# Niche: College Search — user reviews > 131 indexed App Store user reviews of Niche by Niche.com, Inc., rated 4.10/5 from 1,406 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/niche-college-search/id1356697847/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/niche-college-search/id1356697847.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 921 · 4★ 174 · 3★ 68 · 2★ 45 · 1★ 198 ## What do users think of Niche? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for college search - 💡 Great for finding scholarships - 🚀 Provides a lot of useful information - 👍 User-friendly interface - 👍 Comprehensive college data **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and bugs - 🐛 Logs out frequently - 🚫 Limited to just college search, lost previous features - 🚫 Requires too much personal information - 🚫 Inaccurate or incomplete data for some colleges **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes - Logging out issues - Incomplete or inaccurate college data **Most requested features** - Add back K-12 school and neighborhood search features - Improve navigation and prevent automatic logout - Allow more flexible college searches without required personal info - Enhance data accuracy, especially for tuition and majors ## Newest reviews (14 of 131) ### 4/5 — College search *2025-03-06, version 3.0.38* Helps with colleges ### 3/5 — stupid *2025-02-03, version 3.0.38* Its hard to navigate and wont let me pass the “add more schools” page. Ive already been accepted to college and it made me put two more colleges that im not even thinking about. It should have a progress page to track your progress but i dont see one. ### 5/5 — Great app!!! *2025-01-20, version 3.0.37* Great app!!!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-01-02, version 3.0.37* very helpful when it comes to college help ### 5/5 — Great *2024-12-29, version 3.0.37* very good ### 5/5 — Niche *2024-12-25, version 3.0.37* Niche has helped me in many ways. Like finding college where I think I belong and also colleges that speak to me. ### 3/5 — Minor Complaint *2024-12-23, version 3.0.37* There are black people who aren’t “African American”. Actual Africans, Central Americans, South Americans, and every other black person who’s not American, regardless of location. Please fix your race categories. ### 5/5 — Good *2024-12-09, version 3.0.36* perfect ### 5/5 — Niche *2024-12-02, version 3.0.36* It helped me a lot to win scholarships ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2024-11-20, version 3.0.35* It is so helpful if you have no idea where to start! ### 5/5 — Yes *2024-11-17, version 3.0.35* USE IT ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-11-14, version 3.0.35* Very informative, I highly recommend the app ### 5/5 — Niche Review *2024-11-02, version 3.0.35* Niche is a good app to obtain scholarship money! Download the app now ### 4/5 — I like looking at colleges here *2024-10-25, version 3.0.34* It’s good very good but finding my major was a little weird ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Profile questions *2026-04-05, version 4.0.24* Profile asks questions that cannot be skipped and you cannot go back. ### 1/5 — Bad update *2025-11-25, version 4.0.13* This app used to be very helpful for housing search and quality Neighbourhood findings and other information about cities, houses, neighborhoods and colleges.. etc. Now, I see that the new version is narrowed to just colleges so it’s useless for older people who are looking for other stuff other than colleges ### 1/5 — lost all usefulness *2025-03-20, version 3.0.38* like many others before me, this app used to provide helpful information. better decision would have been to create a new app just to do your college lead generation instead of taking the good brand this once had and losing it. maybe i’ll use the website but this app is deleted after this post. cheers. ### 1/5 — What happened to cost breakdown??? *2025-03-11, version 3.0.38* Was using this for last 9 months. The cost breakdown changed and has no out of state costs or living cost anymore. Now using another app. And when we started using for college search. It shouldn’t need so much personal info to use. Not a fan. ### 1/5 — Won’t let me in *2025-01-04, version 3.0.37* You have to make an account and it just keeps saying my birthday is invalid so I can’t make an account or use the app ### 1/5 — It’s hard to use *2024-11-03, version 3.0.35* I don’t like this app it wants you to pay for access to use it and access for scholarships. Why do we have to pay to get a scholarship or put information in? Doesn’t make sense ### 1/5 — Not good *2024-10-14, version 3.0.34* Where are the K-12 schools?? Limited and invasive. ### 1/5 — Not good *2024-08-07, version 3.0.30* I don’t like asking my personal information in create profil ..I couldn’t search school college high school anything ### 1/5 — They ruined this app *2023-06-02* This was by far the best app for researching cities, neighborhoods, etc. but now they've completely hidden that feature and it's only geared towards colleges. I really have no clue why they would do this, especially as more and more people are opting to not even go to college. Yet more and more people are becoming nomadic and/or relocating because of remote work. Now I have to Google the location I want to research (e.g. "Austin niche") and then have the link open in the app. There's no way to find this in the app itself. Then you can only close this window and have to start all over for each location. Truly mind boggling why they would pivot away from what the platform so popular in the first place. Considering pretty much all the reviews since this new version are all saying the same thing I sure hope they listen to their audience. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share feedback on our recent updates. Your message will be shared with our team. The mobile and desktop versions of Niche still have the same functionality as the previous version of our app. Please feel free to contact support@niche.com with any questions. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2023-05-10, version 3.0.5* Super disappointed that they got rid of the town search and moved it to the website…. Make tabs at the bottom of the screen to switch from college to k12 to town/city grades. Deleted the app and my account. Embarrassing because this was a really useful app before….. shouldn’t have to use the site only. Sounds like everyone else agrees too. Bring back the old niche. So many people have deleted it. You think they would change back….. nope. Deleted too. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great education app *2026-07-26, version 4.0.31* Love education never give up try hard in education be organized be productive don’t procrastinate ### 5/5 — Top for high school students *2026-02-21, version 4.0.21* It’s exactly what high school students need or want one problem it will default every thing to in-state but not a problem if someone in your close family is military ### 5/5 — Absolutely love this app *2025-04-07, version 4.0.0* This app got me excited for college again. I was very nervous about college being that skipped my junior year, so college for me was something that I thought would be harder. It’s so motivating to see just how many colleges are interested in me, and are willing to pay for me to attend their university. Also it’s great for simple knowledge about the different universities out there. ### 5/5 — Highschool student *2025-03-26, version 3.0.38* Tbh its hard to look into this stuff and I'm glad I found this app cus it has like everything I need in one place :3 ### 5/5 — Helpful! *2025-03-11, version 3.0.38* A very helpful app, I’m applying for collages soon and the app had been so good to see what the websites don’t directly tell me, I also love the grading system cause it’s easier for me to understand than just saying if it’s good or not ### 5/5 — Niche *2025-03-01, version 3.0.38* High school student here, this app has helped me tremendously tbh ### 5/5 — Greattt *2025-03-01, version 3.0.38* this app is so got a lot of good s scholarships ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-02-20, version 3.0.38* GREAT ### 5/5 — idk *2025-01-31, version 3.0.38* told me to rate it. pretty neat app ### 5/5 — Payton *2025-01-27, version 3.0.38* I am hoping Niche can help guarantee me a future in college! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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