2025-11-19
Terrible app
Terrible / 1000x worse than chick fil a app
Updating
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#13 in Top Free Apps > Social Networking
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#30 in Top Free iPad Apps > Social Networking
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Description
GroupMe - the free, simple way to stay in touch with the people who matter most.
Family. Roommates. Friends. Coworkers. Teams. Vacations. Greek Life. Bands. Faith Groups. Events.
“Lifechanger.... utterly indispensable”
-Gizmodo
START CHATTING
Add anyone to a group via their phone number or email address. If they don’t have the app, they can start chatting over SMS immediately.
CONTROL NOTIFICATIONS
You’re in charge! Mute specific chats, or the entire app – you can even leave or end group chats.
SAY MORE THAN WORDS
With an extensive set of exclusive emoji, you can express yourself in a whole new way.
THE WHOLE INTERNET IN YOUR GROUP
Meme images, search for and send GIFs and videos, and see content shared from URLs displayed in the chat.
SHARE NOW, RELIVE LATER
The gallery saves your memories. Easily explore the photos and videos shared in your group now, or later.
LEAVE TEXTING BEHIND
With direct messages, you can use all the features you love for group chat, but one-on-one.
CHAT WHEREVER YOU ARE
Including from your computer at groupme.com
Stay in touch whether you’re separated by a hallway or a hemisphere. Get your group together.
We want to hear your feedback!
Support: https://aka.ms/groupmesupport
Twitter: @GroupMeSupport
Facebook: facebook.com/groupme
Instagram: @GroupMe
Love,
Team GroupMe
NOTE: SMS chat currently available in US only. Standard text messaging rates may apply.
Privacy Policy: https://groupme.com/privacy
Made with love in Seattle
What's New in Version 15.10
Say hello to GroupMe v15 – 15 years of real chats
- A new era for chat: Every detail reimagined. Messages feel modern, interactions are refined, and the entire design is crafted to be effortless.
- Expanded Reactions & new Emoji picker: Express yourself with every emoji, any time.
- Shared Albums: Gather all your group’s photos in one place. Create albums for any moment, add memories without cluttering the chat, and invite others with a simple link to join and relive them together.
- Better Media Performance: Faster uploads, smoother playback, and less waiting.
- Whether you’ve been with us for 15 years or just joined 15 days ago, thank you for being part of the GroupMe story #)
- Clone Events: Optimized clone function with GroupMe Events
- Shared Albums: Improvements to photo access
- Clone Events: Enjoy a smoother experience with an optimized clone function for GroupMe Events.
- Shared Albums: Access and share photos more easily with improved album functionality.
Seller
Name
Skype Communications S.a.r.l
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
15.10
Size
404.8 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
Compatibility
iOS 16.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17Pro, iPhone 17ProMax, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.7 of 5 (1,559,196 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2025-11-18
Needs Accessibility Settings
The app works as intended, but the lack of accessibility settings is a little strange for a group chat app, especially one that is required in so many workplaces/classes. Please work on adding those soon, particularly text settings. I personally find the font and font size of the normal text to be hard to read, so I would like the ability to adjust these.
2025-11-17
We need recurring meeting feature!
When will GroupMe support a true recurring meetings or recurring events as a built-in feature? I manage a local sports team and having to create a new meeting every time for all of our 16 practices is not a good experience.
2025-11-16
Not good
There was a very inappropriate gif
2025-11-15
App upgrade
Pls add a feature that allows you to block ppl and even if they share a group with you , won’t be able to see each other messages from the blocked person page or the blocker
2025-11-14
Its OK
For some reason the whole time ive had this app i could log in and it always said something was wrong and i tried EVERYTHING to get to work i dont mean to dis the app but it was quite un-helpful for me especially with band when i couldnt see important messages and i wish that insted of just saying something whent wrong it would tell me what whent wrong because there are SO many things that could be wrong.
2025-11-12
Can’t login my account
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
2025-11-12
GroupMe has horrible user experience
The app does not adhere to standards. For instance, the font size is minuscule, even if you turn up the font size system setting. Another example: bolded name text that looks like a link but does go anywhere: you click multiple times hoping to bring up a profile but it just “hearts” the message of them leaving the group or voting on a poll or something. Buttons and gestures don’t quite do what a user would expect. I had to write this review because more and more people are forcing me to use it—and it’s not fun.
2025-11-11
Group Me glitches!
So I like this app but it keeps glitching! I can’t add any more interests onto my profile or change the ones I have on there! Plz fix that. Also sometimes it will glitch and not let me scroll down and the “summary” button has NEVER worked for me! So this app is ok for what we need it to do but definitely room for improvement.
2025-11-10
I love GroupMe
I love GroupMe but lately after the new update thing, my GroupMe emojis won’t work! Help! I miss them 😔
2025-11-09
Best app ever for Roblox game fan base
So me and a friend are using this app for a community for his Roblox game and we would love if you could add an optional design for it to look like discord and can approved only people as a group chat be found in the discover feature? Would love if you could get back with us thanks blservices llc and can it be a way where you can select a background for your group chats
2025-11-09
It’s not functional anymore
It used to be effective. Now it’s long delays, messages don’t show up when the notifications come through, and it’s clunky
2025-11-09
Archived chats showing notifications
Good but archived chats should not be showing notification badges
2025-11-08
Chats disappeared after update
All my chats disappeared after I updated my app. I cannot get them back.
2025-11-08
idk
i love this app. i use it everyday for sports and to get ahold of people. except lately it’s been lagging really badly and not loading all of my messages.
2025-11-08
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Dog water of an app. Don’t use
2025-11-08
Buggy
The app is extremely buggy. It’d be so much better if you fixed it.
2025-11-08
Generator
Copilot won’t work
2025-11-08
Bugs Galore
Deleting Chats rarely works. The app ALWAYS says I have a notification to check, even when there is nothing there. The customize options for my profile don’t save.
2025-11-07
Terrible
It’s not easy to use, clunky feeling .
2025-11-06
YALL KILLED COCO
A few weeks ago we had the wonderful, funny, GOAT Coco in our groupchats. Now it was replaced by Mico, Mico is broken half the time, he’s unfunny and I ABSOLUTELY HATE HIM. BRING BACK COCO
2025-11-04
1 Star
I hate this app with a burning passion. Takes me at least 30 minutes to log on because of how the app is designed. I’m forced to use it for school. When I log on from a different device, it doesn’t save any of the groups I have.
