Skype
Call. Chat. Search. All in Skype.
Total ratings
4.37
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Allows calls on any device and can use existing phone numbers.
- Affordable and easy to set up plans.
- Useful features like translation in video chats.
- Stable performance on desktop versions.
Cons
- Frequent notification issues, including missing notifications and ringer failures.
- Slow performance and freezing during usage.
- Significant problems with account access and password integration.
- Glitches with contacts duplication and management.
- Concerns regarding privacy and unwanted spam.
Most mentioned
- Notification problems
- Slow and unresponsive app performance
- Issues with account access and security
- Duplication of contacts
- Overall negative experience with recent updates
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-27 |  | | The phone app is awful. The laptop app is better. The mobile version seems to not be linked properly to one's existing account. It has portions of the info included, yet other important services that I have in the laptop version, are not showing up in the mobile version. Also, the phone app is wonky and very slow. At times it leeps re-sending me to the same page after it indicates to clicl here and then to click "continue." It then jist goes back to the 1st page. The mobile version is awful! |
| 2024-11-26 |  | | Calls will not connect and neither my partner nor I are getting notifications when we miss each other's calls due to calls not connecting. We've tried different wifi sources, using data, nothing changes just keeps coming back telling us the other isn't online. Considering this is our main means of contact that WAS most effective while we're long distance, it's incredibly frustrating. Been an issue for several weeks now and we're close to saying screw it and bailing on Skype completely. |
| 2024-11-23 |  | | I've tried to get back into my old Skype account. I've spent over an hour working on it. You told me everything I submitted over and oveagain was wrong. I've never had this kind of problem with any app. I left it for awhile because of the scammers I was getting. My ap was not secure. You've put me through a nightmare trying to reconnect. |
| 2024-11-14 |  | | The app works sometimes but often it does not work well, and for some reason it has stopped notifying me of messages even though I have not changed my notification settings and the settings are set to allow notifications at all times. It is very clunky software, at least on Android. Sometimes my contacts photos disappear for no reason and when I have an incoming call it doesn't notify me. I have other issues but this is enough for now. |
| 2024-11-02 |  | | 2022 Currently, glitchy. If I'm invisible on one os, I should be invisible across all os, no matter where I check in. Not the case as yet. Also, freezing and not letting calls through. 11.01.2024 Update 2 of the Skype apps are glitching, freezing, not notifying of calls/messages, either updating w/o my permission or not updating my status when I update my status. Not good for an app to be failing the way it is when it used to be the ultimate in face time before FaceTime. |
| 2024-10-25 |  | | The app used to be incredibly useful until the new update dropped causing massive lag spikes as well as a new user un-friendly interface. If anyone of Skype's mobile devs read this, please if these problems as they have made my main source of communication almost unusable. Update Oct 2024 God it only gets worse...they FORCE emoji use now and there is no option to turn it off. If you use the word "Like" 9/10 times it will turn the word into an emoji. |
| 2024-10-20 |  | | Notification is not consistent on Pixel Please improve this. Any reasonable chat app, like Facebook or Whatsapp will immediately show notifications of message, even if the app is not opennend for the entire week. This will not, immediately after it leaves the foreground, it is like really dead and do not show any notification, I gave it all permission and disabled all the barrery optimization and no difference (should not need since other message app works out of the box). App also very slow. |
| 2024-10-13 |  | | Used to be a fan, but this app is unusable now. Constant freezes and can't even dial a phone number since everything freezes for multiple seconds after every tap. I have money locked up in Skype credit and can't use it because of these issues. Skype has unfortunately gone downhill. |
| 2024-10-12 |  | | MS makes it clear they want OUT of Skype all together. They have updated - it attempts to auto sign the user in, BUT if the user changed their MS password, Skype won't ask for it but instead just sends the user an error message - over - and over - and over, effectively locking the user out. OH! And by the way, if you are on active duty and NEED Skype for calling home, FORGET IT, because since the last updates, you can't get the system to verify your phone because it won't call overseas! |
| 2024-10-11 |  | | Privacy abusing software. By default it doesn't use most secure settings. Every once in a while, secure configurations are changed, and e.g. random people can contact you and add you to random groups. The security and privacy features are sometimes missing or misleading, e.g. using double negatives to mislead you into misconfiguring the settings. Skype was once great. Now it's I'm just another piece of jusk software, with absolutely unnecessary bloat features and nalware-type behavior. |
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