Ryve‪r‬ 4+

great app

by who was the genius that thought it was a good idea to force the use to only use the app in landscape on the iPad?

You have to keep rotating the screen when you switch apps.
and with an app like this where you often type, it becomes quite a nuisance

make it work in portrait mode too

I’ve only been using Ryver for a short while. That said, a group of us are migrating from Slack to Ryver and so far I prefer Ryver. “Topics” (the forum-like section of the app) is a great feature and has already come in handy for our group. My only complaints (which are small, and not worth downgrading the app to 4 stars) are:

- When using the Smart Keyboard with the iPad Pro, pressing “Enter” doesn’t send a chat message. It just drops you to the next line. I feel like if I’m using an external keyboard, the “Enter” key should be used to send messages (or this should at least be configurable).
- The app has some minor display bugs. When editing a pinned Topic, sometimes the Topic drops below other, non-pinned Topics. This is fixed by simply refreshing the interface.

Overall this is a very solid app and service. It will get my recommendation over Slack from now on.

We've moved from email over to Ryver to manage conversations with our clients, and it's made it MUCH easier to keep track of threaded conversations. After each meeting, we post an update in Ryver and assign tasks to everyone. It's nice having everything in one place so we don't have to search through emails for info.