ClassDojo

United States

4.85★ from 4,036,196 ratings · version 18.26.0 · 31 of the last 71 written reviews are one or two stars

Aggressive upselling and paywall tactics

9of the 31 read29%

App constantly nags users to upgrade to paid features, with unskippable sales pitches and dark patterns making it difficult to access basic messaging without paying.

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“Too many ads. — For an app required to communicate with my sons’ teachers, there are way too many ads. It is constantly trying to trick you into paying for a subscription. I just want the option to deny it and use it for the basic purpose the school is using it for not have to deal with ads.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Forced Sales — App wants me to make selections in order to try to sell services. There is a skip option however it does not work and does not allow me to see my feed without filling out the full questionnaire which I dont have time to do and I have zero interest in.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“Horrible sales pitch — Making me swipe through a dozen+ pages of an unskippable sales pitch so you can try to sell me your $100 annual subscription (as if you’re doing me a favor), and preventing me from reading an urgent message from my kid’s teacher about her being sick, is crazy work. You should actually be ashamed for the unskippable commercial you’re putting in the way of critical information.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English

Forced personal data collection and surveys

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App requires users to complete unskippable surveys and answer questions about their child before accessing teacher messages or basic features.

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“Forced Sales — App wants me to make selections in order to try to sell services. There is a skip option however it does not work and does not allow me to see my feed without filling out the full questionnaire which I dont have time to do and I have zero interest in.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“School choice — I have loved the app until recently. You are forced to fill out a survey, there is some skipping but not much. Then you have to click through 2-4 pages of “no I don’t want to buy all this extra stuff”. Such a time suck and instead of messaging my teacher I spent what little time I had messing with this app. Horrible.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Despicable — I have to use this app to communicate with my elementary aged kid. The constant requests to sell me more services and the data mining questions I can’t skip just to see the messages their teacher sends are thirsty and disgusting” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Excessive promotional notifications and spam

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App sends constant notifications and reminders to upgrade, including messages formatted like teacher communications to promote paid features.

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“Non-stop nagging and upsell — This app does will constantly nag you to sign up for one of the paid features. I might just uninstall it and use nothing than use this.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Spam notifications — "You're almost there! Activate your free trial and explore ClassDojo Plus features."” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“It wants miney — It begs for money” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 31 most recent negative ones. Newest review yesterday (08.09.2026), last collected today.

Britain

4.78★ from 373,813 ratings · version 18.26.0 · 16 of the last 100 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 16, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 16 most recent negative ones. Newest review 6 days ago (03.09.2026), last collected today.

France

4.75★ from 30,140 ratings · version 18.26.0

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

Germany

4.70★ from 2,473 ratings · version 18.26.0

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

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