Panopto Reviews

Not bad, but not great. Some of the controls are very clunky, the video player itself is kinda bad and could definitely use tweaks. Most importantly Panopto can definitely use airplay, I would even say Panopto needs it. Especially because of what Panopto is designed to do, airplay support should’ve been thought of a long time ago.

Panopto hardly ever works for users (everyone at my org is issued an iPad). The bugs seem to be unpredictable and plentiful. Endless playback issues, video/audio desynchronization. Blank video, working audio one day. No audio, working screen, no video the next. Headache for our own tech services. this app tech services are responsive, but tickets don’t lead to resolutions.
The web interface for users is better, but still buggy. Seriously consider alternative services if you are an iPad/iPhone heavy org.

My professor turns on live transcript because some students ask for it (I think it’s what it’s called) and it gets in the way of the video. My professor uses a blackboard so this is a huge deal for me. There needs to be a way of turning it off. The CC feature simply adds subtitles to the screen making it worse. The video platform also isn’t the best. Please fix it 😭

Hi, I am a student who heavily relies on viewing the scrollable transcript (captions) for my several 80+ minute lectures per week when using the desktop version. This version of Panopto has not demonstrated this capability on any of the videos I’ve checked. This is a must-have accessibility feature, and my operation of Panopto will be at a serious detriment until this simple feature is implemented.

Panopto is usable, not the nicest or most intuitive one. I wish it would let me cast the video onto my TV so I can use my iPad to take notes, too. Their website should also have that feature. I think another review already said something like that.

Love the fact that this app has an app, but why in the world (in the year 2021) can we not cast the video? Nearly every other platform has the capability, but not this app - not via computer or phone.

Our college uses this program to record lectures. It would be amazing to cast these to the television and take notes while watching.

Also can’t watch the web version from my phone, because of the cookies requirement.

The this app app is great for simple recoding and viewing lectures and lessons on my mobile device. Also, it keeps getting better with every update.

Glad I can play in the background!! Would love to see a “favorites” option to have a location to quick access videos I reference most often.

I always watch the videos at 2x speed. The pitch stays normal when Panopto is in the foreground, but it makes the speaker extremely squeaky and high pitched when I switch to background audio. Please fix! Thanks!

So intuitive and easy-to-use! Not to mention that the design is very sleek! Whoever created this mobile app is a total genius!

My stuff is hard to use and, for the most part, useless because it only shows recently watched and bookmarked videos. The most frustrating part is the search result; it shows every video that contains the word in the search. It is just impossible for mobile use.

Panopto is not very intuitive and is not easy to use. Panopto still needs a lot of polish to be something really worth using, online is still significantly better.

As other users have mentioned, you can no longer fast forward if you suspend Panopto . If your phone screen turns off while you have the video up, you won’t be able to resume at that point. Huge bug that is ruining Panopto .

There are so many glitches in Panopto, it’s unusable. Every time I fast forward a video the entire app stops working and I have to close the whole thing. It just randomly stops in the middle of videos, and I can’t move the recorded video, so it’s always blocking the slide. Please consider fixing

It would be helpful to have a Screen In Screen mode so I can take notes on my iPad while listening to the lecture.

Employees are using Panopto in the field to find videos they can use on the fly to help provide our customers with top tier support.

Wow, what a difference between the old app and this one. I appreciate that the UI is very similar to the software.

Makes accessing lectures so much easier! Just can’t open saved bookmarks in Panopto .

Please add airplay. A lot of devices support that and this would be very useful to watch lectures on a bigger screen. Thanks.

Panopto works ok, but I wish there was a way to save videos to a folder so that I could go back to them later without having to search.

New app is so much better than the legacy one! Easy to use! Thank you!!

Lectures can only play one minute or two in lock screen.