Unusable Mobile App Experience
The mobile app experiences significant usability issues, rendering it frustrating and often unusable for users. Common complaints include glitches, poor search functionality, and difficulties accessing purchased content, leading to a preference for using the website instead.
10 people in 10 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 10 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 10 people using Udemy Online Video Courses
- What goes wrong
- Missing feature10% of posts
- Doesn't work10% of posts
- How bad
- 90% of posts are complaints · pain score low (32/100)
- Since
- 24 Aug 2026 → 15 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Udemy Online Video Courses
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 10% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“Used to be good app but now I need a course just to find the courses I have purchased and use the downloads.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint990%
- Request110%
Sources
10 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…“working” it is slow or the actual fetching of data is non existent. Just use the website or if you’re in a real pinch use the web mobile version the App Store version is just garbage.
Strong complaintDoesn't workUdemy Online Video Courses — This is terrible Just downloaded the mobile app and can immediately tell this isn’t gonna work for me at all on my phone. The video feed is less than about a quarter the size of my screen and impossible to actually see any detail. Can’t hide the course notes to focus on the vid either. And…
Strong complaint…s god awful. Not sure why such a successful company hired awful devs. It’s a wanky app, and off the top of my head, here were some major issues on the app: not all of your purchased videos will show up on “my learning” section, the search section doesn’t work… just says “trouble connecting”, wishlist is missing some…
Missing feature…ens most of the time to the point where I just join from my laptop. Udemy has good content but the app is horrible
Strong complaint…e Video Courses — Terrible Glitchy App Platform and content is good. App is terrible. I download a course for offline use and it requires an internet connection to verify my credentials so doesn’t work, thus defeating the purpose.
Strong complaint
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 27.6 · 23 Sept 2026, 19:00 → 20:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Unusable Mobile App Experience a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 10 different people described it independently, in 10 mentions, the earliest from 24 Aug 2026 and the most recent from 15 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: declining — mentioned less often than before. Momentum is 18/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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Discussion
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