It is the best of poor options

Some aspects of this app work well, others, not so much. For instance, they allow you to denote specific options for notifications to be turned on or off or changed, but not all of these work. For example, I hate badges. I turned them off. I get no notification banners, even though it is set to on. Also, I typically only get notified for one message at one time, not matter how many messages from different people I could have gotten. Don’t understand that.

The main reason I use this is because I can get my SMS from Google Voice within this app, as well as the fact that I don’t have to run Chrome, which is not my preferred browser, just to get Hangouts. But the lack of notifications can get somewhat annoying.

The other thing that annoys me about this app is that it doesn’t support calling, or multiple accounts. Another annoyance is that the app claims it has the Apple ecosystem UI, but it doesn’t. It’s sorta hangouts, I mean, this app is a web frame at the end of the day, and I wish it would look more like Hangouts mobile app for iOS instead of whatever it is trying to do.

Domsbombz about Chatty for Google Hangouts