# Manhattan Prep \| GRE Practice — user reviews

> 93 indexed App Store user reviews of Manhattan Prep | GRE Practice by Higher Learning Technologies, rated 4.70/5 from 1,728 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/manhattan-prep-gre-practice/id1097524542.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,454 · 4★ 168 · 3★ 67 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 25

## What do users think of Manhattan Prep | GRE Practice?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Great for GRE prep
- 👍 Organized by subject
- 👍 Simple and elegant interface
- 👍 Helpful progress tracking
- 👍 Convenient for on-the-go studying

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent software glitches and bugs
- 🐛 Inability to see all solutions on iPad
- 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription
- 🔒 Paid subscription issues
- 🔋 High battery consumption

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes or freezes frequently
- Paid subscription not working as expected
- Inability to log in with correct credentials
- Offline mode not functioning properly
- Answer explanations not rendering correctly

**Most requested features**

- Add dark mode option
- Implement Leitner box for vocabulary
- Allow selecting question difficulty level
- Integrate note-taking functionality
- Provide in-app support and bug reporting

## Newest reviews (12 of 93)

### 4/5 — Easy to use but needs a few upgrades

*2024-01-01*

For the iPad version, would be helpful if the app was compatible with the Split View so that I could keep my notes all in one place.

**Developer response:** Hi, this is Sarah from the Manhattan Prep GRE app's Customer Service team. Thank you for leaving this review. Your example helps our developers understand how this new iOS feature could enhance our apps' study experience.

Thank you again for sharing your valuable feedback. If you have other thoughts or suggestions, please get in touch with us at support@hltcorp.com or 319-237-7162 whenever convenient. We would love to hear from you!

### 3/5 — Excessive Glitches Inhibit Learning

*2020-10-22*

I really want to love this app. In terms of the practice questions and the ease of making studying a daily habit, it’s absolutely wonderful. I find myself reaching for the app frequently, since my phone is always with me and physical GRE prep books are heavy and harder to navigate.

Unfortunately, the software glitches in this app make it virtually unusable. As others have mentioned, it frequently loads blank questions, or the question you’re working on randomly disappears — forcing you to reload the screen and lose your progress.

Even worse, answer explanations that contain charts or formulae do not render properly. Several times I’ve seen blank charts that go off to the right side of the screen ad infinitum. You can scroll to the right to your heart’s content, but you’ll never actually see the answer explanation that the chart is supposed to contain.

An app that costs $15/month should not contain these kinds of bugs — especially a learning app. More than once, these glitches have prevented me from learning from my mistakes and improving. It’s extremely frustrating.

This is basic stuff that any app developer team should be able to fix. I’ve tried reporting these bugs, but there’s no option to do that in the app. So I guess all I can do is leave a negative App Store review.

### 3/5 — Didn’t really help boost my scores...

*2020-10-10*

The app is very well done, but I feel like the study materials were definitely lacking.

I was getting consistent right answers on the questions and doing them fast by the time exam day was close. But then I got to the exam and the questions on the second quantitative section were so much harder than even the most difficult questions on the app. 

I scored 155 in the quantitative (because I didn’t finish - I was really thrown off by the hard problems) and 157 on verbal. I’m not the best reader so I guess the verbal score was decent, but 155 on quant was wild. For some context, I have a bachelor’s in applied mathematics.

I definitely don’t think the prep pack is completely to blame but I’m very disappointed that my performance on the practice questions was not at all indicative of what my performance on the exam would have been. The questions were just really easy compared to actual test day.

So long story short, this is a great resource but I would definitely supplement it with other more difficult study kits.

**Developer response:** Thanks so much for your thoughtful review. If you'd care to share more observations about the type and difficulty of math practice questions, please contact us at feedback@hltcorp.com.

### 4/5 — Pretty good

*2020-07-01, version 8.6.5954*

Pretty good app. Would be five stars if I could see all the solutions on my iPad Mini. Often they are garbled and indecipherable.

### 3/5 — Good content

*2020-04-22*

The content is good but there’s another free GRE verbal app that has exactly same content as the verbal reasoning section.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback, Zac! We believe our content, developed by professional writers and educators, is worth the price! Let us know if we can make it even better!

### 2/5 — Excessive software glitches ruin the experience

*2020-04-22*

Content wise the app is great. Questions, explanations, and review functionalities are awesome (you’ll of course have to do the 3 day free trial then pay $20 to make it worth the content), but the app almost without fail glitches and loads blank questions that make you have to keep going back and reentering to get it to load. It doesn’t lose your progress, but it makes reviewing and taking practice tests impractical due to how frustrating and time consuming it is. Fix all the UI glitches and it’ll be a great experience, I’m sure!