2025-11-03
The new AI feature is terrible
Have been using groupme for our best friend group chat for nearly 6 years. I myself have been using it for possibly over 10 years. I’ve finally decided to drop it due to the new AI features. Groupme support says they can be turned off at any time and that your chats aren’t being read by Copilot. All of that is false. The “AI Summary” of the chat is not only totally incorrect and unable to comprehend the conversation, but it’s creepy and makes us all feel uncomfortable. We spoke to support about this issue and they weren’t able to help us turn off the AI features. For that, I’m out.
2025-11-03
Love it!! One note
Okay, I’ve had this for weeks, and recently in chats I join that I make an alias for (I use it to RP as OCs and characters), it hasn’t been showing the alias in the chat! Also it won’t let me add a song :(
2025-11-03
AI Summary
Used GroupMe for years, but now they’ve put in an AI summary of your chat that you can’t turn off (I contacted customer service and there’s no way to get rid of it). It’s creepy and invasive. My entire friend group just all left to use iMessage instead for this reason.
2025-10-31
Good but could us some more work
This app is great for group chats. I use it a lot for school and it gives me an alternative than giving out my number. But the AI needs A LOT of work. I send it pictures and somehow, it processes numbers and equations that have nothing to do with the problem I sent. Even after sending it multiple times and explaining there’s something wrong, it’s still doesn’t understand. I know this isn’t an AI based app but if you’re gonna have it, at least do it right.
2025-10-30
CRASHES ALL THE TIME
After multiple updates since iOS 26 was released, this app has become almost unusable. It crashes constantly — when adding an attachment, it crashes. When typing or entering a message, it crashes. It’s frustrating and unreliable, especially for something that used to work perfectly fine. This needs to be fixed.
2025-10-30
What do you mean
I was trying to get in to group me but it says the age is 12 and up and I did this while I was 11, 35 days after this it was my birthday and I just turned 12 and it said I was underage even though it makes you put in your birthday. I tried again today, 30 days after those 35 days. And it still said I was underage.
2025-10-30
Do better
How y’all gonna suspend an account cause I told off a scammer but then have me blocked. make it make sense. Poor platform and moderators
2025-10-29
Spam is out of control
Needs fixed
2025-10-29
Pictures not uploading anymore
10/29/2025 @426 pm est.
Yep, it’s definitely broken. No pic uploads even after deleting and reinstalling on iPhone with iOS 26.0.1 and on iPad.
Time to find an alternative. Ugh. Native text app has improved significantly, so it’s the likely replacement.
After using this app for 10+ years, it finally broke. Pictures will no longer upload from any device. Ugh. I’ll attempt one more time by deleting and reinstalling… then I’ll switch to other platforms if it continues to fail.
2025-10-29
Horrific Performance
I have never come across such a mainstream app that has such horrific performance on devices. GroupMe constantly (and I mean almost every single time without fail) freezes for MINUTES on my iPhone XR, it will even crash every once in a while. Same on my wife’s android. And on my computer via the browser messages won’t always load/update. Seriously there are apps like discord that do much more than GroupMe and perform infinitely better. How you even make a messaging app this slow I don’t know.
2025-10-29
Videos and pictures
This app is not letting videos to be downloaded
2025-10-27
No
Constantly searching for private info
2025-10-26
New update is a disappointment
The UI is way too cluttered looking with the newest update. Previously it was clean and easy to read messages. Now there’s too much unnecessary clutter on messages. This makes it look cheap, in my opinion. This was a downgrade, not an upgrade.
2025-10-24
idk
pretty chill ngl
2025-10-23
Doesn’t work
The app does not let you create an account nor sign in.
2025-10-21
Fix the notification problem already
I’ve been using the app for a very long time but the last few years I’ve had a problem with not receiving notifications. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app, turned off and back on the notifications through the app and my phone settings, and I’ve gotten 2 new phones during this time. Nothing has worked. It shouldn’t be this hard to fix the problem, the app used to be reliable but I can’t say that anymore.
2025-10-20
Posts being cut off
The latest version is awful because it cuts off the text of your posts in group chats, and there is no way to retrieve or view the text after you’ve posted.
2025-10-20
Glitchy Slow and Annoying
Forced to use it for work. It requires a phone number to create an account. It's full of scam bots. Videos are slow and can take hours to load/send on full internet connection. Pinned messages glitch out and start pinging the wrong message. Every so often messages stop sending and you have to delete the entire app and redownload.
2025-10-18
Memoji
The Memojis stopped working with the new update. I use these quite a bit in this app. Hopefully they come up with a fix.
2025-10-18
Why is this app so popular?
There are countless apps that do what this app does but better. My colleagues insist on using it, but it’s super glitchy. I regularly get notifications that fail to load within the app. It will also occasionally update chats from several years ago with messages from people outside those chats. It doesn’t sync properly between pc and phone. No mac app. It just isn’t very good.
2025-10-17
REMOVE THE SPEECH BUBBLES!
I loved GroupMe, and have been using it for a long time, but I updated all my apps yesterday, and one of them was Group Me, and now we got these ugly speech bubbles that heavily increase my levels of stress, which was already moderately high initially, and I just sincerely beg and hope that the GroupMe developers listen to the audience and revert back to the original times when we didn’t have these ugly, anxiety-inducing speech bubbles.
2025-10-17
Version 15 Broke the App
After v15 every message is cut off, even single lines of text, making the app effectively useless.
*Edit: v15.03 fixed the cut-off text bug
2025-10-17
New update
I used to LOVE how group me worked I loved how it worked but now I hate how the visuals look I want it like was
2025-10-16
Bugs that are years old
GroupMe has some really old bugs that need to be fixed. Like signing up with an international number and saying “your number does not exist.” Even if you enter the correct country. But somehow a scammer can setup a fake number and join easily.
Calendar page sometimes does not work. But if you press 3 times it will enter the calendar area 3 times with a delay.
Notifications could really use some work. It gets too noisy with large groups and there’s too much to keep up with.
2025-10-16
Issues with the app
Hey, I am having issues with this app, I am apart of a group and I am not sure why I’m not receiving any messages. I have deleted this app and reinstalled it before and still I am having the same issues. I am not receiving any message updates from my group and I literally be stuck on messages from days ago. This is getting really frustrating because this group is very important and I have to stay updated with the information that’s being provided. I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max, is this app not compatible with my phone? I really wouldn’t complain if it wasn’t a problem…
2025-10-16
Great Communication App
I love the concept of the app would honestly say 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟, only issue I have is that text is limited within a conversation so your conversation gets interrupted/ cut off when communicating with multiple people/users within the app. Would love to see a character increase in the chat box.
2025-10-15
Review
Im trying to log in with a Apple account and the age is for 12 + and I need the app for volleyball and now I can’t use the app Evan tho I’m 12,
So thanks.
