Ryver Reviews & Product Details - Page 6

We are a large high school football program with 20 coaches. Ryver has completely replaced email and group text messages as our method of collaboration. Until you have used Ryver you don't realize how much it streamlines conversations and allows for great dialogue. The conversations stay on topic. It is a source of great collaboration and entertainment for our staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The notifications for Topics are sometimes confusing to our less tech savvy staff members. They receive the notifications but can't always drill down to the conversation that applies to the notification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the fact that Ryver is so cost effective. I work with a big team at a startup, so Slack wasn't really in our budget. Ryver is just as good and has really helped us increase communication. It's been a great way to not only avoid some "is this broken for you guys too" emails, but has also been great for morale. A well-placed gif can make the day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like least about Ryver is that it can be a little harder to navigate for our team. We moved from Google Hangouts (only one on one) to this and a lot of team members have been hesitant to jump on and find it a little disruptive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We were looking for a cost-effective Slack alternative and we found it. Fairly reliable. Available for PC & MacOS and mobile phones. Easy to copy and paste files and images. Easy to set up and administer. One price for unlimited number of users! Recently tried out the voice call; it was a surprisingly very good experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tendency to reply to a message from a different group or person instead of the one that just prompted. Inability to close rogue groups. Keyword search is poor. Can't remove cancelled or inactive user accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Ryver API is simple and intuitive It is by far my most favorite feature. It's a bit dumbed down and therefore seems limited in functionality, but perhaps I just haven't dug deep enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Poor calendar and document management. Ryver is only slightly better organized than Email. The collaboration ability more than makes up for this. I LOVE that I can delete chat messages, but it seems like that opens the platform up to abuse by upper management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryver allows for quick and easy integration with nearly all of our internal systems using their REST API. This is great for updating the team on a specific event or even notifying specific team members with status messages if something goes down. Pricing is so much better than Slack or other team messenger apps.

As others have stated, I do feel there is a lack of "Polish" on the application and infrastructure. During my time using Ryver, there have been several updates to better the software, and I feel the team at Ryver is stepping up their game. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Linux app occasionally has an issue displaying the layout correctly. The left hand navigation bar will hide randomly, then show randomly. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it's pretty annoying. The problem of the bar not displaying doesn't cause issues using the application, but it does bug me because I have to take additional measures to see any notifications I may have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the threaded conversations. Keeping conversations and related documents in their own place by using topics helps me keep things organized. This means more productive time for my teammates rather than catch-up time trying to find things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was a central team "hub" or board where we could see everything laid out. I also find the lack of advanced notification controls challenging. Moving a small team to a new communication platform is challenging enough, but when we are talking about adding in a whole community, notifications become a major issue. I wish that we could limit push notifications to @mentions while leaving the notifications visible in the app. Also, a language option would make this more usable in the globalized world we live in. Finally, better calendar integrations and management oversight features would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Features/Functions that are very versatile. Good UI/UX that even though most of the users are insufficient in English language but they can manage to use the software.

Unlimited data upload limit.

Topic/Task functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User rights/authorization and tracking need to be improved - the users if they edit there's no way we know the messages/comments/input are edited.

Photos are uploaded but there's no gallery feature. We can't click next to see the next pictures but have to close the current and click the next ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We came to Ryver after using a couple of other competitors and testing even more. I have to admit we were first attracted to Ryvers free and then freemium model. We were running a small team of 6 devs at the time on a very limited budget and it was the right fit. Now three years down the road we am still using it. I like the features that have been added along the way like the task/project management, but I have stayed with it because I just like how the chat is designed and the ability to convert things to posts, private forums, user management, webhooks and also fairly good integrations, though I would like to see those expanded. I like the desktop client working across platform, I develop on linux, and it is much lighter weight, i.e. no lags, unlike *cough cough* Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well as a SAAS developer myself I understand pricing models, and while $49 for Starter up to 12 persons is fair for the Premium features, but I think there should be even a smaller plan for teams of 5 or less.

We really would like a way to easily disable the feature that fetches the first image from a website link, especially on a link by link basis. At first we were able to do so by the way we edited the link, I forget what that was now, but then you all "fixed" that and it does not seem like there is a way to prevent it. There are definitely times we need to be able to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The combination of chat, task and posts in a each channel, which makes it easy to have a fast paced chat, at the same time, deliberate on discussions that need lot of thought in posts and solicit comments from rest of the team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not work well on mobile and has lot of latency issues on 4g network too. It takes a lot of time to initially load, which gives a terrible experience on low bandwidth Internet connections. The tasks have no easy way to integrate with external task trackers / issue management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryver is a powerful tool but simple to use. It supports markdown, attaching files, creating global and private forums, nested topics, planning to do list and tasks, reminders, even videoconferences. I like the most the reliability of Ryver as a desktop and website communicator, allowing to fast reply, and plan/schedule the development process among different people from different organizations focused on the same team structure (3D artists, programmers, 2D artists, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The "desktop" version of Ryver is almost undestroyable and gives us (as a team) the wider workshop and possibilities (even if there are occasional problems with disconnections). Website version of Ryver is a little, tiny bit less comfortable to use, when you need to functioning between different organizations. Mobile version of Ryver for Android is the worst among the company. It freezes sometimes, disconnects, sometimes even struggling to start the app directly from the push notifications (app returns error pages with unsuccessful connection and logging, also - similar as web app, the mobile app does not support working with a couple of organizations).

At very end: I would prefer that Ryver would have its limit up to 8 people, rather than 6 people per single organization, but this is only my point of view, as a Team Leader. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.