Google Voice (by Google)

Howard Dingman2020年12月10日

★★★★★2

The old Hangouts app used to be great, but this is a dog. Not on the top bar, need to open a new tab any time to do anything, way more clicks than it used to be. Thumbs down, but it's worth exactly what it cost.

Andrey Y2020年12月6日

★★★★★5

If you want the click to call links to work then uninstall the GV extension and install it again. Restart chrome browser. I had issues where i could not use the click to call links even though my extension had a current version installed.

Carl Rood2020年11月27日

★★★★★2

Being forced to revert from Hangouts to the voice app due to Google's continued Messaging Merry Go-Round is not a welcome option. I've been using Hangouts on the Desktop for years because my desk at work has little to no reception and it's my primary method of staying in contact with my family during the day. The Hangouts extension was independent of any browser tabs, while the Voice "extension" is simply another tab in the browser, which makes it harder to work with. You can't copy/paste a screen shot to the Voice app to send as an MMS. You have to open something like Paint, paste it there, save as a JPG, and then send it via the voice client. It adds several steps and takes up drive space. Google needs to STOP changing messaging clients and just improve the features and functionalities of what they have. In this case, they're actually switching BACK to a client they pretty much abandoned almost a decade ago and have rarely updated.

Terry Hoiness2020年11月17日

★★★★★2

I mean, why? Just why? First they killed off phone SMS integration with Hangouts, now Google kills off Hangouts - I used it for two things for YEARS: Phone calls and SMS. It stayed open on my desktop EVERY DAY. Then they expect me to replace it with this... It can't answer a call, it can't text, it can't receive texts, but it can turn links into a way to call with Google Voice (whoopity do!). I mean, the notification badge doesn't even work, because OF COURSE IT DOESN'T. Silly me, thinking that Google would be able to create a product that could integrate with one of its own products. I'm trying to build a little Voice interface extension to get back some of the functionality I lost, and that's an absolute nightmare, because the way they did the website made me think it was Microsoft that built it. You make the website small, and the menu stops working. Nah - get this... The HAMBURGER MENU that they champion on all their devices DOESN'T WORK in a small window. Mobile first, or did we forget? I'm not railing on a mom and pop shop, I'm railing on a company with how many developers that are supposed to be "the best of the best?" On top of that, getting permissions to the mic to work across the iframe in an extension is a nightmare, because apparently getting permissions to the mic in an extension was an afterthought, with Chrome, but I digress... Google ruins EVERYTHING. I have no idea why they are so self destructive. They build a great product, get you hooked, and then tear it down, and eventually kill it off. It's obnoxious. Next they should delete chrome, and offer you a separate product to browse 1/4 of the internet, and split it into 4 different products, depending on what fourth of the internet you're looking at, where all the replacement products are completely inferior? Just a thought, Google! I'm helping you stay fresh here... Google Music? Nah, we'll give you YouTube Music with half the features, higher price, more bugs, and less functionality (especially for offline music). Google Auto? Works sometimes. For years it's been hit or miss with something as simple as sending a text. And with Google Music revamp, now I have to mess with the phone to get things to work. Kind of defeats the purpose of hands free driving, when everything that's meant to keep your eyes on the road screws up while you're driving, right? I pay $1k for a phone, so you'd THINK the software would be geared for the high end, but maybe not... Maybe it's bulletproof on Pixels? If everything else is an indication, probably not... I'm surprised you don't have to buy a half dozen Pixels to do the job of one normal smart phone. Hands down, you probably would, if it weren't for the fact that their competitors would dominate. I've been anti-Apple for decades, but all this has really been making me think. Maybe if tech companies spent less time on dreaming up innovative AI censorship, and more time focused on existing product stability and progressive development of new and existing products.... I know - my rant, but come on, man!

Mark Byram2020年11月16日

★★★★★1

There is no notification when new messages arrive. Just an ambiguous question mark on the extension icon. I have missed so many messages. I really miss having calls and texts in Hangouts. This is a very poor substitue.

Dan Brandenburg2020年11月16日

★★★★★2

What is wrong with Google recently? They're taking good, stable products and castrating them to the point of being useless. I've loved GV...but then disconnecting it from Hangouts has made it mostly useless. It's almost impossible to use GV in the browser now due to lack of notifications. They've ruined other things - like Google Play Music by forcing us into the primitive and featureless YouTube Music. I figure Google is just falling apart internally or something.

Tereza M2020年11月15日

★★★★★2

It works. Somewhat... What does not work is the pop-up so you gotta have a tab dedicated to GV constantly open otherwise you don't get calls or notifications. I was using Google Hangouts and that worked well as it had a popup that was always ready to receive messages, no matter what I was doing. But now apparently Hangouts will not longer support calls so I had to go back to this. The GV extension does not even show if there are messages on the icon it just shows a question mark. Clearly something is not working. When I searched for the broken pop-up problem they just told the OP they will look into it and that was two years ago. Clearly it's still not working. If hangouts is no longer supported then make this work!

DJ Phillips2020年11月14日

★★★★★1

This Google voice extension used to be pretty good when it was the older version of Google voice but this new version of the Google voice does not work this extension really really really really sucks you can't hear your Google voice phone ring when somebody calls you, it does not give you the option in options to select hear a beep when you get a voicemail like the older extension used to do and the older extension use to show you your inbox calls and voicemail from the pop-up screen which now this extension does not show you the only thing you can do on the popout screen is enter a phone number and then on the bottom it gives you close options and go to Google voice but if you're not able to hear your phone ring through the extension that's pretty useless and if they need to get this fixed before 2021 because they are discontinuing hangouts for making phone calls and text messages but even when I installed Google hangouts I couldn't hear my phone ring when somebody calls me after I made the switch to turn off Google hangouts and use Google voice please help!!!

Jason (Themicles)2020年11月13日

★★★★★3

It was better before texting from the extension was removed and we were forced to Hangouts... Which was fine until now that we're being forced back into the Voice app from Hangouts. No complaints on the phone, but this Chrome extension lacks functionality it once had, that we were told to go to Hangouts to keep when it was removed.

Ruslan Sudentas2020年11月13日

★★★★★1

Outdated UI, no notifications on incoming phone calls. Seems like Google really don't want you to use it