Tapatalk or Forumrunner?

[Stuart Wright]

I was contacted by Internet Brands again mid Feb to renew the Forumrunner branded license. I passed this year because:
* Custom mods no longer supported (we have a couple)
* Very poor ad support - one ad per the whole app - and no pans to improve
* Fewer features than Tapatalk
* Owned by Internet Brands

Whereas Tapatalk supports notifications, forum and thread targeted DFP ads. and they have bent over backwards to get us to switch.

So I recommend you check out Tapatalk.

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

Branded app.

 

[Dakis]

For branded app Tapatalk now charges 39$/month, that's 470 bucks per year for iphone+android. And that's just a branded app, no customization nothing. That's a great deal of money. But then again, I'm in the same boat as you, there are no alternatives. My forumrunner app doesn't get updated, I don't know how long I can get people using it...

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

That price seems reasonable to me for me to make my community grow and evolve.

 

[Dakis]

500$ per year just for the mobile app ?

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

Yes of course... I think you can spend upwards of $20,000 developing a branded app, this is a reasonable price and Tapatalk looks much much more professional than forumrunner.

 

[Dakis]

I'm not arguing against the value of a mobile app, but we are talking about forums where the forum script itself costs a couple of hundred bucks upfront and that's it. So a mobile app that just supports that forum and does nothing else, would have much better luck priced similar to the forum script itself.

 

[Garani]

What do you prefer?

Max,
my italian guildmates (http://www.ibriganti.eu) are currently using Tapatalk, and I find it is pretty useful as well. I am not using a branded license, because this is a game-guild forum, so I have no budget for it, but I have always found Tapatalk to be a good choice up to now.

 

[Brent W]

I have two branded TapaTalk apps and can't be happier.

Here is an example for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapatalk.shottalkcom&hl=en

Search ShotTalk on apple store for equivalent

 

[dieketzer]

Isnt forumrunner owned by Internet Brands? Does the branded app have any problem?

yes, and as i pointed out in my deleted post, forumrunner was bought up by ib, and anyone giving ib (of all ppl) an inside eye on their board is a nut. tapatalk all the way for me.

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

It appears even Tapatalk uses Xenforo for their own forums... which is a good sign.

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

and what about pictures? Does Tapatalk allow for that?

 

[Forsaken]

It appears even Tapatalk uses Xenforo for their own forums... which is a good sign.

They moved to XenForo two years ago.

 

[dieketzer]

and what about pictures? Does Tapatalk allow for that?

yes i can upload pics using the default xenforo image upload features while using tapatalk.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Since IB took over Forumrunner, I dumped it immediately. I'm doing away with Tapatalk slowly with responsive design.

 

[Father Sebastiaan]

What is responsible design and why are you doing away with Tapatalk?

 

[Andy.N]

Since IB took over Forumrunner, I dumped it immediately. I'm doing away with Tapatalk slowly with responsive design.

Same here. Removed tapatalk and bought Arty responsive add on. Win win for me as there is one less external script to maintain and only one style to use for mobile and desktop users

 

[SchmitzIT]

What is responsible design and why are you doing away with Tapatalk?

It's a third party add-on.

For those wondering which path to take, 1.2 is supposed to include a custom mobile style. It might be worth the wait

 

[karll]

It appears even Tapatalk uses Xenforo for their own forums... which is a good sign.

And Forum Runner is using vBulletin (3.8).

 

[DirtRider]

I am running both on my VB forum and from a users point of view they much prefer TapaTalk. However from an owners point of view if I ever start a new forum there would be no way on earth I would consider installing either of them. I have most of my TataTalk members using it 100% of the time so this presents the following problems for me. It does not interface with any mods and some of the core forum features are not visible or usable. So now you end up always having to work around these users with anything you do to enhance the forum in anyway. They become sort of ghost members that you will struggle with in trying to communicate forum rules and function too.

It is almost as if you running two separate forums one with your forum software and features and another basic database integration forum. I have thought long and hard about removing it on my forum but for the few that actually use it they way it should be (80% PC and 20% TapaTalk) I have not.