Informer: messages for Wear OS

Ankitt Kamal

2 years ago

Decent app, decent functionalities. Ugly icons like ugly AF.. Notifications are miss sometimes. My biggest gripe is the monthly subscription. I took it but I am canceling it as of today I cannot justify monthly payment for an app. Buy the app once and it's mine that's about it. All the best for the future. If this changes I'll get the premium version and walk away.

A Google user

5 years ago

This is actually just what i wanted, i hate the way Wear now shows the Notifications and informer shows each one for a specified time which is great. so great i had to purchase premium. i have a couple of feature requests if possible, 1. can you implement an option of turning the screen on when showing a notification as my fossil watch sometimes does not. 2. can we choose a larger font or is that limited to the watch settings ? Thanks

Alessandro Angioni

1 year ago

Doesnt allow to send voice messages as it states. Instead, it sends a link to the person, with an audio file to download. For some might be a still fine experience, though its best to highlight this limitation in the description. And to improve the tone of voice of the support team. Thanks anyway though!

Aayush Bhatia

2 years ago

The app is so close to 5 stars yet so far away. First off, I tried to set it so that it shows only WhatsApp notifications - but no matter what I do it ends up showing me SMS. I have it off in the second. Secondly, I don't understand why the icons look like they are from Android 2.3 - that is not a lengthy fix but the app looks so old and out of place. Lastly, the icon is not fully circular cuts out in my GW4

A. Donato

1 year ago

Would give it a 5-star rating, except for 2 things: voice replies on WhatsApp are sent via link, and most people don't feel comfortable to open any link when they are expecting a written or voice reply. Secondly, what is very important for me, it seems app doesn't support WhatsApp Business. I know it is not easy, but should you guys able to fix both issues, I shall be more than pleased to to change my rating to 5 stars. Thank you.

Jeff McGillis Heiden

1 year ago

A good idea, but not much more than that.. After trying out the free version i can only say I'm glad i did, because I'd never pay for such spotty functionality. The sounds are awful, the consistency of notification are absolutely atrocious and when it finally does notify you it gives you every notification for every app over the past 24h it seems like, even if i like many others only set it to notify for one app. All this make you miss every important thing in favor of spam. S22 Ultra+Galaxy W4

Richard Olguin

2 years ago

The app worked fine for the first day, after that it wouldn't receive text notifications and it never worked with the ring notification as well. Also noticed it disconnected quite often. It's a little confusing as to does it work in unison with wear os app and the watch manufacturer app? Do you leave the notifications on for all three or just the app itself? Tried it both ways and still no notification but my email app.

Tad Osekowsky

2 years ago

Awful... After installing this on my galaxy s22 ultra paired with my gwatch 4 classsic (LTE version /Verizon) I cannot walk more than 20 feet from my phone without this godawful buzzer blaring informing me I'm not longer connected to my s22 ultra... Never used to be an issue à couple mknths ago but now I'm paying extra for the LTE and the extra $$$ that version costs BUT IT STILL DOESN'T WORK... I've been Android since conception but I'm sorry, this is absurd.

A Google user

5 years ago

Installed this app today to get Verizon Message+ texts to my watch. Paid for premium so I could add that app to the listener. So far it seems great with just a few issues: 1. I believe that when someone sends a picture with no text to a group text there is no notice to the watch. Texts with actual words work fine. 5/21 update - fixed by the developer! Great support!

Mark R

2 years ago

I am a IT professional that is very dependent on notifications. I use a custom watch face that embedd this app on the watch lock screen. Having the ability to relay notifications to the watch from all types of apps is seriously amazing!!! One request: it would be nice to have a notifications counter on the app icon, similar to the iPhone phone app icon.

Heri Scheker

2 years ago

UPDATE: As pointed out to me by the developer, my issues with the Apps notification control can be worked around... when you go premium. It's completely fair to pay for using something somebody put a lot of effort in making but I simply think subscriptions are hideous and a never ending money trap. I would pay a fair price to "buy” this app, one payment if it was an option but it's not. I guess that's the new way, but I won't go for it, you subscribe, you pay forever. I'll up my review to a 4

Russ Mace

3 years ago

Helpful app but personally would love it a lot more if: The option to silence/remove all other notifications to receive them as Informer notifications ONLY would be amazing. Not sure how realistic I am being here but I much prefer how notifications appear in Informer, disabling all manually is slow and I am unsure of what I should be disabling. Swiping left whilst reading a message to remove it from the history. Have some kind of image/gradient when no notifications are in the history.

Andrea Meneghello

3 years ago

The app is a good addition to wear os. I found useful to have a history of the notifications and to been able to reply. However I found that there are some improvements. While testing with a Huawei P30 and a Ticwatch Pro 4G: * the notifications can sometimes be delayed and while they appear as standard in the notification panel in the watch, they might take some seconds or even minutes to come to the informer app. * sometimes the reply to an email will be sent and other times no. * the delete function on the watch sometimes takes multiple actions before deleting the notifications. This happen for all notification as well the single app notification * the UI should be redesigned to have similar buttons like the wear os ones, this will provide better integration. Also the buttons should have a status feedback if the CTA has been triggered successfully. * testing the premium feature of the WhatsApp call, it doesn't work if the watch is using the lte connectivity. It works only with the bluetooth if the watch is connected to the phone. I will have to wait before subscribing to the premium plan.

A Google user

4 years ago

Remarkably useful. It's the only app I have found that reliably notifies me when phone is out of Bluetooth range. This has saved me leaving phone in other people's houses more times than I care to think. Ads are not too intrusive but I didn't like nag screen that appears on watch in non-premium version every time phone is switched on. It's effect was merely to put me off buying premium for a long time. But if I was only allowed one Wear OS app, it would be this one.

Vic M

5 months ago

Really Kind & Helpful Customer Support, Fast Responding and detailed assistance… Sadly this app doesn't work properly (maybe just my devices' setup)… The free version looked amazing and would exactly everything my watch should be able to do out the box. Once I purchased the trial, 99% of the functionality disappeared (no idea why)… Dev helped me get some things working with side-loading and several different installations. It kinda works now, but only 40%. Loads missing. Uninstalled it 🥺

aisey menn

1 month ago

It is a great app. But i still cannot delete the pre set instant cards. I can edit and move cards up or down but cannot delete. I already update it to latest version. 2260.

Mark G.

1 year ago

Tried only briefly, because it didn't respect sleep mode: My watch is set to go into sleep/DND mode every night. Last night (the first time I had activated this app), just as I'm falling asleep, the watch gives off a very loud buzz/notification because my turning over in my bed had taken the watch out of range of my phone. Had I left it, it would have made for a very uncomfortable night's sleep! Had to turn my watch off for the night. Giving 2 stars, bec I didn't really give app a fair chance.