# ESS 45 Zebra — user reviews > 172 indexed App Store user reviews of ESS 45 Zebra by Reflexis Systems Inc, rated 1.60/5 from 386 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ess-45-zebra/id1531525719/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ess-45-zebra/id1531525719.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 41 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 298 ## What do users think of ESS 45 Zebra? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Works well - 👍 Clean and easy to use interface - 🚀 Efficient **Cons** - 🐛 Constantly logs out - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 Inaccurate schedule display - 🐛 Unable to log in - 🐛 Doesn't sync with calendar - 🐛 Can't request time off **Commonly reported bugs** - Constant login issues - Time card not working - Schedule not displaying correctly - Inability to request time off **Most requested features** - Add Face ID/Biometric login - Improve calendar sync - Allow viewing of coworker schedules - Streamline time off request process ## Newest reviews (20 of 172) ### 2/5 — Glitches and Run Slow *2026-07-19* Although this app has many options and features to choose from it runs very slow. I have difficulties finding work for scheduling. I always get notified about available shifts for the same week however, one minute the app shows availability next minute it doesn’t show (happens back & forth). This app needs a serious update. ### 3/5 — Personalization feature *2026-05-28* I love this app! Honestly, I haven’t had many issues. Sure, it logs me out sometimes, but I always press the “keep me logged in” button, and all I have to do is press two buttons to log back in. However, I am upset about the recent update because the personalization features for adding your own photo don’t work anymore. Please fix it!!! I loved that feature 😭 If it gets fixed, I will gladly change this to a 5-star review. Thank you! ### 3/5 — It’s ok *2025-11-22, version 451.19.1* I wish there was a way I could add my shifts to my phone calendar ### 1/5 — TERRIBLE *2025-11-11, version 451.19.1* Okay so it’s telling me my password expired or what not. Then I re log in and all, and it brings me to a QR scanning page. It does this at some random day. I tried everything. ### 1/5 — Total trash *2025-11-05, version 451.19.0* Have to use this for work purposes mostly for viewing shifts. It is by far the most buggy app I have on my phone. Regularly unable to log in with no details of what the issue is. Badly coded, how did this garbage pass review to get onto the App Store ### 2/5 — Buffering *2025-10-29, version 451.19.0* The app keeps buffering & won’t allow me to log in. It was working perfectly fine up until today. ### 1/5 — Fix asap *2025-10-29, version 451.19.0* Fix your app it breaks down 4 times a week ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-10-23, version 451.19.0* Constantly can’t login because of problems ### 1/5 — Log In Difficulties *2025-10-15, version 451.18.4* ESS 45 Zebra makes scheduling much harder than it should be. Biometric scans don’t work and just freeze the app. Can’t log in even if I know for a fact my username and password are both correct. Website works alright though. ### 1/5 — Ima a Burlington employee I can’t even see my schedule *2025-10-14, version 451.18.4* Horrible ### 1/5 — What ? *2025-10-13, version 451.18.4* Just won’t work ### 1/5 — Does what it wants to *2025-10-12* This app has a mind of its own. It constantly adds the wrong times and days to my calendar. Mostly wrong times. Ex: 2:30 PM - 10:30 PM will be added to my calendar as AM not PM. It randomly omits days from my schedule also. There’s almost nothing worse than not showing up on day that I am indeed scheduled to work. ### 1/5 — Very hard to use *2025-10-11, version 451.18.4* Can’t change password ### 1/5 — The worst *2025-10-10, version 451.18.4* I need help with the time card I can’t track my hours please help me ### 3/5 — Please fix it, thx *2025-10-05, version 451.18.3* The app always logs out and can’t sync the calendar. ### 1/5 — Rubbish would be a compliment :-( *2025-09-14, version 451.18.1* SESSION EXPIRED SESSION EXPIRED SESSION EXPIRED No biometrics. Add this feature ASAP. Obsessed with security when it contains no sensitive information that I’m aware of. Even my banking app lets me log in with face scan or fingerprint. If “Zero Stars” was an option, that’s what it would get. IT’S C**P. No other way to describe it. Complete rewrite needed URGENTLY. ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2025-09-12, version 451.18.1* Worst app of my entire life slow and stupid ### 1/5 — Necessary evil… *2025-09-06* If you’re downloading this app, then chances are you have no choice as your workplace requires it. And for that reason, there is no incentive for developers to fix the myriad issues that plague this failure of a high school project. I’m not going to list all the issues and ways this app will complicate what should be a simple operation. It is simply to lowest common denominator; a cheap option for a workplace that requires very little investment from a company. ### 1/5 — Awful apps very bad *2025-09-04, version 451.18.1* This app is not user friendly. We still prefer ESS 1 . Not this stupid ESS45. ### 1/5 — Poor layout for Morrisons *2025-09-03, version 451.18.1* Stick to old layout, no one asked for a change ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Whole weeks missing *2026-06-07* App is meant to show three to four weeks of schedules. Whole weeks often are missing, saying “schedule not published for this week”. However the week following the missing week shows up, so why is this and why does it keep happening? Zebra appear to only be able to produce limited, clunky interfaces that don’t work efficiently or effectively ### 1/5 — Work??? *2026-03-08* Complete and utter chaos this does not work in any shape or form o have been working with this company for 25 years and you still cannot come up with a simple solution for people to get their timetable right how are we supposed to know when we are supposed to be in work????? ### 1/5 — This app sucks. *2026-02-12, version 451.20.1* This app is not intuitive at all. whoever designed this app has never worked a non 9-5 job a day in their life. adjusting your availability is so much harder than it should be. ### 1/5 — Painful *2026-02-10* I find the auto logging out every. Single. Day. Genuinely infruiating. Is it really necessary? Beyond that I do like the clocking in and out easy. Once I wrapped my mind around the bizzarre holiday system, it's alright. Just please, do something about the logging out! ### 1/5 — This App is HORRIBLE *2026-01-18* This app is required for my job and it functions poorly and inconsistently in a number of ways. It will constantly log you out, store associates are unable to see the schedule for the week for the whole team, just their own, and the interface is not visually appealing. The picture for the app is literally an empty contact photo like it’s a new Facebook account or something. Whoever did this certainly did it quickly, and without much care. ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-12-22, version 451.19.1* Who the heck made this useless app and actually had companies use it and be ok with it! This is a basic broken and horrible app that never works and every update breaks or removes something useful! ### 1/5 — Terrible app. Remove this from the store *2025-12-11* I’ve been trying to get work at a retail store, but occasionally I would try to log into the app and it will say an error has occurred. I’ve tried everything, and my old job’s HR system was incredibly slow and I would like to say, unprofessional. I don’t know how y’all cooperate with this app, there’s better systems out there. ### 1/5 — This app gets worse and worse *2025-11-29, version 451.19.1* ESS 45 always has had an issue with constantly logging users out of the app, but over the last month or two it’s got even worse. Really annoying and real waste of time. ### 1/5 — No Help At All *2025-11-19* I literally just started my new job and they use this app for scheduling. After two days of using it the app won’t even open for me anymore. It simply says “unconditional drop overload” which literally doesn’t tell me anything. I’ve tried location the customer support, software support, and FAQ pages of both the app itself and the parent company and all of the links lead to error pages. Simple ridiculous considering how many companies utilize this service and other services that the parent company provides. ### 1/5 — Absolutely awful and non functional *2025-11-16* The app used to work fine. I used to be able to submit my time I used to be able to do a lot of things now I can do none of those things. All I can do is just look to see when I’m scheduled and nothing else the main purpose of this app is for me to submit my time and I can no longer do that fix this ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — No issues *2025-03-31* I haven’t had any issues with the app however I do wish their Face ID feature was better. Sometimes it also logs you out. ### 5/5 — Love it *2024-06-22* It’s so much better then ess 41. Not sure why everyone’s having so many problems. Probably just needs consistent bug fixes. ### 5/5 — Don’t trust the haters… this app is the bomb dot com *2024-04-24, version 451.3.20240313* Wow ### 5/5 — Visit up for the day or *2023-10-29* But it was good for us ### 5/5 — We can *2023-10-18* I have ### 5/5 — I don’t *2023-10-18* We are ### 5/5 — We are *2023-10-15* I will be ### 5/5 — I have *2023-10-15* We are ### 5/5 — so many problems!!! *2023-09-15* Every single time I try to log in it keeps popping up with an error message saying that my request cannot be processed. Can’t keep track of scheduling nor the app itself. Just waaayyy too many bugs & problems for one app alone. ### 5/5 — Really Easy To Use *2023-08-24* App is very easy to use and layout is very clean and easy to understand!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*