Buggy
First of all, I bit the bullet and got the monthly subscription so I could see the scholarships lined up (I had a few) then after I subscribe, all of them are gone. The entire process it took to find those personalized scholarships went out the window. I was irritated and then I realized the information I put to sign up for an account was gone other than my name and email. So I put in all my info and it wouldn’t take it saying that “I was missing the required fields” WHICH WAS NONE. At this point I had enough because frankly I shouldn’t have to pay monthly to see the scholarships that are for me, and to have an app that is too buggy. Not worth the time or money. It’s a great idea but it’s executed poorly.
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App is trash customer support is no better.
I give this app 1 star because i have to if i could I’d give it zero that’s how bad my experience was. Im extremely upset with how bad this app turned out to be. I read about the developer in my book and thought it would be helpful to me, but it was the opposite. The app doesn’t work at all. Couldn’t start the free trial, couldn't save my info to set up my account, couldn’t even pay for the membership. This app should be removed for its terrible performance. Im not usually the type to even leave a review but this app was so terrible i felt the need to save anyone from wasting their time like mine was. You’re better off looking for another app or just going online and spending hours clicking through and searching for scholarships because this app will not help you.
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Response from developer
Hello - We appreciate you for taking the time to leave a review. We would like the opportunity to learn more about your experience. Please reach out to info@myscholly.com. We’ll work with you to resolve any issues you encounter as quickly as possible.
This company deserves 0 stars
I wasted my valuable time and money not only downloading and using the app as well as this review! My mom heard about this on shark tank so I thought I’d try it. BIG MISTAKE! The app has you choose things that apply to you to describe yourself to find appropriate scholarships. That sounded great! WRONG! They had random choices like ‘lives on potato farm’. Ridiculous! Once I entered my choices, ( the few that actually applied) only 5 scholarship choices were listed! The same as before I entered any info!!!!! It’s fraud to me to describe something so wonderfully and get something that is the total opposite. Stop cheating people out of their hard earned money and their valuable time! I guarantee you that all those ‘testimonials’ and ‘video testimonies’ are paid actors. Oh and Satanic Temple is offering a scholarship for $666 if anyone is interested. That’s just appalling. Y’all who own this app as well as the 2 sharks who invested in it should be ashamed of yourselves. This is disgraceful.
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Response from developer
Hello Carissa1398 - Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and we apologize that your experience was not up to standards. We would like the opportunity to learn more about your experience and investigate your feedback further. Please email info@myscholly.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Will not update and took away the scholarships available to me!!
I originally got this app due to many people recommending it to me, saying that although you pay for it, it is absolutely worth it. I’ll admit that at first it was amazing and I loved the app however barely a month went by after I got the app and I started having problems with it. It stopped updating the scholarships and they decreased the amount of scholarships available to me. I used to have many options available as they informed me in the app (they have a place on the homepage telling you how much money worth of scholarships you have available) however, one day when I logged into the app, that amount had decreased drastically. Unless they fix this, I would not recommend it at all.
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Response from developer
Hello WinterMelon12 - Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We offer support to all users who may be experiencing issues with their accounts. In your case, there may have been various reasons for this to occur. One example, the deadline for multiple scholarships passed. To help resolve the issue you experienced, we will need to take a closer look into your account. Please reach out to info@myscholly.com for further assistance. We look forward to hearing from you!
Don’t download not free
I downloaded expecting help to weed out scholarships and was presented with monthly pay to get lists options for this app. If you want to charge for your service, charge a one time fee. Not monthly. I’m deleting the app as I’m not paying monthly and then have to figure out how to stop the payment. With all of the negative reviews, you won’t be able to stop the payments. If I could afford constant fleecing I wouldn’t be seeking scholarships. Scam.
Developer then contacted me because of the review , and showed how much it is to get a couple of poor scholarships on a monthly basis. Nevermind you can NEVER cancel! I recommend if you use this app use it for a month - use a prepaid visa with 5 dollars left on it and let them try to get the payments after a month.
