Panopto User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.2% of reviews
Neutral6.5% of reviews
Negative experience85.3% of reviews

~ Based on 170 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Panopto Safe?

Panopto does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Panopto is 37/100.

This assessment is based on 254 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.7/5.

Safety Analysis

15.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
80.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 240 App Store ratings for Panopto.

Is Panopto Legit?

Panopto appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Panopto is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Panopto app doesn’t work

App can’t upload or record videos at all so I’m not sure what purpose there is to use it if it can’t do those tasks.

Terrible

This app is absolute trash. If your organization forces this app on you know that they hate you.

Worst streaming app ever!!

I rarely write a review, but this app deserves leaving a review. I am very surprised why big universities use this app with all the issues it has. I never stopped a video and can easy resume. Streaming is there for long time, why this app struggles !!

I WOULD RATE 0 STARS, BUT IT DOESN’T ALLOW ME

This has got to be the worst app universities could have chosen. Im not sure if the iPad app version is as buggy, but for iPhone, I am literally having to open and see a video and then if it’s buggy, having to close the WHOLE APP AND HAVING TO OPEN THE VIDEO AGAIN FOR THE SMALL CHANCE OF BEING ABLE TO WATCH A RECORDING WITHOUT ANY BUGS. I hate it so much. I’d rather drink recently used public toilet water than have to use this app ever again. I am willing to say something worse, but I don’t want this comment taken down. The worst app ever created. Feels like it was coded by a disabled blind monkey who typed random codes onto the computer.
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Audio doesn’t match

Every time I open a video the audio resets to the very beginning of the video, even if the video is halfway through. It doesn’t ever reset to the right spot and even if you put it back to the beginning and try to skip ahead the audio still will not match. Doesn’t matter how many times you open and close the app it just never works
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Can’t upload vids

There is no point to this app anymore. It won’t upload vids anymore (iPhone nor iPad), so I have to upload to OneDrive, go to my computer, download the video, upload it to the Panopto site. I spent more time trying to upload the videos than I did making them.

Blank screen

The app just pretends to load for a second and then shows a blank screen. Uninstalling doesn’t fix it either

Playback issues

Video works except if you want to fast forward or rewind, then the video does not play correctly

Wont let me sign in

Wont even let me sign in, absolutely useless pile of garbage

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Really buggy

Still broken

playback breaks easily and can’t even be fixed by restarting the app. player ui controls suck, worse than any other player I’ve used. Does not properly support background playback.

Horrible Design and Dysfunctional

Fire your current app developers or if you contracted people terminate their contract. The user interface needs to be be better optimized for phone usage. If I am trying to start the video, it’s easy to accidentally skip forward in the progress bar unless the video is in fullscreen mode. Additionally, the progress bar and the “Skip ahead 10s” button sometimes advances the video but not the audio. It’s great to pay for an education only to be let down by a horrible app. There’s an overwhelming number of app developers out there- go find better ones.
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Update the app

This app is designed for iPad but doesn’t even support the mini player or split screen features the iPad offers, which makes it pretty useless when watching while taking notes. Also if you close the app for too long and then reopen it will refresh the app which is infuriating when you just want to continue where you left off. Please update with quality of life fixes.

The support for downloading presentations & lectures would be very useful also.
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Stopped Working Again

All I get is a white screen, again. Was working fine for a few months and now this again. I have restarted my iPad. I have deleted and reinstalled the app. Nothing changes. I can’t even log on. As soon as I open the app it’s just a white screen. I need to use this app to securely record videos in accordance with my school’s policy, and I cannot do that with this level of malfunction. What is going on?!
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Not working

The apps not working nor loading can someone please fix this issue to as well make it work without WiFi

Ruins student learning and no update

Buggy (example: won't play backward or forward, Slide show would pause)

I guess they don't care about students learning but only for money

Absurd

The app is awful

The app is really bad. Awful UX, the player buttons are close to each other (eg sometimes you want to pause the video but it skips to the middle of the video); the slides video won’t load if you resume a video after you paused , etc. it’s supposed to be an incredibly simple app and it’s just so poorly implemented
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Just stick to web

This app will not restart at a previously watched position without messing up audio or split screen view.

Constantly crashing

This app is awful. Please sort it out.

Incredibly bad for iPad and Mobile

App doesn’t load up videos properly. Very slow and buffers frequently. Very unsmooth to use major improvements needed.