Yapp Features

I like the feature of the timeline, with social media being used for everything now this app makes colleagues be involved within a work setting. The notifications of new posts is great. Yapp is easy to use and very similar to other social media platforms used.

I dislike the fact which we can not add more than one picture per post. Another con is not being able to upload videos or have the ability to go Live. I'd be great to have something similar to a story version of the most used social medias. We do have several departments and it would be great to have a section where videos can be posted to communicate information.

Thanks for your thoughtful review, Citlaly. Great to hear thorough feedback about Yapp's social features. I agree it would nice to attach multiple photos. You mentioned not being able to upload videos -- I wanted to make sure you knew that social feed video upload is a feature we added to our Team plan in the last year. If you have trouble using it, please do contact support -- it sounds like it could be very useful to your organization.

It is a very easy solution to use and accomplishes the desire of having a conference "app". Worth the money and can be used simply for data distribution and communication, or you can use more advanced features if desired. Compared to all the other enterprise systems out there, this is the only one that is anywhere affordable for a non-profit event.

A little more customization on the app pages designed for just content display would be nice, but the more custom you can get the more complex it gets. A few more built-in themes or styles for the app structure/layout would be nice, but again, keeping it simple can actually be a blessing. More dynamic linking of data would be helpful (being able to create instances of items and then link to it throughout the app rather than having to recreate the data on different pages).

Thanks for the review, Jonathan. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts about how Yapp can serve you better. We're determined to continue to improve the platform while keeping it priced reasonable for non-profits like you.

The ability to communicate in a creative space, share information & documents with the sales floor teams

Have to publish the app every time something is added

Glad to hear that Yapp is helping you communicate and inspire with your sales floor teams, Nadia! We're working on making publishing more seamless and less of an interruption for end users.

I appreciated the ability to upload conference data with a CSV template, which saved so much time. I also felt it was easy to navigate, customizable enough to feel branded, and highly responsive for our needs.

I wish there were a better way to give speakers access to their speaker profile other than the "claim this page" function it currently uses.

Thanks for the thorough review, Josh. I'm glad that the CSV import worked well for you and that we had a sufficient level of customization for you. Regarding speakers accessing their profile, I'm guessing that you are hoping for some kind of web portal they could access to edit? Feel free to reach out to our support team to tell us what you are looking for in more detail.

It's user friendly and customer service is great.

It would be great at some point to be able to upload files in an excel sheet.

Hi Michelle, and welcome to Yapp. Sorry that you had to go through the hassle of switching from Socio, but we're glad you found us and glad that we've been able to deliver for you!

Building out the app was very straightforward and simple. I loved the capability to schedule announcements, as it was crucial to why we used the app during our conference.

None that I can think of at this time. It achieved what I was looking for.

Glad to hear that about scheduled posts, Marcus -- that is a recent addition to the platform!

Yapp is a simple application to build and manage all information for conference attendees.

Would like to be able to execute real time polls or crowd source ideas — might need to brainstorm with one of your account execs to learn features we might bot be utilizing to fullest around ways we can leverage Yapp with audience engagement.

Thanks for choosing Yapp, LynAnn. We would be happy to work with you and your team to help you get the most out of the platform!

This app has allowed me to seamlessly communicate with the attendees of our annual leadership summit. It was easy to learn how to use this app. There is no coding involved and each section can be customized to your liking. You can load schedules, bios, pictures, PDF, videos, etc. It also has instant messaging that allows you to quickly push out notifications. I love that you can create your content and when you are ready, you can simply push the publish button. We have also used it for other teams as well not just for our leadership summit.

I wish you could add a registration feature to the app with the ability to cap the attendees at a certain number for each workshop being offered. Possibly pushing this feature out first, before the entire contents of the app are populated.

Thank you for the great review, Vivian. We're happy to be able to be of service to Imagine Schools in the various uses you have found for Yapp. We hear you about session registration features and it is something we hope to address in the future.

