BAND - App for all groups

Name: BAND - App for all groups
Rating: 4.6 (34732 reviews)
Author: NAVER Corp.

Build Your Team With One App

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

35K Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Social Networking
Developer

NAVER Corp.
Language

EN
+ 8 More
Size

265.5
MB

Organize your group on BAND! From families and friends to schools and teams, no matter who you gather with, BAND makes it easy to connect and stay together. ◆ Stay in the Loop with Your Group -See new posts from your groups right on your Home tab. -Get instant push alerts for new announcements, schedules, or posts so you can jump in fast. -Receive instant notifications for new posts -Choose which groups you’d like to get alerts from ◆All Your Events at a Glance -View and create events quickly right from your Home tab. -Stay ahead with upcoming schedule reminders. -Share schedules easily through your group calendar. -Track birthdays and special occasions so your group never misses a moment. ◆Keep Every Memory Together -Upload photos and videos to safely store your special moments. -Organize albums by trips, events, and more! -Revisit your favorite memories anytime, and relive them with your group. ◆Stay Closer with Real-Time Connection -Express yourself with Comments and Shouts. -Even the smallest reactions strengthen bonds and encouragement between members. -Go Live to connect in real time — no matter the distance. ◆Essential Tools for Every Group -Use group polls to reach a decision. -Manage tasks efficiently with To-Do Lists. -Accomplish goals through Group Challenges. -Explore more ways to use BAND in the BAND Guide! From weekly meetups to your big day, BAND keeps your group connected every step of the way. Connect anytime, anywhere, on any device including your desktop. Questions or issues? Please contact the BAND Help Center: https://www.band.us/cs/help

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

35K Ratings

Still My Fave App!
03/22/2018

Nic01006
I've been using Band for over two years now for my MMO Guild and it just keeps getting better!! It makes organizing raids and keeping updated outside the game so easy! Band offers almost anything you could ask for groups and better than most social networks since it actually allows for more privacy. It's also a lot more organizational and tidy than other chat group apps. You can even have large group calls while gaming so there's no need for separate apps, Band offers almost everything! The new "online" feature is awesome, but I would like to suggest that admins can still be able to view who is online, regardless if a person hides it from the rest of the group. I also agree with one of the other reviews that asks for a feature that allows people to see who reads comments in the chat room, which would make my previous suggestion unnecessary. The only thing missing that would be perfect for gaming groups is the ability to add synchronized timers, but I'm not sure how complicated it would be .. but it's just a suggestion. Other than that, I wish there was a way to turn off Suggestions, but Band is awesome either way and I wouldn't use any other app for my community of gamers :)

Developer Response
Hi there Nic. Thank you for taking the time to review the app and for giving us a five-star rating. We really appreciate it. You do bring up a good point, admins (or co-admins) should be able to see who is and is not online to help monitor the Band. We also like the Read feature int he chatroom. I believe our dev team is looking into this. Thank you for the great suggestions and we'll pass them on to our dev teams. Again, we really appreciate you taking the time to give us valuable feedback and feature suggestions that would not only benefit you but your guild too :)! We'll keep working on this.
Still My Fave App!
03/22/2018

Nic01006

I've been using Band for over two years now for my MMO Guild and it just keeps getting better!! It makes organizing raids and keeping updated outside the game so easy! Band offers almost anything you could ask for groups and better than most social networks since it actually allows for more privacy. It's also a lot more organizational and tidy than other chat group apps. You can even have large group calls while gaming so there's no need for separate apps, Band offers almost everything! The new "online" feature is awesome, but I would like to suggest that admins can still be able to view who is online, regardless if a person hides it from the rest of the group. I also agree with one of the other reviews that asks for a feature that allows people to see who reads comments in the chat room, which would make my previous suggestion unnecessary. The only thing missing that would be perfect for gaming groups is the ability to add synchronized timers, but I'm not sure how complicated it would be .. but it's just a suggestion. Other than that, I wish there was a way to turn off Suggestions, but Band is awesome either way and I wouldn't use any other app for my community of gamers :)
Developer Response 03/28/2018
Hi there Nic. Thank you for taking the time to review the app and for giving us a five-star rating. We really appreciate it. You do bring up a good point, admins (or co-admins) should be able to see who is and is not online to help monitor the Band. We also like the Read feature int he chatroom. I believe our dev team is looking into this. Thank you for the great suggestions and we'll pass them on to our dev teams. Again, we really appreciate you taking the time to give us valuable feedback and feature suggestions that would not only benefit you but your guild too :)! We'll keep working on this.
The Newest Update
12/29/2018

