Brightspace Pulse

Name: Brightspace Pulse
Rating: 4.8 (270435 reviews)
Author: D2L Corporation

By: D2L Corporation App

Education

Overview

Version:

2.2607.1200

Last updated: 2026-07-28

Features & Capabilities

Brightspace Pulse helps instructors and learners stay connected anytime, anywhere by visualizing upcoming activities, deadlines, and course updates from Brightspace (D2L).

Key features include push notifications for announcements, activity feeds, grades, quizzes, and assignments; offline access to course content (video and audio); discussions in the activity feed; browser-based login to Brightspace; and Apple Continuity across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education

By:

D2L Corporation

Rating:

4.80

(270,435) 760 new ratings

Version:

2.2607.1200 Last updated: 2026-07-28

Version code:

888646676

Creation date:

2015-08-21

Compatible devices:

Size:

49.60MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-27

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 1,549 ▲ 2

Other rankings

#22 in publish keyword 5 ▲ 1#46 in pause keyword 16 ▲ 22

Other platforms

Brightspace Pulse (v2.2604.1.1003512)

3,721,750 4.77

(28,145)

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Developed by:

D2L Corporation

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brightspace-pulse/id1001688546

Website:

https://www.d2l.com/the-best-mobile-learning-experience/

User Reviews

Brightspace Pulse is generally praised for being easy to use and keeping students on track with push alerts and quick access to grades. Many users rely on its calendar and notifications to manage assignments on the go. However, reliability is a recurring problem: crashes, random logouts, and performance issues after updates. Some essential web features are missing in-app (documents, downloads, full grade details), and navigation and notification behaviors can be clunky or inconsistent. Overall it’s useful when stable, but stability and feature parity need improvement.

Pros

Easy to use and convenient on mobile and tablet
Helpful push notifications for due dates and updates
Quick access to grades and assignment status
Effective calendar/assignment tracking

Cons

Frequent crashes and random logouts undermine reliability
Notifications/navigation issues: alerts not actionable or overly noisy
Missing features compared to the web: can't view some documents, download files, or see full grade details inside the app
Clunky UI and performance issues, including update-related problems

Recent reviews

The app is handy for a quick view of class info and assignments. My complaint and reason for 3 stars is that most activities are forwarded to your web browser instead of handled in the app, making it pretty much just full of web links instead of an actual app. Hopefully future updates make it a more robust and functional app so that it doesn’t require sending you outside of the app.

by fa*****, 2026-09-16

Brightspace is easier to use than blackboard, but that is faint praise. Unfortunately, the users of of these products usually have no say in choosing them.