Developer then contacted me because of the review , and showed how much it is to get a couple of poor scholarships on a monthly basis. Nevermind you can NEVER cancel! I recommend if you use this app use it for a month - use a prepaid visa with 5 dollars left on it and let them try to get the payments after a month.
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Disappointing
My son will be starting his freshman year in the fall so we downloaded this app. After completing all of the information, it continued to just show him the same 6 or 7 available scholarships, most of which didn’t relate to him at all. 3 of the 6 were for kids going to the University of North Carolina. He is not attending the University of North Carolina. Unfortunately, it wasn’t worth it for us and I’m happy I only signed up for 1 month.
I was contacted after this review and asked to contact customer service; however, I had already contacted them and was told to decrease the amount of miscellaneous items selected, but unfortunately this did not help.
I was contacted after this review and asked to contact customer service; however, I had already contacted them and was told to decrease the amount of miscellaneous items selected, but unfortunately this did not help.
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This app is an absolute scam
I was told to use this app/website from a person at my school (who clearly didn’t know you had to pay for it). My new email is now being cluttered by emails that say “someone’s name - Scholly” and then you can’t even use the app unless you pay monthly subscription like ok just take money from people that can’t afford much. I can’t even go on the app or website to delete my account to stop the emails. On the website if you login to try to go to settings it’ll just suggest that you get the app. Oh and I was doing a little research on their questions and answers section of their website (since apparently that’s the only other part of the website you can go to) and well they don’t give refunds and if you have automatic pay on for apple for a subscription they won’t tell you how to cancel that subscription. In the end I highly recommend you don’t get a subscription and you don’t sign up for this app. It’s a waste of time.
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Response from developer
Hello izzy._.edits - Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. The Customer Support team can assist you with unsubscribing from our email list. In regards to subscriptions processed through Apple, all subscriptions must be cancelled through your Apple account. This is Apple's policy, not ours. The app directs you to your subscriptions so you can cancel it yourself. Again, this is their policy, and both you as a user and Scholly agrees upon. I do not believe we received an inquiry from you regarding these issues. Please reach out to info@myscholly.com for further assistance.
Just make it free with Ads
I understand that y’all need to make money, but literally the point of scholarships is to literally pay nothing. Making a monthly subscription is only accessible to people who are able to pay therefore less people would use it. The company should mind as well just add Ads so its free and more accessible. In today’s world every person has targeted advertising that scatter across giant apps. Sheesh even the stupid non-profit college board sells our information.
To simply put it… do whatever you can to make it free. Working for money is really hard as a student and spending it on a monthly subscription just for scholarships sweepstakes that aren’t guaranteed just makes it harder for us.
To simply put it… do whatever you can to make it free. Working for money is really hard as a student and spending it on a monthly subscription just for scholarships sweepstakes that aren’t guaranteed just makes it harder for us.
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Sappy origin story, doesn’t help.
Guy who started it was poor and got $1.3M in scholarships Without this app. He created it to be easier for others, but charges subscription fees. Not even a free trial. The developer couldn’t have been his own customer because of the fees—- doesn’t seem like a savior to me, just another businessman trying to make a buck. If they want to help struggling students— help them. Don’t charge them. RESPONSE TO DEVELOPER: Your excuse means nothing. You use cookies to track, make users accept it & then make money off that tracking data. You offer no customer service — proven by your response to several of these concerns and comments, a YEAR LATER. Find your next cash cow— people will see through this soon enough. Shame on you. College is hope for so many & you steal money from those who are vulnerable & looking for help. Lord help you.
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Response from developer
Hi Dr. KluverBucy - Thank you for your feedback. We've always been focused on protecting users privacy. We don't sell data and don't sell ads so we support the app through a small subscription. We understand while some would disagree, but our goal is to do what's in the best interest of our users data.
