What users complain about in Bloomz: For Teachers & Schools

Awful

This app is terrible, you can’t see posts that the teachers make, if you don’t happen to catch the notification you can’t go back in to see what it says.

Terrible support no replies

No replies to support email. Upgraded account and cannot get a reply to any of my support questions and upgrade not reflecting.

What happened to this app??

I’ve been using this app for years and it has been great for communication with my kid’s teacher. Since the recent update my conversation with the teacher disappears if I leave the screen. It says I have 7 notifications from the school but I click on it and it only shows lasts year’s announcements from a principal that is no longer at the school. I try to send a private message to the teacher and it sends it to every teacher in that grade. Any communication I’ve managed to get with the teacher goes away so we can’t continue with any conversation. She has to contact me first and then I can respond. Whatever they did in this update needs to be undone. I hate what they’ve done! It worked great before.

Worst app ever

How is this rated 4 stars? We’ve been forced to use this for multiple years now. What enhancements and “major” improvements could they be possibly be talking about. Nothing improves. Navigation is confusing with menus and empty sections that are never used. Should have just focused on messaging between teacher and parents. But has a terrible calendar, hard to navigate announcements history, and now some sort of rating system called “Interactions” where your kid can be rated? By whom? I clicked it and got a nice little animated donut chart that filled up and told me my child is 0% positive. Same to you, Blooms. Same to you.

Terrible. Stop The Madness!

I loathe this app. But the school uses it. Doesn't solve any communication issues. Enhances existing confusion by adding another layer to the onion. And reinvents every wheel from the dot com era along the way. Only not as good. I wrote a message, attached a photo, and the only option presented to me was "send" on the attachment screen. So I clicked it. It sent the photo and erased the message I wrote like it never existed. That's not normal for a messaging app. Where's the prior art for that? This app is full of idiomatic nonsense. Worth every penny.

Horrible App

Nothing loads, awful user experience, lack of troubleshooting

There’s Got To Be a Better App

Trying to update your profile and check your notifications on this app is like trying to do heart surgery - you need years of schooling to figuring it out. It doesn’t update or save what you try to do. Buttons don’t click. Kind of a useless app.

Horrible Interface

Notification management is non-existent. Ghost notifications impossible to clear.

Unable to add more classroom

I click on bottom right + sign, but the screen does not pop up from Bottom only small window can be seen at bottom thats trying to open

Select Most Recent

I’m glad my son is switching schools finally, the Bloomz app has to be the least ok out of all the bad apps including parent square. Why do I still get text instead of notifications on the app? Why is it that I must go to the School website to figure out dates for events/ early outs/ open houses. I really think it has to do with the operators. Unfortunately this is what I’m receiving as the awful service.

New update ruined the app

Unfortunately, since this app updated to include more features such as AI. It hasn’t worked well since. I’ve completed all the troubleshooting recommended over several months and I’m just done trying. Images are blurry. Videos load incredibly slow. None of this was an issue before the app updated to its newest features. I’ll be moving to class dojo instead.

I hate this app

Never opens on the first attempt, crashes often, and notifications inconsistent

Hate it

I really hate this app. The first time you open it nothing happens. You have to exit clear out the app and go back into it for it to load. Notifications suck. You get a notification but doesn’t tell you what for so you have to sit and go through everything just to make it go away and usually it pretty much nothing. At most it’s because you have to click on to see who it was sent to which is dumb. Please fix these issues and make it more user friendly. I wish the school didn’t have to have a contact with this app for the next few years so that they could just ditch it and use something better.

Terrible School App

This is by far the worst app that I am forced to use with my kid’s class. Why are they incapable of just putting the content of the message into the push notification? I get push notifications and emails telling me I need to log into the app each time to view the messages. I emailed support with the feature request and they said they won’t do it due to “privacy”. BS. I get push notifications from every other app on my phone this is no excuse.

THE WORST!

Absolutely the WORST app schools/sports teams can use. I would give it zero stars if I could. It’s extremely difficult to navigate. Almost impossible to find previous messages. It’s just awful. I wish my kids’ schools and sports teams would choose a different app because this one is just outrageously horrible! Not being dramatic. Just fed up!

Take out AI

Since the update of AI being added to the app, it has become almost impossible to write your own posts and add multiple photos to a Bloomz post. Please remove the buggy AI feature to return to normal use of the app, I’m close to begging my entire school to switch to something more user friendly. The UI went to **** when AI was added. Also please fix the notification system, I’m never getting messages from my parents.

Worst app on my phone!

Updated review (previous review below). For the past days, my and my wife’s Bloomz app has stopped working, even after updating. It basically kicked us out of login and doesn’t allow to get back. It’s really the worst app ever. Would give it zero stars if I could. Terrible app. It is always looking as if there is 1 unread notification (number 1 on top of the app icon) but when you get in the app there’s no way to tell where the notification is, I’ve looked everywhere and found nothing, so it’s always difficult to tell if you need to open and read it or not, I’ve missed notifications from the teacher due to that. It’s been like that for a while now even after updating to the last version.

Bloomz App

Almost every time I use this app it is slow to log in or load updates. I keep getting error messages when trying to look at an update or photo. I have tried everything to make the app work correctly but it makes it worst. I will have full signal/connection and it still loads like it is dial up internet. I pray I do not have to use this app again.

