LINE | AppleVis

Description of App

LINE reshapes communication around the globe, bringing you closer to your family, friends, and loved ones—for free. With voice and video calls, messages, and a limitless variety of exciting stickers, you’ll be able to express yourself in ways that you’ve never thought possible. With over 600 million users worldwide, LINE’s constantly expanding platform will continue to provide exciting new experiences and convenience.

NOTICE:
LINE Pay services in Singapore, LINE Biz+ Pte. Ltd. ("LINE Biz+") discontinued its provision of the LINE Pay services from 8 February 2018 onwards.

LINE’s New Features

Make Group Calls with 200 People: Try our group call feature with members in chats.

Keep Your Things Close with Keep: Store messages, photos, and videos in Keep and share them easily with friends.

LINE’s Main Features

Free voice and video calls: Use your PC or smartphone to keep in touch with friends and family both at home and abroad, or hold a business meeting on the go!

Instant messaging anywhere: Conversation is just a tap away. Spice it up with LINE’s exciting collection of stickers or send pictures, videos, and even GPS coordinates to let your friends know what you’re up to.

A full-featured social networking service: Post your day-to-day activities to your Timeline or comment on your friends’ posts.

Group chats: Share important information with your co-workers or talk about mutual interests with your closest friends.

Find new expressions in the Sticker Shop: The world’s largest collection of stickers features famous and unique characters from around the world to let you express yourself just the way you want to.

Stay informed with LINE official accounts: Connect directly with your favorite celebrities and companies by friending their official accounts.

Make international calls with LINE Out: Make international calls to mobile phones and landlines at competitively low rates. You can even call friends who aren't LINE users (available in certain countries only).

Get connected to new apps: LINE provides a gateway to entertainment and lifestyle apps that will keep you entertained and bring new convenience to your life.

Make your face the center of action in Face Play games: Get ready to stretch those facial muscles! Rack up new high scores in solo mode, or battle it out with your friends in duo mode for double the fun. Don't forget to collect your special trophy and skin when you complete a mission or become the season champion!

Introducing LINE Fan Account!

Price plans:
• 1-month plan
Price: JPY 480 (tax included)
Duration: One month

• 12-month plan
Price: JPY 5,700 (tax included)
Duration: One year

Supported countries:
Japan

Purchasing a plan:
• Your iTunes account will be charged at the time of purchase.
• Your plan will be automatically renewed and your iTunes account charged 24 hours before your plan's expiration date.
• You'll receive a free seven-day trial with your first plan purchase. Your account will be charged at the end of the free trial.
You won't be charged if you cancel your plan before the end of the free trial.

Canceling auto-renewal:
• To prevent your plan from renewing itself automatically, please turn off the auto-renewal option at least 24 hours before your plan's expiration date.
• You can still use your plan until it expires after canceling auto-renewal.

Viewing or canceling your plan:
• To view or cancel an existing plan, check your App Store purchase history from your device's settings.

Terms and Conditions of Use:
• https://terms2.line.me/Disney_terms_web

We recommend that you use LINE with iOS versions 10.0 or higher with an iPhone 5 or above.

For more information about LINE, check out our official website.
http://line.me/en/

Version

10.0.2

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Yes

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

13.37

Accessibility Comments

Most buttons are clearly labeled. with VoiceOver and it's easy to deal with

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Most buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/line/id443904275?mt=8

Developer's Website

http://line.naver.jp/app/iphone/help/en/

Developer's Twitter Username

@line_global

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Alyabani94 6 years 2 months ago

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Comments

I use it often and finally

I use it often and finally get used to most of the unlabeled icons... But still, problems occur when receiving all non-text messages, including voice messages, due to unlabeled "button". Let see how many users are now using it. Perhaps we can write to the team together.

Experiences

OK so I went ahead (after enduring several frustrations I'll post below) and installed Line. The frustrations had to do with when getting to the area of where you have to check if you want to ad friends automatically, and allow others to add you, there's no OK button! So I had to swipe with three fingers up to get to the next page, and there's the OK button! On other parts of the registration, after putting in the email and password where you register your email to recover your account if you change device, there's no way I could find for Vo to leave the Password edit field!, thus without leaving the field, the Vo cursor wouldn't move to the OK or Next button to continue the registration. I did manage to somehow finish, but don't ask me how! OK now for the questions: 1.-The tabs across the bottom only say one of four but aren't labled; what are they? 2.-I want to chat or call someone on my Friends list; I double tap on the person's name, but then? How to select if you want to chat or call? A podcast on using Line would be very useful!

agreed

I agree with the previous poster. we should all contact the developer and have them continue to make the app accessible for all VoiceOver users.

How Do I Reply To A Posted Message

I utilize the Line App a lot but I still haven't found how to reply to a specific message. In WhatsApp, which I also use heavily, all I need to do is swipe up/down on the message and locate the reply button. In Line, there are two buttons associated with each message. The first one that I come to, when swiping from left to right is the persons name. Double tapping on this opens their profile. When double tapping on the second occurrence of their name, it doesn't give me anything. when swiping up/down on the message I want to reply to, nothing happens. I tried double tap and hold on both occurrences of the name but this didn't pop up anything. Any ideas?

RE: How Do I Reply To A Posted Message

Finally solved my own problem. You have to do a one finger double tap and hold, then lift up your finger and the reply and other options become available. Yay.