•Simple enough for non-technical staff to setup•Ease of deployment•Users love the social elements•Ability to publish individual agendas (creativity required)

While there are always opportunities for improvement or enhanced functionality, it's hard to find fault with anything in Yapp.While not a 'con' it would be nice to have couple of additional features:•Ability to add pages in other languages and add a language tag to people. If any page existed in the alternative language, present it rather than the English page.•Ability to add raw HTML to the about field in the people upload. This would allow for better formatting of the content in the about section (this is how we publish each individual schedule)

Hi Phil, thanks for sharing your creative and ambitious use of Yapp as well as your ideas for improving the product. I hope we can offer you a more robust approach to individual agendas in the future.

The software was easy to build and use for both the builder and attendee side.

Not able to schedule notifications / announcements ahead of time.

Thanks for the review, Sandra. I understand your feedback about speaker claiming. One strategy there could be to use separate person records for the attendee page and speaker page, so that the attendee record can be claimed and updated but the speaker profile stays in your control. Regarding scheduling notifications/announcements -- good news: we recently launched the ability to just that. Search "Scheduled posts" on help.yapp.us to learn more about this new feature.

This app is easy to use, intuitive, able to publish and make changes immediately without having to use a 3rd party/CS agent. I have used apps that are more expensive but have so many limitations on it that I always come back to Yapp. I can find work arounds for almost anything that i need. Additionally, my end users love using it - they love uploading photos and chatting with each other.

No cons were added to this review

Easy to set up and get started, easy to manage

Types of events/apps are limited, but have been improving

Thanks for the review, Edward! We would love to hear more about what other types of apps you would like to create with Yapp.

I researched several apps before choosing YAPP. This would be our organization's first time using an app for our annual conference. It took me less than a few days to become familiar with the layout of the app. It was very helpful to see other samples of conference apps. Staff is quick to response and even response after 6PM.

For the price, there are none. I would like to see the banner ad function added. I would like to be able to have the option to use the preset features or create your own.

I loved the bulk upload feature! It made inputting data so much of a quicker process.

My company uses Salesforce so having Salesforce integration would have been amazing. I also wish there was an option for attendees to upload documents themselves!

Thanks for the kind words and clear feedback, Bella. Exploring a Salesforce integration could be interesting. I'd encourage you to reach out to our support team to tell us more about how you'd like to see an integration work!

Price and ease of use. I like being able to input CSV files.

End user refreshing of app if clunky. It would be helpful to have the ability to rename some of the field headers.

Tami, thank you for your review. Appreciation for our prices and ease of use are the things we hear over and over from our customers and... we're pretty happy about that. You will be happy to know that we're on the way to making app updates much smoother!

Ability to limit distribution to a list of users is a deal breaker for us. From an Admin perspective it is very easy to build, deploy and update Apps. The ability to import schedules, speakers, etc. from a CSV file is time saving and helpful.

So far, we have used Yapp exclusively for Conferences. While the App is great, the pricing model is unhelpful. On average, we build an App and use it for maybe 2 months (pre, during and post conference). However, we can't build a new app for the next conference within the same year without purchasing an additional App even though we are no longer using the App for the past conference. For us, it would be hugely useful if there were an option to license by Active Apps, i.e. be able to reuse the license when an App is archived, and/or have a monthly license. Would love to see some integrations with CRM, forms, etc.

Thanks so much for the detailed feedback, Richard. You've called out some of my favorite features of Yapp and also mentioned a few things I'd really like to see us improve too, such as integrations and improved pricing. I hope that you'll find that Yapp keeps on getting better and we look forward to working with you in the years to come. -Luke

YAPP features an easy and intuitive user interface for creating a professional-looking mobile app which has TONS of functionality. I have been using the service for years, and have built multiple conference apps with it, all for public education, curriculum, instruction and leadership. If you look around at conferences, just about everyone will have their faces buried in their phones, tablets or laptops....

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Entering the conference session data can be tedious, and there is really no way around this. However, if you use a spreadsheet to build your initial conference schedule layout, session description, location, and other pertinent data-- you can then use that spreadsheet to import your sessions with direct mapping. This saves you a big step when it comes to conference design, but it only works if you begin with the end product in mind and make that spreadsheet from the origins of the conference planning stages.

