Minuteman Library Network User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience27.3% of reviews
Neutral16.4% of reviews
Negative experience56.4% of reviews

~ Based on 55 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Minuteman Library Network Safe?

Minuteman Library Network has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Minuteman Library Network is 52/100.

This assessment is based on 109 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.4/5.

Safety Analysis

24.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
12.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
62.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 109 App Store ratings for Minuteman Library Network.

Is Minuteman Library Network Legit?

Minuteman Library Network is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Minuteman Library Network is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

At least can search

Doesn’t let me book or see my checkouts and holds

at least the card and search functionalities work

would greatly appreciate having it restored to complete functionality

Broken For A While Now

App used to work pretty well, but it’s been broken for a while now. Just crashes every time I open it. Assuming it’ll be fixed eventually, but it’s been at least a couple of months, which is a long time for it to be completely non-functional!

Embarrassingly bad

A library app that displays not even the bare minimum of bibliographic data on things like loan lists is embarrassingly bad. Have to use the browser version to get decent info. Also slow and now is crashing, won’t open without a reinstall. Please try again.

Useless and nonfunctional app

The app doesn’t open any more and hasn’t been useable for weeks. When you click on it it does nothing. When I went to the library and asked if others had a problem, they said people always complain about this app so they didn’t notice. I was able to use a workaround and use Libby to pull my library card up and will do what the librarian suggested - delete this app.
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Crashes

Been using this app for years without a problem. Recently, it crashes. Reinstalled it and it works for a while, but then crashes again. Nothing seems to fix this issue. Very frustrating!

kicks me out

sometimes this app is annoying but what’s happened to me over the past couple of days is that whenever i open it my screen gets blurry and then it kicks me out. the only solution is to delete the app and put in ur information in again which isn’t really ideal. and this means i can’t see the due dates or put books on hold or even check out books because the card is on the app. this has only happened twice but in quick succession. overall it’s a helpful app
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Buggy to no end

I love the network, but they need a better app. It keeps force closing and I have uninstall/reinstall several times. Before that it would not load check outs, or holds. Several titles it would not let me request from anither in network library

Was great now crashes when trying to open

Came on here to get an update thinking they must be a new version but no there isn’t. I use this a lot and I’m very disappointed that it stopped working. It keeps crashing and disappears when I try to open it very upsetting. I hope they came up with a new update soon because the Library app has been great. Otherwise I will change my review once this is fixed because I really appreciate this app.
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App Keeps Crashing

App was working, albeit slowly, and now it just keeps crashing every time I try to open it. have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and it’s the same thing.

App not working on iPhone

After years of using this app with no problems it now just crashes anytime I try launching it. It has become unusable at this point. I have tried reinstalling the app with no success in having it successfully launch. Is there any future update planned to address the instability of the app?

Huge selection of business and strategy books

Soooo many books!!!!!

Thank you!

A good app when it works

The app crashes often, making it hard to use. Otherwise, it’s a good app when it works m.

Digital library card no longer works

In the last couple months the digital library card no longer shows up. When selected from any of at least two locations you can try from, the screen brightens like normal but no card information shows up.

I uninstalled and reinstalled but have the same problem.

Like others I also notice the search results show fewer results than they used to. Even for material I know is there, I don’t get result returns.
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Downgrade

Borderline unusable since the big overhaul. Incredibly slow. Search results don’t seem accurate. Things I was able to find previously are no longer showing up, e.g. particular volumes of a manga series that I know exist suddenly can’t be found. Still has some necessary functions that I appreciate, ability to see current checkouts, overdue, renewing items, etc.
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Some annoying bugs

This release has some annoying bugs that make the app difficult to use.

When doing an advanced search of the catalog the virtual keyboard disappears and then reappears after each keystroke - making the user pause between each letter entered. This really makes the process of typing in search criteria super painful.

Also in advanced search, when searching by author the app presents as bogus results all entries that have no listed author. Lack of a field should not match a specifically entered criterion. Very weak search capability - kind of a MLN trademark. It’s often best to search on the web (much better search engine) and then use the resultant ISBN to find it in the MLN catalog.
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Really good, maybe on way to Oustanding!😀

I use this app very often, and although as an old programmer, I sometimes think “I would have done that feature differently”. I will say this: The App Just Works.

On top of that, when you report bugs, they fix them really fast! I reported an app crash bug on 14-January, and the fix came out sometime before 14-February. This includes the hang-time for the report getting from my library to the developer MLN contracts with.

Remember this when libertarians claim private industry is ALWAYS better than govt. Sometimes it’s the two together that excel. I wish I could get J&J to fix the bugs in their vaccine trial app (now going on 14 months broken) and The Week magazine and Xinio (now going on like 3-4 years seriously broken)
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Garbage

Sorry, this doesn’t even work and when I enter my credentials which work on the website it locks up. Why would I want this on my phone.

Downgrade

Hi. This app used to work really well. Now it’s slow, has less functionality (can’t search for music scores anymore), and is much uglier. What happened? Can’t we go back?

Ugly revision

All a dark shaded grey except for library card page, some pages in small print hard for us older people and what’s with the loss of all the Color? Everything a shabby black on grey now. Ugly ugly ugly.

Was better before

It’s a shame that this app was “updated” in the past week. There is less functionality, the text point size seems geared to the Large Print set, and the search feature crashes the app every time. If there was a way to revert to the earlier version I’d do it in a snap.