SGI-USA Negative Reviews

SGI-USA App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

SGI-USA app received 21 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using SGI-USA? Can you share your negative thoughts about sgi-usa?

SGI-USA for Negative User Reviews

✓ What HappenedI was using this on a daily basis for about a year or so. Suddenly it is requiring me to login! Hey, no problem, but it seems so difficult to get an account. I have written to support but they never respond. It really breaks my heart to not be able to get into the books and to follow along with my chanting. I especially enjoyed the gonyo with the woman whose voice is so beautiful! Please help me to get through this difficult situation. Otherwise I would give your app 5+ stars..GabrielleSJVersion: 3.9

✓ Issue with Daimoku trackerThere’s still an issue the part of the app that counts and tracks daimoku. Initially it was reporting a number much lower than what I know I chanted in the month of February. Then I thought the issue had been fixed because the count for February changed to reflect a more accurate figure. Now I’ve noticed that the number for February is still increasing despite the fact that it’s now the end of March. Please fix this!!.Cfl789Version: 3.3

✓ Timer IssueThe overall app is great but the tracker needs to be addressed. I love using the timer/stopwatch feature to keep track of how much or how long I am chanting for. My frustration is when my phone turns off or goes to sleep after a while and the app refreshes and I lose my progress. It would be nice to start the timer or stopwatch and just have it keep going regardless of the status of my phone. I mean I get the battery dying and completely shutting down but when it’s still on? I will dedicate five or ten minutes of focused prayer while my screen shuts off to save battery only for me to check where I am at and the app has refreshed. What? Am I doing something wrong maybe? If I really want to start my time over I can hit the reset button. It’s so frustrating and also distracting while I chant. Please please please address this. The iphone timer/stopwatch app is awesome in this regard, anyway to incorporate some of the features?.Crystallynn1892Version: 3.9.11

✓ Very disappointedI’m glad you have an app, but there are some very basic things that need to be fixed. One should not find a Buddhist app so annoying. Are you testing us? First, why can’t I stay signed in? Where is the risk? I shouldn’t have to sign in each time I use it. Second, why isn’t there a back button? If you get to an article and it is the wrong one, you should be able to back out. If there is a back button, it isn’t obvious. Third, when reading articles, there should be a way to highlight especially inspirational parts or be able to use “sticky” notes as if you were writing in the margins. The kindle software works that way, so the technology clearly exists. Fourth, if you can not do #3, then fix the print feature. I shouldn’t have to print from my laptop. Furthermore, just fix the print feature either way. Fifth, why is it so hard to find the Living Buddhism Articles? Why not a Button for that rather than just World Tribune? Sixth, for new members who want to chant along and increase or decrease the speed, make it easier to find! It is not intuitive in the least! Frankly, if President Ikeda tried to use this app, I think he’d be disappointed that you were making it so difficult for the members..LotusladymnVersion: 1.2.1

✓ Lost everything in updateI’m not crazy about the update. First, I had used the app to record my daimoku and was gauging my numbers moving toward 2030. All records were lost in the update. The new app also doesn’t allow chanting faster that 55 per minute. I can live with that. But I’m sorely disappointed that we can no longer access the Gosho through the app. It was wonderful to have that ability. No more. It’s all taking some getting used to. 😞.Planet BeckyVersion: 3.9.8

✓ Used to work greatIt used to work great. Now every time I go in and try to look up my total and my goals, it just kicks me right out and I have to reset the counter. It’s very frustrating as soon as it gets fixed I’m gonna change my review to five stars, because I really appreciate being able to use this app. Just trying to get somebody’s attention right now so I can get fixed..WhydoihavetoenteranicknsmeVersion: 3.9

✓ Unhappy with new appFirst, it would have been helpful to have had advance notice of the new app instead of just discovering it the next morning. Second, I started a new daimoku campaign and it doesn’t keep track of my daimoku half the time. I had an hour toso last night and no daimoku registered as of this morning. It does have some very good features though..EmgoodnightVersion: 2.0

✓ Faster Gongyos?I am not digitally advanced so that may be the problem. There used to be Gongyos at various speeds; I was able to find the very slow one but no faster ones. If they aren’t available can you plse add them? I told a member who struggles with chanting that she could chant “with” others at a faster pace and couldn’t find it. Thanks..Local38starVersion: 2.1.1

✓ Audio track needs work.The audio file of the chanting is apparently 6:00 minutes long. At 6:00 a chant is abruptly ended midsentence, and a new chant is begun. This occurs at 6, 12 and 18 minutes etc., so apparently the audio track 6 mins long. The file should be trimmed such that it loops at the end of a phrase. Resetting in the middle of a phrase is jarring and completely breaks the rhythm of the chant..FretlessBassmanVersion: 1.2.1

✓ App could be so much more!I sent in feedback a couple of times, hoping to see significant, helpful, changes. So far, not so much. Re: Liturgy as a part of Gonyo, some items may be printed larger, but way too may are too small and have not been changed at all. Or, large, dark print is in a title. Not in the body where the words change, or represent the part where the reading focus is. Much of the print size has not changed one bit, or is very crowded. Other parts look as though there should be room to increase size of print, and spread out horizontally. But no change has occurred. The To My Friends sometimes is in very small print, doesn't change for a few days, misses days, (and the missed days may not be filled in). I also wish there was a faster (tho not at the speed of lightening) Chant pace in addition to the very slow and a bit faster pace. It is great you be able to have the chanting alongside oneself. Thanks! I'm not ungrateful, just want it to be more helpful..MinniemernieVersion: 2.0.3