Can’t finish Creating Account
I saw this as a featured app on the App Store. As the parent of a High School Senior, timing is perfect. A few suggestions before I get to my issue (which is not that there is a subscription). When creating an account? The first page should have the selection of Parent/Student before you enter an email. Now, the real issue. I can’t finish creating an account. The app constantly returns to the top after every entry. Selecting a choice and having it save takes several attempts. At one point, you can not get to the remaining questions.
July 2021 UPDATE: lowered rating to 1 star from 2. Why? Today, 9 months after my review to a real issue, I get the following response:
“We are constantly working to improve the app and its functionality. As software updates are made, we are excited to meet the goal of making our app more secure and user-friendly.”
Well, thanks for the non response. As noted above, in October 2020 when I wrote the review, my daughter was a senior. Way to go not answering or fixing issues. Feel sorry for those that pay for this service.
July 2021 UPDATE: lowered rating to 1 star from 2. Why? Today, 9 months after my review to a real issue, I get the following response:
“We are constantly working to improve the app and its functionality. As software updates are made, we are excited to meet the goal of making our app more secure and user-friendly.”
Well, thanks for the non response. As noted above, in October 2020 when I wrote the review, my daughter was a senior. Way to go not answering or fixing issues. Feel sorry for those that pay for this service.
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THE APP ISNT FREE
Please save your self and don’t download this app. From the description it sounds really good and useful but it is NOT. Once you make an account you can’t go past that because it will ask you to pay a monthly fee to use this app. I am in the process of applying for grad school myself and I thought this would be a great resource to help me find scholarships but it’s honestly not worth it. If I can call it a scam I would. It does not make sense to create an app for students to find scholarships but you are charging them monthly fees just to have an account and use that account to seek out FREE money! Like come on! So please people, do not waste your time, don’t get this app. I’m in the process of deleting my account.
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Waste of time
Saw this guy on shark tank a while back and no one gave him a deal. Now I know why. But I liked the concept and it sounded promising so I bought in for a very expensive one year membership to help my daughter in her first year of college. I'm a fair-minded person and I don't write a review unless I feel it's actually warranted to serve others. So, here you go. Based on our experience I would say that your chances of getting a scholarship through this app are worse than a roll of the dice in Vegas. Many of the scholarship requirements are so specific, or so extremely vague, that it's hard to find any that would fit your student- even in the most general sense. Although we did apply for the zombie apocalypse scholarship (not kidding) because we thought it was pretty funny. That was a few months ago and nothing but crickets. Don't waste your hard earned dollars to pay for someone else's retirement fund. You'll probably find whatever exisits out there through the Google search engine.
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Response from developer
Hey Randar - Thanks for your feedback. Winning scholarships isn't easy, we totally agree! It's why we built the app, and why we continue to add more-and-more scholarships every month. Some are definitely specific, but far from all. While it's not up to Scholly to award winners (we wish), we work hard to add new opportunities every month, be it niche or broad - and we're proud to list many scholarships that other sites don't post.
I’m better off using the commonly known scholarship websites.
Okay, I decided to try this out (because looking for scholarships that I qualified for is like going through a rabbit hole). Interesting enough, you cannot make a free account. It’s MANDATORY to pick a payment plan. Oh! And that plan gives you a short “free trial.” I picked a month so I could really use all the app’s advantages.
I’m here to tell you that I’m better off using the commonly known scholarship websites. I was hoping this app would help me find scholarships that are more local and/or don’t have that much competition. But majority of the scholarships that matched with my profile are just from other popular sites, mostly from Unigo.
When it comes to the app: I also don’t understand why I can’t scroll down on certain scholarships. If you click on the description and it’s too long, you won’t be able to scroll down and read the rest of it. Most importantly, you can’t scroll down and click on “apply.”
Another pet peeve about this app is that on my profile I stated that I’m attending a community college and yet the app keeps matching me to scholarships that are for high school students. 😒
Let’s say you tell Scholly you are from Florida. They will still send you scholarships where the requirement is to be a resident from Wisconsin or any other state you don’t live in.
