BOTIM - video calls and chat 4+

Love this app! It has helped me talk to my parents in the UAE with ease. However either her or I get a strange feedback glitch where it repeats what I say back to my until it just becomes painful static. This happens both when I use speaker mode and regular, and happens just about every call now. I don’t know if this is just an issue with my phone or hers, but if you all could look into it that would be great! Again I am so thankful that this app exists and would give it 6 stars if I could!

It is unthinkable how bad the quality of connection and service of this app are. To top this up, the latest version started soliciting officious advertisement as if it were an unread message!!! It would have been understandable if it were a free version, but after charging 14$/month and delivering the above is abusive.
Even between the paid users the connection is unstable about 80% of the time. It’s is very common for a call not go through urging you to make 2-3 calling attempts, often even restarting the app and/or phone. Sometimes at some point in the mid of conversation you stop hearing each other and other wait for 10sec and if lucky only one will get to listen and the other to speak unless you end up the call and call back anew. The only reason this app gets 1 star rating is because this still works 50/50 in this country without resorting to VPN and sophisticated setups.

When I heard that there was going to be an app to call my friends and family online outside of the UAE, I was excited. I know there’s always bugs in a new program, this app has them. You have to keep signing in after you are already signed up which is annoying. I registered, got a confirmation from Etisalat that I have the calling plan, yet it keeps making me sign in even though I haven’t signed out. The app tells me ‘it’s timed out’, why would it if you’re signed up. When it times out, no one can call you. The video was weak, slow and periods of freezing, audio was better. I’m hoping these issues are fixed quickly so we can stay connected to far away loved ones. Will he worth the money if it works as well as Skype and Facetime used too.