Yapp is incredibly user-friendly. Building it out took a little bit of exploring the first time, but I was quickly able to figure out how to build what my clients were expecting in an event app. The rich text pages allow for some good customization, and agenda and attendee uploads are streamlined and very easy to use. When the app is up and running and being used at an event, it seems to operate smoothly for attendees, and any updates I send populate quickly and easily.

Although the app does allow for some visual customization, especially on the rich text pages as mentioned above, it would be nice to have more customization options on some of the other page types. It would also be nice to have the ability to insert custom code to be able to do things like embed forms without having to send people out of the app.

Your thorough review is very much appreciated, Jaclyn. Thank you for sharing Yapp with your clients. We look forward to continuing to provide you with great service and making the improvements you've suggested!

Ease of use. Yapp has templated pages to use in the app so you do not have to build anything from scratch. (EX: polls, schedule, agenda, etc.). Additionally, any time you have a change to make to your app, it is completed in real-time and after "publishing" your changes, attendees who downloaded your app will see these new changes the next time they view the app.

Reporting features are good (EX: app usage, engagement stats) but I feel like a little more can be done here so administrators can dive deeper into the data to analyze.

Thanks for the thorough review, Caleb. I especially appreciate that you called out our help center. It is a great resource to learn the ins and outs of Yapp. We look forward to working with your org for the years to come!

I am not the most tech savvy person being a Boomer who didn't grow up with a computer. I was amazed at how quickly I was able to navigate my way through creating my first app in 2019. It is very intuitive. For the past 4 years and creating multiple apps, there has been nothing that I wanted to create in an app, that I haven't been able to figure out. I love this product!

There really isn't a "like least" feature of this app. My only suggestion to make it just a little easier in some instances, would be to be able to clone a page within the app or to copy and paste a page from a previous app into a new app. My apps are very similar for each event so I start by cloning the previous app, which is very helpful. Cloning a page or cut and paste a page from previous apps would make it that much easier.

Thanks, Mitch. We're glad to hear about your positive experience with Yapp and will keep in mind the excellent idea about cloning pages!

I really enjoyed the user-friendly interface of Yapp. It was so easy to navigate and create my own custom app without any coding or technical skills. The drag-and-drop interface made it simple to add features like a schedule, speaker bios, and interactive maps.

One thing I didn't like about Yapp was the limited customization options. While the drag-and-drop interface was easy to use, there were some design limitations that made it difficult to achieve the exact look and feel I wanted for my app.

We use Yapp to share the details of our Arts Festival each year and the application gives us the flexibility to customise the look for the theme each year. Having the ability to clearly show the acts that are happening and include links through to performer details, it all works seamlessly. Following the successful use for the festival, we expanded our use for the induction of our new staff who join the school each year. Giving the ability to new recruits to be able to view information before they arrive, has been a great benefit.

We have yet to discover any significant flaws in the product and have been very satisfied with what we have been able to implement with the system.

Thanks for your review, David! It's great to hear about the way you're using Yapp at the school and providing great support is always our goal, but especially so for such kind-hearted customers like you.

The schedule is terrific. Exhibitors profiles and info is good. Having speaker handouts on the schedule is a real plus!

1. can't attach digital promotional advertisements to exhibitors easily 2. Schedule overview doesn't have speaker's name on it....only location 3. Hard to add a READABLE MAP (exhibit hall and classrooms) 4. Most Sponsors are Exhibitors....can't pull Exhibitor Info into Sponsors. Have to enter same info twice

Excellent feedback, Michael. We will work your suggestions into our product roadmap -- glad you are getting good value in the meantime!

I love that I can schedule announcements. I wish that when I was scheduling them it would schedule for the time my event took place, not where I was scheduling from. I also wish as an admin I could create scheduled posts from within the desktop instead of on the mobile device. I like that the schedule autosplits between the days of the event and that members can post in the social feed like they would on social media.

Please see comment above about the scheduling announcements.

Thanks for your feedback, Breanne. Excellent point about the time selection of scheduled posts!