Renweb Home App Reviews

Where did the homework tab go. Great app except the homework tab disappeared.

I always used the online version and it always worked. When the website started malfunctioning I decided to get the app. I then found out I had to pay for a subscription to see my grades and I thought that the app should be paid but the subscription free.

Why do I have to pay 5 dollars to check my homework on my phone

RenWeb works great and I use it all the time but it would be much better if there were an option to receive emails about missing papers and such. But is otherwise great

The current look of the app is not only outdated but also ugly even for folks back in 1990s. It is also bad at displaying forms and tables.

Poor quality for being $5 to have. Significant lag when loading various parts - especially “lunch” and “accounting”. Crashes regularly when trying to order hot lunch. Freezes on occasion. No ability to make payment on accounting statements in app.

I’ve used this app for the last 5 years and there have been times it has been glitchy. However, this week has been the worst. I have not been able to place a lunch order as it keeps freezing or kicking me out.

Besides crashing every time you click on an item, it does not transfer over the same information you see when using the website. To be charging $4.99 per year for the app from parents, you should make the necessary adjustments to ensure your app will work. Overall, this app is a disappointment.

My app is having the same problem as my last review....the 3rd quarter has began and I can’t see grades for the drop bar is not letting me see the 3rd quarter. It was fixed the last time I wrote a review hopefully it will be fixed again. I haven’t had any other problems with this app until this has happened.

It’s stupid and gets me in trouble

The app itself is laggy and looks like it was made in the 20th century. Plus you have to pay 5 bucks to use it when you can just go online for free. Its so stupid dont waste ur time or money

Hit or miss. I guess RenWeb always miss. You want to see your grades I bet they aren’t loading. RenWeb is gonna freeze and hit the dab like your awful teacher

I love this app! It allows me to keep track of my child’s success and areas of improvement. It creates a greater level of accountability for my child and it allows me in one aspect to be involved in his education. I’ve used this app for 4 years. However it’s only as good as the information that the school/teachers put into it.

The software is built well and it works great it brings back horrible memories of school and gets me in trouble 24/7 great for workaholics and stuck-up goody two shoes

I’m not paying a monthly fee for a service provided online web. That’s silly.

This app is a total waste of money!! I can’t see anything on it! It keeps me stuck in a loop that is never-ending! I’m so frustrated that this is what I’m supposed to rely on for my child’s info for school. Keeps saying my password is incorrect after using their option to rest!! 😡😡😡😡

I've paid for the app every year. Why aren't notifications & popups part of this app? I can log into my account online & get the same info without paying for the app!! Update 7/2/18: so now used for two different schools. So I needed 2 different usernames. Even though I bought the app, it wants me to purchase the app bc I've got a different username & it's a different school. I still need the 1st school, too! Why is this app so crappy????

The interface is clunky, there’s no ability to pay through the app, it often gets hung up and it’s hard to find things that are more easily found on the web version. The text formatting for homework is not at all pleasing, making it difficult to tell what is really needed for the week. Please make updates to make the $5 worth it!

I love using RenWeb! The only thing is the app itself. It needs a clean, modern look and iPhone X compatibility. Other than that, I think it’s great. I love seeing my homework and grades before seeing the test in school. The teacher version on the computer is very nice and modern. Maybe the app should be like that.

I only get the app to see how much im failing.

Thanks for the update but you still have A Lot of things to work on.

I can log in to the website for free. The school pays a great deal of money, so why purchase the app?? Meh!

I am in middle school and I hate this app. My parents are always checking my grades and they always punishing me for my bad grades. Don't recommend this for anyone. 😢

Does the “Import Day” function where it imports the days homework assignments to your calendar not work for anyone?

I really thought I had seen it all but this app takes the cake. This has some SERIOUS problems and is missing a lot of user feedback UI info. Half of the time I don’t know if it’s locked up, retrieving info from the DB, or if I didn’t click the right thing. Next thing you know, it just like 3 menu levels deep when I didn’t even click anything for 1 whole minute. VERY frustrating app. Needs major work.

