# Brightspace Pulse

> Education

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1001688546](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1001688546)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1001688546`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** D2L Corporation
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (267,170 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2607.1200
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28
- **First published:** 2015-08-21
- **Size:** 50 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brightspace-pulse/id1001688546)
- **Website:** [https://www.d2l.com/the-best-mobile-learning-experience/](https://www.d2l.com/the-best-mobile-learning-experience/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.brightspace.com/legal/privacy/](http://www.brightspace.com/legal/privacy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #1,561 — Overall
- #51 — pause

## Review summary

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

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1001688546)