Sharpen User Reviews

Sharpen - College Exam Prep

McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Education

Books

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasHelpful study tools based on textbooks

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This app hasAccurate information and relevant to exams

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This app hasConvenient for quick revision and concept clearing

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This app hasEasy to use and navigate app

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This app hasFree with no annoying ads

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This app hasCovers a variety of subjects like biology, psychology, etc.

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This app hasUseful for high school and college students

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This app hasImproves understanding and performance in classes

Negative highlights

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This app hasLimited selection of subjects and textbooks

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This app hasLacks content for certain majors like engineering, math, etc.

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This app hasBuggy and crashes frequently for some users

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This app hasMonotonous voice in video summaries

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This app hasLogin issues and progress not saved

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This app hasPaid features may be too expensive for some students

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This app hasNo landscape mode support for iPad users

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This app hasConcerns about potential political bias in content

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First app I’ve ever rated

This app has been crucial for passing my exams and understanding how to do my homework. I cannot stress enough how helpful this is, the guided solutions are so insanely helpful. The textbook explains concepts well but doesn’t explain how to actually solve these problems while this app actually explains how to solve the problems.

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MBAStudent0321

3 months ago

Response from developer

We are so excited to hear you've had a great experience with Sharpen and it's helping you succeed in your classes! If you want to share more detailed feedback about the app or let us know what features you want us to add, you can email us at hello@studysharpen.com. We're always happy to hear from users.

Needs work

The tests are just repeats and don’t shuffle through different ones. There needs to be more of a variety of questions. Even some of the questions from chapter one are repeated in chapter two. And there have been multiple times when I picked the correct answer, it’s highlighted and everything and when I hit the submit button, it tells me I chose the one above it. So it’s registering the wrong answers.

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Inle-Varg

4 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Inle-Varg, thanks for writing. We're bummed you experienced this. Could you email our support team at hello@studysharpen.com and include what title you were using when this happened? No questions should repeat, so we want to check if there are technical bugs here we need to troubleshoot. We want to fix this so you can have the best study experience :)

Great app, definitely worth it BUT

It needs more content for all the McGraw Hill courses. Connect is abhorrent, Sharpen brings the material to life. Move some marketing dollars over to Sharpen. That said, to improve Sharpen it would be great to practice the wrong quiz answers with more depth. For example, if a student had 3 incorrect answers, direct them to further resources. You have a great concept here, invest a little more, please!

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Smm369

9 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to review Sharpen and provide us with insightful feedback! We love hearing from our users and are always working to improve the app. If you want to share any additional suggestions, you can always email us at hello@studysharpen.com.

Didn’t have my classes

I, college student, am taking 4 classes, 3 very common and 1 not so much. Biology, Chemistry, PreCal, and Medicolegal forensics. They only had one out of the 4 classes, Biology, and it didn’t even have the edition of textbook I needed. I was hoping to use this as a study tool based on other reviews. I will still use for bio, but wish I was able to do so for my other classes. Seems like this would be helpful for lower levels of learning, ie highschool, not college students.

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IWantGoodGradesPlease

a year ago

Response from developer

Hi there - thanks so much for checking out Sharpen. We're sorry you weren't able to find more textbook matches at the moment. We add new textbooks & courses often so please submit your specific requests to hello@studysharpen.com Regarding your biology textbook, Sharpen is edition agnostic so you should find concept alignment even if the edition is different than yours. Wishing you a great semester!

Just use quizlet

I’m an accounting major, and I love the fact that they have my exact book and can take questions and definitions out for me, but I feel like it’s just taking what quizlet does and just does the writing down part for you, which in my opinion is the best part because writing is the first step to remembering. And the questions are the same questions they ask in the book just without the information listed right under it. It is nice how they made it in sync with the books, but very limited selection and just not worth it if you want quality material. I suggest making an app that’s specifically for one subject and delve into it and make it actually useful, like duolingo. I started out looking for something that would give me random income statement questions so I could practice filling them out and figuring the accounting equation out, but this doesn’t help at all. Thanks for the try tho! Maybe find your revenue in ads rather than broke college students looking for a good app.

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w swz. wzssss2-

a year ago

Response from developer

Hi there - Thanks for checking out Sharpen and for sharing your feedback on what you find most useful when studying. For your accounting class, please look at the solutions section in later chapters as we have quite a few income statement problems that may be useful to you. We really value student feedback and if you ever wish to share anything else, you can reach us at hello@studysharpen.com. Wishing you a great semester!

Tools based off my textbook

I couldn’t be happier. The study tools are based directly off of my course textbooks. Helping to study accurate info and exactly what will be on an exam. Great app.

ThePsychologyGuy

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the great review! We are happy to hear that Sharpen is a helpful study tool for you. We hope your semester is going well. If you ever want to reach out to provide product feedback, you can always email us at hello@studysharpen.com.

Is good even though in high school

I can find topics that are very simple if not identical to my high school classes. While this is great and all I don’t really enjoy is the buy options. I would appreciate if there were adds instead but less hidden features. Other then my non important complaints this app seems to be good so far and I have already learned a bit about biology. Recommend.

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Co_co💕

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for sharing your review! We hope your semester is going well. If you want to share more feedback about Sharpen- what you liked and what we can do better- you can email us at hello@studysharpen.com :)

Good, but needs more genres!

I really like this app, especially as a visual learner, but I can only use it for fun, outside-of-school education because it doesn’t include any books I use as a theatre/acting major. Even my other artistic hobbies aren’t included, because there’s ONE book under the art genre - and it’s a very generalized music book.
Like I said I still enjoy it, it’s really cool to be able to learn psychology and biology on my own, but pleeeaasseee add some options for artists and performers!! I promise, so many people in art school would love it!!

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LexiD811

a year ago

Response from developer

Hey Lexi, thanks for writing! We're excited to see the good feedback. We add new titles each semester, so keep checking down the line and hopefully we'll have more content for you! You can email us at hello@studysharpen.com and request specific titles.

Just downloaded, now disappointed

I saw the app advertised on the back of my textbook and thought of how much it would benefit me since I am taking 3 science heavy classes. I downloaded and signed up choosing the subjects I thought would be beneficial to me. I was surprised not see chemistry under the “Sciences” tab.

But anyway, I proceeded but like others are saying, I’m stuck on the cursed Tim video. I would love if you guys would work to fix this because I see the potential of it being the next big thing for learners of all ages.

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*keshnith*

a year ago

Response from developer

Hey, thanks for writing. We're bummed to hear this :( We're on it to troubleshoot. If you have time, please send us more details about what happened. You can email us at hello@studysharpen.com. We're working to get this right!

Nothing but issues so far

I’ve only had this app for 12 hours, and it’s force closed on me more times than I can count. And when it doesn’t force close, I can get through ONE section (one done two in a row once), before I get the dreaded loading wheel of doom and can’t move on until *I* force close the app. And every time it closes, I have to log in again, because my credentials aren’t saved.

This isn’t conducive to effective study time at all.

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SilvyrRyan

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for writing- we're sorry to hear this. We released an app update to address technical issues. Please try updating and let us know if you still experience any issues. You can email us at hello@studysharpen.com.