Awful app
Horrible UI, horrible audio — a child can Vibe Code something better than this in an afternoon. Can’t wait to be done with this garbage app.
Worse than an old school pager
In an era when one can become overwhelmed by customization options, Spok distinguishes itself by giving its user very few options. The system is not intuitive, and the help options are worse. It’s not clear to me why anyone would choose this service over other options on the market.
Not reliable
App alerted but crashes on startup
Completely useless
I miss pages with this app all the time. It is absolutely a danger to patient safety. The other week, there was a code at my facility and nobody’s pager went off. It’s telling that no one from Spok is replying to any of these review reviews, they could clearly not care less.
Glitches more than works
Used for 3 years, half the time alerts for things that aren’t supposed to and the other half I click and it doesn’t open. I don’t understand why have an app that can’t consistently work?
Audio settings
My audio settings keep reverting to High. I change it several times a day and it keeps going back for all priorities. This is not my hospital system- it just started this a few weeks ago. It’s vey frustrating because the high is SO LOUD
THE WORST PAGING APP (BY FAR)
You can never be sure about a page, timing can be wrong. One may page you during the day and you can get the page middle of the night. There are more to complain but this is enough. Avoid using this, if you can.
Maybe better than a pager but looks and feels like it’s from 1998
Overall this application is one of the worst two-way messaging apps I have used. Though it does integrate with our system’s existing paging network and messages do seem to be delivered (bare minimum functionality), the UI is terrible. I have it two stars because 1 is the lowest and it does actually send and receive messages, so it should get some minimal credit.
Very clunky to navigate between message “threads”. group message threading is essentially absent. Message history seems to disappear very quickly. No search function. Multimedia support is very bare bones. Certain characters are not supported “/“ and no error message is supplied!
Our hospital system pays money for this. We have to use it to communicate. It should be less terrible, and allow us to quickly and easily navigate what are often many and complex messages. Paging is no longer just send a number to get called back. Modern two way asynchronous messaging should be much better than this.
Very clunky to navigate between message “threads”. group message threading is essentially absent. Message history seems to disappear very quickly. No search function. Multimedia support is very bare bones. Certain characters are not supported “/“ and no error message is supplied!
Our hospital system pays money for this. We have to use it to communicate. It should be less terrible, and allow us to quickly and easily navigate what are often many and complex messages. Paging is no longer just send a number to get called back. Modern two way asynchronous messaging should be much better than this.
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Fix the confirm receipt system please
On ios, the paging system is frustrating. I will keep receiving reminder notifications until I “confirm” receipt. But there’s no way to do that for a message unless I force close the app and reopen it. As long as the app is open and you’re looking at the message, there’s no way to confirm that you’ve read it.
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The WORST
This app is a patient safety hazard! It is so bad it’s almost unbelievable
Garbage
Frequently crashes, the alert goes off again when opening the app with no way to shut it off. I’d rather carry a physical pager than use this app. App developer needs to be fired.
Terrible
Use it for my on call service at the hospital. It’s constantly glitching, texts don’t come through, and sometimes only get to me hours later. It’s a huge patient safety issue. Do not purchase for any reason.
Status switcher disappeared
With ios 26 the status switcher disappeared, so I cannot make myself available/unavailable.
Hope you don’t have a heart attack
I use this for work. This app is what’s suppose to notify me when they need us at the hospital when someone is having a heart attack. This app is 99% glitch, 1% annoying because even when I’m not on-call (and have put the status in it to say that), it wants to notify me. Now when I am on call, hopefully it stays logged in, or I’ll just have to rely on our operators to call us (when they feel like it). I hope my hospital didn’t pay much for this system, it’s not worth the dirt on my shoes.
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For the love of God, fix this app!
It’s been years and they still can’t write decent code.
Annoying tech
This tech should be so easy to make easy to use, but it’s so bad. Why does it keep alerting AFTER I have opened up the page I received. If I’m opening it, there is no purpose to repeating the audible alert (except to wake up my spouse too). I’ve asked OHSU IT and they know of no way to turn that “feature” off. Unbelievable
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Actually Impressive How Terrible This App Is
There are no words for how bad this app is. I have used it for years for my job, and it never gets any better. I’ve deleted and reinstalled it countless times because it just stops working. Constantly logs itself out. Misses pages ALL. THE. TIME. Alerts that there’s a new page, shows a badge icon that there is a page, then won’t log in to display the actual page. This app does nothing well. It is hands down the most useless app I’ve ever installed. And yet, I have to keep trying to use to use it for work. Whomever built and maintains this heap of smoldering technological garbage should be embarrassed.
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Unreliable
I can’t believe this is what my hospital MUSC is making us use for page notifications - it rarely works and frequently crashes. So incredibly stressful to have to rely on this awful app for messaging about urgent patient care needs!
DONT OPEN A PAGE WITH YOUR HEADPHONES IN
App is basic but largely fine. But please, for the sake of people's hearing please do not amplify the pager alert sound to 1000% because with headphones in I am certain it is causing hearing damage. Please fix that as soon as possible.
Back to pager
Poorly designed app with minimal features to customize alerts (no volume control?!?! No easy muting for the movie theater?!?!?!). Erratic alerting. Not safe for critical care use.
