AudioFetch

AudioFetch - Audio to WiFi-connected smartphones

About this app

AudioFetch is the premium solution for local audio to smartphones and tablets over WiFi for unlimited uses including:
Fitness Centers: Delight your customers by enabling them to hear TV audio throughout the facility without being tethered to cardio equipment. Great for GroupEx classes as well.
Sports Bars: Sports fans will choose your pub, stay longer, and order more items when they can hear their game.
Church: Enhance your church services with assistive listening and/or real-time translation for those who need it. Works great with popular Bluetooth-enabled headphones.
Tourism: Replace outdated, expensive and unhygienic tour guide receivers with your guests’ smartphones, and allow your guests to maintain a safe social distance while still hearing the program.

Ratings and reviews

Not surprised based on the other reviews, but as it was the only choice available in my gym for TV audio, I didn't have much of a choice but to use it. Needless to say, I can only confirm the poor experiences of others. I suppose it connected okay, so at least there's that. But after that, the sound disconnected like clockwork. 9:45, app briefly drops sound. 10 minutes, sound completely cuts out. Force closed and restarted the app, 9:45 and 10 minutes, same thing. Third try, same result.

I recently purchased AudioFetch Express to add hearing assistance to our Sunday worship services. I was excited about all the features and the ability to use the same device for inside the church and for tours. I am very impressed with how easy AudioFetch was to set up and use. My hard-of-hearing parents felt it worked well also. Integrating AudioFetch into our church audio system was a breeze. We were able to get multiple users up and running quickly. For any questions we had, we received excellent support. Highly recommended!!

It works mostly, but it needs an interface to explain things such as disabling Bluetooth to performance. Selecting broadcast channels from a list, pausing, and perhaps added channel information for participating clients on site would bring a better look and feel. The gui feels like it was a high school project. Disable Bluetooth and your performance issues will subside... the underlying backend is definitely done well by a company with experience. They just need a gui, channels, feedback module, ability to save locations where applicable, playback controls (limited multicast), and better FAQ/troubleshooting. What is preventing the success of this app is the interaction model and the ability to bypass common issues easily such as prompting to disable Bluetooth. (If buffering occurs frequently in a threshold within a time period and Bluetooth is enabled, prompt user to disable Bluetooth) Two thousand dollars to the right developer will give them the non-bloated front end they desperately need.

What's new

Improved discovery and stability.