# Go Outdoors North Carolina — user reviews > 47 indexed App Store user reviews of Go Outdoors North Carolina by Brandt Information Services, LLC, rated 2.70/5 from 134 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/go-outdoors-north-carolina/id6443992281/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/go-outdoors-north-carolina/id6443992281.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 44 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 62 ## What do users think of Go Outdoors North Carolina? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Great app for information - 👍 Easy to tag harvested animal - 👍 Good for learning regulations - 👍 Works great for some users - 👍 Nice update - 👍 Toolkit is nice - 👍 Stores licenses and friends **Cons** - 👎 App is counterintuitive - 👎 Difficult to use - 👎 Login issues - 👎 Not all licenses visible - 👎 Ads make regulations unusable - 👎 Laggy and freezing - 👎 Interface is atrocious - 👎 Optimization issues - 👎 Useless for some features - 👎 Horrible app - 👎 Waste of taxpayer dollars - 👎 Shameful app - 👎 Not for older users - 👎 Unusable without license info - 👎 Buttons hidden - 👎 Data migration issues - 👎 Does not take AMEX - 👎 No actual photo copy of license - 👎 Needs new software - 👎 Abysmal record of mismanagement **Commonly reported bugs** - App closes in landscape mode on iPad - App will not open - App crashes on launch in landscape mode - App will not load on iPad - Cannot load license - Tags not viewable - Tags disappear - Only shows one license - Broken links in regulations - Pop-up ads in regulations - Laggy freezing - Wants to login after login - New update will not load on phone - App glitches out on map - Checkout button won't work - Cannot add lifetime sportsman's license - Cannot see sunrise and sunset - Worried about losing tags after reinstall - Don't have access to tags - Cannot add BGHRC easily - Repeatedly log in - No help videos for license/report card - App won't work for reporting harvest - App freezes when adding license - App freezes when clicking 'Add another license' - App freezes when trying to add a license - Cannot add a license without freezing - App locks up when 'add license' is clicked - App freezes when trying to add license - App freezes when clicking to add license information - Buttons hidden to prevent license renewal **Most requested features** - Ability to see sunrise and sunset - Actual photo copy of license on app - Fix driver's license state field ## Newest reviews (14 of 47) ### 1/5 — Useless *2024-09-01, version 2024.225.0* This app is useless it only gives you one of your licenses and not the whole nine yards. Unless you have to figure out how to add your hippa and big game tags for it also, which is stupid. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-08-13, version 2024.225.0* Quite literally the worst app I have ever used. NCWRC should be ashamed of themselves. Waste of taxpayer dollars. ### 1/5 — Ads make this unusable *2024-06-08, version 2024.221.0* I am doing my part to research the always changing hunting and fishing regulations and now the app has broken links and the ads make the regulations portion completely unusable. Good thing we have lots of southern yellow pines because I’m going back to my printed regulations. Epic failure NC ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2024-05-24, version 2024.221.0* Everytime I click on the regulations for fishing it keeps loading pop up ads. When I close them it sends me back to the home page and I can't read the regulations. My boating and fishing license should provide enough revenue for an ad free app. ### 1/5 — Useless *2024-05-20, version 2024.221.0* Laggy freezing and wants you to login after you login. The whole point of apps is to make access easer not to make it a game of hide and seek while hopefully not lagging out in a freeze up. How about sending me my actual card and tags like I got for the last 30 years. How about sending me a metal card with my lifetime license and automatically sending out my new tags or automatically updating them with out me having to try to navigate this monstrosity of an app that runs like an internet site not set up for a phone do I do not have to zoom all the way in to read it. ### 2/5 — Allen Rouse *2024-04-06, version 2024.221.0* Old version worked fine. New update will not load on my phone. I deleted the app and now it still will not load. The app needed fixing by the state because it was working with no problem and that wasn’t good enough. ### 1/5 — Freezes *2023-12-31, version 2023.218.4* Trying to checkout with my hip certification and big game tags but the checkout button literally won't work. Glad I wasn't in a pinch and needing to tag something. Useless app. ### 1/5 — Shameful *2023-12-14, version 2023.218.4* NC wildlife and game should be shamed of their self. How did they expect older men and women that don’t even have smart phones to be forced to go to this website and download an app when they don’t even know what app is ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2023-11-06, version 2023.218.4* I cannot add my lifetime sportsman’s license to this app and there is no links to help you or show you how to operate the app so it’s basically useless. Would give a 0 out of 5 stars but that’s not an option. ### 3/5 — Buying license *2023-10-05, version 2023.218.3* They have it all but try to cram other crap to buy and on the fishing license.on a phone there’s no room at bottom on your phone to click buy it.they have 4 other things to click on for you to give your whole paycheck to someone else.it’s pitiful just like advertising comes first these days ### 1/5 — Trash app *2023-09-23, version 2023.218.3* Can’t find half of what I’m looking for in the app, not to mention you can’t add your BGHRC (managed to do that by accident) easily. Nothing is easy and for the older hunters this will be a nightmare. You have to repeatedly log in every time you click something new. Haven’t found any help videos for how to get your license and report card loaded. