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Aloha Browser - Private VPN
Aloha Mobile · 310,470 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 34 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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"downloads"
10 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lots of useless features. Limited downloads" - Electricaxe
2
"browser"
8 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very buggy now. Updated to new version recently. Very buggy now. Videos often choose to play in native iOS player instead of browser built-in media player, have to navigate out of tab and return for it to change back. Random intervals of constantly being s…" - Nickname123wq
3
"update"
7 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very buggy now. Updated to new version recently. Very buggy now. Videos often choose to play in native iOS player instead of browser built-in media player, have to navigate out of tab and return for it to change back. Random intervals of constantly being s…" - Nickname123wq
4
"download"
7 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lots of useless features. Limited downloads" - Electricaxe
5
"videos"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very buggy now. Updated to new version recently. Very buggy now. Videos often choose to play in native iOS player instead of browser built-in media player, have to navigate out of tab and return for it to change back. Random intervals of constantly being s…" - Nickname123wq
6
"years"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This app used to be cool. I don’t mind paying for this but I feel it was more responsive about 2 years ago" - Pizza_Man
7
"video"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very buggy now. Updated to new version recently. Very buggy now. Videos often choose to play in native iOS player instead of browser built-in media player, have to navigate out of tab and return for it to change back. Random intervals of constantly being s…" - Nickname123wq
8
"features"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lots of useless features. Limited downloads" - Electricaxe
9
"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Missing. I was enjoying the app quite a bit until I realized that days and days worth of data information. Downloads and bookmarks were not in my device, but rather expired links un downloaded material and incomplete a complete nightmare for all wor…" - Sage apprentice
10
"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You all help people cheat. Your private browser is pointless you only help people try to hide what they are doing so your prime browser helped my fiancée look up things he shouldn’t of been" - Sugi1983
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"daily"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Video Player Messed Up and Newest Update Limits Features. There used to be no limit to downloading videos, and now in an attempt to incentivize users to pay for premium they capped daily download. I paid for this and since this brew update the video player only loads correctly about half the time.…" - Nick Ultimate
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Video Player Messed Up and Newest Update Limits Features. There used to be no limit to downloading videos, and now in an attempt to incentivize users to pay for premium they capped daily download. I paid for this and since this brew update the video player only loads correctly about half the time.…" - Nick Ultimate
📋 All 34 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").
Lots of useless features
Limited downloads
Basura
Barura
You ask for reviews
This is what you get
吃相比百度云还难看
这边国产软件不少吃相难看的，但这个软件更牛逼，我也是开了眼长见识了，特么连下载次数都能限制收费哈哈哈。
人家慢慢做大起来了想垄断了，收费好歹都是奔着先限制再一步步解锁，而且是立足在优化个性化服务体验的，这软件不一样，直接把自己招牌核心特色给藏起来先给大部分用户来上一刀砍掉自断一臂。
我说白了，那我为什么不用自带的safari呢😆
人家慢慢做大起来了想垄断了，收费好歹都是奔着先限制再一步步解锁，而且是立足在优化个性化服务体验的，这软件不一样，直接把自己招牌核心特色给藏起来先给大部分用户来上一刀砍掉自断一臂。
我说白了，那我为什么不用自带的safari呢😆
You all help people cheat
Your private browser is pointless you only help people try to hide what they are doing so your prime browser helped my fiancée look up things he shouldn’t of been
This app used to be cool
I don’t mind paying for this but I feel it was more responsive about 2 years ago
Ridiculous Update
No matter how many reviews you buy, it won’t mean a thing. You keep going up on subscriptions and now no unlimited downloads? Money hungry. I’m deleting this app from my phone.
Best feature is pay walled.
Deleted app. The ability to download videos was the feature that brought the majority of users to the app/browser. Now that feature is limited and pay walled.
Does Apple know there is an in app pay walled feature? Are they getting their cut?
Does Apple know there is an in app pay walled feature? Are they getting their cut?
Will make Google randomly stop working, do not use/pay for this service
I was a paying user of this browser and VPN service and it was my default browser. Aloha randomly made every Google link and service stop working. Aloha and the browser started delivering only 404 errors. I saved my tabs and bookmarks and profile and deleted and reinstalled the browser. Google and everything else started working again. Somehow Aloha didn't save ANY of my information or tabs or anything I told it to sync and save, even though I synced everything and logged into the same account. I deleted the browser and stopped paying for it. I am so angry. Aloha browser is a scam. I wish I never used Aloha, it just deleted a ton of information and tabs I needed. I'm so angry. I hate Aloha. I wish the company and the developers to go bankrupt and I wish I never heard of it. Hatred. Nothing but hatred for Aloha. Fiercely do not recommend. Go elsewhere.