2025-10-15
Terrible Security measures
I got this app back in 2019 for who knows what. I not longer have the same number I do back then. Now the only option for me to verify my account is to state what the name of the group I was in was and who I sent a direct message to. No other options. No way of deleting or disabling my account. Sounds like a security flaw to me. This alone deters me from ever using this app for anything I can use some other app for if I can help it.
2025-09-07
Great concept, has problems
I love many of the elements of GroupMe, it’s very easy to connect with people and great for sports teams, student groups, and more. It makes it easy to plan events and conduct polls. That said, I can’t give it more than 2 stars because it’s annoying. You’ll get notifications for messages that don’t actually load into the app until several minutes later, which is frustrating when that message was about an important change of plans. There’s also a horrible bot and scammer problem on the app that never seems to get addressed (I and most of my friends get multiple messages a day from bots or scammers on the app). These bots and scammers can also add you to bot-run group chats without your permission, leading to a ton of annoying notifications (not to mention the people who actually get caught by these scams!). On a less serious level, I dislike how groups with multiple topics don’t default to the main chat when you open them- you have to choose it from the topics list every time. It’s a frustrating app that you unfortunately HAVE to use to be involved in a lot of groups, but it makes me wish there was a more popular alternative.
2025-09-03
Great but there’s bugs 🐜
I don’t know what’s going on with either my profile or it’s the app itself. When I try and edit my profile or do the “glow up”, I will pick my interests and then I can’t go forward! I can’t even go backward then either. I have to force close the app and go back in. I thought it was a fluke when I first downloaded it but it’s still happening. There’s no update so it doesn’t need that. I literally JUST downloaded it on Sunday. Today is Wednesday. I’m using this to stay in touch with many groups I’m apart of for work and my home life and especially the ones I’m in charge of! It’s important that I can make this as warm and welcoming as possible. I’d love to know what the h3ll I’m doing wrong, if anything. Otherwise this is a great tool for people keeping in touch with groups. It helps keep my phone from blowing up with actual texts from all the group chats I’m a part of. So I’m more at ease that nothing crazy is happening with my daughter or parents while I’m not allowed to check my phone! Great app. Fix the bugs!!!!
2025-07-10
great app! could still be better
I love GroupMe! been using it for years. they used it at some of my past jobs and in the church volunteer groups I’m in, I use it for a couple of my friend groups where I regularly invite people to things, and I’ve made one for almost every college class I’ve taken in 2 years. I do wish the search was a little bit better. sometimes I’ll search a word I know for sure I’ve sent or seen in a message (I’ll even find it myself after a bit of scrolling sometimes to make sure I’m not crazy) and it just won’t come up in search at all. I also wish there was a tab for links like there is for calendar, gallery, and highlights because I love that feature. lastly, being in so many different groups, I wish there was a way to just see all events at once (like between all the groups I’m in)
2025-03-25
Really Disappointing and PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS
I’m a level 7 All Star Cheerleader and I looked in the Sports category and searched up “Cheer” and it wasn’t on there… I don’t know why people think it’s not a sport like you trying throwing up a 100 pound person in the air while you run around with a 2 pound football/ basketball, etc. But it’s really disappointing as a cheerleader because that is the SPORT we love it takes HARDDDD work to do what it takes to be a cheerleader you have to stretch every day to get the spilts and throw 100 pound people up in the air ANDDDD make sure they don’t die. You also have to try new things like in tumbling, like can you do a full, probably not, because I put my heart and soul into that skill ANDD when I was younger I had a HUGEEE mental block on a backtuck and mental blocks SUCKK. About 96% of cheerleaders have a mental block on a skill. If you don’t know what a mental block is it’s when your brain won’t let you throw the skill even if your heart wants to and there’s NO way to get rid of it, you just have to grow out of it. So this is why I think not think KNOW that cheerleading should be an option on there. (Also not trying to sound like a Karen but it’s really sad for us cheerleaders when our sport isn’t an option because of just what people think about it)
2025-03-02
Please allow us to change the “main chat” title
Hi! We love GroupMe. Our organization of professionals uses your app exclusively, and we have over 600 members. We kindly ask that you allow us to change the “Main Chat” title in a future update so it better serves our needs. Additionally, we would love the ability to lock specific topics to be admin-only. Right now, people often use the main chat for discussions (that belong in other topics). Because we can’t edit the name of “main chat” and our team has to constantly monitor, delete messages, and remind them to post in the correct place. This takes a lot of energy and time. These changes would make a huge difference for us, and we would greatly appreciate them. Thank you!
2025-02-16
Good game but..
Group me is an app I use for many clubs, classes, and sports. I only heard of this game because I do cheerleading. I really like group me, but there is something that is weird about it. As some people do sports and clubs like I do, you might need to post videos, like of your routine, what’s going to happen, or if you just want to share some videos with your friends. Recently, I have been noticing that GroupMe is blocking videos over 2 minutes. I don’t mean to be rude or anything, but that is extremely stupid. I get that there are some reasons why you would need to block videos over two minutes, but if the real purpose is to have fun and make friends and chat, then what’s the point? I need to see videos of my routine, and I’m sure there are others with reasons too. Overall, I think GroupMe is absolutely amazing, but for now.. four stars.. 💔
2024-10-07
Can’t do literally anything
I’ve tried multiple times now to add my information to my account and find the group I downloaded the app to join, and every single time is met with an error message to try again later. Well, here we are a day later and I’m still not able to even add my name. I’ve tried on multiple networks and on data, so it’s not a connection issue on my end. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app to no avail. I tried reaching out to customer service only for them to ask for the same information (email associated with the account) that I told them I don’t have (because the app won’t let me add it). And then the chat page reloaded, taking me out of the conversation and wanting to start it all over. I’ve got better things to do than sit here trying to get this to let me make an account, so I’m just gonna keep using a communication method that actually works, aka my phone itself, instead of an app that apparently can’t function on my phone.
2024-07-29
It gets worse with every update…
I’ve used groupme for years now, and it’s usually a pretty great platform. I definitely think it’s the best one for large group chats. However, the app runs incredibly slow and has so many bugs. It’s constantly freezing and just closing me out of the app. When I type, the keyboard sometimes freezes and then my keyboard gets stuck or switches between letters and numbers. Also, notifications update in real time, but conversations do not. Sometimes I have to completely close out of the app several times before I can see the message that I just got a notification for. The newest update makes viewing likes, time stamps, and polls more difficult. I guess this is what I have to expect from Microsoft. Makes sense considering how annoying Outlook can also be.
in all, this used to be a great app that just seems to get slower and more buggy with each update. shame.
