It’s not bad
The app isn’t bad I guess but it’s kind of confusing..
Slower than a decapitated chicken trying to write
Arbor is hell itself in an app, its so slow that by the time it successfully opened my timetable so I could check my next lesson, the lesson had already finished, Arbor is punishment renamed as help and torture to all who use it.
The arbor website is so extremely difficult to navigate on mobile and on computer is clunky and poorly organised and struggles to load a simple assignments list.
The app is even worse, the arbor website and app accounts aren’t even linked as it says my arbor account isn’t registered on the app.
WHY ARBOR WHY
Not to mention the wrong information, I’ll
open my timetable to see my classes and it will tell me I have a pastoral session, I’ll check again and I won’t. I checked my maths, it’s not even the correct maths class.
Arbor is more frustrating that a small child crying non stop on a 67 hour plane ride.
The amount of times i have to change my password is diabolical. I think Shakespeare has written plays less times than i’ve had to re write my ever-changing password.
Mr beast hasn’t given the amount of money I’d need to be payed to use arbor by choice.
Arbor is a disgrace to every app out there, it’s embarrassing it has a place in the app-store.
My sincerest apologies for all who have to use the app.
Please switch back to Edu-link.
The arbor website is so extremely difficult to navigate on mobile and on computer is clunky and poorly organised and struggles to load a simple assignments list.
The app is even worse, the arbor website and app accounts aren’t even linked as it says my arbor account isn’t registered on the app.
WHY ARBOR WHY
Not to mention the wrong information, I’ll
open my timetable to see my classes and it will tell me I have a pastoral session, I’ll check again and I won’t. I checked my maths, it’s not even the correct maths class.
Arbor is more frustrating that a small child crying non stop on a 67 hour plane ride.
The amount of times i have to change my password is diabolical. I think Shakespeare has written plays less times than i’ve had to re write my ever-changing password.
Mr beast hasn’t given the amount of money I’d need to be payed to use arbor by choice.
Arbor is a disgrace to every app out there, it’s embarrassing it has a place in the app-store.
My sincerest apologies for all who have to use the app.
Please switch back to Edu-link.
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might aswell just gouge my eyes out
such an annoying app, i relied on it to get to lessons and assignment deadlines then it crashes for 4 months for no reason and doesn’t let me in. horrible app.
Doesnt work
I try to open and it doesn’t work, been like this for a good year now
Terrible
A changed from class charts to this and class charts is much better the app is weird and laggy you can’t submit homework and can’t see when you you got a negative or a positive and who gave you it just a terrible app
Awful.
I can’t even fully review this app as it won’t let me even log in. I think that speaks for itself.
My opinion
It tells me to put my school email in and it’s saying my password is wrong when it’s correct
If arbor was a person it would be a failed Austrian artist turned politician
This god awful app has been switched to by my old school , while I was still there it made me want to sharpen a pencil to stab into my eyeballs . If I could I would take a sledgehammer to data centre where the app data is stored and smash it to bits . To any school considering using this app just know every single student parent and even teachers will forever hate you for it use synergy it’s so much better
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So bad
Wont even let me log in so I’m never able to get onto it asked for help got nothing ..
Horrible
Doesn’t let me submit half my homework. Logs me out and doesn’t let me log back in for ages. Face ID never works. Pure evil.
Worst Student App Ever
If your school is thinking about switching to arbor, it may be too late, this is the worst, laggy-est and broken student app I’ve ever used. And don’t even get me started on the terms and services acceptance button being broken, I can’t even check my timetable because of that.
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Terrible
Actual hell sent
This is the worst student app ever. It has more mental breakdowns then i do in a month, and that’s saying something. Every time i try login an error occurs. It’s so bad yet schools still use it. I’m sorry but WHAT SCHOOL NEEDS A PASSWORD TO ACTUALLY USE THE APP AND THEN IT DOESNT WORK. 1 star it’s so bad spare yourself and don’t get it
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Wasting my time.
It says there is an error and it says I have to log out. I log back in and still says it. I take it to school IT to sort it out and then works. But after a couple of days it stops working again. I have to go during MY break time to sort it. It happens to my school friends a lot. Now, I do not want an AI response to answer this. I want an actual person please.
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Why
Why move from class charts to this arse app don’t even know what to do on it
Hate it
FIX IT!
Amazing
It worked 1 time very good app
This app makes my skin crawl
I hate school enough but this app hardly works i hate it
I hate it.
NO ONE LIKES HOMEWORK!!! That is literally all I have to say.
The Great Arbor Catastrophe
Human history is filled with great tragedies. Empires have fallen. Libraries have burned. Civilizations have collapsed under the weight of their own ambition. Yet none of these ancient disasters quite prepare a student for the uniquely baffling experience of opening Arbor—the application specifically intended to let students access their timetables—only to discover that, somehow, it refuses to let them in.