I’m a public student and want to use this app, unfortunately I cannot, my parents won’t loan me the money to pay for Subscriptions and I’m stuck looking at it on my home page. The only reason I would be a teacher would be to have free access to the renweb app. Sadly my future endeavors are not leading to me ever teaching. If I find 5 bucks on the bus I’ll make sure to up my subscription, but until then I can only hope I don’t fail highschool... again. RIP.

I reinstalled with no help. The desktop site has no ability to import. The customer service line is for schools only, so is of no use. I do use the app to pay bills.

I used to love the ability to import contacts from RenWeb directly into my phone contacts, but this feature stopped working months ago. Since then, I have changed phones and updated the app, but it’s still not working. Can this be fixed?

I have to pay money now

While it was convenient for the last several months, now while trying to login it tells me I have to renew my account even though it also says it has already been renewed after I go through the credit card payment. Either way, it’s not allowing me to login so I’m sure you’ve already lost plenty of app users.

This app is useful but needs better calendar functionality. Import Day crashes on iPhone and ipad. It used to work.

This app is pretty much essential to my school work and I can’t log it. My school can’t do anything it either. Every time I try to log it, it tells me an error has occurred on the website. This is truely ridiculous cause it has been like this since August. Plus we think the problem is that my mom hasn’t paid for a new year. But we can’t even find where to pay. Pls fix this problem as this app is essential, for me, for school

Why should I have to pay a yearly fee to look at my grades? Especially when I can just log onto their website and do it for free. This app is a waste. I don’t see the point in paying. Would not recommend.

I normally am not one for writing reviews, but hopefully this one will catch the creator’s eye. I have recently gotten the iPhone X and on the RenWeb app, there are 2 b******** bars on the sides. Very noticeable and very annoying PLEASE FIX!!!

UPDATE: doesn’t accept my password which I know is correct because it works on the webpage. Thought I’d give it another try today, but I’m not resetting the password simply because you guys can’t write a program. ORIGINAL REVIEW (still applies): Now I understand why they deliberately keep the website version coded in such a way that it doesn't play nicely with mobile browsers. They want you to download this stinker and pay extra for it.

I already bought this. I refuse to ‘subscribe’ and pay yet ANOTHER $5, and do so every year???? Complete, utter BS! The school provides their own content, what the heck is this app providing me that I should ‘subscribe’? Pitiful. Shameless money grab. Will continue using the hobbled, but no ‘subscription’ required, desktop version and with other parents encourage school to identify better service provider/app. This is sad.

If I could rate this ZERO stars I would. My son’s school uses the RenWeb/ParentsWeb platform but it never lets me sign in stating “invalid credentials”. I have to keep “resetting” my password just to access anything. Very Frustrating! The iPad App is garbage! I try to open the app but more often than not, it completely crashes and closes before it loads. I signed up for the app a year ago and it has never worked properly. Fix it please or at least don’t make folks pay for something that DOES NOT work.

This useless app has NEVER once opened in my iPhone 6s....I've paid the $4.99 and yet it gives me some s***** message about hostname not found yet when I login on my laptop in good. Don't bother with this absolutely useless app

It works for the most part, it’s easy to use, but please please please... update it for the iPhone X and newer phones. It’s really unoptimized and the devs could do much better!

I’ve had this app since September. It is completely useless-none of the clickable buttons work, rather, they simply show an empty page. Unable to order lunches, unable to access grades, unable to access documents/calendar/forms/resources/family names...literally unable to access anything. The page shows options but none of them do a single thing. When a company has an app it should work for almost everything found on the website, with few drawbacks. This app is just one huge drawback.

Just got the app a few days ago. Tried logging in for the first time. Won’t let me log in, saying network error. Useless app apparently. Can’t remember if I paid the $4.99 or not but it’s not giving me any option or prompt so I must have bought it when I initially installed it. ????? App support results in Page Not Found. Um....yeah.

Just horrible how every time I go to log in it says “Error” horrible quality, In conclusion, I do not recommend getting this app at all whatsoever 😡

I tried logging in on renweb website online and it isn’t working . It takes me back to my classes last year and grades. I haven’t been able to see my grades this year. I just feel like I should hav esto Pat just to be able to access my grades!