**Developer response:** We are sorry to learn you're having issues with our app! Please contact our Customer Success team at support@hltcorp.com for assistance. Our team will help you get these issues resolved quickly!

### 3/5 — Text completion changes

*2020-02-04*

Note for developers: Text Completion questions that you get wrong have an extremely bright, red background and you can’t clearly read incorrect answer choices because the font is light gray. Please use a different tone of red for incorrect answer choices. It is remarkably unpleasant to try to read answer choices with the red background.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review! We are looking into this issue and will make adjustments as needed. If you have any other concerns, please contact our Customer Success team at feedback@hltcorp.com. We hope your overall experience with the app is great!

### 3/5 — Default subscription price is a rip-off.

*2019-10-20, version 8.6.5954*

One month subscription fee is $8.99, how can you charge $29.99 for 3 months? And the app didn’t show all price options! I feel intellectually attacked I mean this app is supposed to teach users math well.

### 3/5 — Meh

*2019-10-09*

Good content but the software isn't always functioning properly. It will get stuck out of frame and then you cannot move on because the button needed for continuing cannot be selected.

**Developer response:** That shouldn't be happening, Baba! Please contact support@hltcorp.com, and our Customer Success team will help you resolve this issue right away!

### 2/5 — Works well enough.  Cant get timings on all question types

*2019-04-07*

I’m very interested in my quantitative speed.  I’ve taken 0 non quantitative questions and the average time on the main progress screen doesn’t match the average time on the quantitative progress screen.  Ironically I could do the math myself, but I can’t drill down into the details for all quantitative questions to see the timings for all categories, which seems like a bug.  Otherwise seems to work pretty well.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review, Dylan! We'd be happy to help you with this issue. Please contact feedback@hltcorp.com.

### 2/5 — Not enabled for accessibility.

*2019-02-26, version 6.8.4625*

Great functionality. Probably one of the best overall GRE resources available. But I can’t say that for certain because the app is not enabled for accessibility. Neither voiceover nor tts features work.

### 1/5 — Can’t login

*2019-02-01*

This app is as good as useless when you can login despite having an account that logs in on the website! Its been over a month and the problem persists. Is the developer sleeping?

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Free version useless

*2025-09-17*

Can only do ten questions a day. If you take the exam version and do ten questions, you can never do the next ten questions. It just restarts at the same ten you’ve already but counts against you. And then you can’t ever see the results if you were right or wrong. So poorly thought out

**Developer response:** We’re sorry to hear that you're experiencing frustration with the free version of the app. The daily limit of 10 questions is designed to give learners a sample of the practice experience before deciding if the full version is right for them. That said, we hear your concerns about repetition and the inability to review results, and we’ll share this feedback with our team so we can continue to improve the experience. If you’d like, please reach out to us at support@hltcorp.com so we can investigate your specific account and provide further assistance.

### 1/5 — WORST

*2024-10-04*

these mocks are not at all representative of the actual GRE
THE VERBAL IS NOT AT ALL!!

**Developer response:** Thank you for leaving this review and for your honesty. Please reach out to us at support@hltcorp.com or 319-237-7162 whenever it is convenient for you. We would love to talk to you more about your experience and your suggestions.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2024-10-04, version 20.2*

App doesn’t work, wouldn’t give me the trial, nor it would let me purchase it.

### 1/5 — Wont even let me log in?

*2021-05-02*

I am able to log in on the webpage but unable to do so in this app.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. The app and the website are separate products, so you will need to create an account to use the app. If you have any other concerns, please contact support@hltcorp.com or call 319-246-5271.

### 1/5 — Same question from Manhattan 5 lb

*2021-02-22*

All the question are same from Manhattan 5 lb.
If u already solved that book, then u can avoid using this app.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback, Amit. It's true, the content of this app is based on the print edition. We believe the interactive aspects have added to the value, and we hope you'll consider rating the quality of the experience as well as the content.

### 1/5 — Paid for the subscription and can’t use it, app has no support

*2020-11-29*

I paid for the monthly subscription and checked to be sure. I have restored it a few times and still can’t access the ‘locked’ content. I can’t find the in app support. Why is there no way to contact support from the app?!  I’m paying for content I can’t use.

**Developer response:** We‘re sorry you had this issue and would like to help you resolve it as quickly as possible. Please contact our Customer Success Team at support@hltcorp.com or call 319-246-5271.

