In The Rooms

To start: I love that the rooms are so easily accessible these days, I desperately needed help while struggling with a loved one and I found this app while searching for virtual Ala-non meetings. However…… My experience: I would suggest downloading the official AA or Ala-non app instead of this one. This “in the rooms” app ‘shared’ my information (info that was required for me to register to even see meetings.) I know for sure that they provided (sold, I’m guessing) at least my email address to The University of New Mexico AND Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, who are looking for participants to partake in “addiction research studies.” I’m disappointed, and now concerned for whom else was able to obtain my info from this app. People should be allowed to seek help and heal in privacy, the point of the second ‘A’ In “AA.” Also-not everyone who uses this app is an addict, some of us have loved ones whom are addicts, but still need the support and wisdom of the Ala-non community, so I wouldn’t be of much help with addiction research. *I am reasonable enough to note that, while I don’t recall there being one, there could have been a legal disclaimer when registering that they would provide my info to outside sources, and I could have just skipped right through that in haste to find a meeting. However, I would bargain to say that a large percentage of people who are seeking out those meetings are likely in an emotional state and not reading fine print. The app itself: a little confusing at first, kinda glitchy. I preferred the official apps to this one, but if you need a meeting I don’t want to sway you from one. Maybe just use a fake email address!

This app would be amazing if it worked correctly. On the Apple version it doesn’t show meeting times which is very frustrating to someone who relys on this app for social support. When you login to a meeting there is nowhere to share while using a mobile device, sometimes you can hear and sometimes you can’t, there are no instructions on how to fix the problem either. You can’t access the message board, newsfeed or private messages through the app as well. I have never written a review on an app until now because I really wish this one would work as intended too. Please fix!!!

Useless as an app. Probably a fine program just on the internet. They make you register to join a meeting but nowhere on the app does it tell you you have to register on the website, not the app itself but they give you that option anyway so you sit there like an idiot refreshing and refreshing. The reception is horrible. They tell you meetings are available but on the app it doesn’t tell you when the meetings start so you log on and nothing happens. You can’t tell if you’re in the wrong place or early or what. Don’t even bother having this app available if it’s like this.