Amazing tech
Love this app - recommend A++
Brilliant application but it’s a little weird that you ask for microphone access
It would be good to know more clearly why you need microphone access.
Maybe I’m reading the contact reports wrong.
NOVID tells me I’ve had prolonged contacts when I’ve been home alone for two days. Any idea why that would be?
Amazing idea, but needs more downloads
This is a revolutionary app because it’s the only preexposure notification app. The app itself is well laid out and easy to use and understand. The only problem is that not enough people know about this app or have downloaded it. It is an amazing idea but needs more downloads to be effective. PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE APP AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO DO THE SAME!! (There is an easy way to share the app in the settings)
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Does it really work?
It’s a good app design and some people seem to be having success with it. I know that before the app had to be open to work on iOS, and now the new wifi background mode seemed promising. However, my roommates and I all have this app. We tested it both ways, with the app open and in background mode, none of us got a new connection. I have had this app for around 4-5 months, and live in a decent sized college town. I have never got even 1 connection. I even have kept it open in public, like it recommends. I keep it, because I think it’s important. However, I am not sure it actually works..
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Ingenious
Ingenious and fantastic way of utilizing technology. Got around a thousand connections in my college town. Will be recommending to all my friends
Too much effort
Requires too much conscious effort on the user’s part. You have to remember to open it and keep it running. To lock the screen securely you have to go through the accessibility features and then triple click whenever you want to lock your phone. It would be a great app if I didn’t want to use my phone for anything else. I wish the developers would just collaborate with Apple and Google if their approach is better than the ones that have already been adopted in the development of the exposure notification API.
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Very impressive approach
Extremely well done app, concept is brilliant, just install, give app access and forget! When out and about, open app and enter Standby Mode!
Why isn’t this mandatory?
It doesn’t do any good unless everyone uses it, right?
Keeps crashing
I cant even open it
Effective and well designed
This app has impeccable accuracy and continues to successfully pick up exposures when I am out and about. It has a great design that is very intuitive and easy to navigate!
Set up fail
Even though I have repeatedly given it the permissions it asks for, it won’t move beyond the give permissions screen.
Best contact-tracing app
NOVID is the safest way we can return to “normalcy.” I like that it’s completely anonymous while being the most precise app on the market.
Spread NOVID not COVID
Good UI!
Standby mode.
I wasn’t aware and it wasn’t clear that iOS users need to use standby mode instead of locking iPhone. So... yeah. Make it easy. I don’t read directions. I appreciate this app and think it is a great idea and has great initiative to be more open to working together for common objectives.
Scanning forever
The app keeps saying scanning and shows nothing but scanning scanning and again scanning
I wish it was standardized. It only interacts with Novid users.
Apple and Google cooperated (!) to create the capability to do what this does, maybe not as well but as people get apps that use that capability They will All interact. This doesn’t use that capability, it creates a similar (possibly better) method. Unless this app dominates the market it likely won’t protect us as well as those do because so many more of them will be in use. I don’t know whether one could use both kinds at once.
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Fairly useless
Have been around lots of people the entire Memorial Day weekend and it did not register a single contact. The only way this app works is if everyone uses it and that’s just not going to happen. Also most of the usefulness is only realized if you leave the app open in the foreground all the time and that just isn’t practical.
It’s a nice idea and I wish it would work. Unfortunately it won’t.
It’s a nice idea and I wish it would work. Unfortunately it won’t.
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Currently does not seem to run in the background
I think the concept and design of the app are great.
Right now, my testing shows it’s unreliable at best. I can only get contacts if both phones are running the app in the foreground all the time.
My family has tested extensively over the last week and even if the phones are next to each other for an hour, there’s no contact unless the app is running.
The developers don’t seem willing / able to integrate the new contact tracing API.
I’d love to see the app succeed, since I think the sound beacons are a good idea. But right now, it doesn’t work as most people would expect. No background processing, and no use of the new tracing APIs
Right now, my testing shows it’s unreliable at best. I can only get contacts if both phones are running the app in the foreground all the time.
My family has tested extensively over the last week and even if the phones are next to each other for an hour, there’s no contact unless the app is running.
The developers don’t seem willing / able to integrate the new contact tracing API.
I’d love to see the app succeed, since I think the sound beacons are a good idea. But right now, it doesn’t work as most people would expect. No background processing, and no use of the new tracing APIs
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Works! (Updated May 21 2020)
New update has fixed my previous issue (notes below)
Old review (May 17, 2020):
Doesn’t work
Doesn’t detect my wife’s phone. I spend all day with her
Old review (May 17, 2020):
Doesn’t work
Doesn’t detect my wife’s phone. I spend all day with her
