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Pocket Bard
Pocket Bard Inc. · 3,338 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
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3,338 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 16 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"download"
4 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "i can't download the sound, i wait for hours and the download didn't even start its keep loading" - Andika Pratama
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"sound"
4 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "i can't download the sound, i wait for hours and the download didn't even start its keep loading" - Andika Pratama
3
"times"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app updated, unlogged and now not only I'm forever unverified no matter how many times I use the verification email. Also I can't log in on both phone and tablet, the password nevers get through" - Ricardo Laurindo
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"subscription"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "subscription based. would rather pay a one time fee for scenes and sounds than a subscription. it's way too expensive for what you get." - Disco Melon
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"music"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I cant get any music or sound to play at all. disappointing. edit: reached out, we'll see how it goes." - Peter
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"play"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I cant get any music or sound to play at all. disappointing. edit: reached out, we'll see how it goes." - Peter
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"work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the app is completely unusable now, it doesn't play music unless in the preview mode and the sound effects don't work either. plus you can't even play sound effects independently anymore... I honestly prefer it the original way..." - Stephen Coates
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"update"
3 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app updated, unlogged and now not only I'm forever unverified no matter how many times I use the verification email. Also I can't log in on both phone and tablet, the password nevers get through" - Ricardo Laurindo
📋 All 16 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
The app updated, unlogged and now not only I'm forever unverified no matter how many times I use the verification email. Also I can't log in on both phone and tablet, the password nevers get through
couldn't even get past the terms of service even after re installation 4 times just kept getting an unknown error message
i can't download the sound, i wait for hours and the download didn't even start its keep loading
subscription based. would rather pay a one time fee for scenes and sounds than a subscription. it's way too expensive for what you get.
download take forever, wait an hour still downloading
I cant get any music or sound to play at all. disappointing. edit: reached out, we'll see how it goes.
please make all content free I would rather ads then be blocked from everything
the app is completely unusable now, it doesn't play music unless in the preview mode and the sound effects don't work either. plus you can't even play sound effects independently anymore... I honestly prefer it the original way...
update happened and now non of the sound work. tried reinstalling but didn't work.
please add an option to just buy a scene, we are drowning in SaaS, I would seriously prefer to just pay $10-$30 per scene than deal with any more subscriptions.
WAY overpriced and you can't even load custom audio. Nice UI though.
loved it but now with the newest update cant hear audio and had to re-download everything.
Used to be amazing: I decided to resubscribe yesterday to be used for a new campaign and the music would play for around 10 minutes then it would start to skip and cut out before the app crashed entire and I had to keep resetting the app and making the adjustments to the settings I needed. It really broke immersion unfortunately. Definitely going to be cancelling and asking for a refund of my subscription Also no free trial to try the premium version and only offering the 30 second previews 🙃
Maybe mine just doesn't work but I've tried installing sounds so many times, and even reinstalled the app hoping it'd work, but nothing. if the app worked I imagine it'd be pretty good so I gotta give credit for the idea
Great app but won't rate it higher than 2 due having a subscription. I am not against paying for an app if I like it. the only "reason" for justifying a subscription is greed.
I used to use this app at every d&d session. A recent update overhauled the app making it far inferior to the prior version. It has become much less convenient to navigate, and you now need to download the environments you want to use. They also replaced the fantasy images that accompanied the environment categories with some really bad looking AI art. I don't know what compelled them to change this app for the worse, but sadly I can no longer comfortably recommend it to anyone.
Sentiment summary
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