2024-06-04
Works when it wants too
I have been using this app since 2018 and it was really good back then. Not to many problems, it was simple. Through the years I had to use this app for multiple different reasons such as: work, school, group work, etc. But lately the app has been very laggy and glitchy. I have to wait a couple of minutes after clicking a group message for it to open up. I always check to see if the app needs and update or even if my phone needs an update but that’s never the case. I even resort to uninstalling the app and redownloading it. Once I do that it works for a couple of days and then goes right back to being laggy and glitchy. Especially now with all the new “AI” that’s been added. All my coworkers have the same complaint too, it’s so laggy and glitchy most of the time.
It’s great when it wants to work though.
2024-05-29
Make Classic View an option
The new update is a UX & UI Masterclass on Failure. The new update misses on all fronts. Let’s start with UI. The new look is bulky and way too spaced out - I used to be able to read lists of messages at once and now I need to scroll years just to catch up on missed messages. Wanna know what makes things even worse? Inserting an additional space below the message whenever someone reacts…what a perfect way to be able to read even less than I previously could! While we’re on the topic - the UX is also terrible! Double click to heart, great if you have 5-10 seconds to wait for the message to actually update with your heart. You want to see who hearted/reacted to your message? Goodluck trying to get the icon hold perfect before it slowly loads with who’s reacted. Oh so sad how the greats have fallen - GroupMe I’m sure the people in charge think this is a great new update - (can’t wait to never use the copilot feature) please please please make an option to revert back to classic view. PLEASE. My GroupChat and how we communicate with eachother lies in your hands.
2024-05-25
Getting worse to the point of being unusable
I’ve used GroupMe for 10+ years but in the past month or so, and now in the last week even more so, it’s gotten worse and worse to the point that I don’t know if I’ll continue to use the app unless it’s quickly fixed. I can’t send pictures anymore on a consistent basis, as it just spins out forever and fails to send at least 50% of the time, and bc it keeps spinning out trying to send forever, it’s also background refreshing and killing my battery too. My family group is having the same problem. Then often I’m getting notifications of someone saying something, but when I open the app there is no text and I have to close and open it multiple times to see the message. My groups need an app like this bc we travel a lot and need WiFi-based service to share news and photos but at this point I’m so frustrated that I’m considering trying to move all my groups to another service.
2024-05-16
Could be amazing, but it’s not…
I have used GroupMe for YEARS now and keep getting aggravated at the lack of intuition in the notification preferences. I am an officer in multiple clubs on my college campus and we use GroupMe to communicate with our members. Many of the clubs have 80+ members and that means there is a LOT of activity. I absolutely HATE the fact that you can’t filter what notifications get sent to everybody, so every time someone gets added or leaves the chat or any small detail is changed, EVERYONE gets the notification. The only solution so far has been to mute the whole chat, which doesn’t allow important information to get to the user. PLEASE add a feature to filter what messages/updates the admin wants everybody to see. Because the “____ has left the group” is not something that every single member has to know. And it needlessly multiplies the amount of notifications everyone receives, resulting in a drop in membership.
2024-03-29
No safeguards to protect kids from predators
Be aware that there is a button on the bottom of group me that allows you to browse and join public groups. There are all kinds of groups including groups with inappropriate content for kids. Also be aware that if you, or a child/teenager joins one of these groups, you/they are visible to everyone in that group and you can now be direct messaged by members of that group. This happened to my son and he was direct messaged by complete strangers (supposedly women) who started asking him for personal info, like what he likes to do and where he lived. I contacted Group Me to see if there were any parental controls to control what groups children can join and they said there are none. It does not matter what protective/content settings you have on the phone. The Group Me App is not subject to those settings. It is backdoor access straight to your kid. It is unconscionable that Group Me has no way to protect kids from viewing inappropriate content and to protect them from predators.
2024-02-11
Unhappy
Unfortunately, everyone uses GroupMe instead of Telegram or the Band App for school and church (large groups of ppl). So, I have a bunch of groups and one thing I absolutely hate is: 1. I can’t post more than 3 pics at a time (I have the iPhone 14 Pro). If I do 5 it freezes and crashes. The photos keep spinning and never post and I can’t delete it or stop it or retry. It just spins. I can’t even post video clips into the chat. 2. The calendars can’t repeat so if you’re group meets weekly or does something monthly, you have to create a new calendar each time. 3. Admin should be able to adjust RSVP in calendars. For example, if I sent a calendar event to 35 people and I know one person is in the ER and can’t RSVP I should be able to change her rsvp to No. It’s easier to visually see and manage events. I have provided feedback several times and no changes. The Band app you could do this. Overall, group me has so many things it could improve on. On the positive, I do like the topics that they launch where you can categorize the conversation.
2023-02-11
Support is apparently unreliable
Problem solved. No notification was given until asked. Here it is: “ The path to the feature in the UI has changed. To use Clear chat history, please follow these steps: 1) Tap the the header of a DM or group to navigate to the Chat details screen 2) Tap the "..." (or more button) in the top right 3) You should find Clear chat history there.”
I notified Support a month ago saying that the “clear text” option in Support was not working. They told me it would get fixed. For one day, it was fix. The next day that option of deleting prior messages was completely removed, no longer listed anywhere on the app. I believe the clear prior messages is essential. Without it I find no longer useful reason to keep it.
2023-01-30
Great idea, bad execution
I’ve been using group me for several years now, and it’s honestly been more annoying than helpful as the years go on. I am aware that these are pretty minor things, but it’s the little stuff that makes the whole experience way smoother.
First off, you can’t delete any groups once they’ve gone past their usefulness (ie. the event it was created for has happened). As someone who can’t stand clutter because it makes it hard to find what I need, that’s really irritating. The old group chat just sits there, uselessly, and very much in the way.
Second, if you get a notification for a group me message and click on it to read the message (cause it’s faster and that’s what everyone does), then the notification badge never goes away until you get another message, go to the home screen, and click on the app itself.
Thirdly, adding people is a hassle because you can’t tell what will add them to the group. Sometimes it’s an email, sometimes it’s a phone number, sometimes I wanna tear something apart because of how frustrating it can get.
Again, I know these are really small things, but honestly making the app even just a bit more user friendly will go a long way. I really don’t enjoy feeling like I have told hold a seance and commune with the group me ghosts just so I can figure out how to work the app.
2023-01-07
Useful but frustrating
I’ve used this app for years. It can be a great way to chat and connect with groups. I primarily use it with my kids sports teams. Scrolling through the chat to find the calendar or shared images is frustrating. I know you can find those things in the details of a group. However, they rarely load on that menu for me.