This is not merely an inconvenience. It is an emotional expedition through the five stages of grief, compressed into approximately thirty seconds. Hope appears when the app icon is tapped. Denial arrives with the loading screen. Anger follows the error message. Bargaining begins with the twentieth attempt to log in. Acceptance eventually comes when one resigns themselves to wandering the school corridors like a medieval explorer searching for the mythical Kingdom of Maths.
Arbor is, in theory, an organizational masterpiece. In practice—at least on days when it decides to rebel—it possesses all the reliability of a chocolate teapot during a heatwave. It promises clarity, schedules, and structure. Instead, it occasionally offers cryptic messages, endless loading circles, and the growing suspicion that the timetable has entered another dimension.
Imagine preparing for school. You wish to know whether your first lesson is English, Physics, or perhaps Physical Education. This should be a question answered in seconds. Instead, Arbor transforms it into an interactive mystery novel. Every refresh is another chapter. Every login attempt is another plot twist. By the end, Sherlock Holmes himself would have given up and simply asked another student.
Of course, this is all tremendously unfair to the app's servers, which are undoubtedly working hard somewhere behind the scenes. But from the perspective of the average sleep-deprived student at 8:25 a.m., the distinction between "temporary technical issue" and "ancient curse placed upon educational software" becomes increasingly difficult to perceive.
Without access to a timetable, the modern student becomes a nomad. Hallways become deserts. Classrooms become hidden temples. Teachers become mysterious NPCs dispensing vague hints such as, "Shouldn't you be somewhere else?"
It is a remarkable achievement that a single missing timetable can produce such existential confusion. One moment you are a productive learner with purpose and direction. The next, you are standing outside the science block wondering whether you actually exist or whether you have become trapped inside a software bug.
To call this "slightly inconvenient" would be like describing a hurricane as "a bit windy." Hyperbole becomes not merely appropriate but practically mandatory.
And yet, despite all this theatrical misery, one must acknowledge reality: Arbor is simply a school management platform, and like any complex software, it occasionally has outages, bugs, or authentication problems. These moments can be deeply frustrating—especially when you're trying to find your timetable—but they are almost certainly the result of technical issues rather than a grand conspiracy against students.
Nevertheless, when you're late, confused, and staring at another login error, it is perfectly understandable if, for a brief moment, you feel as though the app has personally declared war on your morning.
This is not merely an inconvenience. It is an emotional expedition through the five stages of grief, compressed into approximately thirty seconds. Hope appears when the app icon is tapped. Denial arrives with the loading screen. Anger follows the error message. Bargaining begins with the twentieth attempt to log in. Acceptance eventually comes when one resigns themselves to wandering the school corridors like a medieval explorer searching for the mythical Kingdom of Maths.
Arbor is, in theory, an organizational masterpiece. In practice—at least on days when it decides to rebel—it possesses all the reliability of a chocolate teapot during a heatwave. It promises clarity, schedules, and structure. Instead, it occasionally offers cryptic messages, endless loading circles, and the growing suspicion that the timetable has entered another dimension.
Imagine preparing for school. You wish to know whether your first lesson is English, Physics, or perhaps Physical Education. This should be a question answered in seconds. Instead, Arbor transforms it into an interactive mystery novel. Every refresh is another chapter. Every login attempt is another plot twist. By the end, Sherlock Holmes himself would have given up and simply asked another student.
Of course, this is all tremendously unfair to the app's servers, which are undoubtedly working hard somewhere behind the scenes. But from the perspective of the average sleep-deprived student at 8:25 a.m., the distinction between "temporary technical issue" and "ancient curse placed upon educational software" becomes increasingly difficult to perceive.
Without access to a timetable, the modern student becomes a nomad. Hallways become deserts. Classrooms become hidden temples. Teachers become mysterious NPCs dispensing vague hints such as, "Shouldn't you be somewhere else?"
It is a remarkable achievement that a single missing timetable can produce such existential confusion. One moment you are a productive learner with purpose and direction. The next, you are standing outside the science block wondering whether you actually exist or whether you have become trapped inside a software bug.
To call this "slightly inconvenient" would be like describing a hurricane as "a bit windy." Hyperbole becomes not merely appropriate but practically mandatory.
And yet, despite all this theatrical misery, one must acknowledge reality: Arbor is simply a school management platform, and like any complex software, it occasionally has outages, bugs, or authentication problems. These moments can be deeply frustrating—especially when you're trying to find your timetable—but they are almost certainly the result of technical issues rather than a grand conspiracy against students.
Nevertheless, when you're late, confused, and staring at another login error, it is perfectly understandable if, for a brief moment, you feel as though the app has personally declared war on your morning.
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