# Wavelength - Group Chat — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of Wavelength by Telepath Inc., rated 4.65/5 from 437 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wavelength-group-chat/id1584865627/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wavelength-group-chat/id1584865627.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 359 · 4★ 42 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of Wavelength? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 💬 Excellent threading system for organized conversations - 🤖 Innovative AI bot integration and customization - 🔒 Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted platform - 👥 Strong community and group chat functionality - 👍 Clean, intuitive user interface design - 🎯 Separates conversations by topic effectively - 📱 Works well as primary messaging replacement - ✨ Unique alternative to extractive social apps **Cons** - 🐌 Slow syncing and performance issues - 🐛 App freezes and requires reloading - ⚠️ Lack of moderation and safety features - 🚫 Missing block/mute functionality for users - 😞 Toxic communities without moderation tools - 🔧 Custom bot creation broken for extended periods - 📵 Limited file sharing capabilities - 🔐 Privacy concerns with phone number requirement - ❌ Poor onboarding experience for new users **Commonly reported bugs** - Messages fail to send without error details - Sync takes hours to complete - Bot creation and editing returns server errors - Bots don't respond when mentioned - Message button on bot screen non-functional - App freezes and forgets thread position after reload - Installation failures on App Store - macOS app missing fundamental features **Most requested features** - Video upload and file attachment support - iOS share sheet integration - Search functionality for conversations - Message deletion and conversation cleanup - Emoji reactions on messages - Text selection and partial message copying - Multiple message selection - User mute functionality (separate from blocking) - Updated ChatGPT version (beyond 3.5) - Android app version - Send-to Wavelength from other apps - Better onboarding for new users ## Newest reviews (10 of 37) ### 4/5 — Nice chat app with steady improvements + AI *2023-10-04* Really enjoying this alternative chat app. I wish it supported video uploads, and other file attachments beyond images. More than once a member of my chat group has had to duck out to use another service just to share a video, which defeats the purpose of using Wavelength. Also really needs iOS “share sheet” support, so it’s easy to share articles and such from Safari directly to Wavelength. Hope support for these things comes soon! ### 4/5 — Nice chat app with steady improvements + AI *2023-07-17* Really enjoying this alternative chat app. Most of the early laggy behavior has been solved, and many of the quality-of-life features users expect have been added. Looking forward to further refinements! ### 5/5 — Interesting Common Sense answers *2023-06-15* So far I am only chatting with the AI bot and surprised by the answers. ### 4/5 — Seems to not allow deleting conversations *2023-05-01* Group messaging is handy but your collection of conversational threads may become disorganized and unwieldy. Being able to include ChatGPT in a conversation is both interesting and genuinely useful. ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-04-26* AI chat is really fun. ### 5/5 — Whence Search? *2023-04-21* This is a great chat app. I would like the devs to introduce search. This is a core need. ### 3/5 — Amazing but doesn’t explain enough *2023-04-09* I didn’t know how to change my profile or name a chat. BTW, AI tracks you. This app is ok but not great. **Developer response:** The AI bot doesn't track you or have access to any messages that don't mention it — all other messages are encrypted end-to-end and completely private. We don't pass any personally identifiable information to our LLM provider. You can edit your profile by tapping the gear menu in the bottom left corner of the group list on iOS and then "Settings". On Mac, click "Wavelength" in the menu bar and then "Settings". Thanks for checking out Wavelength! ### 5/5 — the best texting app *2023-03-28* This is an awesome app and I love the AI feature! ### 4/5 — Smooth app *2023-03-28* Smooth app, easy understandable UI. I do miss the lack of emoji responses in threads (Feature Request)! - but the initial interaction has been great. i like how they handle photos - smoother than Slack, but only allowing photos from the photo library vs any image collection you might have in iCloud, for example. ### 5/5 — Primary text service *2023-03-26* Awesome app. My whole family uses it. Replaced Messenger and Text. Look forward to any updat. AI was a brilliant addition ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Slow and unreliable *2024-05-09* Takes hours to “sync” and a message of mine just fails to send without any detail. ### 1/5 — An app for all the cool kid tech bros *2023-04-01* In high school I was the computer nerd and no one wanted to be friends with me. This app is like that. You can’t do anything in it when you onboard unless you are already in a group. At this point the app is yet another online profile that has no useful capabilities because they are all locked behind a closed door. /shrug Deleted. ### 1/5 — insta delete *2023-03-28* Any app that starts by asking for a phone number gets deleted. So much for privacy. **Developer response:** We're bound to never sell your data by our Terms of Service, and will never call you or bother you, but we understand that not everyone wants to use their phone number to sign in. We'll add a login with email option in the future. Thanks for your feedback! ### 2/5 — Terrific App // Broken Bot Creator *2024-04-19* Wavelength is a great way to build and interact with custom bots but for weeks (months?) it’s been unable to edit or create new ones. The returned server errors don’t affect bots I’ve already created and talk to but I miss being able to make refinements or test new ideas. ChatGPT is running on 3.5 still and Anthropic’s Claude is just awful. Hoping for improved/restored custom bot support and an updated ChatGPT in the future! Would absolutely pay a subscription to continue using the app and support ongoing development if offered, just wish that main draw for me was still working. ### 2/5 — Is it just me? *2023-06-05* For me, bots never respond when mentioned and tapping the “message” button on a bot screen does nothing. So it feels like the primary purpose of the app is completely broken. ### 3/5 — Needs moderation features *2024-04-30* Wonderfully thoughtful, impressively technical app. The team would