The changes I wish they would make is an actual calendar tab. If there were a tab where all the active chats calendars were easily accessible it would be the most useful app ever. Currently, I have 4 active sports team chats and finding the calendar for each team and then putting each practice and game on a separate calendar is extremely time consuming and frustrating.
Would be convenient to have a tab for all shared images, as well.
2022-09-12
Could use some tweaks, but overall I’d recommend
First, I would like to lead with PLEASE create a setting that allows me to disable people just adding me to group chats. Or at least have to request I join before adding me. I am overwhelmed by the number of chats I am added to on a pretty constant basis.
But beyond that, the app is pretty user friendly and easy to navigate. I do wish you could pin messages so important ones aren’t missed, but you can search for a message within a group so you can easily find a message you’re looking for. There’s different chat themes which is cute, chats can be made private and require admin approval to add new people, and being able to determine how long you’d like to mute notifications is nice as well. It can get harder to navigate with larger groups especially if you have some chatty folks. A slow mode feature could be great, and improve experiences for larger groups (as far as I know it doesn’t yet exist right now). But overall, solid app.
2022-06-14
I use it because I have to
It’s almost like this app is used by so many people because.. it’s used by so many people. So many groups use it as a main form of communication that it does become a necessity app. However, it’s built like a cheap scaffolding or paper house. I’ve arrived at numerous glitches: messages not loading, the app not loading, password reset issues, it not remembering my email for a few days (how does that happen?) notifications not coming through until I click on the app, profile pictures and names not updating in real time (not even after weeks of people changing them) not being able to add people to groups despite them having the app & a verified phone number after numerous attempts, and an overall ugly UI. Those are my complaints. Although managing so many threads and accounts and messages has to be a challenge in and of itself, I just feel like it can’t be that hard to put a little money into making it work better and more smoothly.
It is free though and it works 80% of the time as intended, and everyone is on it so as of now it’s probably one of the best group chat mediums.
2022-01-27
Was good, but ran into a major problem
I used to love GroupMe and I would use it for all my group activities that required lots of mass-communication. But recently, it started doing this thing where it doesn’t load all of the most recent messages until I send one. As you can imagine this is very inconvenient and makes me look like I’m not paying attention to the conversation, or I make a comment on something when ppl are talking about something completely different. One time someone sent a very sentimental and heartfelt message, but it never loaded on my end, so I sent a meme and it was very awkward. I don’t think this is just an internet issue though, because it happens to a lot of other people in various group chats. It’s a big deal to me because it kind of defeats the whole purpose of GroupMe if we can’t all communicate and receive messages effectively. It’s gotten to the point where I just don’t send messages anymore because I’m worried that I’ll have another incident like the one I mentioned. Please fix this and I’ll give you guys 5 stars, because otherwise it’s a really good app!
2022-01-14
THIS IS A WARNING. DO NOT USE THIS APP.
I’ve been using GroupMe for years, only because I have no other choice. This app is non-functional. It is incompetently designed and frustrating to use. Up until recently you could not delete messages, and even now you can’t even edit them to fix typos. It’s ability to connect to a device is pathetic, regardless of how strong your wifi or cellular data is. You can’t share videos that are more than 15 seconds long, and gifs only work half the time. It regularly glitches out. When you post a photo set, it shuffles the order of your photos. And, when you try to look through photo sets, when you get to the end of one, if you keep scrolling it will take you through the previous set in BACKWARDS. ORDER. When you try to scroll FORWARD. How asinine is that?! And almost always, if you post a large photo set, and you’ve spent 20 minutes trying to comb through to find the perfect ones to fit within the post limit (10), after you hit send, they will simply not show up in the app, and you have to try again multiple times. These are only a sampling of the problems with this app. This app is BROKEN. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE.
2021-08-02
Accessibility issues
I don’t know if I simply have a glitchy download or what but this app is driving me crazy with trying to use voiceover which is a screen reader. I am blind and this app has been very difficult to navigate. What’s worse than an app that is completely inaccessible?
An app that appears to be accessible but after you have spent much time setting it up, it proves to be almost impossible to function as it should. I hardly get any notifications and when I follow a notification to the app the app immediately shuts down. I have not been able to add people to the group of volunteers I am setting up for ride requests. I had to figure out how to share a link through text message and many of the people I have invited are also having difficulty with the app. This app was suggested by several friends as a great platform for my needs and I really want it to work. I hope the team who created this app will take a look at these issues.
When I open a calendar event, voiceover reads the top and then skips to the bottom and all of the information in between is not accessible. Therefore I cannot find out who has excepted my ride request.
2021-06-17
Where is the contact Support?!?
I’ve used this app for the past 7 years of my life. I throughly enjoyed using it to connect with all different groups of friends regarding meet-ups, vacations, and other assortment of plans. It’s a great communicator in that sense to keep you informed with your various groups within your own life.
However, the past three years of my life, I’ve been constantly harassed by a friend who has gone a bit psychotic in the past couple of years and has been diagnosed schizophrenic and bi-polar. He will constantly create new accounts every day literally telling me “to kill myself” or “that my life has no meaning and I should just end it.” I wake up every morning to a new account sending me that same old message. I’ve tried countlessly to report the accounts or block them but the next day happens the exact same. It feels like a horrific groundhogs day effect. GroupMe support has never once responded to my feedback request or contact support requests.
It’s frustrating because I love using this app, but had to delete because I need to stop hearing hate messages from an ex-friend who won’t stop harassing me on your app.
2021-06-15
Okay
I love this app! The only problem is the that it asked me how old I was and then said it was suspending me because I was under age! The app is rated 4+! I am 12!!!!!!!! But other than that it is alright. The only thing I would recommend adding how to send a request to invite someone to join. Some of my friends don’t have text but can get app similar to this. How am I suppose to invite them? Maybe there is a simpler way tan sending an invite through text. But I haven’t found that! One bother thing- every now and then it turns my group on silent and then I don’t look to see if I got any messages. These two problems make me frustrated! But I love how there are no adds and that no one can just suddenly start a group with you unless you are in a group with them already. So that makes it safe. I would rate this game a 3.7 star review.
2021-06-01
Hacked?? No longer trusting the app
Hey GroupMe - what’s up with the pop-ups I’m getting asking for my date of birth or I can no longer use the app? I checked it out on the web and found that it was required for security to make sure I was 18 or older so I entered it.
