App of the Week : Roger

You can find Roger on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. All you need is your phone number or email to get started!

Roger is a Free App exclusively dedicated to voice messages. Communicate with real complacency, a certain spontaneity, Walky-Talky style.

You can talk for as long as you want, as much as you want.
  • To talk to someone, tap the person’s avatar, then tap the microphone button and start talking. Once you’re finished, just tap the microphone again.
  • If someone has talked to you, you’ll notice a blue dot shaking. To listen, simply tap the avatar (speaker mode) or raise the phone to your ear (without tapping) to listen through the earpiece.

How to talk to someone that doesn’t have Roger?

Tap the plus sign on the far right to find and select a person to talk to, then tap the microphone button and start talking. They’ll get a text message with a link to listen to what you said, and if they want to reply, they’ll be able to easily download Roger from there.

Lovely things
  • Safely Chat while driving
  • Smoothness in usage: one touch, so you can communicate with one or more persons
  • The spontaneity and the feeling of proximity with the interlocutor
  • Interactivity with people that doesn’t have Roger
  • Privacy : Messages are permanently removed from both the app and servers within 48 hours.

Feedback?

Make sure to test the app and share your experience, You can always talk directly on Roger or send a note at [email protected]. They are looking forward to hear from you!

Roger Story !

It’s when Ricardo ran into a pole on the streets of New York while walking and texting with a friend in Sweden, Andreas Blixt, when he felt a real frustration as he simply wanted to talk to his friend. Following this funny incident, the two former Spotify engineers felt that there should be a simpler, more personal way to converse than text messaging. A product with more emotion and context, that could be more easily understood and adopted by anyone with a smartphone. The anecdote occurs late 2014.

Launched in December 2015, Roger empowers thousands of conversations daily, across more than 120 countries.
Chamath Palihapitya (left), Founder and CEO of Social Capital and Ricardo Vice Santos (right), Co-Founder and CEO of Roger

Today, Roger got $1 million investment led by Social Capital to reinvent phone calls.

Chamath and his team bring unparalleled experience to Roger, having built and grown behavior changing products such as Facebook, AIM, and Winamp. We are absolutely thrilled to have them aboard with us.
Ricardo Vice Santos.
Roger Team

Roger is a team of 6 people from 5 different countries based in New York City. Most of them work on the product (designing and coding), and the rest work with the community. We love talking, and we speak 3–4 languages each.

Board of Directors

Ricardo Vice Santos Co-Founder and CEO, Roger
Andreas Blixt Co-Founder and CTO, Roger
Chamath Palihapitya Founder and CEO, Social Capital