quickly add quality features and the premise of a decentralized, no-cloud E2EE platform is a fantastic objective. Without proper moderation features to block and mute individuals to avoid seeing their content, however, this app is a non-starter for many I wanted to try to bring to the platform. Several of the initial communities on the platform have incredibly racist and aggressive individuals that can't be avoided because of the lack of moderation tools. This app is best when interacting with dynamic group chats of hundreds of people, but as with any large group, there will be people that a user won't want to interact with. This app persists the ongoing stereotype of male/pale-run tech startups that don't consider the benefits of moderation tools, making spaces more accessible and inclusive for non-male / non-white users. It perpetuates the Silicon Valley / tech bro / libertarian echo chambers and systemically prevents diverse participation. After a couple months of use, I left the app and can't consider returning to it until these safety are added on. I grew tired of opening the app to incredibly bigoted viewpoints that I can't avoid reading in groups l'd otherwise want to engage with. ### 3/5 — Needs moderation features *2024-04-27* Wonderfully thoughtful, impressively technical app. The team would quickly add quality features and the premise of a decentralized, no-cloud E2EE platform is a fantastic objective. Without proper moderation features to block and mute individuals to avoid seeing their content, however, this app is a non-starter for many I wanted to try to bring to the platform. Several of the initial communities on the platform have incredibly racist and aggressive individuals that can't be avoided because of the lack of moderation tools. This app is best when interacting with dynamic group chats of hundreds of people, but as with any large group, there will be people that a user won't want to interact with. This app persists the ongoing stereotype of male/pale-run tech startups that don't consider the benefits of moderation tools, making spaces more accessible and inclusive for non-male / non-white users. It perpetuates the Silicon Valley / tech bro / libertarian echo chambers and systemically prevents diverse participation. After a couple months of use, I left the app and can't consider returning to it until these safety are added on. I grew tired of opening the app to incredibly bigoted viewpoints that I can't avoid reading in groups I'd otherwise want to engage with. ### 3/5 — Promising start, slow development *2023-06-16* Like many, I dove in based on the strength of John Gruber’s praise. But this app’s rough edges are its downfall. • The biggest issue is that the app freezes regularly, and has to reload itself as if it’s being recompiled. Literally: switch away from the app for a few seconds then come back. I timed it: 15 seconds of UI lock and reloading, and it forgets what thread you were in, so you have to click that again. This is really confusing. I’ve never seen an app behave this way—and this is *after* several updates the dev team have made to address app slowness. Let’s just say there’s room for improvement. ### 3/5 — Awesome at threading *2023-05-06* I cannot think of a better app for starting new message threads. Sadly that is outweighed by the number of fundamental features that are missing. - you can’t share videos - you can’t share files - you can’t “send to” wavelength - you can only block users, you cannot mute them - you can’t select and “send to” a message - you can’t select multiple messages - etc etc The macOS app is missing even more things I would think of as fundamental ### 3/5 — AppStore is giving an “Unable to install prompt” *2023-04-11* My future review will go here. Three stars for effort. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Primary text service *2024-04-08* Awesome app. My whole family uses it. Replaced Messenger and Text. Look forward to any updat. AI was a brilliant addition ### 5/5 — Love this app. *2024-02-09* Great for learning about what's happening in the world, meeting other people with similar interests, and going down your favorite rabbitholes. ### 5/5 — An alternative to extractive social apps *2024-01-03* Fun, secure, and easy. Wavelength allows me to connect with a wide variety of people across lots of topics and events, like group chat combined with Quora/Twitter, without ads or creepiness. ### 5/5 — love it *2023-10-03* this app is the best way to talk to friends and keep conversations and topics separate. so cool it’s fr the future of messenger apps ### 5/5 — Great app for groups and communities *2023-10-02* At first I was skeptical and thought “do I really need another chat app?“ After joining a few active groups, I am absolutely hooked. You really see how design makes a huge difference an app specifically designed for group chat, feels very different to Telegram or ‎WhatsApp, or any of the other apps that are made for one-to-one communication. ### 5/5 — The number one messaging app I go to everyday *2023-08-28* It took me a minute to get into this, but once I did, I can't stop checking! Great community and I love the way the app organizes conversations so it's easy to check on what's the latest thing someone has said. ### 5/5 — This app rules *2023-07-06* It really does ### 5/5 — Amazing for 2 (maybe 3) reasons *2023-06-30* The marquee feature first: the AI interaction supercharges every conversation. It’s like the old “let’s Google that” but doesn’t necessitate halting the conversation. The sleeper hit: threading makes sense out of conversations you have with people that you have more than one reason to write to. Wish I had critical mass to extend that to groups, and I can’t wait until that’s the case. I can’t wait to give this outfit some money, but I hope I can convince a bunch of my friends to join first. Subset of feature 1: the AI bots invite the same kind of blue-sky thinking that Chat AI did last year. Who do you want in on your conversation? Or who do you want to have a chat with? The three-famous-people dinner is no longer hypothetical. Your favorite deceased author? A striking fictional character? Your cat? Set the table and invite them in. ### 5/5 — Great community and great content *2023-06-20* App slick and fast and the people on here are great. ### 5/5 — Love it *2023-06-16* The bots are fun! Thank you. Would love to see 2 features. * Text Selections: Ability to selected only part of a reply. Now, I have to right click and choose Copy from the menu. * Search: Would be great to be able to search though previous conversations and not just for the name of the Group or Bot. --- *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 2026-06-10.*