Gstone User Reviews

Gstone
Gstone
Beijing Jishi Technology Co., Ltd.

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小学生级别的app?

卡,做烂了后还弄了个股东计划强行跳转其他app

Too many auto-pop-out ads

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相当差劲

反映了n遍“ios系统操作集石,操作一下一转圈,和ios根本不匹配”。但是压根不改善

点什么都要转两下刷新

网络也不卡呀,为什么总是会转个刷新符号出来,切换一点都不流畅,给人感觉卡的要命,按一下、等一下

Better Than BGG but...

I absolutely love this app. It’s my go to search tool for new games and whenever my collection grows I’m sure to use Gstone to update my collection. I just wish the app worked in a landscape mode on the iPad. Small complaint I know, but I can’t say how many times I’ve rotated my iPad only to wish this small feature was there.
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Fun App But Too Many Bugs

This app seemed very promising. I logged in and registered pretty easily. The app crashed the first time as I was trying to create my guild/club. The app crashed a 2nd time again later when I was creating an event. I was able to customize my Meeple and nickname. I was able to create my club and first test event.

I asked a couple of people from my game group to login. They were able to register and log in pretty easily. They requested to join the new club but their apps also crashed.

I liked that you could add some of your favorite games to your profile. I liked that you could add locations, pictures, and information for the club. I like that there was a club chat feature. That’s why I didn’t give this app 1 Star.

I was hoping there was a feature that allowed participants to vote on which games they wanted to play. There was no such option. Additionally, we were unable to sync our BGG accounts. After the app crashed a 3rd time I was done. I’m very disappointed.
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Not UK friendly

Seems like a really good app, but I can’t seem to find anything nearby. I tried looking for games cafes and shops in towns nearby and no luck (even though there are some that I know are around). I even typed in London for location and still it came up with nothing!?! Maybe it just needs more time, but I don’t think I’ll be using it until it’s updated more for UK use.
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Poor implementation

No one else in my area- the app is not very intuitive. I see what they are trying to do but they really need to go back to the drawing board with the design of the app

Needs some work

I don’t like sending friend requests multiple times to the same people. With more users signing up, I can’t remember who I’ve sent requests to. Would be helpful if there was an “awaiting reply” notice from users you’ve previously reached out to... just a thought. Also, 50 characters for a message is a little on the short side.
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Completely not ready for release

Steaming pile of donkey dung. An app that’s intended to make connections with other gamers but there’s no apparent way to actually accept a connection request. Two of us spent 1/2 hour trying to figure out how to accept each other’s friend request with no success. STEER CLEAR!!!!!!

Follow up to developers response: I had already tried as you suggested before I posted the above review. I see the red dot in the upper left corner and have “clicked” on it. It takes me to a page with recommended people to follow, people to send friend requests to (who I have already sent friend requests to and they’ve sent requests to me) but no friend requests for me to accept showing up. Again, no way to actually close a connection.
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Like the idea

I do like the layout and all the searchable filters in here and useful information (such as time per player, rather than a whole game length)

But, I have a lot of games and have rated them all on Board Game Geek. I think there should be some sort of crossover to import/export game information.

Update: BGG has been integrated. Look forward to see where this app goes.
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Downloaded and uninstalled immediately due to phone number requirement

Downloaded and uninstalled immediately due to phone number requirement

Use case? Privacy?

I downloaded the app out of curiosity as it was advertised on The Dice Tower.
One major red flag is the requirement of a phone number. That’s a major privacy concern. I used a generic google voice number to register because you shouldn’t give out your number to some random app.

I looked at the apps features, and I don’t know what the use case is for this app. There’s no bgg integration (you can’t download your collection or plays). You can share your location to find other nearby gamers I guess, but that’s also another potential privacy concern. Just makes more sense to find a local meetup if you want to find local gamers.

I’m just not sure what the use case is for this app. And the potential privacy issues are problematic.
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Response from developer

Hey buddy, thanks for your feedback! 1) phone number - we originally tried to limit mal activities by having phone number as the only ID so mal-intended peeps don’t make a hundred accounts to rate games (because this happened in our alpha test), and since we have offline gatherings, we want to make sure they are aware for security reasons. Your phone number is 100% kept private and won’t be disclosed (unless you choose to disclose it if you’re a store or shop owner). Also per user feedback, we will be enabling email registration starting in late December so kindly look out for that! 2) BGG sync will be available this Friday, given the AppStore review process goes thru! 3) location sharing - you can turn this off both in app and out side of the app, as before we started the app we did a gamer survey and majority of the feedbacks was to find users nearby so we added this function. Since this is still our beta with only one major marketing campaign with the dice tower, we don’t have many users on yet, but once we do you should be able to find more users nearby. Hope this answers your concerns. Cheers!

Find games easily

Our gaming group often sits around trying to figure out what to play. With this app, we can narrow it down to which games will handle the number of players we have.

Response from developer

Thanks so much buddy! Your support is our fuel

“THE” Boardgame APP

I got to be one of the lucky USA users to help do testing for this app. What I can tell you is when this thing rolls out. It’s going to give us gamers a perfect solution to all the different Spaces we use. It has rules for pretty much ever game. It has a scheduler so I can host “gatherings” at my favorite spots. I can review games and even manage my boardgame friend groups. It’s pretty flippin’ Awesome. Can’t wait to see this roll out and get more traction. We need more “playgrounds” aka stores to come online. If you get this app get your local game store to add themselves it’s gonna make this app truly awesome.
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Helpful for gatherers

Really helpful if you’re planning boaes game events; collects all the info in one app.

Great app

Fun and easy to use