Flocknote 4+

Helpful for my church to communicate messages to the flock. But please allow the app to let my iPhone bring up my saved login name and password. Every time I need to log in I have to remember and enter my saved login and password. Most other sites let me easily login on iphone by showing the saved login and then saved password for me to select.

Flocknote had been an easy and effective tool to communicate information to various church ministries and clubs. With one click we can reach out by text or email to our specific group. It even tracks who has opened the message for effective follow-up. In the email communications, I wish there was an option to allow for email replies to be shared with the whole group and create more of an email thread. Otherwise super-effective.

This is one of the worst communication applications that I have ever used. The sign up process is terrible because the magic email doesn’t get you in the app, it logs you in the browser. You have to go create a password to login to the app which defeats the security purpose of the magic email. To get notifications about new posts, you have to sign up to receive all notifications that anyone posts. That’s a lot of spam.

Lastly, the app isn’t the least bit intuitive. I teach computer science and app design and this app was annoying for me to setup. I’m only using this app because my child’s school uses it.