Syrinscape Fantasy Player for Android

Not sure what to make of the app. It crashes, screen isn’t responsive. Seems overly complicated

Navigation on the Android is practically impossible. I can’t get to the sets I’ve purchased. I can never figure out how to get the right sounds to play when I get lucky either.

If you are running prewritten adventures this app is great. The sounds are all amazing and really add immersion. However, as soon as you do anything off script in your game this experience is horrid. First, the process of creating your own sound board is confusing and the idea of doing an audio tutorial in a character voice is, albeit amusing, really bad for a comprehension standpoint. When I finally figured it out the next step of adding my own sounds is equally bad. I just got the DnD subscription and my lord there are so many sound boards for me to choose from. It makes it so hard to find what I’m looking for! Never mind the fact that on mobile the app isn’t sized correctly and the search bar is covered by my camera. I just tried to make a Drow temple and it took me nearly 2 hours to find what I needed. Eventually I got what I needed, but found out my game was going to have to be played online. No worry I thought, I have Syrinscape on my pc as well. It turns out, however, that your sound boards don’t transfer from device to device even though it’s all on the same account. I thought I would just recreate my sound board on my pc, but it also turns out that there is essentially no indication of which sounds you have playing for each individual board! I’m sorry, but I’m not going through the 200 ish sound boards I got with the simple subscription to scavenger hunt for which sounds I chose. Why can’t they just be listed in the custom moods section with audio sliders like everything else? The general response to all of this from Syrinscape has been to use their Online version. To this I have one response. Until you can put together a thorough tutorial in the app so I don’t need to look through an 11 part youtube series, no. When my subscription ends I will gladly switch to a new product. It’s no wonder Critical Role is starting to sponsor a new sound engine

It won’t open the side panel to let me access other sound sets. It starts to slide open but only goes a little bit and closes back up every time I try. It only worked once. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard their sounds and they’re great, but what good is it if I can’t access 99% of it’s content?

The UI for this app is terrible. Menus getting stuck, endless scrolling to find anything, no way to manage download queue. Even the website on mobile doesn’t respond to screen size of the phone. I’ll find another way to add audible ambience to my games.