iPhone. And the iPad isn’t a good experience because this app doesn’t have landscape mode.
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Extremely poor design
Very poor design. The app only gives a one-time login screen upon initial download. There is no way to log out of your account and login with another. If you used a different email address when you downloaded the app a long time ago from the one you used to purchase the narrations, you can’t use them on the app.
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Nothing works right, everything is coming soon
I was excited for this app but the app is garbage. They want you to purchase everything to the website but don’t send you to the browser from the app, you have to do it yourself. I purchased a game on the site and it won’t show up in the app.
Beyond that there are “planned features” all over this app that say coming soon, but the core functionality doesn’t even work well. The developer seriously needs to focus before trying to implement all these other features. Make the damned app do at least one thing well.
Being able to use your purchased content without failure or having to call support sounds like a good step one to me. Forget all the fluff and just make it work right.
Beyond that there are “planned features” all over this app that say coming soon, but the core functionality doesn’t even work well. The developer seriously needs to focus before trying to implement all these other features. Make the damned app do at least one thing well.
Being able to use your purchased content without failure or having to call support sounds like a good step one to me. Forget all the fluff and just make it work right.
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No audio?
I tried using this app for jaws of the lion (gloomhaven) but there is only 2 audio tracks and instead it just tells you to go to their website. Also there is no search capability, you can't "favorite" games. The ui is also unintuitive.
Purchase Issues - Resolved
I want to like it but unfortunately I can’t even try it. I purchased the Bardsung audio but after twelve hours my content still doesn’t show up on the app. According to my order confirmation page it should have been available in minutes.
Edit: Foreteller customer support was very nice and quick to fix my issue once I got in contact with them. The production quality is quite nice. Only gripe is that I wish we could separately control voice volume and background volume.
Edit: Foreteller customer support was very nice and quick to fix my issue once I got in contact with them. The production quality is quite nice. Only gripe is that I wish we could separately control voice volume and background volume.
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First Experience
Terrible! The app is an interface for the website. I paid for a narrative and I can’t access it. The interface is clunky at best, many links don’t work, and a few of them just loop me to the same place. I tried finding a help link and was met with more frustration. They have a long way to go, before this is functional on phone apps.
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Offline
I want to be able to download the audio files for camping where I don’t have service please implement this
Reported to Apple
Reported the app to Apple for the scam it is, wanting users to pay for content on another website then not honoring the purchases made on the website on the app, effectively stealing money from people using the app.
Sounds great!
The voice acting is so good. It would be nice if you could buy from within the app, but not a big deal. Definitely worth it to enhance your experience!
I wish the app offered some general background music (battle, shopping in town, etc.) to let the magic continue during gameplay.
But overall, super pleased and worth every penny.
I wish the app offered some general background music (battle, shopping in town, etc.) to let the magic continue during gameplay.
But overall, super pleased and worth every penny.
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Convoluted, slow, but nice audio
In 2022, it shouldn’t take multiple steps outside the app for us to exchange our money for your audio playlist. Pretty baffling. There are so many better ways. The audio is nice, but not sure it’s worth putting up with the app.
