Overall the app's fine; it has a pretty solid and seamless community and play tabs where you can share/talk about stuff and remotely use your products and patterns or even use patterns shared by others, there's a store in the app so you can buy stuff on there without having to leave the app, and some more standard features for apps like this.The app itself is mostly fine but OMG IT'S SO OUTDATED. The overall app can only really be used in portrait mode (trying to use it in landscape mode is kinda buggy and even more frustrating and complicated) and has the "Zoom-in, Zoom-out" button in the bottom right corner like the apps in the 2000's to early 2010's used to have. It makes the app look so sketchy and it kinda feels like it. Because of this, I rarely ever want to use the app; it feels so clunky, sketchy, and just very outdated. Even trying to fully setup an account on there isn't great because of the way the ui is setup; you can't even be a bit more vague when you try to select some of the countries for the account, which makes it both more complicated and more annoying.I honestly can't even fully recommend this app until either it gets a huge revamp or they just create a new app that's properly optimized and up-to-date. It's unfortunate too because I really do feel like this can be something great but I just can't justify constantly using it or even recommending it. Hopefully it gets a proper revamp and gets up-to-date like apps similar to it.

One thing I don’t get is why creating your own routine is so complicated?! Why not allow us to create our routine the same way you use solo play with finger swipe? I’m a coder, and I know it’s not THAT hard to make it happen. Another thing would be to allow creating the routines without having to connect to the machine, so then you can actually enjoy the routines instead of spending hours tediously creating routines cutting into your playtime.

HiSmith missed an opportunity to take the experience to a whole new level and we can only hope that they know it and are working on a major improvement to the application. My recommendation would be to contract it out to reputable company that is on the forefront of virtual interaction. All you have to look at is the amount of activity. The application should be buzzing with users and connections for play, but the party is dead. Its like walking into a party and there’s no music. Folks don’t even use profile pictures. The Hismith machine is a premium product which is why customers pay a premium price. They need to scrap the current platform and start from scratch. Spare no expense on development and bring the thunder on an application that the machine deserves. The return on investment will be more than worth it. Maybe fire the marketing department and get some fresh, innovative people that will think outside the box, push the envelope. The people want to play with each other, in a safe, discreet environment that allows them to flirt with their fantasies. Make it happen, Hismith!

The machine itself is absolutely fantastic, but the app is terrible and difficult to navigate. You cannot search for patterns (or modes as they call them) by keywords which would be useful. Creating patterns is buried under menus. Screen turns off while using the machine which closes the app -even more annoying when you’re making a pattern as it closes AND resets the app, erasing any work you’ve done. A fix has been requested for this for years and is somehow still overlooked. Why are there three different ways to post to the community (Article, Play, Ask)? Play and Ask are basically used the exact same way asking to find people to play with, as are Articles but Articles are sometimes just regular posts which is fine. If the superior motor of the premium machine could be connected to the competing Lovense app it would be a much more enjoyable experience. The one thing the Hismith app DOES have over Lovense is the hitherto lack of scammers.