Then I received a “GroupMe Support” message and pop up saying I was selected for being a loyal user to receive an iPad. I was curious and tapped the link because it was within an app I trusted and wanted to see if it was legit. It said I won and asked for name and address and then to check the box agreeing to the terms and conditions which were not given in a link there. I had to scroll way down to find a tiny link. When you read the terms and conditions, they plan to charge you $19 immediately and then after 7 days, another $87 for 30 days and that they have full access to use your account information.
I think I need to close my GroupMe account and take our group elsewhere.
2021-04-22
direct message fail
direct messages are not showing up!!!
i’m the leader of an organizational I get a lot of direct messages,Until now I hadn’t been receiving them. I tried to figure out what the problem was, but this morning I woke up with a notification. It was a direct message, and when I clicked on it and I went into group me, it didn’t take me to the direct message. I refreshed group me went out of the app came back in restarted my phone, tried everything, and I couldn’t get to that message. Thankfully I remembered who sent it, and I went into a group and found their profile and clicked direct message, and when I clicked direct message-their message finally came up. so I did that with some other groups, and some other people in those groups, and realized I had a bunch of unread direct messages that groupme wasn’t showing me. and I can possibly do that with all the groups, because there’s just too many people, and I know that I have unread messages and it’s really really frustrating and there seems to be no way to fix it
2021-04-19
Needs some updates.
I have been using group me for over 2 years and it is pretty good, except when you try to watch a video it glitches then takes a long tome then it finally lets you. Also i will see that i get a new group me message and it won’t let me view it. The main reason i am writing this review is because of how group me logs you out. i have been logged out multiple times and it is very hard to get back into your account. It logged you out and you can’t get back in. it won’t let me try to type in my email or password. I have been trying for almost and hour and can’t get back in. i am very disappointed because there is some very important information i need to see and i can’t get to. GroupMe please fix this problem.
My group me is hacked and i need to get in please group me fixed this problem!!!!
i am very mad and i need to get in my group me and stop sending me ads that i won something!
please group me stop doing this and fix my account!!
2021-04-12
Good for groups if people reply
We use GroupMe for a neighborhood chat to keep people informed. When people like or reply to messages everything works great. One really annoying feature of the app is if people stop replying or liking other people’s messages, it stops sending the group messages to the individual. They are still shown in the members of the group but they are no longer receiving messages or notifications. It would be awesome if people could continue receiving messages even if they didn’t reply or like others comments.
Another annoying thing about the app is you’ll get messages that say they are from GroupMe support saying you’ve won an iPhone or whatever. They are total spam. I wish GroupMe would prevent those types of messages being sent to people inside their app.
Overall the app is good. These are just my frustrations with the app.
2021-02-21
GroupMe in School
We’ve been doing our classes completely online these last few terms. I personally love it, and I like having the flexibility of getting my work done when it’s right for me. However one huge hurdle with online courses has been the complete lack of socializing. I noticed early into these online courses that I talk to my classmates more than I thought. Having to send out emails to ask a simple question was frustrating and lengthy. This app changed everything! I have one for just about each one of my classes. It’s a great way to be able to communicate instantly with a classmate. Since it’s a group message, my question can go out to everyone. So it seems I’ll most likely get an answer to my question sooner at times too. Fantastic app highly recommend!
2021-01-09
Glitch Control to Major Tom!
I have used GMe extensively for several years for many applications, especially small, social group scheduling. I ceased use for the last 8 months since the pandemic. Just started using it again and finding numerous glitches in the schedule forum. For example, when typing the location, there are dots in the left corner, but when typing text, you can’t see the letters unless typing a very long name. When dropping down from the location line to enter a physical address, it will not allow the ability to enter a street address. Then when entering a description, if you type out a longer description, but then make a mistake, you have to delete any text filling your typo by using backspace. You cannot just move the cursor to the mistake and edit. Like I said, these are all new issues. I’ve never experienced this before. It seems that GMe has gone the way of the neglect of a larger parent organization buying out a great platform and then ruining it by assuming it can run on auto-pilot, leaving behind the hard work that the startup company invested to make it great.
2020-06-20
Great messaging app!
Use this a LOT and it’s great and surprisingly full featured for as simple to use as it it feels. I have two things I’d wish would be bug-fixed and 2 easy features:
1- a few revs back the blue dot that indicates new messages appears in the top left corner when you’re in one group, even if the new message is only in that same group you’re already inside, even if you’ve read everything new in that group! It used to only show that if there was a new message in another group. Many times a day now I have to click up a level only to find there are not any new messages. Or make that dot go away once I read the mssgs in the grouo I’m in!
2- there’s a crash that has been around for a year! If you click on a notification and go to that group message it almost always will not let you type a response, just hangs... and if you click the + it finally crashes and then launch again and it’s fine. Easy to reproduce! iOS12.x iPhone7
Features: setting for a group to supress the “abcd guy is [not] going to ”. This clogs up the chat for even a medium sized group. Large groups it’s ridiculous. And for covid world can you let people check in to an event so the admin can use to know who was there for some municipality tracing requirements.
2020-02-04
Why is there so many scams on this app?
I am not sure if someone's account got hijacked or not, but one morning I received a message from GroupMe Support that said "Hello! We sent you a FREE iPhone 11 Pro; Congratulations! Claim now." I've read up online that this is clearly a scam much like the other I received a few months back from a random person.
This could be someone impersonating GroupMe's support by going under their name and using their profile picture, but something needs to be done about it. This scam has costed some people their personal and bank information because there is no way of them knowing if this is official or not when a scam disguises itself to make it look more official, but I recommend that you all increase the security and single out any bots or impersonators. I even got a random message from a bot account that wanted to share me "inappropriate photos" on a link, seriously?
I am not sure how these people even opening conversations with me as I haven't shared my profile and I don't have them added on my social media profile. It's a bit annoying to know that you don't have actual privacy from these circumstances other than to block the user. I hope the app's security is majorly enforced to prevent scams like this from going around on it.
2020-01-04
App quality
Had the app freeze on me a number of times but last week it was stuck on the loading screen and I couldn’t used my phone for hours. I couldn’t even hard reset my iPhone. I was trying everything and accidentally hit my lock button 5 times, which calls the police. The call went thru but since I could not leave the loading screen and use my phone I couldn’t hang up and had to explain to them what happened. They sent people over to my house at midnight to check on us and my parents had no idea what was going on and I had to calm them down and get us back to sleep before we woke up at 4am the next day to catch a flight for vacation. Didn’t have a phone for some of the vacation until I was finally able to hard reset.
I love talking to my friends on this application but I have had multiple problems with the quality. This past time was the worst it’s ever gotten and I just got a brand new phone so it can’t be that.
