# Download Tapatalk Notifier? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 18, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629 "2020-01-18T19:08:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/21 "2020-01-19T07:51:51Z")
On my iphone with Chrome, if I go to the message board, I get a information popup asking me if I want to download Tapatalk. It’s easily clicked away. I am not logged in, nor do I login from my phone. With my ipad with Chrome, I never got the Tapatalk popup. I now have my password saved on my ipad, so I am logged if if I visit the boards from my ipad. I normally use Chrome on my MacBook. I do not sync Chrome across the devices. That is, I am not logged in to Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/22 "2020-01-19T08:25:57Z")
i haven’t seen it for a while but i used ot get it every time i went to the board on the tablet… i even tried to use it on one but now i just clock the “desktop version for this site” every time i come here on mobile ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/23 "2020-01-19T13:02:34Z")
I regularly access the board from my Android-based phone using Chrome. I do not have TapaTalk or any desire to use it. I have not received any messages for TapaTalk Notifier. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/24 "2020-01-19T14:01:11Z")
I use Tapatalk. I’ve never aeen anything about Notifier. Tapatalk does have one shortcoming. It doesn’t support polls. When I see a poll I want to answer, I load the site in a browser. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/25 "2020-01-19T14:04:10Z")
I use Tapatalk almost exclusively on my phone, and I use the regular site on my iPad (not the mobile skin). I don’t use the mobile version of the board, and I like that on Tapatalk I can easily move between a few different message boards. It’s not a perfect app by a long shot, but I’d miss it. I use Safari on my iPad and chrome on my computer and never get notifier pop ups, fwiw. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/26 "2020-01-19T17:00:35Z")
I use Tapatalk when I’m away from the computer and want to check the board on the phone. I rarely post from it, though. And I wasn’t aware of the “mobile interface”. (Does that just mean the site is optimized for smartphone users accessing it via a web browser?) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/27 "2020-01-19T17:31:19Z")
I use Tapatalk to access the board on my phone exclusively. Probably about 60% of my board access is using Tapatalk. I paid for the app and everything. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/28 "2020-01-19T17:36:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I use Tapatalk when I’m away from the computer and want to check the board on the phone. I rarely post from it, though. And I wasn’t aware of the “mobile interface”. (Does that just mean the site is optimized for smartphone users accessing it via a web browser?) Yes. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/29 "2020-01-20T01:06:25Z")
I use Tapatalk when I’m going to post a picture because they do their own hosting. I haven’t run into any Notifier issues. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/30 "2020-01-20T07:37:29Z")
I don’t use Tapatalk. I do occasionally get the small popup at the bottom asking me if I want to use it, but I say no. I may have gotten a notification for Notifier before, but it was definitely not a full screen popup. That said, the mobile skin AFAIK, still has those problems I’ve tried to get fixed. Does Tapatalk work properly with spoilers and code tags? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/31 "2020-01-20T08:20:55Z")
My Data points; I am currently using Brave Browser for phone browsing, which is, I beleive, a chrome based browser(whatever that means) Tried tapatalk once a couple years ago. The experience was terrible and I immediately removed it and went back to directly viewing via browser. The only time I get anything about the app on my phone is when I clear my cookie and other caches from my browser. It’s never an issue, I just select to never see the message again and decline the offer. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/32 "2020-01-20T08:23:09Z")
Ack! That was supposed to say something about the board wanting me to download the tapatalk app ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/33 "2020-01-20T13:09:37Z")
I use tapatalk to browse the forum from mobile. Tapatalk works, but the app regularly has various sorts of issues requiring occasional deletion of app data/cache etc. I believe I have gotten the ‘download tapatalk notifier’-notice, but not for a while now. I’m not sure what, exactly, is meant by ‘mobile version’ of the SMDB; when I navigate to the address [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) on Chrome on my phone, I just see a lot of impossibly tiny text which does not really seem usable to me. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/34 "2020-01-20T21:08:07Z")
I never use it. I tried it long ago and didn’t like the interface. I rarely read SDMB on my phone (iPhone and Safari) but I do on the iPad. There I use either Chrome or Safari, and have never seen anything other that the ‘Did you know about Tapatalk?’ popup. I’ve not had the notification on my desktop either. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/35 "2020-01-22T00:45:55Z")
Don’t have don’t want. Chrome on iPhone works fine. I get prompted to download tapatalk when not signed in, but not when I am. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/36 "2020-01-23T14:34:36Z")
I used to be a heavy user of Tapatalk until they pissed me off enough\* that I decided to ditch it. Luckily that was right about the time that the Sultantheme skin became available, so I’ve been using that (in Chrome, on an Android phone) ever since. - First they started inserting ads. Which sucked because one reason I became a member was to not see ads. I also had problems with randomly getting logged out. Then, even though I had already paid once for the app, they kept pestering me to upgrade to some “VIP level”. And it was constant, like every second or third thread I would open I’d get the reminder again, and there was no way to turn it off. So I just quit using it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/37 "2020-01-23T23:54:56Z")
I’m using Tapatalk without issue. It works fully without ads or problems - I like browsing the dope with it… ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/38 "2020-01-24T01:02:32Z")
I tried Tapatalk a couple years ago, and preferred my phone’s browser. iPhone X, Safari, Sultantheme. Usually when I go to SDMB (typically by tapping a link in a subscribed thread email) I get a popup dialog. “Cancel” to close the dialog, or “Continue” to go to the app store, IIRC. There’s no popup today, but I think I’ve seen it as recently as yesterday. I’ve never seen any Tapatalk dialog on my Windows PC using either Chrome or IE. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/39 "2020-01-25T04:20:42Z")
I haven’t been getting any annoying pop-ups, but I do have the paid version of Tapatalk which costs about a dollar per month. Although the mobile browser version works satisfactorily, I still find reading and posting in Tapatalk to be more comfortable generally. I think most of my posts these days have the Tapatalk auto-signature that I don’t bother to prevent. But not this post, interestingly enough. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629/40 "2020-01-29T13:55:32Z")
I just got the popup this morning. OnePlus 6T, Android 9. Easily dismissed. Have never loaded nor used Tapatalk. I was logged in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-tapatalk-notifier/846629.md?page=3)