join.me - Simple Meetings

This app is really smooth and has some great features! However, a few of us have had trouble getting the camera to work for ourselves and sometimes for everyone. Tech support was not helpful in fixing this.

I am planning to use this app to teach students, as I was fascinated by its whiteboard and screen share features on iOS devices. I still haven’t tried an actual meeting yet, but I have noticed two major suggestions to improve. First, the whiteboard should support Apple Pencil, so users can use one-finger gestures like other drawing or note-taking apps and be able to use the double-tap feature on the Pencil 2. Second, the app should support the 2018 iPad Pro screen ratio. Some screen elements around the edge has cut off, and I hope the app could fill the entire screen. I will update the review as I use it for actual meetings and/or once the app is updated.

Works great, but there are two big gotchas with the user experience. First gotcha: joining the meeting is not enough! It is a TWO STEP PROCESS. You begin with NO AUDIO, unless you remember to also click the phone icon, and connect there as well. This should have been integrated. Second gotcha: YOUR MICROPHONE BEGINS HOT! You must remember to mute your microphone. Should have been a single tap of a top-level icon to do this, as it is a common user task, but instead it takes many clicks into a sub-menu to mute and un-mute. Third gotcha: NO BLUETOOTH. Just phone speaker. Crank volume all the way up and hope you can hear. There is no audio selection menu, so no way to route the audio to another device such as a headset or Bluetooth speaker.