HotLunch.com School Software User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.7% of reviews
Neutral6.8% of reviews
Negative experience84.5% of reviews

~ Based on 206 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is HotLunch.com School Software Safe?

HotLunch.com School Software appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for HotLunch.com School Software is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 7,047 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,047 App Store ratings for HotLunch.com School Software.

Is HotLunch.com School Software Legit?

HotLunch.com School Software appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for HotLunch.com School Software is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Checkout process broken

Please fix the checkout process. It makes zero sense. There are so many dead ends that go nowhere, loop you around back to the menu when you think you’ve paid. It makes no sense.

Horrible

In the age of AI, i do not understand why an app this bad exists.

Not User Friendly

You need a degree astrophysics to navigate this platform. Ordering is simple, but even the simple act of submitting payment takes entirely too long; from having to open up date with each child listed just to insure the order is correct-fields should already be “open”, but way more concisely. Ex, child’s name, below that one line that represents each day and item(s) ordered, “Oct 2: 1 slice pizza, French fries, etc.
The words, “Quick Pay” should just be “Pay”, people are used to just seeing an option to pay, it’s confusing especially for new users of the app.
There should be a way to modify an order after it has been paid/processed. Make it a one step process, Modify/Cancel order
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Good not great

Very handy to order kids hot lunches, however I do wish there was a couple notifications. 1. A yearly reminder in September upon your first school year order to revise your child’s class 2. I really really wish there was a notification for when the next months menu is available. We have to order a week in advance and my youngest is not pleased when I miss that 7 day window due to not checking daily towards the end of the month.
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Terrible App

This is the worse app for schools lunch payment. Constant bugs, having to delete and reinstall, update operating system and still does not work.

Terrible app

The software is antiquated. You never get a confirmation of payment and the app crashes constantly.

Glitches

Inconsistent, often glitches,

L'appli ne fonctionne pas

L'application ne fonctionne pas pour moi. Je dois utiliser le site web car l'appli me dit toujours "erreur!" quand j'essaie d'avancer plus loin...

Crashes a lot

App crashes a lot and makes you relogin and Face ID doesn’t work.

Terrible

I can re bills this app for you from teach, the user experience is ABSOLUTELY terrible

Doesn’t Work

App only provides school-facing domain option and doesn’t allow user to login.

Android

Create app for android

Seriously sucks

It should be so much better. Ordering takes an eternity due to poor navigation organization

Schools please don’t use this

Payment method is garbage, they take a 3.5% charge for every transaction and don’t let you store any card information or use PayPal as an alternative

Not intuitive

We used a different lunch app in the past that clearly laid out which restaurants serviced which days- they repeated throughout the school year. For example, every Tuesday was Chick-Fil-A. I could very quickly and easily go in to the calendar, click on Tuesday, choose an order for kid #1, and click “repeat weekly” and pay for it. All in one quick transaction. This does not appear to be possible with ahotlunch. Or at least, if it is possible, I haven’t been able to figure that out after 20 minutes of wrestling with the app and website.
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Very confusing

Not intuitive, too many steps to accomplish basic things. Inconsistent with payment capabilities across different users. Avoided this app like the plague all year long.

Needs improvements

Frequent crashes and significant lagging

Torture

An insufferable experience. my kids could vibecode a better app.

Non-functional

This app is so glitchy and lacking in logical or intuitive features as to be worse than useless. It’s extremely frustrating to the point that it’s a leading reason in me now packing my kids lunches.

Hate this app!

This app is very confusing and not easy to use especially if you have 2 kids. It dose not show your balance for each kid so you never know how much money to add.