# Big Ideas Math — user reviews

> 72 indexed App Store user reviews of Big Ideas Math by Big Ideas Learning, LLC, rated 1.70/5 from 356 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/big-ideas-math/id919472859.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 45 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 282

## What do users think of Big Ideas Math?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- ✍️ Ability to write and annotate on pages
- 📚 Access to textbooks on mobile device
- 🎓 Useful for homework and learning
- 💻 Lightweight alternative to physical books

**Cons**

- 🔐 Persistent login and authentication issues
- ⏱️ Extremely slow loading and syncing times
- 🔄 App resets when switching between apps
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ❌ Missing homework assignment functionality
- 🖥️ Limited features compared to website version
- 📱 Complicated and unintuitive interface
- 🔧 Glitchy annotation and zoom features
- 📖 Book won't open without syncing
- 🎯 Poor pedagogical design and learning support

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Login fails with error 403 when using Clever
- Cannot register new accounts, only login option available
- Book requires constant syncing and still won't open
- App crashes when opening books
- Loading screen spins indefinitely
- Book resets to 'finalizing' state when app is backgrounded
- Table of Contents doesn't respond to taps
- One-page mode breaks page slider and selector
- Video tutorials display blank grey screen
- Text and images overlap in layout
- Annotation tools are buggy
- Zoom functionality is unreliable

**Most requested features**

- Add homework assignment functionality to app
- Implement persistent session when switching apps
- Add success indicators (ding sound) for correct answers
- Improve video tutorial accessibility
- Add search functionality for other textbooks
- Provide web version access from mobile
- Add teacher's edition as app
- Improve layout and fix text overlapping issues
- Add progress tracking and analytics
- Support account registration in addition to login

## Newest reviews (17 of 72)

### 1/5 — I’m an Algebra 2 teacher, and I hate this app.

*2021-08-28, version 2.6.1*

Okay. I have a lot to say. 
1. The app doesn’t connect to homework
2. No resources like website.
3. The app only has the Spanish version available for my students (I don’t even teach any Spanish students)
4. Not only do you have to download the app, you then have to download the book. 
5. You can’t search other textbooks to add to your library. 

Why? For a company that apparently wants to provide resources to students and make it accessible, why do you make it impossible. The vast majority of people have only cell phones, fewer have a tablet or laptop available also. 

I knew I disliked this book due to the order but man, you guys really sealed the deal by having a difficult system to use for student AND teachers alike. Way to be difficult guys.

### 1/5 — Trash hate it

*2021-08-26, version 2.6.1*

My kid is not learning

### 1/5 — Horrid

*2021-08-24, version 2.6.1*

I wake at 6 am and come to school for what?!?? This app not to work!

### 1/5 — Worse than khan academy in every way

*2021-08-23, version 2.6.1*

Like seriously just add like a ding or something when you get the problem right. :(

### 1/5 — aoemeana

*2021-05-04, version 2.6.1*

It wouldn’t let me sign up. So annoying. 
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### 1/5 — Horrible program, would not recommend to anyone, questions are horrible

*2021-02-12, version 2.6.1*

terrible, do not bye, the questions are really bad

### 1/5 — Awful

*2021-02-09, version 2.6.1*

I would rate it. A -20 but that’s not a number for the earring system

### 1/5 — Let me tell you a story, trust me, you’ll like this one

*2021-02-05, version 2.6.1*

Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Delian. The king there had two sons, and after his sudden dismise, the oldest son became the ruler. However, the youngest son soon realized something was amiss. It was then that he realized, his father had been murdered! After many adventures and such, he can upon the conclusion that his older brother had done it. He then ran to the kingdoms resident magician and told him of his findings. The magician then had the oldest son thrown in jail and tortured for the rest of his life. One torture device stretched his limbs as far as they could go and then some. One device dropped water on his forehead at random intervals, slowly driving him insane. And then there was THE device. The only one that he truly feared. It was called a phone and on it was this app.
 Day after day he would be forced to open it and stare into the dark abyss that was the loading screen. He would be forced to try countless variations of emails and passcodes only to end up staring in the face of red error codes. He became mad. In this being both crazy and frustrated. This had only lasted a month and yet he already wished himself dead. Then for one miraculous moment, he saw a glimpse of the forbidden world. A one filled with textbooks and math help videos. Alas, it was not to be. For as quick as it had appeared, it was gone, a new error code appearing in its place. Unfortunately this drove the once-king over the edge and he threw the phone against the wall. Over and over again. Until the phone screen lit up no more. 
Now reader, I have a sad ending to a sad story to tell you. For the oldest son was not a king, but he is me. There was no actual torture involved and my father is not a king but a very alive kind old man. And this app, oh how I wish to tell you it was an element of my imagination, is very real. For it lives in infamy, forever existing to torture the innocent students of this generation. 
Thank you and The End.