I’m here to tell you that I’m better off using the commonly known scholarship websites. I was hoping this app would help me find scholarships that are more local and/or don’t have that much competition. But majority of the scholarships that matched with my profile are just from other popular sites, mostly from Unigo.
When it comes to the app: I also don’t understand why I can’t scroll down on certain scholarships. If you click on the description and it’s too long, you won’t be able to scroll down and read the rest of it. Most importantly, you can’t scroll down and click on “apply.”
Another pet peeve about this app is that on my profile I stated that I’m attending a community college and yet the app keeps matching me to scholarships that are for high school students. 😒
Let’s say you tell Scholly you are from Florida. They will still send you scholarships where the requirement is to be a resident from Wisconsin or any other state you don’t live in.
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Response from developer
Hey there - Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful. You should definitely only be matched with opportunities made for you, and not those available only to other states - we have passed along your feedback and will fix this bug asap!
Extremely disappointed
What seemed like an amazing opportunity for college payment was completely a fail. For starters, the app only works half the time, and crashes frequently. You pay the $5 a month, to be prompted with many scholarships which you will never hear from again. They offer house scholarships, which you will spend time on meticulously and hear absolutely nothing, and you cannot see progress, or even an accepted/declined option. This app gives false hope for scholarship, and overall I would not recommend it to anyone. If I was a developer I would make a selection screen where you can see the status of applications, as right now I’ve been waiting months for responses to yield me nothing.
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Functions like an App made in 2009
This app is hardly intuitive and thoughtfully functional is a major overstatement. I’ve had it for years and I think it’s functionality has gone backwards.
For any subscription fee, this app should at least have a sorting function. I shouldn’t have to weed out scholarships that I’ve already included data which makes them not applicable to me. For example, I’m going to grad school, I shouldn’t get any scholarships for future high school grads or for only undergrad students.
The app tells me it found over $500,000 in potential scholarships for me. But it’s showing me 30, with an average reward of $3,000 (that’s not being over dramatic and on the high side of the average).
Great concept, as it was when they pitched it on Shark Tank, but poor execution.
For any subscription fee, this app should at least have a sorting function. I shouldn’t have to weed out scholarships that I’ve already included data which makes them not applicable to me. For example, I’m going to grad school, I shouldn’t get any scholarships for future high school grads or for only undergrad students.
The app tells me it found over $500,000 in potential scholarships for me. But it’s showing me 30, with an average reward of $3,000 (that’s not being over dramatic and on the high side of the average).
Great concept, as it was when they pitched it on Shark Tank, but poor execution.
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Worst App ever-a total SCAM!
I downloaded this App and it never worked properly from hour one. Constant glitching, the app not opening or the app sometimes opened but my phone would freeze and all open apps would crash, my screen would go to the Home Screen and I’d have to give my phone a hard restart just to get the phone working again. I followed the directions on the Scholly website for IPhone users on how to cancel my subscription and it was canceled within days. When I go to my settings and click on my name it says my Scholly subscription was canceled in March of 2020. It’s now DECEMBER of 2020 and I just discovered on my bank statement that Scholly has been making unauthorized charges on my bank account EVERY MONTH for $7.99 since I canceled it back in MARCH! I sent Scholly an email, a direct message on both Twitter & Instagram and a private message on Facebook. I got a response from Facebook with a link to where Scholly claims I could cancel my subscription but it was just a broken link that took me nowhere. There is no 800 number to call. This company should be shut down completely, it’s a total disgrace and nothing more than a scam to make unauthorized monthly charges from your bank account with absolutely no way to stop them!
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Response from developer
Hey there - Thank you for taking the time to provide your experience. We've worked diligently on improving the app and are excited to continue to roll out updates so that it provides an overall user-friendly experience. Please reach out to info@myscholly.com for further assistance.
