# ManageBac — user reviews > 349 indexed App Store user reviews of ManageBac by Faria Education Limited, rated 4.10/5 from 109 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/managebac/id1437382327/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/managebac/id1437382327.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 72 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of ManageBac? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Convenient for school/IB - 🚀 Helpful for distance learning - 👍 Useful for tracking assignments **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy - 👎 Confusing and unintuitive UI - 👎 Difficult to navigate - 👎 Slow and laggy - 👎 Frustrating to use **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent log-outs - Issues with file uploads - Inconsistent notification system - Grades and assignments not displaying properly **Most requested features** - Easier access to grades and assignments - Better organization and filtering of tasks - Improved mobile experience - Ability to view all past work ## Newest reviews (11 of 349) ### 3/5 — Mid *2026-06-07, version 2.34.2* Same as title ### 1/5 — Student *2026-05-06* this is the cause of my stress ### 1/5 — Very Janky *2026-05-05, version 2.34.0* It fells very slow and janky ### 1/5 — Oobagooba *2026-04-29, version 2.33.1* Bagobagoobabbaogogbago ### 2/5 — Needs overall class stream and missed work *2026-04-23* /student/task_and_deadlines from the student side is exactly the list for grades needed in the parent’s view as well. Way too difficult to find teachers’ email contacts. Need to differentiate Not Assessed versus Not for a grade, and Not Submitted. I want to be able to save the PDFs as photos. Even when selecting individual slides of a pdf in portfolio, they do not give a save as a photo. Let “web view” be a button everywhere if more info is provided there. (Lots of uneccessary info besides the most important.) Parent view - The assignments you’re actually looking for are in “streams” in each class. Some streams aren’t on class homes but the toggle of the unit within the class. Streams for each class would be great, possibly including just one with all streams on home. The main reporting to highlight should be the work not submitted. In order to figure this out, I have to go through each stream and notice which doesn’t have a green check mark at the top left. I would expect a red x , and total, or filter for missed work. As well as some notification alerts. The bar graphs for formatives / summatives are not intuitive. Multiple formatives are reported in some classes so this isn’t an average. Line graphs for each class, filtered by Hw, tests, class work, and projects would be far more helpful for tracking. This should also have the conversion option of percentage out of 100 as is used in the stream. This view weekly, monthly, and quarterly for each class on one page would allow keeping track of the trend. I think teachers were able to disable my private comments where I wanted to submit the photos of work on each assignment to match with the grades. Parental access to problems like textbooks taken home would steer everything. I can only teach after the fact unless I find my own questions from which classes share modules like math. And yet, all work isn’t uploaded for all classes, only graded, maybe. Lots of grades just for completion make averaging what goes into the final grade murky. Classes are missing rubrics on what type of work will represent what percentage of the final grade. Ie tests may be 40% and we’re unaware. Perhaps we need the kid’s weekly planner view on our side as well. ** Would’ve been great for last week’s update that provides a overall task and deadline stream on home to also include past ones, filterable by week/month. Missed. ** ### 2/5 — Needs overall class stream and missed work *2026-03-26, version 2.32.7* /student/task_and_deadlines from the student side is exactly the list for grades needed in the parent’s view as well. Parent view - The assignments you’re actually looking for are in “streams” in each class. Some streams aren’t on class homes but the toggle of the unit within the class. Streams for each class would be great, possibly including just one with all streams on home. The main reporting to highlight should be the work not submitted. In order to figure this out, I have to go through each stream and notice which doesn’t have a green check mark at the top left. I would expect a red x , and total, or filter for missed work. As well as some notification alerts. The bar graphs for formatives / summatives are not intuitive. Multiple formatives are reported in some classes so this isn’t an average. Line graphs for each class, filtered by Hw, tests, class work, and projects would be far more helpful for tracking. This should also have the conversion option of percentage out of 100 as is used in the stream. This view weekly, monthly, and quarterly for each class on one page would allow keeping track of the trend. I think teachers were able