My school forces me to use this site for grades and homework stuff. I have hated every second of it. Not only is the app the quality of something a person could throw together in 1 day, they also force you to buy a $5 subscription every year to keep using this app or use the website which has no mobile support so there’s basically no other option. If you have the choice avoid this app at all costs. Trust me on this one

I want to renew...I want to give you more money. But I can’t! I need to be able to use the app since the school year is upon us again!

so, youve decided to give me all F’s and one D? ;)

I mean, come on! This is not nearly as user friendly as our school’s old app, and it let us stay logged in on our personal devices! To have to enter in 3 lines of information every time takes all of the speediness out of this app. Very disappointed with the overall flow

I’ve had this app for almost 2 years and there’s a lot of bugs that need to be fixed. Also why do we pay for this. I pay for my private school, that’s almost 7,000 a year. Fix this app, I’m disappointed. Might delete this app later. No words for this. Also we’re in 2018, it straight

Needs to be optimized for the new IPhone screens. App seems dated.

I paid 5dollars.it doesn’t working.please return

This app had been working. Now it crashes as soon as it opens.

I am very disappointed that after all the money we spend on our children you charge 4.99 to access what should be free.

Worst app ever, homework pops up five days later but will show on website, doesn’t have needed information on app, worst school app i have ever used for my kids schools. Will not be purchasing next year.

I have changed my password about 3 times now and it says “successfully changed” but I go back to ten web and it says that it’s incorrect! I have logged on to school computers at school and it’s worked but I really wish that I could use it on my iPod! Please respond and help me to know what I can do to fix this!

Why do I have just to see what my homework is y’all stupid.

If I would like to print from the mobile app, then all my ink would be used to print only 1 week of "week at a glance", which is a great feature by the way! But since the background is dark blue printing 3 pages with solid dark blue background is like printing your own colored construction paper and it would take all the ink!!!!!!!!!!I don't see an option to change to a white background!!

This app is so frustrating, I just want to check my homework and grades but it won’t let me log in. It keeps saying I have the wrong password. But I put the same exact password into my computer and it works just fine. Please fix this, I pay to use this app and it doesn’t even work. This app would be so convenient and worth my money if this wasn’t an issue. Also just to add to the problem I’ve changed my password many times and that hasn’t worked either. A good recommendation would be to just keep the user logged in. Please take this into consideration.

I use this app daily to access my kids’ lesson plans. My major problems with this app are: 1. Difficult format to read the lesson plans 2. Cannot click any link a teacher adds in the lesson plan and open it in browser 3. Cannot print my kids’ lesson plans from the app 4. Cannot open documents my kids teachers put into the lesson plans This is Year 3 using this app and it hasn’t changed. Seems like basic, normal functions that students and parents need to be able to use an app for. Especially hybrid schooled children who use the lesson plan feature daily and need to be able to read the plans, print them, open docs, click links, and print plans and docs. If I’m doing something wrong and this app can do this basic functions, please tell me how. Thx!

I paid for this app for 3 years now and it never works and doesn’t show the information I need. The developers never seem to update it to a working app. Ridiculous that it cost $4.99 a year for absolutely nothing. I would give it 0 stars if I could. This will be the last year I pay for the app.

Please put together a solid update

If I could I would give it less then one star in name of connecting to the school it’s simply a scam takes money and then no deliver crashes every time I open. Fix it or refund my money!

My son is forgetful and this app helps me and him get his homework

Yeah app has issues. Can’t log in it kicks me out a lot M A H L E G S H U R T L T . D A N

Where’s your Dev Team to Code this properly? Simple updates haven’t been performed so the iPhone X isn’t supported. For those of you grabbing an XS prepare to be disappointed that anything will be fixed for your pre-orders and future delivery date. Cannot add service hours, or perform simple forward back within submenus... instead it will return you to that branch beginning (IE; student, school, family: drilling below and using “back” returns me from 4 levels down back to 1 (school, student, family). For an Academic Application, it’s ironic that you having a Failing grade in this app and it’s usefulness/helpfulness. Less than a 50% average in your review and ratings... It’s not that you’re not worthwhile... you’re worthless.

