for Meetings: Minutes & Agenda 4+

I don’t offer many app reviews, because I rarely feel very strongly about the apps I use, but this one has really hit a sweet spot for me and they appear to be a small developer.

It would not be hyperbole to say that this app has helped my mental health. I allowed myself to be talked into being the secretary for two organizations and this app has made it so much easier to take clear notes and share good looking and readable minutes. This has caused me a great deal of stress and self recrimination in the past (“Why didn’t you write the minutes when the meeting was fresh in your mind, idiot?’).

With “for Meetings” you really can focus on content and not formatting and taking notes during the meeting that can be freshened into minutes saves a LOT of time. The interface logic takes some time to wrap your head around, and I did give the developer some suggestions, but I don’t think any of it is game breaking.

A very happy customer.

This app has the right idea but some aspects are a little over-complicated (for example, I need to track attendance, but I don’t need or want a visual table especially now when most of my meetings are virtual). This takes up a lot of space where a simple list of names would be more compact and could be ordered by position, by order added or by name; Some areas are lacking (for example I would like to see all meeting actions in a single view and to be able to export all of the actions to email or PDF for easy follow-up. But I could not find a way to do that (there is only a view to see the actions on screen). Other things are confusing like the Agenda/Notes/Minutes settings (they all appear to generate the same report). I would expect that the reports would be different beyond the report header - for example the Agenda view might only contain the items labeled Agenda. And on my work iPad, I get an “Email Unavailable” error when I want to get the PDF of the meeting notes. My company uses the Outlook app, not the native iOS mail app. There should be an easy way to preview the meeting PDF without generating email errors, the error can be bypassed but it is very annoying and we post meeting notes to a SharePoint drive to reduce the amount of email so I would rarely use the feature from the app anyway. The purchase price feels a little high for not being able to report out all open actions or all actions completed within a specified timeframe.

If you run meetings or take notes, this is the app to have. Simple and easy to use, can work with the calendar and address book. App has an excellent help system that shows you how to use it. The price may be more than low cost ad supported apps, but it's worth it. Don't be put off. It's a great price for a well built app.

I enjoy using this software and hope Developer does well with it for many, many years.