2019-11-20
Great app! Missing ONE thing 🤞
I LOVE GroupMe. I use it for groups at school, at work, and for one-on-one conversations as well. All around, it’s great. It has a clean user interface, it’s fast, in real time. I love being able to add gifs, polls, videos, pictures, etc to our chats. My only irks as far as videos and pictures go is the quality is LOW. I recommend taking videos or picture outside of the app on your normal camera and uploading, versus using the in app GroupMe camera. I’ve also found that pictures uploaded still lose quality, so if there’s any small text then zooming in on it is just not worth it since it will end up blurry. Outside of that, I have no complaints for the media, etc.
The ONLY thing I wish this app would offer is PINNED messages. I run multiple chats for work, and being able to pin/star/etc important messages for everyone to access and refer back to would be AMAZING. I think this would be a great feature to offer to admins of groups. You can search most popular messages, but this is not always useful if the messages that need to be seen by new members, etc, are too far back in the chat to be relevant in the popular messages anymore. If this feature was added, GroupMe would take the cake for, in my opinion, the best group messaging app.
Outside of this, the app is great, it does what it’s supposed to, and it’s reliable!
2019-09-15
Setting group photos & cloning a group
I’ve enjoyed most of the new features that have been recently rolled out with a few exceptions...
Setting group photos, please revert the change - I recently noticed that you cannot do a search to set the group photo anymore which is very annoying and now I have several groups without photos because it is more difficult to set the photo now. Please revert this setting back so that you can search for a photo
Cloning, restrict to admin and group owners - cloning is a great idea so that creating new similar groups is much easier, BUT I would recommend restricting this privilege to group owners and admins. I have been in several groups where a group member thinks it would be funny to create a duplicate group and causes more problems than they need to. If this privilege was restricted to admin and group owners, the useful tool would be used by the correct people.
2019-08-06
It’s not getting any better
Make it more like Discord. And before you tell me to just go use Discord, I already do, but literally no one else in my family or community does, so I’m stuck on GroupMe for all the family and friend stuff like outings and parties and whatnot. Let us edit a message, or even delete a message we sent. What good is it to just hide the message on only my device?
Another thing I want is to be able to delete a one-on-one chat with someone. That’s all. I don’t want to “hide” it. I don’t want to “clear” it. I want to straight up delete it. It obviously wouldn’t delete it from their device, just mine. And then what would happen if they messaged me again? Oh it would behave like every other messaging app ever made and just create a new chat with the person on my device. And then when we were done chatting, I could delete it again, just like that. I don’t feel like I’m asking too much, but then again I’m no developer, so maybe I am. Maybe deleting stuff is near impossible. Apple somehow figured it out. I can delete any conversation I want from iMessage. But then they are known for their “it just works” way of doing things. You guys should ask them how they do it. Send them a kind, humble email asking them how in the world they figured out how to delete a one-on-one chat in iMessage. Please, do it for me.
2019-06-07
Bugs
I’ve always used group me and am happy with it, however, I have had a lot of trouble adding people to the groups. In big group chats that have been around a long time, people do not want to leave the group me or create a new one usually because there are good memories in the group. On multiple occasions I have been unable to add someone back to a group, either because they have left in the past or because they were removed. I have experienced this issue as an admin and a normal user in a group, and if it happens to one person, nobody in the group has the ability to add that person back. If that person is a vital member of the group, the entire group chat gallery and messages are lost because we have to create a new one. This has happened enough times for me to write a review about it. I am unhappy that our previous groups’ memories have been lost and become inactive and wish I was able to start the old chats again by adding the previous members back.
2019-01-17
Messages Not Showing. Edit. Edit again
I haven’t had a problem with this until today, but today I got message notifications for a group and could see the messages. But after a while, I was getting notifications but not seeing them when I opened the app. The time stamp shows the time of the most recent message (that I can’t see) in the group. Other than this, I have had no problems and enjoy the app.
Edit: I deleted then re-logged into the app, and now I cannot see any of the messages in that group. However, I can still click on the group info and see the images, group members, etc. Also, other group messages and individual chats are unaffected by this.
I would really appreciate it if this issue could be resolved soon. Thank you!
Edit again: after this update, nothing happened. I still cannot see any messages in the one group (still other groups/messages seem to be unaffected). I get notifications for the group and can click on them, but it brings me to the “group chat” where it says no one has sent anything yet, even though I have gotten notifications. There have been some images sent and I can see those if I click on the button that lets you see all the images others have sent. Please fix!!!
2019-01-14
Yas Queen🥳👑🔥
Group me is one of the best apps I have been using to contact people. This app lets me contact people, it has its own emojis, and it’s perfect for people who don’t have apple. However, this app deletes messages that you are not really active in. It does help if your inbox is filled but if you want to save something it’s not really good. But on the other hand it makes sure that you are actively talking to people so that’s great! I recommend this app seriously unless you not into that “deleting” thing. I don’t even know if that is true but when I first tried it that is what people told me to be careful about so.... Also, GroupMe lets you see the messages that happened before you got into the chat. That’s great so you can catch up on what’s been going on. It also lets you change what people see your name as so your name can change depending on you not other people unless they are the ones putting you in a chat. But overall, GroupMe is a great app. I totally recommend. Bye! 👑👑👑🥳🥳🥳🔥🔥🔥😏😏😏💋💋💋💋💋
2019-01-12
Connecting
I just wanted to say that I love your app first of all. It’s a great way to communicate with people. I just started using it matter fact it’s the only one that I signed up for I don’t use the computer that much anymore matter fact not at all during thing I use it for is to look up stuff I need for work and I’ve always was against Facebook and all the other stuff I thought it was too much but now I have your app and I use it to be connected with families for church and it lets me communicate with those people when I’m not at church and I love it for that. awesome company give up the good work I know people complain about certain apps they have where it they fail they are down they don’t work right well since I’ve been using this app never had a problem with anything nothing but five stars for me and two thumbs up...
2018-08-25
GET THIS APP ASAP Read this if you are interested in getting this app!
I loveeee group me! I love everything about it. The gifs, polls, calendar, GroupMe emojis, the ability to send videos and pictures, but there is one thing that I have been trying to change in settings for a while. Saving images taken on GroupMe. It’s soooo annoying to go back to my camera roll and delete the photos and videos that I don’t want saved on my camera roll, but I want sent to a group or DM in GroupMe. Please change this ASAP. I love practically everything except that one feature I mentioned. Also be aware that you can only DM or have a group chat with people that have GroupMe. That doesn’t seem to bother me much. If you are looking for a good group messaging and DM app, then you HAVE to get this app. I communicate with my family (and created a family chat), my friends, and it’s quick and easy! It’s hard to swoop by this app without getting it. Defiantly recommended!
