# School Dismissal Manager (SDM) — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of School Dismissal Manager (SDM) by School Dismissal Manager, rated 2.60/5 from 71 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/school-dismissal-manager-sdm/id1587998272/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/school-dismissal-manager-sdm/id1587998272.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 21 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 34 ## Newest reviews (7 of 26) ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2023-08-10, version 8.00* Supposed to use this app for my daughter’s school and I can’t even create an account. It says when I go to create an account it gives me an “error” message then it says “Unable to generate forgot password request based on the provided input parameters. Contact your school for assistance. I’m not even trying to get a password I’m trying to create an account to use it and can’t even do that. ### 1/5 — Good luck *2023-02-13, version 7.00* Use this to check my daughter out but constantly get errors that my session has expired despite just logging in. Spins and won’t load, then you finally get to the screen, hit next and boom, session expired. My poor daughter is always in recall. ### 1/5 — Don’t like this app *2022-03-29, version 6.3* Terrible!!! I cannot update my default dismissal without it continuing to kick me out! ### 1/5 — Unstable app that keeps crashing *2022-02-16, version 6.1* This app won’t even get past the log in screen. We are now required to use it for school and can’t even get into it. Terrible app and support. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2022-01-05, version 6.1* This app worked the first day I got it and hasn’t since, complete JUNK ### 1/5 — Crashes before I can even open it *2022-01-02, version 6.1* I have no idea the quality of the app because it just crashes after I hit log in. I uninstalled and reinstalled it a few times. ### 1/5 — App Crashing *2021-12-02, version 6.1* App Crashing every time, I try logging. Have been able to open successfully even once. Tried reporting the issue in App Store, which then takes to a website, after selecting first drop down as - Report quality issue, website does not proceed to next screen to provide issue description. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Calendar Does Not Work *2025-09-03, version 11.00.25* After deleting and reloading the app several times, I continue to receive the error message “System was unable to retrieve the calendar information.” Without access to the calendar, the app is absolutely useless. ### 1/5 — Can’t log in *2025-08-23, version 11.00.22* Well this app is useless. I can’t even see the password I entered to confirm that it’s correct. The same password works on desktop but is rejected in app. Have you even tested with a password manager? ### 1/5 — Error! Invalid Login *2025-08-20, version 11.00.22* The app doesn’t work anymore. The website works, but the app just returns Error! invalid login. But it’s the same login that works in the website!?!?!??!? Painful user experience. ### 1/5 — Can’t log in *2025-08-20* Well this app is useless. I can’t even see the password I entered to confirm that it’s correct. Have you even tested with a password manager? ### 1/5 — Stopped sending changes *2025-02-21, version 10.17.30* I made an exception for the day for my children and it did not show up on the school end I had no issues till this week where is suddenly did not report my changes ### 1/5 — Buttons in app don’t even work *2025-02-06, version 10.17.30* How this was sold to schools and how it is still broken is beyond me. Can’t submit an exception because the buttons on that page are all broken. “Add Exception” “cancel” and “Back to Calendar” buttons do not work on the add exception page. It’s been this way for at least months and remains unfixed. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-08-20, version 10.12.30* Won’t let me create an account Update: the school hasn’t been able to give me any information as to why the app is not work and has said I’m not the only one having issues ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-08-13* Won’t let me create an account ### 1/5 — Useful for the school / AWFUL for the parents *2024-03-16, version 9.04.30* This is a classic example of an app that is beneficial to the business (the school) and awful for the clients (parents and families). It’s so buggy, and takes entirely too long to deal with. It makes life as a parent of school age children much more difficult than it needs to be. ### 1/5 — Not working *2024-01-24, version 9.04.30* This is the second time I tried to log in and it won’t load. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works great! *2024-07-01, version 9.04.30* Our school started using this last year, and it’s been a big help for us. It’s easy to use and haven’t had a problem all year ### 5/5 — Glad my school has this *2022-01-28, version 6.1* Our car line runs noticeably faster and smoother. App is much easier to navigate than others and support has been fast and responsive. ### 5/5 — I LOVE this app! *2021-10-19, version 6.0* It’s so nice to have an App that’s user friendly and easy to use. I can set my children’s dismissal within minutes. Thank you SDM for giving me peace of mind! ### 3/5 — Not bad easy to use but tiresome *2023-09-16, version 8.00* This app is OK. Easy to use. Nevertheless it would be great if they could have a button that says "Apply same exception for all children " or select certain children with check boxes to add the same exception. The school makes us add after school clubs as an exception so that's manually entering like 25 or more exceptions x3 kids. If you have more than one kid you'll end up spending a lot of time managing your pickup app! ### 3/5 — Having trouble since update *2022-04-28, version 6.40* This app is usually very slick, both as a parent, and as a principal managing dismissal for a school. Since the update, on the parent side, it crashes whenever I select a date to enter an exception. All the best, ### 2/5 — Glitchy *2025-08-20, version 11.00.22* Doesn’t let you edit exceptions when needed ### 2/5 — Error *2025-03-25, version 10.18.30* If I leave the app open after the last time using it then I get an error message and have to close and reopen the app. ### 2/5 — 3 Days into using as a parent and already annoyed at the UI and UX issues *2024-08-28, version 10.15.30* The constant, repeated (sometimes as many as 10) “your session has timed out” prompts that pop up when you open the app is enough to get you started on a bad foot. When another parent creates an exception for you to pick up their child, it does not show up in the “Today’s dismissal” section and only lets you know the other parent did what they need to do correctly once you check-in. If I want to know before hand, I just have to pray that everything is right and whatever god you believe in has it right - cause you sure won’t be able to tell it’s right in the app. Overall, there are multiple confusing sections and options in the parent app which should be pretty simple. SDM needs to work on cleaning up their options and presenting them to the end user better. ### 2/5 — Continues to jam up *2023-11-08, version 9.01.30* I have to continually uninstall and reinstall the app almost every time I need to use it. I have an iPhone 14 pro so it is not that the phone can’t support the app. It seems perhaps the app can’t support the phone. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*