### 1/5 — Don’t help

*2021-01-19, version 2.6.1*

I’m a student and the layout is very complicated and not fun at all

### 1/5 — Eat my shorts

*2021-01-15, version 2.6.1*

Disappointing I expected more you little freak

### 1/5 — Completely useless

*2020-12-08, version 2.6.1*

Doesn’t even explain why you got a problem wrong just gives you the answer
Would give 0 stars if possible

### 1/5 — なぜ

*2020-10-29, version 2.4*

なぜ宿題ができないの？

### 1/5 — No, just no

*2020-10-19, version 2.4*

Won’t let me sign in and my teacher says my assignment is late because the stupid thing won’t let me sign in.

### 1/5 — 𝕍𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕒𝕚 𝕓𝕠𝕚

*2020-09-28, version 2.4*

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### 1/5 — I no like it

*2020-09-28, version 2.4*

I no like it because it’s bad. ( I’ve only had it for a minute though)

### 1/5 — No

*2020-09-23, version 2.4*

gave me depression

### 1/5 — Math

*2020-09-01, version 2.4*

Haven’t gotten to use it yet but it’s math so I hate it

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — No HW

*2025-12-07, version 2.7*

Okay so I download this app so I can get my HW done on my phone but I only have the books where is the HW?!

### 1/5 — Horrible

*2025-09-22, version 2.7*

Not good worst app I have ever used.

### 1/5 — Terrible app

*2025-08-25, version 2.7*

If you have it open to a page and then go to a different window, you need to reload the entire book which takes like 30 seconds to load. Annotation and zooming in is very buggy. :(

### 1/5 — :(

*2024-10-07, version 2.7*

I couldn’t sign in

### 1/5 — Can’t sync or open book

*2024-10-07, version 2.7*

After I download the required book, it keeps telling me it needs to sync before I can open it. I hit the sync button in the top right corner of the app and it reloads and still gives me the same needs to sync message.

### 1/5 — Do not recommend

*2024-04-30, version 2.7*

1. very boring
2. Doesn’t help me learn
3. The books don’t help you learn
You might as well give me a dictionary and tell me to learn math

### 1/5 — Can’t register an account

*2022-12-19, version 2.7*

I just downloaded big ideas math on my phone and I can’t even register an account it only says I can log in???

### 1/5 — Five Stars        ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

*2022-12-03, version 2.7*

Five stars                                                   Doesn’t let me sign in                               Would fail again

### 1/5 — 0 Star App

*2022-03-20, version 2.6.1*

If there was a way to give this horrible app zero stars, I would definitely give it that.

### 1/5 — Very bad

*2021-09-09, version 2.6.1*

Bad

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — AMAZING!!

*2026-01-17, version 2.7*

The only thing I would fix is that when you switch apps but then come back to it, it resets everything, but I’ve been using this for my homework, and it is very good, I would recommend this to others :) NICE WORK!!

### 5/5 — Erm.

*2024-09-28, version 2.7*

Where's the "sign in" button? I'm giving five stars because I use this app at my school and it is good but when I try to get it on here, again, no sign on button. Fix pls and ty.

### 5/5 — Definitely 5 stars

*2020-01-07, version 2.4*

It didn’t let me log in so I guess I don’t have to do math for this next semester. Thank you for making my life easier. 10/10 will rate again.

### 5/5 — Math

*2019-05-08, version 2.2.2*

It has math textbooks and it is not to heavy! Eat some candy!!!!!!!

### 5/5 — Why

*2018-11-29*

I did everything I could to login

### 5/5 — I don’t see any real problem here.

*2018-10-09*

All of these reviews have bad ratings, but I think it’s ok overall.

### 4/5 — Nice app!

*2025-04-24, version 2.7*

Big ideas math is good. But it is kind of hard to log in. It is very good in learning and I like that you can write in the pages.

### 4/5 — it’s somewhat good

*2019-02-06*

it’s a good app i guess since we’re not allowed to take our geometry books home, but quIT FREAKING FINALIZING THE BOOK EVERY 10 SECONDS. I have homework to do and can’t be waiting around for the dang book to finalize or whatever.

### 4/5 — It’s good enough

*2018-12-03*

It is an ok app, I just feel like they could make the layout a little better. There are many points where the words overlap other words or pictures, but other than that it’s fine.

### 3/5 — 👍🏻

*2019-11-25, version 2.2.2*

It does what it needs to do. That’s that.

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