Murmur : Bluetooth Group Calls 12+

This app is awesome for communicating over short range; like biking or driving in separate cars for road trips with no cell service. It struggles beyond 150 feet or so with direct line of sight or about 70 feet with obstacles / walls.

The main “bugs” we found: The app would not find the other user (group) with anything but short group names and no password. When we used a longer group name and/or one with a password the phones never found each other.

Many thanks for helpful feedback - those certainly sound like bugs! I'll take a look at what's causing that and hopefully have them fixed this week.
UPDATE: Version 2024.6.7 should hopefully fix the short group name/password issue you identified. Many thanks for letting me know - a regression in the UI framework Murmur uses had disabled the input filtering I'd not spotted. Do let me know if this isn't resolved.

I like the app and what it does but I can’t purchase the disable jokes option. iOS 18 on each device and so far can’t purchase on any of the 4 iPhones and 2 iPads. Help! Take my money please

Many thanks for flagging this - actively looking into it now. App Analytics has reported at least some sales to iOS 18 devices, and I'd attributed the reduced number to another issue in iOS 18 limiting the discoverability of backgrounded handsets (thankfully resolved in the current beta 7 iOS 18.1 release). I'll update when I've understood and hopefully fixed/worked around this. Again, huge thanks for letting me know.

The only improvement I can imagine would be to allow music at the same time if possible

UPDATE: Version 2024.7.8 now makes muting background apps optional. If you're using wireless headphones - music won't sound great (using the microphone with the Hands Free Profile forces a lower sampling rate and mono), but it'll be fine for navigation voice prompts. Wired headphones and speaker don't have this issue.