Roam Research

Roam Research

About this app

As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database.
Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.

Ratings and reviews

Almost there. I use Roam for everything, the app is pretty good, but a mouse on an android device doesn't work. I use Roam on desktop, and my phone flawlessly (other than the slow opening) but cannot use the mouse on the tablet so it's unuseable in that aspect, and that's a key piece in my workflow. I've been a huge believe, but the little things are starting to catch up and the market for substitutes is getting bigger. We'll see if this keeps improving.

Edited: The app force closes all the time now when trying to start it. When I get it started it works tho From a daily Roam user, very helpful app. Personally I haven't had any issues with this, you can do pretty much anything you can do on the computer, and synchronizes the notes really fast. I am not a power user so I'm sure it's missing some things compared to desktop, but for me it works great - and you can always finalize whatever you need later back on the computer.

The sync feature tends to give out every now and then and if you are someone who writes notes because you might need them at some point (who doesn't), then boy aren't you in for a surprise. If the sync feature is reliable only 90% of the time (I'm not saying that it is at 90%), that's not reliable enough when you are taking notes. If what you end up with after writing is a case of Russian roulette. I'm not too keen on playing.

What’s new

Add font size control
Native view now follows settings from the web app for page brackets and namespaces
Fix native view search keyboard not enabling swipe with Gboard
Tables show heading cols/rows and respect column sizing