# SideCast — user reviews > 69 indexed App Store user reviews of SideCast by Alerion Media LLC, rated 4.58/5 from 208 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sidecast/id608426917/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sidecast/id608426917.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 172 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of SideCast? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and effective communication - 💡 Useful for various noisy environments - 🚀 Fast and snappier UX (recent updates) - 👍 Easy to use and understand - 💡 Great for communicating when unable to speak - 👍 Works well for distance communication - 💡 Handy for families and kids - 💡 Useful for public policy and meetings - 👍 Solves specific communication problems - 💡 Great for Deaf and hard of hearing coworkers - 👍 Entertaining and fun - 💡 Good for ordering in loud places - 👍 Works with iOS 16 (after update) - 💡 Innovative and unique functionality **Cons** - 🐛 Freezes too often - 🐛 Does not rotate reliably - 🐛 Pages run into each other - 🐛 Timed out forcing upgrade - 🐛 Not compatible with older iOS versions (historically) - 💡 Time limit (mentioned once) - 💡 Desire for text/background color selection **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezes too often - Side cast does not rotate more often than not - When it does rotate, the pages run into each other - Doesn’t work with iOS 16 (prior to recent update) - Timed out - forced to upgrade (specific instance) **Most requested features** - Allow selection of text and background colors - Remove time limit (mentioned once) ## Newest reviews (15 of 69) ### 5/5 — Good app *2022-07-18, version 3.0.1* Easy and reallyable ### 5/5 — Good for dissociation. *2022-07-01, version 3.0.1* When nonverbal a good app to talk to someone in the same room. ### 5/5 — Awsome 2020 *2022-05-15, version 3.0.1* Awesome ### 5/5 — Works exactly as advertised *2022-05-03, version 3.0.1* I needed a thing that does what this does. It does it. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2021-04-20, version 3.0.1* Had few of my teeth pulled out and this helped me communicated temporarily easy and simple to use ### 5/5 — Fun *2020-08-01, version 3.0.1* Great for car trips with kids! ### 5/5 — Great app.Work really well.keep it up and Five Stars! *2019-11-19, version 3.0.1* I ### 5/5 — great *2019-11-02, version 3.0.1* great ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2019-10-13, version 3.0.1* Easy to manage and easy to use and it doesn’t take so much space on phone memory. ### 5/5 — Yay! *2019-09-14, version 3.0.1* It’s great! Exactly as expected ### 5/5 — Ridelihs *2019-08-17, version 3.0.1* Des dysgenic happens fog dog park and park park and paths for tea towels towels etc etc they have been able together for lunch and then ### 5/5 — Great *2019-08-16, version 3.0.1* Great app ### 5/5 — Limo company *2019-08-10, version 3.0.1* I like this up ### 5/5 — I love it❗️ *2019-08-02, version 3.0.1* Love it, love it❗️ ### 5/5 — Excellent at airport *2019-06-19, version 3.0.1* Great greeting at airports ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Freezes to often *2023-02-25, version 3.0.1* The side cast does not rotate more often than not. Then when it does rotate, the pages run into each other ### 1/5 — Needs an update *2022-12-15, version 3.0.1* I really enjoy this app, but it hasn’t been updated for 6 years and no longer works properly with the latest IOS. ### 1/5 — Timed Out - Forced to Upgrade *2019-07-21, version 3.0.1* After a 2 minute sign posting at the airport, the app timed out and forced me to upgrade in order to have more time. If I had not given my customer detailed info of where I would be, we may ever had found each other! What a rip off!! ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work with iOS 16 *2022-09-18, version 3.0.1* I have enjoyed this app for a couple years and just upgraded to iOS 16 and now when I rotate the phone to show a message, it doesn’t do anything. It just stays on the previous message composure screen. I’m not totally surprised as it hasn’t had an update in 5 years with the last one making it compatible with iOS 10. 😳 ### 3/5 — Easy *2018-12-16, version 3.0.1* This is easy to use and fun for a party. I haven’t finished exploring it all yet. ### 4/5 — Straightforward and Useful *2022-10-30, version 3.0.1* Useful for sales and getting people’s attention. It’s helped me get the point across amongst large crowds. Howe ever, not a fan of the time limit, hence the 4-star rating. ### 4/5 — Great app *2017-10-09, version 3.0.1* I love the app. I do wish the developer would let me select text and background colors though. ### 4/5 — Dubeam *2017-04-18, version 3.0.1* Not quite as nimble as the old Marquee, but gets the job done. ### 4/5 — Great for sight words *2017-02-21, version 3.0.1* I started using this app to teach sight words to make Kindergarteners. I like it a lot. ### 5/5 — When you need to share a talking point *2023-03-26, version 4.0.0* Working in a public policy realm there were countless times I held up a quick reminder of a talking point when someone was in a meeting or conducting an interview. Yes, this is great for ordering in a loud bar, but it’s fabulous for reminding someone in a meeting about a key point when they’re speechifying. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — One of my faves - Thanks for the UPDATE!! *2023-03-25, version 4.0.0* Edit: 3/25/23 I really, really appreciate the new SideCast!!! Previous review still applies: I absolutely adore SideCast. I use it for communicating while on calls, across the room, during concerts, and to make people crack up! It’s so simple but so very effective. ### 5/5 — Now updated to iOS 16, nothing else like it! *2023-03-24, version 4.0.0* Love the app as it has now been upgraded to iOS 16! I’ve looked and as far as I know there’s no other app like it! 😊 ### 5/5 — 5 Stars after update! *2023-03-24, version 4.0.0* The latest update has corrected the problems. Glad to have this App back up and running. Thank you developer guy. ### 5/5 — Love this app. *2023-03-23, version 4.0.0* We use SideCast whenever we want to show someone a message quickly from a distance. They don’t even have to get a phone out or have a phone, as the app automatically formats the text to be read from far away. So thankful for the recent updates to clean up the app for new devices!!! Thanks! ### 5/5 — Super Useful with Families *2023-03-23, version 4.0.0* This is one of those handy little apps that end up being a lot more useful than you expect. I frequently use it to share a note with someone when I can’t speak out loud (because my kids will overhear, because someone’s on the phone, etc). Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2023-03-23, version 4.0.0* All the utility of SideCast with a faster snappier UX! Love the update! 🫶🏼 ### 5/5 — Sweet update! *2023-03-23, version 4.0.0* It’s been a while but I love all the usability updates in the new version. ### 5/5 — One of my faves - NEEDS UPDATE *2022-09-28, version 3.0.1* I absolutely adore SideCast. Have used it for communicating while on calls, across the room, during concerts, and to make people crack up! It’s so simple but so very effective. With the new iOS SideCast doesn’t seem to work when you turn it to ‘cast’. I know there haven’t been many updates for a few years, this one is all we need - just let it work again, please! Pretty, pretty please! ### 5/5 — Handy for concert or other events *2022-08-14, version 3.0.1* Solved my problem --- *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 2026-07-05.*