# vintagePhone — user reviews > 140 indexed App Store user reviews of vintagePhone by Patoing mobile media, rated 4.20/5 from 194 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vintagephone/id438179925/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vintagephone/id438179925.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 129 · 4★ 28 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of vintagePhone? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fun educational tool - 👍 Retro and cool - 👍 Lots of fun - 👍 Wonderful, Historical - 👍 Love it - 👍 Very fun - 👍 Memories - 👍 Great memories and functional too - 👍 Much Fun - 👍 Great little dialer - and a very responsive developer! - 👍 Wonderful! Has only one glitch - 👍 The good old days - 👍 Brilliant!!!!! - 👍 Fab! - 👍 Excellent retro app - 👍 Funky! - 👍 Smashing - 👍 Enjoyable experience - 👍 EXCELLENT WORK !!!! - 👍 Love it! - 👍 Brings back memories **Cons** - 🐛 Better w/o # display - 🐛 No sound - 🐛 Sound is not accurate - 🐛 Dialing works but no sound - 🐛 Inaccurate - 🐛 Pointless - 🐛 Shouldn't have to push dial - 🐛 No volume in iPhone 5 **Commonly reported bugs** - Contacts button crashes the app - Dialing wrong numbers and takes to long get it wright!!! - Lag making it impossible to dial a number **Most requested features** - Address book - Widescreen layout for iPad - Dial tone - Handset pick up sounds - Ability to dial a number and add it to the address book - Recent calls history ## Newest reviews (18 of 140) ### 3/5 — Better w/o display *2025-10-26, version 3.0* A nice app that works well. Nonetheless, a dial phone did NOT have a number display active at the bottom as one dialed. C’mon folks: give us an option to delete it and have only the dial. Remember: in ancient times, before screens showing the number being dialed, dialing a wrong number gave us a chance to meet new people. ### 4/5 — Address book *2025-10-14, version 3.0* Great! Would like ability to dial in a mumber then add it to the address book. After a while the sound no longer works (iphone 14 pro) ios 26. Added later- thanks for fixing the sound! ### 4/5 — Address book *2025-09-09, version 3.0* Great! Would like ability to dial in a mumber then add it to the address book. ### 5/5 — I FREAKING LOVE THIS!!! *2024-10-25, version 3.0* 💕🖤I have always wanted a Rotary Phone ever since I was 6 years old, and when I discovered this app for one of my friends, I instantly fell in love. At first I thought it was like all the other apps and it just wouldn’t work, but it works and has so many more features than the others. I’m really really happy that you made this app 🖤💕 ### 4/5 — OK, but Digital Trike was better *2024-08-05, version 3.0* This would be great, but it has no dial tone! The free app made by the now defunct Digital Trike had that, and I miss it. I’m not a fan of the antique/dingy look either, but I do like the rotary turning sounds and haptics. Bring in the dial tone and this will be awesome. ### 4/5 — OK, but Digital Trike was better *2024-06-20* This would be great but it has no dial tone. The free app made by the now defunct Digital Trike had that. Unfortunately my phone got killed and this is the closest I can find. I’m not a fan of the antique/dingy look, but I do like the rotary turning sounds. Bring on the dial tone and it will be awesome. ### 5/5 — Rotorary Dial *2024-06-04, version 3.0* This app is so kool! Had a similar app on one of my old Android phones! Brings back a lot of memories of my childhood! So nostalgic! Great job Developers! ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-01-29* Works great and fun totally secure when keeping grandkids off the phone they have no idea what to do 😎 ### 5/5 — So fun *2024-01-18, version 3.0* As a vintage lover who wants a old phone this is so fun. You can really call people using it.Also is so fun to play with I messed with it for 15 minutes. So fun 100% would recommend this app. ### 5/5 — Vintage dialer *2023-08-05, version 3.0* What more can I say . Brings the memory of my younger years , calling family and friends . ### 4/5 — Pretty cool but sounds are wrong *2023-07-27, version 3.0* I like the idea of this app but I find the sounds irritating as they don’t match the mechanical sounds of the phones I grew up with. ### 5/5 — 5 stars for vintage phone *2023-06-05, version 3.0* I really love this app. I can call everyone on it! Don’t be skeptical of when it ask you to allow contacts, because what did you want when you download this? ### 5/5 — No sound *2023-01-20, version 3.0* FYI: I bought the app, but have no dial sounds. Maybe because I’m running IOS 16.3? Had a friend install it on his phone tonight and it works fine. ### 5/5 — Quality touch of nostalgia *2022-07-02, version 3.0* Every time I use this app, I fondly remember using the phone at my Grandma's flat 35 years ago. In a sense, it’s completely unnecessary, but in reality, it’s a fantastic, beautiful touch of fun and nostalgia and a great joy to use. Thank you to whoever created this, for bringing me joy and happy memories. Download it now! :) ### 3/5 — Recent calls *2022-06-16, version 3.0* It needs a way to let you acess recent calls that came in or was dialed so you don't have to go-to the iphone dial to erase resent calls!!! I like it other than that!!! ### 4/5 — Great. But wish it worked for Text. *2022-04-03, version 3.0* Love this app! Brings me peace in the midst of a crazy digital world. I just wish it could be used for text dialing of numbers. That’s when I would us it the most. ### 4/5 — Please add a dial tone and handset pick up sounds! *2022-03-28, version 3.0* The app is great, but I suggest adding a dial tone and some handset sounds to make it more realistic. ### 5/5 — Superb *2022-01-08, version 3.0* Lovely little novelty app. Now with excellent haptic feedback! Won't sell in the millions, hence the price. If you don't want it you don't have to have it! Welcome to the free-market economy. Some of us gotta make a living y'know🙂. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No sound! *2024-02-19, version 3.0* Theres only an haptic feedback on this app but no sound at all every time you dial a number. I adjusted it already to a full blast in-app but still no sould yet. Wasted $3 on this app! ### 1/5 — Bad *2022-06-22, version 3.0* Volume quit working ### 1/5 — Bad *2018-12-30, version 2.1* Doesn’t dial accurately— wouldn’t recommend. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2018-06-17, version 2.0* Can’t use the contacts button. Automatically crashes. ### 1/5 — No sound came out *2018-06-14, version 2.0* Using iPhone 7 Plus, there was no sound from the app ### 1/5 — Dialing *2018-05-03, version 2.0* Dialing works but no sound ### 1/5 — Fun app, if it worked *2018-04-18, version 2.0* Shows you the number it's going to dial and then dials a completely different number. ### 1/5 — Inaccurate *2017-09-18, version 2.0* When dialing, you rarely get the correct number. Deleted. ### 1/5 — Worked once *2017-08-11, version 2.0* I downloaded this app, and it worked great. Loved the sound, and also showing my preteen where "dialing" a number came from. Tried to show a coworker the next day, and there's no sound. Sound on the app and the phone were both maxed out: silence. 1/10 would try again. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2017-04-24, version 1.0.1* My son downloaded this on his iPod and payed to get the ads taken off but the dialer didn't dial if you say it is compatible with iPod then make it!!!!!!!!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun educational tool *2025-12-27, version 3.0* Great tool to show how old phones worked. Note: what if the last dialed number automatically called the desired number. ### 5/5 — Retro and cool *2025-09-16, version 3.0* I’ve had this app for ages, and it’s still fun :) ### 5/5 — A new feature suggestion?? *2025-09-15, version 3.0* I hope you guys can get back to me but I would like to suggest as I’m on iPad! Could you please add a way for a widescreen layout as it’s quite odd to have to squirt to see the numbers on an iPad. Note: this is an amazing app!! ### 5/5 — I’m in 1927 and I love it! *2025-08-27, version 3.0* It does exactly what I wanted: it gives me the illusion of using an old rotary phone. And it really works to make actual calls! You simply dial your desired number, hit the big “call” button, and off you go. Too bad there’s no dial tone but I’m happy enough anyway. Quite fun. The artistic details are great, too. I love how 0 for operator is the dirtiest, showing the most use. ### 5/5 — Lots of fun *2025-04-13, version 3.0* This is a wonderful little app. I showed my grandchildren, and the had absolutely no clue what it was about, nor were they interested!! ### 5/5 — This App *2025-02-04, version 3.0* Wonderful, Historical ### 5/5 — Love it *2025-02-01, version 3.0* I love it! It’s a lot of fun ### 5/5 — 很好的应用使我的拨号盘旋转 *2025-01-19, version 3.0* ……… ### 5/5 — The sound and feel is so real! *2024-11-27, version 3.0* I got this to experience the old way. Very fun. It lets you dial numbers but not press the call button, so you can just play around. If you tap the call button, then your iphone’s phone app opens up and takes over. You can strengthen the vibration of the rotary dial, too. Just love it. ### 5/5 — It great get it *2024-11-05, version 3.0* Really good impression of a vintage phone --- *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 2026-08-01.*