Always issues

The data always has a delay in loading, app crashes often, I get notifications but then the new data isn’t actually loaded in the app so I have to log out and in to TRY and get it to load but rarely does.

Waste of $125!

I am so upset that I paid money for this almost unusable app. Please, Bloomz, hire a professional who can get this together or refund all the teachers’ money. My frustration grows every day!

Won’t let me log in

The app auto logged me out. When I tried to log in it said my username or password were in correct. I used forgot password and it told me the email address I used to create the account, and verified, was an invalid email address. Now it’s stuck in the create a new password page. When I enter the new password it keeps telling me that the password is incorrect and to enter the correct password. The app has been glitchy since I started using it, and if it wasn’t what my child’s teacher decided to use I would never use this app. There are many other apps that are far better and don’t have these issues.

Just ok

I’ve been using the app for years for my child’s school, some aspects are great but it can be really slow to load information. Also I wish when there is a notification it would tell you what class it’s for or where to find it in the app. I feel like there have been times where I’ve missed important details from my child’s school because I can’t find it.

Horrible

Glitchy and so hard to use. It shouldn’t be this hard to use an app and make posts. Seems like it’s more user friendly on a computer, but the mobile form is awful.

How do this app have 4+ stars?

It’s so clunky, often crashes, possibly one of the worst apps I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to navigate. I’ve been using this for 6 years now, as I’m forced to by the school, and all I have is complaints, and all I hear from parents and teachers alike are complaints. If you’re a school considering locking yourself into this app, do yourself and all of your parents a favour, find something else.

unusable right now

app will not open, shows status "success" but won't actually open the app. have to uninstall.

Undo the update changes!!!

This app hasn’t been the same since the update. I receive two exact notifications back to back when I receive a message. I can’t see other parents’ photos. My messages delete as I’m writing them. You know how frustrating it is having to write messages elsewhere then pasting them of the Bloomz chat cause of so many failed attempts at writing something? Cannot update my profile picture. What the heck was in that update!? Fix it!!!

App does not open

This app which used to be fully functional does not open on my iPhone. (For the last month) I can access through a computer, but this is beyond frustrating.

With every update… it gets worse

Seriously disappointed in this company and app. As they have raised subscription rates, this app that I’ve used for many years for my eldest is becoming so dysfunctional and cumbersome. Attempting to leave a comment on a teachers post means that you can only see the text box and can’t see any other sentences/it doesn’t scroll with you as you type. The pictures and posts are so low quality even when we know teacher is posting pics from a newer iPhone. Also. It doesn’t send us notifications consistently when the teacher posts or sends a message. Which is dangerous when a teacher is messaging us because our kid is sick. Even on wifi we can’t view the videos or pictures. Very annoying. It wasn’t like this a year ago.

Awful Update, Clunky App

This app is trying to do too much and it’s just not good. The update from last month is terrible. And now every message I am sending is hidden with another message that says “please update your app”. Yet in the App Store there is no update available. Our school pays a couple thousand dollars a year for this app and all I (school staff member) hear from parents is how confusing or complicated it is. No one seems to enjoy it. We are looking for a new app to use in the 2026 school year.

Please Fix Bloomz ; (

I used to love using this app for my classroom but since there was an update with AI it has gotten tremendously worse. It is very difficult to use on a phone (which is great for teachers on the go). I would like to keep using this app, but may need to find an alternative if it does not improve. Bloomz staff, it would be great to hear from you so we know you are aware the of issues and working on them. Thank you!!

Soooo slooowww!!

This app has NOT “IMPROVED”! When messaging a specific person, you can’t see the full message you’re typing. There’s only 1 line so if you need to edit, you have to try and work the cursor back to the earlier part of the message that you can’t see. O my gosh! This app, and website, are so slow to update!! I am constantly getting notifications that “we know things are slow and we’re working on it”. HIRE BETTER PEOPLE AND FIX THIS JUNK OF AN APP!!!!!!!!

Pls Make it font size sensitive

The font size is too small and I can barely read it even with my glasses. I’ve got the font size up to maximum, but nothing happens. Please add this feature.

Notifications don’t clear

Please FIX notifications not clearing. Since this is communication with my child’s school, it’s not helpful to think I’m missing a message.

Horrible app

There are so many bugs on this app. Notifications are broken to the point the app always says you have one. We’re actively looking for a replacement at our school.

What!?

I’m not sure how this app has any stars at all, it is confusing and difficult to navigate at best. I absolutely hate having to interact with it!

New updates are terrible

Please sort out this app! I really like the modern look but it seems the update was not ready and maybe was rushed. It’s been extremely unreliable as a communication platform.

New release is buggy!

I’m a school administrator, and this new release has been nothing but problematic. Teachers are having trouble posting, posts aren’t loading for parents, and when I try to view a feed for one of my classes, all groups come up. Please roll this back - it isn’t ready! (I will edit my rating when this is fixed - usually I am a Bloomz fan!)

Subscription required

Ridiculous you have to pay for a subscription to adjust notification settings.

Useless

This app is useless. Impossible to log in, kicks you out for no reason, stops showing you updates, doesn’t allow parents to reach each other, it’s not clear how to reach the teacher, wastes so much time. I truly wish the school would just email me with any updates or call me in the place of emergency. I hate this app, and would give it zero stars if I could.

App errors

Every time I try to view my child’s information, UI elements disappear from the screen making it impossible to do or view anything.