Flipper57647
The newest update on band has recently been bugging myself and a lot of other friends of mine. Everything about the new update is fine, but the only issue is the auto-correct was terminated off the chat rooms. As well as the red dots under a word to indicate the word was spelled incorrectly. The deleting messages for everyone now is a good update (like, really really good) but, no one would really want to delete a whole message and then type it out again. Even with copy and paste, it’s an annoyance to look through the whole paragraph to find the misspelled words that were not underlined with red dots. It saves time for people to just type a quick message and it could be easily auto-corrected if one or two letters are spelled wrong. It is really a nuisance to type slowly if you’re a fast type to make sure you don’t make any word mistakes within your sentences or paragraphs. Even right now as I type this review, I’m using auto-correct which is correcting my words since I type fast and don't have the time to look over every word to find error. A good number of band users have the app on their phones, which is why auto-correct comes in handy along with the red doting under a misspelled word. To end this, all I am recommending is that you would reconsider adding back auto-correct and the red dotings back into chat rooms.

Developer Response
Hi there. This bug has been fixed in our newest update. Please update the app and if you are still having the same problem please let us know! :)
The Newest Update
12/29/2018

Flipper57647

The newest update on band has recently been bugging myself and a lot of other friends of mine. Everything about the new update is fine, but the only issue is the auto-correct was terminated off the chat rooms. As well as the red dots under a word to indicate the word was spelled incorrectly. The deleting messages for everyone now is a good update (like, really really good) but, no one would really want to delete a whole message and then type it out again. Even with copy and paste, it’s an annoyance to look through the whole paragraph to find the misspelled words that were not underlined with red dots. It saves time for people to just type a quick message and it could be easily auto-corrected if one or two letters are spelled wrong. It is really a nuisance to type slowly if you’re a fast type to make sure you don’t make any word mistakes within your sentences or paragraphs. Even right now as I type this review, I’m using auto-correct which is correcting my words since I type fast and don't have the time to look over every word to find error. A good number of band users have the app on their phones, which is why auto-correct comes in handy along with the red doting under a misspelled word. To end this, all I am recommending is that you would reconsider adding back auto-correct and the red dotings back into chat rooms.
Developer Response 01/07/2019
Hi there. This bug has been fixed in our newest update. Please update the app and if you are still having the same problem please let us know! :)
Pretty awesome overall
11/08/2019

Lilraeraee
I recently made the switch to Band from Team App for my teams and love quite a few features about it. It looks professional and is fairly easy to use (a little tricky for my parents who don’t understand phone apps though) and allows me to post videos of more than 1:00 to my teams so they can practice their choreography/routines. Inputting events into the calendar is quite simple and I am able to change the color of certain events so that they show whether it’s a class or an event. I LOVE how easy the albums are to create and add multiple photos vs team app where you could only add a couple at a time, as well as letting parents and students contribute their own. My only tip and question for developers would be to let admins see parent/student emails that were used to sign up for the app. Some of my participants have not changed their name to display both their first and last names (despite my reminders), so those with duplicate names are difficult for me to differentiate. Would it be possible to add something like this?