### 1/5 — No easy way to cancel

*2020-05-15, version 8.6.5954*

Beware once you sign up it’s super hard to cancel.  Not obvious to do and of course they keep charging you.

App is good to bad this gets in the way

### 1/5 — Nothing is free

*2019-10-01, version 8.6.5954*

Everything costs money to unlock

### 1/5 — Can’t login in app

*2019-07-07*

I am easily able to login through desktop but just can’t with the mobile app.

**Developer response:** We're sorry to see you're having trouble. Please contact our Customer Success team at support@hltcorp.com for assistance in resolving your issue.

### 1/5 — Great app but

*2019-03-02, version 6.8.4625*

It randomly reduced my account to the free trial version even though I am a paid subscriber. I have reached out to technical support, but have heard nothing so far. It has been 2 days.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Love this app!! 😌

*2026-07-11*

One of the largest question banks I’ve seen in general! I’m so so grateful for all the studying and practice opportunities with this app! 😊

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're thrilled to hear you're enjoying the app and finding the extensive question bank valuable. Providing plenty of high-quality practice opportunities is exactly what we aim for. We appreciate your support and wish you the very best as you prepare for the GRE!

### 5/5 — It’s great

*2025-11-24*

So I subscribed for a month because I couldn’t offer to pay more than $20 for GRE prep. This is the only app that let you subscribe on a monthly basis. I finished the 1000 problems on the front page by doing 33+ problems every day and studying the flash cards when I commuted. Walked out with 325+. It really helped.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for the excellent review! We're thrilled to hear that our monthly subscription option made GRE prep affordable and accessible to you. Wow, your hard work paid off with a 325+ score. That's a huge accomplishment! It's inspiring to hear how you tackled the 1,000 problems and used flashcards during your commute. Brilliant! We design our tools to fit real study routines, and stories like yours show us how meaningful flexibility can be. Congratulations again on your success, and thank you for taking us along for the ride!

### 5/5 — Love this app!

*2024-03-27*

I have the Manhattan 5 lb. book but prefer this app for its interactive features. I honestly believe it is better than any GRE book! Thank you! It has become my daily routine with coffee!

### 5/5 — Best app for GRE

*2023-07-23*

I like this app very much! Questions are organized by subject. Answer explanations are very simple and elegant. I like the step by step approach whereas other GRE apps seem to overcomplicate things. The interface is also uncluttered unlike some apps that bombard you with ads.

### 5/5 — Awesome app, great customer service

*2020-01-07*

Large number of practice questions. Simple layout. Had an issue with the app and the subscription but their great customer service team sorted it out quickly. Highly recommend.

**Developer response:** We're sorry you're having trouble! Please contact Customer Success at support@hltcorp.com or 319-246-5271, and we will get your issue resolved as quickly as possible.

### 5/5 — Effective Study Tool

*2019-10-25*

Spent about three months studying for the GRE, and my only materials were this app and The Official Guide to the GRE General Test. Just took the test today, 166 Quantitative, 170 Verbal.

The way you can mark things for review later was definitely helpful, and the way they categorized the math questions by subject helped identify broader areas I needed to focus on.

One potential suggestion: when I first started studying, I went to All Quantitative Reasoning and it immediately dropped me into the most advanced problems. Defaulting to Algebra or the Mixed Review category would have probably made more sense.

**Developer response:** Thanks for taking the time to write this review, and congratulations on your success! If you have further suggestions, please contact our Customer Success team at feedback@hltcorp.com.

### 5/5 — I

*2019-06-16, version 7.0.5166*

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### 5/5 — Great tool!!

*2019-03-03*

The app is super useful! You can study anywhere. It is very friendly and the mini dashboard is motivating. 

The only missing thing is to know and to be able to pick the difficulty of the questions.

**Developer response:** Thanks so much for your review! We appreciate your suggestion about the difficulty of the questions, and we will definitely consider it for future updates.

Thanks again!

### 5/5 — Exceptional

*2018-11-06*

In my attempt to succeed at the GRE way higher than previously, I saw someone suggest this app and it’s proving to be my biggest boon. For $8.99 monthly, it’s the most complete, testing and rewarding material I have used.

**Developer response:** We're so happy to hear that! If there is anything else we can help you with in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Best of luck to you!

### 5/5 — Paid Subscription won’t work

*2018-10-09*

I paid for the year subscription but everything is still locked and I keep getting prompted to pay.

**Developer response:** Thanks for reaching out to us, I know this is something we can get resolved for you! Would you mind reaching out to us directly at support@hltcorp.com? Thanks!

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