Sure would love to renew the app but it won’t let me. ???

This app is not optimized for the newer iPhones it is very annoying

I love RenWeb (FACTS) - I’ve worked deep into the staff side and was the go-to RW person at our school. It is a powerful system, but I cannot endorse the usability of this app. I would think after 5 years, there would be an update. FACTS, If you don’t want us to use this app anymore, then make it a web app. Please make it have a smoother interface and aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.

So aesthetically outdated! The website is way more modern looking. (Website shows my child has homework, but I just looked in the app and it says “No information found” - good thing I double checked!) Definitely needs a new design if they want to stay relevant. Not sure if I’ll just stick with browser!

Paid for an app that does not Work

Renweb is essential for my grades in school. I started getting good grades after I started using this app!

The information available through the app is limited. I have missed a lot of information put out by school and teacher because it’s not viewable through the app. The cost for this app was a waste...don’t bother..just access school information through RenWeb website.

This app is great, but the only downside is that there is no support for the new iPhone

I’m asked to renew my annual subscription, get to iTunes and it appears to checkout ok and return to renweb to get a message that says it cannot connect to iTunes. Right now It won’t let me renew and I cannot access my account.

Shouldn’t have to pay to see grades ! Ridiculous

The app had worked well over the past year. On October 8, 2017, it started kicking me out. I have consistently reached out to customer service and continue to receive feedback that it’s being worked on. Today, I was given the same feedback but to also be told “There is not currently a time frame on when it will be resolved”. It makes me wondering if it is even being addressed.

I clicked login and the app crashes

Since I have updated to IOS 11 on phone the app does not work correctly. I won’t update iPad & have told others not to do update because of this. As of November 17, 2017 app is still not working properly with IOS 11. Would not recommend downloading.

While the app helps with keeping up with my child’s homework and grades it doesn’t do everything it says it does. I can’t for the life of me get anything to import to my calendar! It is so frustrating. My oldest uses her iPad as an assignment book and the import function will not work.

I’ve used this app for 3 years and while not perfect, it worked well for my needs. I understand I have to pay each year to renew, but I seem to be on a circular loop where it just keeps kicking me out. I’d like to pay to renew, but am never given the option even though it says I will be at login. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app several times in the hopes of forcing the payment option. Each time it logs me in like there’s no issue, only to kick me out again and NEVER provide a payment re-up option. Very frustrating and going to give up on it.

1) this is 5$ a year should be free 2) filled with bugs 3) just dont buy this

This year the app is having a lot of trouble with the Lunches section. When looking at the month view, there used to be a little blue dot on the day the student was buying-no more. Also, when you try to order lunches, the app keeps crashing. Disappointing for an app that costs money.

And it didn’t change for the better. Last year had zero problems with the app. Loved it. This year, though, has been pretty frustrating. More often than not, i can’t log in, get various error messages and/or get bumped out of the app when I am successful at finally logging in. Unreliable. Frustrating. Maybe a problem with IOS 11 comparability??? Hoping for an update that might solve some issues. Otherwise, not happy to have to pay for an app that doesn’t really work very well.

You cannot use the app without making a $5 payment, which is impossible to make, the app claims that it cannot contact the iTunes Store. Yet other apps work fine.

AWFUL UI and not optimized for iPhone X. Really need to rework this entire app. Looks terrible and performs terrible.

This app has potential to be amazing. Despite paying the $5 a month ago I receive an error message saying my subscription has expired and logs me out. I also receive error messages “network error” and “ could not load page”. Please stop collecting $5 from people and fix the app

One would think if i’m paying for an app that also has an Web site that the app would be do anything and more than the web site. Please add the capability to pay in the app.

I don’t know why the reviews are all so bad. I can easily check my homework and grades on the app. It works great!

The developer has done a bare minimum of work to make this app usable. Therefore, I have given the bare minimum of a rating. Frankly, it doesn’t deserve any stars.