Heat issue
After update to last version
Phone is heating and battery drains very fast
And aloha is laggy and unresponsive
Phone is heating and battery drains very fast
And aloha is laggy and unresponsive
Secret Foreign Ownership
For all users know, the secretive owners of this Cyprus LLC that owns this browser ai combo are selling your data to bad actors. The developer’s Reply provides absolutely nothing substantive or specific with respect to this issue. It’s essentially a boilerplate, conclusory assertion and there’s really nothing specific, transparent, or persuasive to dispel this concern, which is underscored by the secret foreign ownership in a remote location, which makes them essentially unaccountable to US users. am I opinion, users would be foolish to use this product.
used to be great
Now they wanna charge per month and only renew “free” downloads once a month. This app was way better before the developers got greedy
Harassment Browser
Nagging VPN promotions
Decent
Not that good. Too much premium garbage/vpn, little customization, downloads/files is sketchy and overall I just don’t trust your claims and methods
Issues.
YouTube background music video play stopped working after one day. Cookies why there is no option to accept only essential. Either it’s all accept or block only. Give essential cookies only accept option.
A fall from grace.
This app started so amazing for its purpose, I’ve had it for at least two years.
But recently it’s been absolutely horrible. Not only crashing more, but the added limits on downloads in a downloading app makes me want to delete it every time I see the message. Daily was one thing, but only having so many downloads per month and the number being abysmally low is frustrating to say the absolute least. It’s like being bullied into spending money on something that is supposed to be free. It’s disgusting. I don’t think I’ll be using this app much anymore. It’ll be annoying having to adjust, but that’s better than being forced to deal with greed and incompetence.
But recently it’s been absolutely horrible. Not only crashing more, but the added limits on downloads in a downloading app makes me want to delete it every time I see the message. Daily was one thing, but only having so many downloads per month and the number being abysmally low is frustrating to say the absolute least. It’s like being bullied into spending money on something that is supposed to be free. It’s disgusting. I don’t think I’ll be using this app much anymore. It’ll be annoying having to adjust, but that’s better than being forced to deal with greed and incompetence.
Adblock doesn’t even work anymore
Ive had aloha for more than 3 years and after the latest update the adblock doesn’t even work anymore!
No Sound on Downloads
This app has been very useful for many years but as of recently, whenever a video I download is saved to the app, there is no audio at all. Not sure why this happened out of nowhere but should be fixed soon.
TikTok
Literally was a 5 star until they made tiktok sub videos unviewable
Paywalls
Too many paywalls to use basic features. I’m moving to another app.
Download limit
That is just pure greed. There wasn’t a limit for years and now all of a sudden it causes problems which doesnt even make sense. Disappointing. Not dropping a dime for that.
Subscriptions
Since you start limiting downloads there is no option for using the browser unless I subscribe. No one time payment either
Missing
I was enjoying the app quite a bit until I realized that days and days worth of data information. Downloads and bookmarks were not in my device, but rather expired links un downloaded material and incomplete a complete nightmare for all work that I had done.
Very buggy now
Updated to new version recently. Very buggy now. Videos often choose to play in native iOS player instead of browser built-in media player, have to navigate out of tab and return for it to change back. Random intervals of constantly being snapped back up to the top of a page when scrolling down, sometimes making it impossible to scroll down at all. Rotating phone from portrait to landscape mode to watch a video randomly causes page to refresh, repeatedly.
Tab lists always starting at the top now is very annoying, compared to previous versions where you would be wherever you left off in the list upon opening the app. Wish I never updated, and could go back to previous version.
Tab lists always starting at the top now is very annoying, compared to previous versions where you would be wherever you left off in the list upon opening the app. Wish I never updated, and could go back to previous version.
Video Player Messed Up and Newest Update Limits Features
There used to be no limit to downloading videos, and now in an attempt to incentivize users to pay for premium they capped daily download. I paid for this and since this brew update the video player only loads correctly about half the time. I like this broadcast because of the video scrubbing and slide controls in the video player but now it don’t even work half the time and I’m paying for an API that is now worse than when it was totally free. Really disappointing.
Adblock doesn’t work
It was good a year ago. Lately, the browser could barely even block a standard ad. Note that I am on premium features.
No more unlimited downloads
Don’t update your app I wish I didn’t
It was amazing but update ruined it. VPN is fake.
VPN doesn’t actually do anything at all
Great app but
This app is great but I feel like I've made several complaints about captions never showing up in videos, downloaded or played directly from the source, must be a strange little bug
How they don’t need to make people pay
I like it but they don’t have to make people pay to download videos
Used to be good
Daily download limit has been added that wasnt there before DO NOT UPDATE. Devs got greedy and ruins the app! Ps download quetta unlimited free downloads!
Up till now Aloha was perfect without the typical glitches
I’m not sure actually what is causing the glitch where it will just freeze up and become non responsive directly after sending files over to my zip app. I’ve used both of these programs daily. I have had issues with The zip app but not aloha till the past week. It’s definitely not a situation where I would jump ship and show no appreciation for the years they have performed flawless for me. I’ll give them time, and hell! it may be my iPhone or Verizon. I don’t know really what’s causing it, but they’ll solve it if it’s their end. Great program app
Could be better
The downloaded pictures from this app don’t come in a high quality as shown online
Worked amazing, but now doesn’t
I used to be able to download any video I wanted to. Now I can download but it has no sound. Like what’s a video without sound? Please fix this.
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)