Not Free- Costs Money
What’s the point of advertising yourself as a free app, when the minute you get past the questions they say you have to subscribe.
Not only that, but they take ALL of your information first, and then turn around to tell you to give them your money or they won’t help you. This is not an even trade at all, I’m giving you something, why is their no return for it?
Further, there are literal laws on this 🙄 that also lay out why you should NOT misrepresent yourself. It’s ridiculous how many apps there are in the AppStore that misrepresent themselves in this same exact way. I can’t wait for someone to get fed up enough with these apps and sue them for this BS.
Also, if you’re goal is to help adults, as well as teenagers/children SAVE money by assisting them with finding scholarships, then WHY are you doing the exact opposite and taken money from them? Obviously if they’re looking for financial assistance, they probably don’t have all that much money
There are better apps out there and sites to get scholarships and grants off of that are free. It’s shooting yourself in the foot to pay for an app like this. It would be smarter for this company to offer a normal, free version, as well as a premium program that maybe unlocks ad-free, higher paying scholarships, fee waiver program, etc
Not only that, but they take ALL of your information first, and then turn around to tell you to give them your money or they won’t help you. This is not an even trade at all, I’m giving you something, why is their no return for it?
Further, there are literal laws on this 🙄 that also lay out why you should NOT misrepresent yourself. It’s ridiculous how many apps there are in the AppStore that misrepresent themselves in this same exact way. I can’t wait for someone to get fed up enough with these apps and sue them for this BS.
Also, if you’re goal is to help adults, as well as teenagers/children SAVE money by assisting them with finding scholarships, then WHY are you doing the exact opposite and taken money from them? Obviously if they’re looking for financial assistance, they probably don’t have all that much money
There are better apps out there and sites to get scholarships and grants off of that are free. It’s shooting yourself in the foot to pay for an app like this. It would be smarter for this company to offer a normal, free version, as well as a premium program that maybe unlocks ad-free, higher paying scholarships, fee waiver program, etc
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Response from developer
Hi REMLY13 - Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We've always been focused on protecting users privacy. We don't sell data and don't sell ads so we support the app through a small subscription. We understand while some would disagree, but our goal is to do what's in the best interest of our users data.
Disappointed
I get a lot of people in this world want to help but can’t always do it for free but this is just devastating. If you’re looking for scholarships then paying for a service that helps you find a scholarship(s) defeats the purpose of the scholarship(s) when the money spent on this service could easily go towards your education. Society is just messed up man. If you come to this app hoping for something amazing to change your future then I hate to disappoint you but you’re better off just googling scholarships because this is just heartbreaking. Also, it’s worth mentioning that if you’re going to invest in an app like this to help pay for school (hopefully) you might be better putting that investment towards stocks in the stock market. Just saying.
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Disappointed
Let’s forget about the whole paying thing to get scholarships for a moment. This app is ridiculously buggy. I tried to sign up several times and the log in would take SO long. I had to restart the app and resign up. When I tried to set up my profile, I could not enter birthday, citizenship status, location, and whether I was a parent or a student. Several other categories took a while to set up. And then when I tried to set up my scholarship feed, I could barely click on the categories. It was very slow and painful to keep trying to click on the tabs. And then at the end I got zero matches! So why did I sign up to get zero matches? Do I have to pay to get the matches, too?
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Website NOT app
This app has enormous potential but falls flat. Due to it being a featured app I allowed my son to sign up for it without doing research on it. My mistake. The app easily processed our payment but nothing else was easy. He could not complete the registration process so I emailed customer service to ask for a refund. Their reply was that the ‘app’ works best when used through a web browser. We had paid for access to an app not a web browser yet that is what we got. We used the browser several times over the course of the month bc they wouldn’t refund our payment and it was nothing special. There are plenty of free websites out there that do the same thing this one does. Completely disappointed this is even allowed to be marketed as an app much less promoted as one by Apple.
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