to disable my private comments where I wanted to submit the photos of work on each assignment to match with the grades. Parental access to problems like textbooks taken home would steer everything. I can only teach after the fact unless I find my own questions from which classes share modules like math. And yet, all work isn’t uploaded for all classes, only graded, maybe. Lots of grades just for completion make averaging what goes into the final grade murky. Classes are missing rubrics on what type of work will represent what percentage of the final grade. Ie tests may be 40% and we’re unaware. Perhaps we need the kid’s weekly planner view on our side as well. ** Would’ve been great for last week’s update that provides a overall task and deadline stream on home to also include past ones, filterable by week/month. Missed. ** ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2026-03-22* My school made us use this app and it was so horrible and annoying. They made it to make our work systematic, yeah right! And it’s super annoying to find each classroom and all the files. Ugh! ### 1/5 — Frustratingly unsearchable *2026-03-11, version 2.32.5* Frustratingly unsearchable with multiple clicks needed to find basic information (which is not intuitively stored) ### 1/5 — So confusing… *2026-03-06, version 2.32.5* I cannot get a whole picture for a week to see homework only. I find it very complicated compared to LMS such as Canvas. I can’t find what I’m liking for. Not user friendly and definitely a hassle to use. Would not recommend it to anyone. ### 1/5 — Chacko *2026-02-28, version 2.32.5* Chacko magi khanki ### 2/5 — No Bueno *2026-02-25, version 2.32.4* This app makes me feel nothing but pain extremely hard to use would recommend using website, only up side is could be fast for adding reflection. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-08-09, version 2.34.4* Title ### 1/5 — I hate it *2026-07-03* It keeps deleting my work. ### 1/5 — i hate IB *2026-06-18* i hate IB man drop out😡 ### 1/5 — ManageBac is horrendous *2026-06-18, version 2.23.3* No one should ever have to use this godforsaken app! I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. It is bad. ### 1/5 — 개좋은데 *2026-06-18* 로그인 방식이 깔끔해요 ### 1/5 — The worst school app ever *2026-06-13, version 2.34.2* My school switched from seasaw to ManageBac and absolutely everybody hates it. Marketing wise I’m sure it’s a great excuse of a solution, but in terms of user friendliness? It’s built clearly by tech people who have absolutely no concept of user interface, and have no concept of the fact that this is for school parents and students. It is really designed as nothing more than a glorified folder system. You go in and pick you folders. Keep drilling down into more and more folders. Nothing in the development has any users in mind. You have to open every file even if it is only one sentence long. There is no way to see things conveniently with a scroll and expansion. Everything is designed to work as individual files. Imagine a folder with only one sentence in each document. That’s ManageBac. Imagine needing to keep screenshotting and cross checking names because none of the teacher user names are even clickable to send messages in. This reduces and increases friction and downright abhorrence between teachers and parents and students. Because communication on ManageBac is designed to suck. If you want parents leaving your school, buy this product. ### 1/5 — Completely unintuitive *2026-06-05* Other apps are much better. Managebac is completely unintuitive and not easy to use. ### 1/5 — Worst educational platform! *2026-05-21, version 2.34.1* This is honestly the worst educational platform in existence. It is not user friendly for teachers and certainly not for students and parents. This platform causes an insane amount of conflict in our household because it is so impossible to use. I can’t stress enough how much I dislike this platform! ### 1/5 — I HATE *2026-05-20, version 2.34.1* I HATE YOOUUUU ### 1/5 — Difficult to Navigate *2026-05-18, version 2.34.1* Difficult to navigate and unintuitive. Doesn’t make learning easy. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pretty good *2026-08-24* I liked this because it was easy to use and worked perfectly fine ### 5/5 — 아이 *2026-08-16* 공부하기 시러 ### 5/5 — 👍 *2026-06-25* 👍👍 ### 5/5 — 👍 *2026-06-08* 👍👍 ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-05-20* My school uses it great app ### 5/5 — Bad *2026-04-27, version 2.33.1* Ngl its kinda bad its so hard to use ### 5/5 — Very tuff *2026-03-22, version 2.32.5* My school is very tuff for using this ### 5/5 — Anyone doing this at CIS? *2026-03-10, version 2.32.5* Great, easy to upload everything I’m a student at CIS ### 5/5 — ManageBac *2026-02-21, version 2.32.4* Great app I love the way it works and it is so easy I have been using it since I started at ist ### 5/5 — Good *2025-12-15* Great --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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