Name: Amazon Alexa
Rating: 3 (29031 reviews)

Description

Use the Amazon Alexa App to set up your Alexa-enabled devices, listen to music, create shopping lists, get news updates, and much more. The more you use Alexa, the more she adapts to your voice, vocabulary, and personal preferences. DISCOVER MORE • Get more out of your Echo device through personalized feature recommendations from Alexa • Discover and enable recommended Alexa skills • Pick up where you left off directly from the home feed with lists, shopping, or recently played Music and Books MANAGE YOUR DEVICES • Set up your Alexa-enabled devices, control or check status of your compatible smart lights, locks and thermostats at home or on the go • Create routines to automate your smart home devices MUSIC & BOOKS • Connect to music services like Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio. Choose a song or playlist and listen on your Alexa-enabled devices • Create speaker groups to play music across your compatible Echo devices for multi-room music ORGANIZE YOUR DAY • View and edit shopping and to-do lists on the go, get weather and news updates, manage timers and alarms, and more STAY CONNECTED • Use Drop In from your app to connect instantly with your compatible Echo devices, like a two-way intercom • Call or message supported Alexa-enabled devices, at no additional cost

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Reviews

Alarms a mess

Alarms are now a jumbled mess. All alarms are all together, and you can’t pick a device. I have 5 devices making it impossible to set an alarm from the app.

By listens for a living

Will no connect to internet

Alexa keeps saying look for the help on my Alexa app there is no help.

By Almaden20

The piss-poor app makes the device almost useless

Example: can’t change volume unless something is playing... and there’s a pop up notice stating this. If you know it’s a bug, fix it. Or you did it on purpose?? You want to wake up sleeping babies - got it. You want your voice feedback to blast out at 70% on a Tuesday because someone else jammed to some music over the weekend. You want me not to see what’s currently playing... ever. It’s a speaker, right? For music, right? Crashes, freezes, can’t start up. Stupid list functions (or non-functions) This is the worst app I have. I’m stuck with it. Somebody please make a 3rd party alternative.

By Don't B extreme

Very Buggy and Responsive

With all the regular software updates I get for this app, this thing still acts like it’s in beta. I have to constantly completely close and reopen the app to even get it to half work

By Bartoak

Search for shopping list? No more!!!

I love speaking to my Alexa in my kitchen and when I go shopping I pull phone out of purse and there is my updated Shopping list. So handy

By slsIN

Serious voiceover issues.

Quite sometime ago, this app was doing fairly well with voiceover. Now there are serious issues, such as issues with skills and games list and unable to delete messages. I have let Amazon know about these problems, however nothing has been done about fixing these issues with voiceover. I even let them know specifically what the problem was with deleting messages, and told them specifically that it used to work with rotor actions to delete messages.

By Mr. forgetful.

Constructive Criticism

I absolutely love my Alexa and the app; I love being able to use Alexa from my phone, whether in my car, in my backyard, or on my boat! That being said, there are some aspects that could be improved. Anytime I try to create a reminder and have it set to remind me on “this device” (my iPhone), it will not work. I also think the ring doorbell settings inside of the Alexa app are not very user-friendly even for a tech-savvy millennial like myself, let alone trying to coach my mother through it. I think some mild tweaking would go a long way.

By grk8292

Latest update borked the app...

The last update 222953250 borked the app functions in a few places on my iPhone 8 Plus. You now have no drop down list to choose which Alexa-enabled device to set reminders on. So, no editing, no deleting, and no adding any reminders on any device other than the one you last set something on prior to the update. Also, all alarms, both current and past, for every device show in one long list now. There is no way to see alarms for just one device as a group. I manage my mom’s Echo devices from a distance. She sets MANY alarms. I need to continue to see hers separate from ours, since she has too many to wade through to find my one or two. The new alarms list has the device name for each alarm in small letters under the alarm time, but this is no use when there are fifty alarms to sort through! Deleting unused alarms does not work with her either, as she quickly adds alarms right back in since her nap and sleep times are never the same. Kindly fix this CF of a programming update!

By WickedGirl33