2018-07-02
Great, would love more admin privileges
I work with students, teachers and other types of groups with leaders and so have several groups going. The app has helped with organization, collaboration and of course communication. I get more done because of GroupMe. It is so much more effective than email.
My plea/suggestion is this: please allow chat admins to configure a chat so that only they can post messages and the rest of the group can “like” or participate in polls and such. With students, it’s easy to get chatter going that puts the number of messages into the hundreds and thousands and they’re just messing around. Then the substantive messages get lost so that the people who persevere have a terrible time sorting out the fluff from the real stuff while other people understandably set notifications to “do not disturb” or leave the chat altogether. I’d like to be able to set a chat with several dozen people for one-way communication and have another group where everyone can chatter and ask/answer questions. That would help my job a ton!
2018-04-02
Launching via lock screen
When I receive a message and tap on it to pull up the app, it needs to switch to the chat feed to which the message I’m replying to belongs. It does no good to be able to switch to the app by tapping on a message I get from a person/group if the active thread is going to remain on whichever person/group I was using last. Very frustrating to have to remember to double check which thread I’m in when I just tapped on a message from a particular person/group. It would stand to reason that if I tap on a lock screen message from, say, my wife, that it would switch to my chat feed with her when the app comes up and not remain in, say, the group chat feed I have with colleagues if that’s the group to which I last sent a message. Please fix this
2018-04-01
This app is full of crap.
Okay. I use groupme for one reason: it doesn’t require every member in a group chat to have group chat abilities on their device. That being said, it’s a load of crap. I hate it. If someone hasn’t responded, for one, they may not be getting the messages. Second, if *I* set up this group chat, and put these people on it, that means I have their contact information, so if they don’t want to be on it anymore, LET US TAKE CARE OF IT. IT IS NOT FOR THE APP TO DECIDE WHETHER THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO BE A PART OF THE GROUP. Some people are also content to receive the messages and not reply. It’s a thing, believe it or not. Let the members of the group chat deal in their own affairs, and stop making assumptions, especially TWO SECONDS after I just deleted someone and put them back on FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING THEM TO SEE THE NOTIFICATIONS AGAIN!!! Honestly! Either cut that out or at least make it easier for someone to discontinue the discontinuation of notifications. This is an awful app and y’all whoever designed this piece of crap needs to get it fixed.
2018-01-28
Navigating Help is Terrible
I received an email that my account was changed over to another email, which was not done by me. I clicked on the link provided to indicate that this is an issue, and their “help page” does not have any link specific to the issue. Still trying to solve the problem, I emailed their support email with a quick little blurb about what’s going on and a screenshot of the email I received from them. My email got sent back for being too large, although it had less than a paragraph and one normal sized screenshot image. This experience has been excessively complicated and my problem is not resolved. I am now sitting with concern about having some random person accessing my account. Upon redownloading the app, it is only allowing me to create a new account rather than having any option to log in with a previously made account. I’ve had to spend way more time and energy than is necessary, and still have not been able to get through the process. I’m a 22 year old college student, so I’m fairly competent with technology, but this is ridiculous.
2018-01-26
Group name in notifications
Could y’all make it so that we can see which group a person belongs to in the notifications area? Specially the lock screen? Currently, if a GroupMe notification alerts your device, you only see the person’s name and not which group the person is from. It would be SOOO helpful, if I was able to see which group a person was chatting from without opening the app.
For users involved in several groups with similar people, it’s critical to know which group the notification came from ASAP. iMessage has this feature and it is a lifesaver when you need to respond quickly.
It’s like knowing it’s a friend from ‘hot yoga group’ asking about the last minute location change and not someone in your ‘biology study group’ asking were class is. Imagine being in different groups with people who have the same name! It’s so confusing when you read a message from John thinking it’s John your work supervisor when it’s really your best friend John sending you a picture of the roach he found in the bathtub. (Bc you cannot see pictures in the notifications which is another comment altogether).
I still love this app! Best group messaging there is!
2017-12-19
Great, but one suggestion!
This app is by far the best when it comes to large group communication. Not overbearing with excessive notifications due to the mute options but still fun enough to form a sense of unity within the group.
However, as somebody who primarily uses this app for a mixture of business and fun, important messages can easily get lost in the daily jokes and conversation. I wish there was a way to have an announcements board where only admins or group leaders can post. Everyone, even those who have the group muted, will be notified immediately (or have this as a separate option “mute all except announcements”). Or a way to pin the announcement at the top of everyone’s messages until the leader/admin sees it fit to remove. This would greatly enhance my group’s communication without having to resort to numerous emails or a separate app.
2017-12-09
Love the app, but would love more grouping options
I use this app daily for work.. it is a great tool to keep connected and not loose touch. I like that it doesn’t consume a great deal of my storage on my phone. It is also nice to have a long running record of the conversations that have been had. It allows for me to add and remove people as needed and not miss a beat in the conversation. The only thing I would LOVE to see is to be able to make master groups. I have over 30 chats going, and that is just for work... It would be great to make a group and then have subgroups. I have groups with each manager that I work with and then they also have groups with the shops that they work with (team chat groups) I always have to be very cautious to not send the message to the manager in the group for the team. It would just organize things every better.
2017-12-07
Solid App
I wish there were some additional features to make this more customizable. For instance a “like” option or “thumbs up” option for different comments that people leave or a way to customize the background or appearance of the message board itself. Otherwise this is a great way to communicate with a group of people. I use this for my baseball team and it’s a great way to know who is commenting on what without having to put all their information into my phone and everyone else’s phone. It clearly shows who is commenting or asking questions. It even allows me to send a direct message to one or two of the people inside the entire group without having to say certain things to everyone on the group chat. I also use this separately for my coaches so we can discuss things we need to work on in practice or cover before games. Overall I like the app and recommend it to other people.
2017-09-20
Great App, but could be even better
This is a great app that I use every single day for a bunch of different group messages, but I feel like there are a few ways it could be improved to make it even more useful/ easier to use:
Being able to view a picture from a notification without having to go into the app. It is very annoying to have to pull out my phone and go into the app to see the picture especially when I have an Apple Watch.
It would be great to have an Apple Watch app to accommodate the iOS app. Along with being able to view a picture right from the notification this would be extremely useful with the new Apple Watch with cellular connectivity. Imagine if you are out going for a walk or run with just your Apple Watch Series 3 and someone sends you a picture. With the current system you would have to wait until you got home to view the picture. Another nice feature for the Apple Watch app would be the ability to see past messages instead of just the ones from notifications that go away when you tap on them. This would be just like how the messages app works on my Apple Watch.