Rotary Dialer app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 7314 ratings )

Utilities Entertainment
Developer: Joshua Minor

0.99 USD

Current version: 4.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 Jul 2008
App size: 2.35 Mb

Retro-themed rotary dialer for the iPhone. Now you can dial in style, just like the old days. NEW: SKYPE SUPPORT for iPod Touch and iPad users.

Now with selectable themes (Steampunk, Sleek, Metal, Glow, Original). Pick any one you like - even the original bakelite theme from the old version.

Features:
Authentic Sound (recorded from a real rotary phone)
Accurate Dialing
Backspace

Press:

“I just love goofy little apps like Rotary Dialer, which lets you actually dial your iPhone by sticking your finger into the onscreen holes of an old-style, rotary dial phone.”
- David Pogue, NY Times

“Some are simply goofy, like a virtual Star Wars-like lightsaber, a rotary-phone dialer and a virtual stapler."
- Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, The Wall Street Journal

Pros and cons of Rotary Dialer app for iPhone and iPad

Rotary Dialer app good for

This is so silly its brilliant! A must-have for any iphone owner

Absolutely brilliant, no question. But why is not the iPhones number printed in the dial? Start up time could be shorter.

Great image - very old school. Fun concept. It seems to work right for me. But wheres the sound? thats whats missing for sure.

Downloaded the app while it was free and befor the update. Now I RETRO DIAL all the time! Works exactly how its suppose to. Worth the money.

Ever since they feature this over the net, i know i need to have it .... just for old time sake. Not to mention a good conversation piece everytime i pull it out to make a call, never fail to impress both the old and the young.

Overall great application and works perfectly! For some reason when I use this app for about five minutes I see randomly dropping coins on my screen, I can move them around but I cant take them out, is this supposed to happen?

Some bad moments

Nice idea and seemed very exciting at first. However it does not work correctly most of the time and delete key needs to delete only 1 number. I also feel that the ui could look a little better. (not an image of a real phone). Hopefully with some work this could turn out to be a really great app.

What could have been a cute and fun app gets destroyed by an almost impossibly difficult UI. Still a kinda-sorta neat gimmick that outlives its fun factor very quickly.

The dialer doesnt rotate when I move my finger in the screen, it just stays at zero or appears at another position Conclusion: doesnt work the way a Rotary Dialer works

The sounds were so wrong that it was so dissapointing. The dialer skins arent very cool they have no depth. The most realistic skin is the old icky plastic roto dialer which is pretty cool actually. All in all the app is lacking no matter what since the sounds leave you thinking of anything but a roto phone.

Does not replace regular phone key pad, I thought it did. PLEASE!!! Make so that it can look up contacts on phone, like normal key pad. It is way to hard to remember every bodies phone #. So far not worth $0.99. Can i have my money back please.

Cool concept..but the sound effects need to change, it need the old style sound of "shadadadada..ding"

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