Reviews of Outschool

By: Outschool, Inc. App

List of user reviews and ratings for Outschool

Total ratings

2.89 (Rating count: 68)

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Review summary

Users love the Outschool platform and the educational content it offers, praising the variety of classes and helpful teachers. However, the Android app is widely criticized for poor performance, frequent crashes, nonfunctional messaging, and limited functionality. Many users find the app only useful for receiving notifications, with the full experience requiring use of the website. Issues with enrollment, searching, and content updates make the app frustrating, and many users prefer to delete the app and rely on the website instead.

Pros

Outschool as a educational platform is highly praised and recommended for its wide variety of classes and helpful, interactive teachers.
The service is excellent for homeschooling, boosting child's skills, hobbies, and socializing.
The platform allows teachers to create their own classes and offers a great marketplace to purchase classes.
Some classes are very good and the platform offers assistance for expensive courses.

Cons

The app is very unreliable and poorly developed with major issues such as messages not loading or showing properly.
The app crashes frequently and has poor functionality for managing classes, enrollment and searching.
Most features like purchasing, enrolling, and class management are easier or only possible on the website, making the app largely useless beyond notifications.
The app frequently logs users out and has issues updating changes or refreshing content.
File uploading in the app almost never works and the user interface is clunky and difficult to navigate.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.40

All time rating average: 2.89

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56% (10)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-01-10	Ka*****	The messaging features on this app need some major attention. Outgoing messages will not show up, but will be sent. Incoming messages will not show up at all, or will show up in the inbox as summaries but not be there when you open the thread. Yikes. We LOVE Outschool but the app needs work.
The messaging features on this app need some major attention. Outgoing messages will not show up, but will be sent. Incoming messages will not show up at all, or will show up in the inbox as summaries but not be there when you open the thread. Yikes. We LOVE Outschool but the app needs work.
2025-01-04	Ka*****	I wondered why the app had such a low rating, until I used it for 5 minutes. Update your app.
I wondered why the app had such a low rating, until I used it for 5 minutes. Update your app.
2024-12-29	sc*****	Terrible app. Never even opens.
Terrible app. Never even opens.
2024-12-07	Vi*****	Excellent
Excellent
2024-12-01	Co*****	Complete garbage, message, and class data doesn't show or function on the app at all. Outschool didn't take the time to do basic software development here.
Complete garbage, message, and class data doesn't show or function on the app at all. Outschool didn't take the time to do basic software development here.
2024-11-11	Ed*****	🪖🪖🪖🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🪖🪖🪖🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
2024-11-11	Ja*****	Great service, but the dedicated app is horrendous. Messages fail to load and never refresh, meaning I can't view ANY messages anymore. Uploading files almost never works. Just use your computer, because this app is useless.
Great service, but the dedicated app is horrendous. Messages fail to load and never refresh, meaning I can't view ANY messages anymore. Uploading files almost never works. Just use your computer, because this app is useless.
2024-11-09	Ka*****	Really good app for meetings and learning different things or just socializing with people but the price for some meetings can be pretty expensive
Really good app for meetings and learning different things or just socializing with people but the price for some meetings can be pretty expensive
2024-11-03	Dr*****	I am so disgusted, this app pressured my child into borderline illegal activity.
I am so disgusted, this app pressured my child into borderline illegal activity.
2024-10-16	Mi*****	Excellent educational classes whether you homeschool, want to give your child a boost in a particular class, or your child is interested in doing a hobby. Teachers are helpful, interactive and make classes fun. Only downside is that some courses are very expensive, although there is assistance available if needed. Highly recommend.
Excellent educational classes whether you homeschool, want to give your child a boost in a particular class, or your child is interested in doing a hobby. Teachers are helpful, interactive and make classes fun. Only downside is that some courses are very expensive, although there is assistance available if needed. Highly recommend.