Developer Response
Thank you so much for using BAND, and for your suggestion! Unfortunately, we are unable to share personal emails with our users, as this would be in direct violation of our privacy policy. We are in the process of reviewing how we can make it easier to differentiate between duplicate names beyond users setting a First & Last Name.
Pretty awesome overall
11/08/2019

Lilraeraee

I recently made the switch to Band from Team App for my teams and love quite a few features about it. It looks professional and is fairly easy to use (a little tricky for my parents who don’t understand phone apps though) and allows me to post videos of more than 1:00 to my teams so they can practice their choreography/routines. Inputting events into the calendar is quite simple and I am able to change the color of certain events so that they show whether it’s a class or an event. I LOVE how easy the albums are to create and add multiple photos vs team app where you could only add a couple at a time, as well as letting parents and students contribute their own. My only tip and question for developers would be to let admins see parent/student emails that were used to sign up for the app. Some of my participants have not changed their name to display both their first and last names (despite my reminders), so those with duplicate names are difficult for me to differentiate. Would it be possible to add something like this?
Developer Response 11/15/2019
Thank you so much for using BAND, and for your suggestion! Unfortunately, we are unable to share personal emails with our users, as this would be in direct violation of our privacy policy. We are in the process of reviewing how we can make it easier to differentiate between duplicate names beyond users setting a First & Last Name.
Beware Band Will Delete Your Group!
01/22/2020

DaDestroyer2002
I just wanted to let anyone that downloads this app to create a social group that Band can and will delete your group at anytime without a reason, which is what they did with ours groups!!! They will freeze your account for 7 days so you don’t know what’s going on and they delete your band group without a reason! All your members that try to access the group will see a message saying you are restricted by admin which is you and shows a icon asking members to leave the group and you will lose all your member contacts as you can only talk to members in groups that you belong to. Our band group consisted two local airsoft community groups called “Norcal Airsoft Classifieds” & “Norcal Airsofters” we had accumulated 1000 members between the two groups all from Northern California which took a lot of time to build up the group. We used it to communicate about future games, chat, trade/sell gear, and to help grow the airsoft community. We heavily moderated both groups to make sure everyone one was treated with respect. We have been using this app for a few years without any trouble and then all of a sudden our groups are gone. This greatly saddens me that the group me a my fellow airsoft player spent 1000’s of hours putting together is all gone. Band should be ashamed at the way they treat their users. They have greatly damaged our airsoft community. Please don’t let this happen to you!!!!!
Beware Band Will Delete Your Group!
01/22/2020

DaDestroyer2002

I just wanted to let anyone that downloads this app to create a social group that Band can and will delete your group at anytime without a reason, which is what they did with ours groups!!! They will freeze your account for 7 days so you don’t know what’s going on and they delete your band group without a reason! All your members that try to access the group will see a message saying you are restricted by admin which is you and shows a icon asking members to leave the group and you will lose all your member contacts as you can only talk to members in groups that you belong to. Our band group consisted two local airsoft community groups called “Norcal Airsoft Classifieds” & “Norcal Airsofters” we had accumulated 1000 members between the two groups all from Northern California which took a lot of time to build up the group. We used it to communicate about future games, chat, trade/sell gear, and to help grow the airsoft community. We heavily moderated both groups to make sure everyone one was treated with respect. We have been using this app for a few years without any trouble and then all of a sudden our groups are gone. This greatly saddens me that the group me a my fellow airsoft player spent 1000’s of hours putting together is all gone. Band should be ashamed at the way they treat their users. They have greatly damaged our airsoft community. Please don’t let this happen to you!!!!!

BAND just got a fresh new look! See new posts from your groups the moment you open the app and swipe through your groups right from the main Home. Key info like announcements and attachments are organized and easier to find in the new individual Band Home. The dedicated Posts tab allows you to focus on announcements without distraction. Check upcoming events right from the main Home. Create a new event or RSVP in seconds. Meet the new BAND -redesigned and refined for deeper connections!

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