refbook User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience27.3% of reviews
Neutral13.6% of reviews
Negative experience59.1% of reviews

~ Based on 22 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is refbook Safe?

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Is refbook Legit?

refbook appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for refbook is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Notices

Notices not clearing from the app screen seeming to show more notifications but there isn’t any. Very annoying.

Response from developer

We have understood your feedback and have been working to improve some of these areas for you. Hope you are having a better experience of late and the new version is optimising your users experience. Please keep the feedback coming in.

Poor design

Great app in concept. Barely functional in use. Heaps of bugs, confusing and unintuitive UI. Often have to restart due to app becoming unresponsive. Sometimes can’t log in. FaceID login doesn’t work. Difficult to see what dates you have put in as available/unavailable. Overall very janky to use. Would not recommend for use.
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Response from developer

We have understood your feedback and have been working to improve some of these areas for you. Hope you are having a better experience of late and the new version is optimising your users experience. Please keep the feedback coming in.

Terrible for providers

Pay rates glitch and revert back, speed slows down so slow it takes 5 mins to load a name. Sometimes you have to refresh to get it to pull names up on grid. It’s cost us 40k + in wages to roster referees extra because of the speed. Couldn’t think of a worse system

Response from developer

If you are having this problem there is something missconfigured in your organisation settings. Please reach out to us at support@refbook.online and let us know your organisation and its issues we can jump on a call and work through any setup problems.

Cheap

Lots of bugs and a really cheap opt out for orgs not wanting to spend much on a very basic and badly built program. Really bad.

UPLOAD PROMBLEM

I can’t upload team sheets for my recent Refere games it’s been 2 weeks and it keeps saying upload error seriously fix your app cmon.

Keeps breaking down

I like the app when it working at the moment can’t even log in, keep saying internet connection but I have internet.

Multiple issues

Issue with login where it will log me our randomly quoting a network issue.

Issue where date does t save when entering availability.

Generally works well though.

Set up

Setting up you account was the most painful thing I ever did when ever I tried to set up a passcode it would work but when I started signing in the passcode kept changing

Log in error

Refusing me to log in. How am I supposed to get paid on this dodgy app. Even sign up doesn’t even work

Response from developer

Please log a ticket with support desk to assist you with your password reset as it seems you have some individual issue.

Black screen

I have uninstalled and reinstalled this app but I am still getting a black screen.
What going on?

Response from developer

Thankyou for your feedback this was resolved

Black Screen Problem

Was good while it worked but now whenever I open the app it goes to a black screen I have tried deleting and reinstalling it but with no success. Hoping a fix happens soon!

Response from developer

Thankyou for your feedback this was resolved.

Black screen all week

Me and my son stay logged in to his refbook. I’m the lift to and from work and usually the one to wake him up in time. I haven’t been able to plan which is necessary with a one car/parent household. He still has access. I can’t even get to a log in screen. I have deleted and reinstalled a few times. Tried wifi/data. Seems to be after the last update. Can’t message support as it goes to some weird log in account to do so which looks dodgey after a few days tried it anyway and can’t get through.
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Response from developer

Thank-you for your feedback we are currently investigating this specific issue for you. This is the first reported instance and are not seeing the same issue. Please email the support desk email address located at the bottom of the site www.refbook.online with your details.

Good app

I like this app however when entering custom availability on the calendar the colours are very similar so can make it difficult to see where I have entered when I am available or unavailable.

Response from developer

Thank-you for this feedback we are working to improve the colouring in availability.

Annoying

It’s extremely clucky and buggy as. I filled out all my information in setting and the save button doesn’t work. I’m still waiting for tech support to get back. It’s all round annoying and makes me want to smash my phone.

Slow and inefficient

It’s slow and clumsy to use. Simple bugs recur. They can be overcome, but it costs time and is inefficient.

Availability is broke

This app is clunky and frustrating.
The availability also doesn’t work, it crashed when trying to select the range of date, or just freezes and becomes unresponsive.

Forces me to use the desktop version to complete this simple task

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback. Sorry that you have encountered this issue. We have immediately released new version which resolves this issue. Please update your app to the latest version.

Recent update broke something

The most recent update will not allow me to log in using my username and password. It is correct because I can log in via web browser. When trying to reset password via app, my email is not even recognised.

Received developer response and fix has been released. App is working awesome. Thanks.

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback, Yes unfortunately we had a faulty release with version 1.9 due to some enhancements. We have immediately released version 1.9.1 which resolves this issue. Please update your app to version 1.9.1 if you are seeing any issues with login and biometric sign in.

High quality app! Essential

Excellent layout, easy login with biometric tech too. Does everything I need it to do. Would recommend.

Response from developer

Thankyou for your feedback we are working hard to bring new features to the platform to make officials lives a little easier.

Awesome tech for umpires

This app saves so much time, and helps manage our schedule. Very easy to use!

Response from developer

Thankyou for your feedback we are working hard to bring new features to the platform to make officials lives a little easier.

Brilliant functionality

We implemented this at our local association early 2021 and the despite some early teething issues, it is proving to be a fantastic tool. The developers have been fantastic to respond to requests for help and are open to feedback. With over 120 members, we have found the transition very easy and simple for them to use.
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Response from developer

We have passed this onto our support team who work hard to provide for our customers. We hope we continue to help your organisation into the future and will alwasy be here to assist with new enhancements that our customers need aand want.