# Inkling — user reviews > 114 indexed App Store user reviews of Inkling by Inkling Systems, Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 2,427 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inkling/id923550071/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inkling/id923550071.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,950 · 4★ 139 · 3★ 68 · 2★ 50 · 1★ 220 ## What do users think of Inkling? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🤩 Great application - 👍 Very informative and educational - 💯 Awesome! **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unstable - 🤔 Complicated and difficult to use - 🤯 Terrible app, doesn't work properly - 😤 Frustrating and glitchy - 🔍 Can't find last reading position - 🔌 Drains battery quickly **Commonly reported bugs** - Content not loading properly - Frequent crashes and freezes - Login issues and invalid credentials - Incompatibility with older devices - Downloading problems and slow performance **Most requested features** - Add bookmark functionality - Improve highlighting and note-taking - Implement dark mode - Add text-to-speech option - Enhance navigation and user experience ## Newest reviews (18 of 114) ### 2/5 — I am not able to use this app. It doesn’t let to see the content without updating the app. *2025-09-29, version 10.2.1* And it doesn’t allow to update the app for not latest IOS version. So to be able use this app you need to have the latest gadgets. Ridiculous. ### 2/5 — Needs a dark mode *2025-03-06, version 10.3.1* Needs a dark mode ### 2/5 — Leaving critical ebook functions *2025-01-15, version 10.3.1* The inkling app consistently returns me to the table of contents page of the one ebook that I have each time I open the app. To make matters worse, all the pages seem to already be set to favorited (star in the upper right is already set to ‘gold’ color). I suppose this doesn’t matter too much, since I don’t see a way to see what I have bookmarked. With these two critical issues, I find the app difficult to use and end up going to use the web version on my computer instead. Please, if a developer sees this, correct the behavior so the app remembers where I last left off reading in the app and check in on that bookmark function. For what it’s worth, I’m reading the ServiceNow Vancouver book. ### 4/5 — Updated review *2024-11-05, version 10.3.1* Issues resolved ### 3/5 — Problems *2024-10-26, version 10.3.1* Love that I have inkling for H &R block on my iPad But when I in the books I need to read, the table of contents shows up but when I go into different chapters nothing Not sure if you are have issues Thanks for some feedback ### 2/5 — Bug in app *2024-10-24, version 10.3.1* There is a bug in the app when attempting to highlight text. Tap and hold a word to bring up the highlight option, then use the iPad controls to expand what text you want to highlight, then tap highlight. Only the initial word that was selected from the tap/hold is highlighted. Not the entire text you want to highlight. ### 1/5 — Waste of my time *2024-10-21, version 10.3.1* I seriously f’ing HATE this app! But I’m stuck using it for a course. It wastes so much of my time every freakin time I have to go into, and that’s when it even feels like loading the content at all. And seriously, would it kill you to add a dedicated bookmark function or at the very least, return to the last page viewed when going back into a file?! ### 1/5 — Complicated *2024-10-21* Very complicated ### 1/5 — preparing entity 201 s corp *2024-10-13, version 10.3.1* You should be able to search for this a bring up course book ### 2/5 — Settings *2024-10-05, version 10.3.1* There is no audio options, the font size can not be adjusted ### 2/5 — Glitchy and unusable essential functions *2024-09-15, version 10.3.1* This is literally the worst ebook Ive ever had to use. If your using an iPad, mobile device, or other tablet good luck highlighting anything without a 2 minute struggle every time. ### 1/5 — It doesn’t working *2024-09-14, version 10.3.1* I am not happy with this app, because it doesn’t working on ipad but it’s work on mobile. ### 1/5 — Books will not load *2024-08-18, version 10.3.1* This is the second time in 2 days that I have opened inkling and none of the books will load I have to delete the app and reload which is very frustrating ### 1/5 — Shows out of date content *2024-08-02, version 10.3.1* I continue to have an issue where the content I see is out of date on my iPad. On my Samsung phone the content is different and up to date. I don’t see any indication that an update is available and cannot find an intuitive way to delete downloaded content so I can download it again. This makes the Inkling app on my iPad very frustrating to use. ### 1/5 — Not happy *2024-04-29, version 10.2.1* I don’t like that I have to download anything I want to look at. Why can’t it just open so I can read it? ### 1/5 — doesn’t work *2024-04-16, version 10.1.5* just stuck on the spinning loading icon. if it’s downloading something, it’s taking way too long ### 2/5 — Lacking basic features *2024-03-24, version 10.1.4* - does not remember last open position, you need to remember where you left off - does not favourite offline version, have to wait for cloud version to load Fix them please ### 2/5 — Highlighting, notetaking, navigation are very limited *2024-03-02, version 10.1.3* Highlighting is limited to one word. With limited space for notes no free form notetaking is available except in a small field. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ditto - Terrible App *2025-12-14, version 10.2.1* Only got it to read course documentation, while I followed along doing the labs on my PC. Then they updated the Inkling app, so it only worked on new iPads. Am not buying a new iPad just to read documentation. My old iPad was fine. ### 1/5 — Pages Not Loading *2025-10-18* I keep open the app for half hour still pages not Loading ### 1/5 — Worst reading app *2025-06-09* Does not save your reading progression and constantly ask for your accesses ### 1/5 — Can’t Access Training *2025-05-30, version 10.3.1* Will not load any training courses. For years now. ### 1/5 — Difficult to work with *2025-03-30, version 10.3.1* This app seems more concerned with preventing access to documents than facilitating training. I try to download the documents I am entitled to and I just get the spinning wheel, no feedback whatsoever. I try to view the documents and I get a table of contents page with no content. I can view things ok on my Mac, but nothing on my iPhone. ### 1/5 — Blank nothing , no text *2025-03-03, version 10.3.1* It’s blank, no text showing ### 1/5 — Books do not load *2025-01-06, version 10.3.1* Why do my books not load ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-11-27, version 10.3.1* I’m supposed to be using Inkling to do my Tax Course, and no matter what I try, it doesn’t load anything more than the course title. ### 1/5 — Not a book app experience *2024-10-26* I used to access bookshelf app for servicenow, it was fast and available immediately for reference like a proper book reading app. Now this app feels like a downgrade, loading slow even offline versions ### 1/5 — I hate it *2024-10-24, version 10.3.1* I hate it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Tax professional *2025-02-21, version 10.3.1* Great application ### 5/5 — Bookmark needed *2024-11-19, version 10.3.1* Please add a bookmark ### 5/5 — Good training guide. Very informative. *2023-04-20, version 9.2.1* Would love some professional development or a way to advance somehow. Even an employee review would be nice. ### 5/5 — Very insightful *2023-01-31, version 9.1.1* Very informative background and detailed information ### 5/5 — Love it *2022-11-18, version 8.4.1* Works when and where I need it ### 5/5 — Inkling downloading S L O W …… *2022-09-23, version 8.3.3* I have tried on several occasions to download a book I am to take classes and the downloading just keeps crashing. I even reinstalled the program. Nada nothing zip. ### 5/5 — Fantabulous! *2022-04-25, version 8.2.1* Great App. Very informative and educational. Kudos! ### 5/5 — Muy buena *2021-12-13, version 7.4.2* Muy buena ### 5/5 — H&r tax course *2021-11-30, version 7.4.2* I like that course! How simple to work with! ### 5/5 — Rmuli *2021-09-13, version 7.3.2* Awesome! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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