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time *2023-09-21* Don’t waste your time. Just do everything on the computer. This is the most buggy app I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. Leave it to the State of North Carolina to approve this sorry piece of crap ### 2/5 — Doesn’t open, says you need update, didn’t work *2023-09-16, version 2023.218.3* It’s awesome when you need to report a harvest and the app won’t work. I don’t have a paper license so out of pocket on my hunting license number. This app is trash. Always print your license. I was dumb to trust the app ### 1/5 — App Freezing *2023-09-14, version 2023.218.2* The app freezes when you try to add a license, really it’s good for nothing without your license information? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-06-15, version 2026.250.0* Makes you call customer support even though all my info is valid and in the system. ### 1/5 — Junk *2026-03-07, version 2025.242.2* Will not even open up after several tries and removing app and reloading does not work. JUNK! ### 1/5 — Junk *2026-02-27, version 2025.242.2* This is probably the worst app I have ever used. Completely counterintuitive. This app is 20 times more difficult than the previous system (ARVIN). Be prepared to log in 500 times if you want multiple items. ### 1/5 — Crash’s on launch *2025-12-15, version 2025.242.2* been trying to use on my iPad in landscape mode to read through the regulations, but it crashes as soon as it is launched. Works in portrait mode. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2025-11-18, version 2025.242.2* The app works with my iPhone but will not load on my iPad. Why? Same iOS 26.1 but will not load on the iPad. ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-09-27, version 2025.236.0* Won’t allow me to load my license. What’s the point? ### 1/5 — The interface is awful *2025-01-23, version 2024.231.2* The user interface for this app is atrocious. It has many issues with optimization. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work! *2024-12-14, version 2024.231.0* Want to renew my fishing license so I downloaded this app, but, it didn’t work at all! Going to deleted it by the way! ### 1/5 — Unable to harvest report *2024-10-20, version 2024.228.0* Tags are not viewable, cannot be reported through app ### 1/5 — Tags *2024-09-13, version 2024.228.0* Was a great app! Having terrible luck with tags this year. One day they are there the next day they are gone!!! Please fix the App! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-10-17, version 2023.218.4* I first was worried about this app but I am very pleased with it ### 5/5 — Works great!! *2023-08-19, version 2023.218.1* NC Wildlife keeping up with the times is great. ### 5/5 — Works great and like the weather/tide info *2023-07-06, version 2023.218.0* Just installed and added my license without any issues. Seems to work quick and easy. Nice update. ### 5/5 — Great application *2023-07-02, version 2023.218.0* Just tried it bought my licenses and put in for special hunt. No problem very easy ### 5/5 — Great app! *2023-07-01, version 2023.218.0* Great App! Can store my licenses and my friends. The toolkit is nice. It has feeding periods and sunrise /sunset times. ### 4/5 — App is actually decent *2023-11-16, version 2023.218.4* Honestly, most of the people giving it 1-star have not given the app a true chance. It’s still fairly new and launched in July, so yes there’s room to improve but give it some time. Also, you can call Go Outdoors and ask for a walkthrough if you’re having difficulty. They are more than welcome to help their customers and make it easier to navigate. If something isn’t clear enough then usually you would call or look around for help. This isn’t anything different - just ask for help. ### 4/5 — Update *2023-10-17, version 2023.218.4* Even though my app has updated I still can not see the sunrise and sunset. I love the app for many reasons as it is easy to tag a harvested animal. I can always look at the sunrise and sunset on the weather app. Just would be nice to use on the app as well. I’m worried if I uninstall and redownload the app I will not be able to put my stuff back up there as I have seen in previous reviews and I won’t be able to access the rest of my tags. Other then that, I love it. Very easy to direct through and very straight forward. A lot of information for some one willing to learn the regulations ### 4/5 — Great app *2023-10-16, version 2023.218.4* I really enjoy the app for the information you can get. It’s a great thing to click through in the tree stand. The one complaint I have is that you don’t have access to your tags. It would be excellent to be able to reference the tag numbers when reporting a harvest. ### 3/5 — Reporting a bug *2026-06-11, version 2026.247.0* I could not find a way to report a bug with this app besides this approach. When opening this app on an iPad in landscape mode, the app immediately closes. I can open it fine in portrait mode. My iPad is an iPad Air 13" with the latest updates to the OS applied. I did try to uninstall and reinstall this app to resolve this issue, which did not work. ### 3/5 — Very helpful app but extremely glitchy *2024-01-01, version 2023.218.4* This app has helped me numerous times and it’s a great addition for any outdoorsman to have it just glitches out a lot when you start using the map and you have to restart the app which can be annoying if you were close to pinpointing a location or if you had a lot of filters on you have to go and re apply them. But solid app 6/10 would be a 10/10 if they can just fix the glitching and freezing on the maps. --- *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 2026-09-08.*