✓ Please fix daimoku audio bugHello! Thank you for this comprehensive and useful app! My low rating is solely based on the daimoku audio. Since the update, the audio feature doesn’t work; instead, the bell just rings. Please fix this! I miss chanting in the car with others. ;) While on the subject, is there a way to better loop the audio? (Maybe this was fixed in the update?) The cutoff around 4 minuets is jarring, although it does help to quickly estimate how much daimoku/time has gone by. Thank you!!.Jl577Version: 2.0.3

✓ Work in progress? Love the app but please fix!!!Work in progress? Love the app but please fix!!! Love both new & old version’s many ideas, support & great tool for human revolution. Agree with many issues the new version created that others encounter too. I had to go back to use my book to track my DMK. Please fix the problems, I am waiting patiently. Thank you so much for creating this app. I just started to use the app beginning of this year, I can already see change of my life using this tool. Thanks again!.Little little flowersVersion: 2.0.3

✓ Love SGI - App needs workI use this primarily on my iPad and while I love the general idea of the app and I love it tracking my daimoku (2,000,000 makes me happy!) it seems like each time they renew the app it gets more bugs. The latest iteration now requires I login in every use and sometimes muliple times in the same session. It never used to do that. Also it sometimes resets the timer and I can determine no rhyme or reasone when or why it does this. I'd prefer it if I was ALWAYS the reason the timer gets reset. Shouldn't do that on its own. The newer slide control for daimoku/minute is easily adjusted by mistake and I don't know why it doesn't keep a daimoku count between devices. (use the internet folks!) If they contact me I'd be very happy to QA with and for them to help debug it and make it better focus on Kosen Rufu. NMRK!!.StormDesignsVersion: 3.9.8

✓ Many great things here, but......I was looking for an app that could help maintaining a vigorous pace of daimoku, but I can’t change from 28/min pace, which is maddeningly slow if you’re not a beginner. Many selections cause app to just stop, hourglass, waiting for updates. Send Feedback doesn’t work. Deleting the app with regrets.99MacVersion: 3.3

✓ Auto update - lost all my goals & campaignsI realize that it is my choice to apply automatic update settings to allow my apps to upgrade but why was it so urgent and necessary to wipe out all personalization? I’ve had other apps at least email or broadcast on the landing page that an upgrade would occur before wiping out your data. This was unexpected and I will not trust this app to store my daimoku or goals again..Fortunebaby 15Version: 2.0

✓ Not working with iOS 13.1This app was great , now just crashes , won’t even open , with the new iOS 13.1 update , please update 🙏🙏🙏.Kirks2Version: 2.3

✓ Great ... butThis is a good app for chanting. It could be a great app. Suggestions: Either use an always-on negative display ( like most meditation apps), dark background, with only counter and bell light; or, just have a screen dimming feature. That way, you can monitor time, without draining the battery or having to turn your device on again. Be able to save your sessions to track progress and help stay consistent. And the big one: if you leave the app for a moment to look at something else, everything is GONE. You have to start all over..Taiji masterVersion: 2.8

✓ Please fix all the bugs ASAP!I rarely write reviews but I thought I needed to write this time to let the developer know the struggles with the updated app. I have used the previous version of app for a while which I really loved and was such a great tool to track my daimoku count/daimoku campaign. Now that the app is updated, all of my previous record is completely gone!!! I wasn’t recording on a separate log book so my data got just simply zeroed out! Another frustrating thing is that the default daimoku count per minute is set for 28. When I got to the setting to change the count per minute, I can change but this change doesn’t reflect on the stopwatch. Then I just realized that my daimoku counted on stopwatch are not reflected on the “Targets” stats. Also this is minor but before I only had to open the app and directly went to the stopwatch function. Now I have to click a few times before I get to the stopwatch, which is sometimes frustrating when I’m trying to count as I start chanting. Why did you have to update in the middle of 50K campaign? Why didn’t you make sure no bugs before publicizing? The intention is good and I really appreciate the SGI IT team to develop all the SSN and network communication tools but please, please improve ASAP! Or sadly I can’t use this app anymore to keep my daimoku record..Kkp0421Version: 2.0

✓ Needs improvement!I love using this app for my daimoku goals. Just wondering, why doesn't the opening splash screen not update to this year's (2019) motto? I still have the 50k Lions of Justice motto and my app is up to date. Also, why don't have I access to WND, the dictionary or the Lotus Sutra? And every time I want to read publications I have to log in again, why can't I save it? Or the ID? Why every time the log in instead of a one time thing?.KJ2161Version: 2.3

✓ Why do we have to sign into the app every time we use it????In order to use my digital ID, i have to sign in. Every single time. I use the NY culture center almost everyday and everyday i have to sign into the app so i can present my digital id and it takes several minutes. I can understand kicking you off every month or so just so we all know the iD is current but every single day i have to sign into the app! It takes several minutes..Gustave215Version: 2.1.1

✓ The remove chants button does not workSince it’s a new version I accidentally happen to add extra Diamoku from the Change counts section under setting. However, on trying to correct it, the remove button under the change section won’t work. I called customer service to report the issue. Over all good feature updates but I hope this bug in the remove button gets resolved soon in the next update..Poulami_dey22Version: 3.9

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