StudyBlue

I have known about study blue for a very very long time as I have been in school for most of my adult life. I absolutely love study blue, but i was inconsistent with using it because they literally charged you for every freaking feature. want to flip cards? It’s a charge? Want to randomize, its a charge! And I hated it. All my long-time Study Blue users know what I’m talking about! I was desperate one night and logged onto study blue just to find out they merged with chegg or chegg bought it out, I dont care what happened. Anyway, I started messing with the website and when I see it was not charging me to try to use the features I fell in love with, honey I rejoiced! I checked my account settings and there was no longer an upgrade section. Whatever happened between Chegg and Study Blue, this college student is grateful for it! I can now use the review sheet feature in peace! I have tried other platforms, but I have always come back to Study Blue. If you start charging again, I’m leaving. I’m a broke college student (keyword: broke!). UPDATE: I found my old notifications referencing updates and paying for the updates. I knew I wasn’t crazy

About 3 years ago I had messed up in school; I really wasn't taking it as seriously as I needed to. I contacted study blue to cancel my subscription, and told them how disappointed I was in myself. They sent a heart felt email back pretty much saying they will keep my subscription open in case I ever wanted to go back to school, and said they were sorry to hear things didn't work out. Customer service like that is hard to come by in todays world of technology. Fast forward 3 years I am back in school, using study blue to help me prepare for every quiz, or test I have. I’ve gotten all As so far. This app not only is amazing as far as what you can do to study from flash cards, to quizzes, or fill in the blank, but this company CARES about its customers. I can genuinely say Study Blue cured my study blues! Its hard to find a company nowadays that helps you do better as a person/student, but also cares about you in general. Will definitely be using until I graduate! And would recommend to anyone!

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Okay, so this was the BEST app in the world.. until maybe a month after use. As I just finished creating a deck of card to study, it suddenly did not let me do so. The app told me I had to pay for the app, to continue use. It did not let me have access to any of my old stacks, because they had completely disappeared. This would not have been a problem if the app had mentioned a certain trial time frame, yet I never received such information. I do not think that I will be continuing usage of this app, not because of this problem, but because of the monthly price of $7 every month, if annually (cheapest offer). I hope that future users will understand that the beginning is simply a trial, and will have to pay. But I will give credit to the app and its creator. When I received the notification to pay for usage, I knew the app was too good to be true.

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I've been using StudyBlue for about ten years through college and grad school and it was so easy -- just create flash cards on my computer and study flash cards on the app. I'm taking a professional class now and decided to do what I always did so I created my flash cards and when I opened the app there wasn't any way to study them. At least not anywhere that was intuitive. I tried to save my deck but they made me join a class but my class isn't through college so it didn't make any sense. I typed in crap just to see what it would do and they said they would review it and until then I could review my own materials....that's the only thing I wanted to do but there was no where for me to do that!!!!!! And now I wasted all this time making flash cards that I can't even use. It's so frustrating. Go back to your old model. —changed my status to non-student like you said. STILL won’t let me save flash cards without joining a classy. So frustrating!!!

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I've been debating for awhile if I should buy a year subscription or not. I finally caved when they had a promotional discount. I decided to try it out for my A&P lab. I was excited that I could input pictures (did this on my laptop) but there is no editing tool so I could circle certain parts of my picture that pertained to that flash card. I downloaded the study blue app to my iPad so I could study on the go. The flash cards are so small I can't make out what I need to in my images and there is no zoom in feature for the images. Definitely a waste of money and time so far. On a positive note I do like that you can make a copy of a previous study guide to change things or add to the deck. Some changes and add on's I made got deleted even though I hit save. I like the idea that I can take my flash cards on the go. I don't have to carry around a huge stack of them. Hopefully these features can be improved on before my year is up.