Reviews for Zello PTT Walkie Talkie

Horrible! No Live customer support to speak with. The website and app is not user friendly at all.

The latest update ruined the app. Every time I talk using the actual phone, Zello shows the microphone icon crossed, and says something else is using the microphone, and I have to restart Zello in order to unblock it. Haven't found any other way to do it. It wasn't like this before the last couple of updates, it was working perfectly, so this is a new bug. I'm only rating it this low to get the developer's attention, it's an awesome app with some fixable bugs that are ruining it for the moment.

It used to be good, but the latest version is "broken": playing messages from history view has bugs: screen scrolls not correctly (the currently playing message is not on screen), also messages are marked as "new" though were already listened.

I love zello, used for over 10 years & was always brilliant but the latest update has ruined it slightly as I have the overlay button over a dispatch app & every time I need it moved the button deletes, I cannot see any benefit on update just to see how long ago you last spoke.

Sofar I like it, could be a little simpler to use but overall I think its a good app. This walki talki app worked better than my actual walki talkis.

Very convenient application. Word to Zello... Don't sell out to advertising! Amazing communication, faster than text or calls... And I can replay my voice messages... come on!! Excellent work Thanks Zello!!

After 5 minutes, it stops streaming my voice message in real time, and I hate that. It also stops at 1 hour and 5 minutes and 32 miliseconds. Please fix this. I talk about important things and I hate when it stops at 5 minutes.

I've never seen such an intrusive app. Everytime i restart the phone, this app goes online by itself. The acces to my battery is restricted and still it goes on. This is very wrong! Apart from this irritating issue, the rest is ok.

Need to fix unexpected Application exits. Happens way too often - unable to contact Wife and Son because their Zello application exited and must be manually restarted (neither are stopping it or purposely exiting). Please Fix abnormal exits - or develop 'watcher daemon' to periodically restart missing application processes. Otherwise app is great (if it just stayed running).

I recently started using Zello and see its value, but it’s not very user-friendly. First, it often switches from Available to Busy on its own, ruining real-time walkie-talkie use. Second, it’s hard for elderly or non-technical people to learn. Also, when pressing the talk button, it isn’t clear you’re recording—only small seconds show. The button should turn green when active and red when stopped for clear feedback.

I'm bedridden recovering from extensive surgery. A friend is taking care of me around the clock, we got very tired of shouting back and forth room to room, I got the idea there might be an app we could use on our Samsung Galaxy phones to use as a walkie-talkie and BAM! We found Zello, it had a high rating and I can see why now! We got it up and running in no time, it works fabulously, we integrated the widget and its now one touch walkie-talkie! what an amazing piece of technology!

Makes my nights a lot easier to get through when I'm trying to stay awake. A lot of issues with the PTT button for blue parrot headset. Mine didn't work for months on end amd then all of the sudden started to work. Same goes for a few friends of mine. We all have newer headsets and phones. Please fix this issue so we aren't constantly touching our phones to talk.

Really was enjoying this app, with my wife, until it stopped connecting. It keeps us both in standby, or offline, regardless of changing our status manually. Even when it said available on our ends, it still shows the other offline or in standby. Unless we force quit and restart, it just won't reconnect either one of us. Even then, it doesn't always work. If it's a setting, we can't figure out which one. I don't think it is, because we reset to factory settings, and it still does it. Too bad.

Worked fine for a while, then recently started to glitch and randomly record conversations and send to all other phones in our group when no one was using the app or had it open. Had to restart all phones in the group to get it to stop. A few days later, the same thing happened. Uninstalled from all phones in our family group since the app was essentially randomly turning on and running itself with no apparent way to stop the glitch.

It's good when it works, but it's unreliable. I'm on Android, partner is on iPhone. Frequently when I try to send her a message, she never receives it until manually she opens the app, despite the "Keep Alive" option being on and her status being a green "standby." It's a frustrating experience communicating with nobody, waiting for a response that never comes.

Talking with family and friends and groups is easier now with Zello. I didn't give a 5 rating largely because I keep getting a request from a group that has been closed by their administrator and cannot block the continual requests. Several of my friends keep getting the same request (and the "administrator" can't fix it either.) Please fix this glitch and communicate back with me. Again, the PTT works great.

I've would pay (once, no subscription) for a version that doesn't have constant issues. But for the last few years I have often had to exit zello, or turn on and off airplane mode just to get messages to send -with several different phones over the years. And now, within the last month or so, zello completely disconnects after probably 30 seconds of my phone being locked, so I miss messages. Support doesn't respond to emails. Makes me very hesitant ever to spend on this app.

It's good, but that would be cool if there was a button where when you're outside the app you can press and send the message to the person you were talking to. Another nice feature would be having the voices not over lap or interrupt each other if you are talking to one person separately then your other friend's voice comes in lol. Also, is there a way to have history saved temporarily? Like delete the data used after one or two days so I can still save it but not use my memory if I forget.

The last couple months, I've been noticing a lot of DELAYS in sending and receiving messages (the app holds the message in the queue, anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes). We use this app for a business, and all the delays are becoming problematic enough that we may stop using this app very soon. I've been expecting patch updates and improvements, but it only seems to get worse lately. Once you get in a conversation with someone there seems to be a lot less delay and it's more stable.

I love this app for a variety of reasons. 1. It works like a walkie talkie, but with completely unlimited range. 2. you can exit the app so that you don't receive messages. (this is GREAT especially if you are off the clock. ) 3. it records all of the messages. this is great when you work with the " i didn't say that" guy. you can LITERALLY hit a button and prove them wrong. (beware! if you say "i wanna bang the bosses daughter " someone else can hit a button and take your job!)