Fishbowl

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R147] 5/5 · US Fantastic app: I rely on this to get the real low-down at my firm.
2. [R152] 5/5 · US A place to be real: This feels like Gossip Girl but for professionals. I hope companies read this every day and start to question how terribly they treat us.
3. [R161] 5/5 · US Keeps you connected: Awesome source of information. Specially as a remote employee, this takes the place of the water cooler conversation, keeps you up to date to the pulse of your company
4. [R171] 5/5 · US The Reddit of the Corporate World: I love fishbowl! It’s raw and real and unfiltered, which I appreciate in the workplace! Seeing others problems and questions always piques my interest and makes me feel like I’m not the only one with similar questions and curiosities. Recommend to anyone who works any job!
5. [R65] 5/5 · US Better than LinkedIn: This is a better way to connect with professionals and network within your field or outside your industry if you’re looking to change careers. The live stream events are better than most paid webinars.
6. [R162] 5/5 · US Good app for getting a REAL gauge of the tech market: I really enjoy this app for the transparent discussions regarding salary, job / company reviews, and advice for career growth
7. [R170] 5/5 · US Besides Glassdoor it’s the best work app!: Besides Glassdoor, I’ve found the Fishbowl app to be beneficial and super informative for job hunting or communicating with my company
8. [R172] 5/5 · US Useful place to ask salary questions: Easy to navigate the app. The live events can be fun and informative.
9. [R146] 5/5 · US Safe place for fellow travelers: Fun place to go for empathy and reasons to keep on keepin’ on. So many common experiences. Like minds mostly just chiming in, but occasionally sharing bright ideas and inspiration!
10. [R168] 5/5 · US Enjoying this app!: I like how I can connect with other teachers all over the country. I like hearing the points of view and concerns of other teachers. The conversation s can get a little argumentative sometimes, but they are always interesting and engaging.
11. [R183] 5/5 · US Confirmation of things everywhere: Great app! Helps to know many teachers EVERYWHERE are seemingly seeing and experiencing the very same things I do.
12. [R3] 1/5 · US Broken App: This app constantly has server issues so you can’t update your industry. Can’t update your email or can’t update your description either you can try to update it 4, 5+ or more times it just won’t stick the app and their servers don’t work.
13. [R5] 1/5 · US Unable to sign up: The app is stuck on Gender selection screen. I've tried deleting and reinstalling as well. Still its stuck. Please fix it
14. [R6] 1/5 · US Stuck on gender: Huge bug with what is your gender. It won’t let me bypass it
15. [R7] 1/5 · US Can't access further due to gender selection: As the other user pointed out I can't access this app due to this gender selection page keeps asking my gender & refreshing forever. I have exhausted all options and even reinstalled but it doesn't work.
16. [R4] 1/5 · US Copywriter: Been closed out twice for comments that were not offensive or out of bounds at all. Seems arbitrary. Bit lame. Only use for job search stuff now and barely contribute original posts bc of the grandmas reporting comments for no reason.
17. [R9] 1/5 · US They’ll Protect Big Companies.: I was banned from this app for leaving truthful reviews about my company. They sided with the leaders of my company who reported my very plain and matter-of-fact posts and replies as ‘vulgar and offensive’. This IS NOT an app that fosters open conversation, it’s a tool for companies to control their own external optics.
18. [R28] 1/5 · US heavily censored: The amount of censorship leaves it at least as extremist as reddit.
19. [R32] 2/5 · US Such a terrible app!: This app caters to the middle 60% of opinions and anyone who thinks differently or isn’t exactly how the women refereeing the posts at fb think they start marking up posts, deleting them, and highlighting the ones that fit their extremist agenda. The app is buggy and full of security problems too. They begged me to be a community leader then sat there policing and censoring m
20. [R2] 2/5 · US No longer showing fresh content, no longer checking daily: For the past 1-2 months, I’ve gone from using fishbowl daily to only checking it once or twice a month. Why, you ask? Because for some unknown reason, the developers decided to change the “My Feed” sorting algorithm to only show the most popular posts from my bowls within around a month, meaning that every time I open the app I see the sam
21. [R234] 3/5 · US Disable “in case you missed it”: Most annoying “feature”. Should be able to toggle off. I read the latest post, leave the app, open it an hour later, and it’s showing me stuff from 2 days ago.
22. [R1] 1/5 · US Went downhill: This used to be where you can ask questions about life (dating, parenting, etc.) and you get answers from an educated pool of your consulting peers. Now that they have opened the app to all kinds of professions, the answers that you get are very different from before. This is no different from Reddit at this point and a waste of time.
23. [R29] 1/5 · US Not worth the time: Great idea but ultimately just an echo chamber for disgruntled employees and no clear discernment for what is and is not appropriate. Discrimination is acceptable as long as it is directed at the right demographic and open, productive discourse is usually drowned out by speculation and doomsayers.
24. [R317] 3/5 · CA Busy UI, rarely useful: 1. There is so much happening in this app, it’s more confusing than it needs to be and it’s obvious that it was trying so hard to not be LinkedIn that it ended up complicating itself to an unnecessary degree. No good, popular social media app is this complicated. 2. The vast majority of posts are should I take this $300k salary job or a $299k salary job with better work-l
25. [R17] 1/5 · US The app is broken: Something is wrong with the app. I am now unable to make new posts or respond to new posts. But far more troubling is that there is no one working for the app who will respond anymore to any messages. This is my last attempt to see if they will respond before I delete the app.
26. [R18] 1/5 · US No support response - app unusable: App broke - now just says to try again later when trying to post/comment (on latest version). I’ve reached out twice for help/resolution and didn’t even get an acknowledgement. App is now unusable, with no explanation or help fixing it
27. [R22] 1/5 · US Posting is broken: I can’t post. Haven’t been able to for weeks. It just says “An error occurred while posting. Please try again later.” I reached out to fishbowl twice over 2 weeks and no response.
28. [R23] 1/5 · US Zero Support / Response: Can’t get support to verify title and restore access to private bowl. Have sent multiple Emails.
29. [R12] 3/5 · US Can’t Log out.: Great App for anything you might need into but how come I CANNOT log out of the account or the app? That’s just beyond bizarre to me.
30. [R55] 1/5 · US Users won’t be able to log out: There’s no way you can log out of your account. So far it seems the only way is to delete the account, or delete the app from your phone. What an odd UX!
31. [R70] 3/5 · US Block/mute function needed: I want to be able to hide threads and block users if I need to but Fishbowl doesn’t make it easy to do so.
32. [R261] 3/5 · GB Doesn’t work on iPad in landscape mode: It’s a good app and useful but why doesn’t it work in landscape mode on a iPad… feels like a ‘big’ iPhone app. It’s not really useable along side other apps in this state. Would give 4/5 stars otherwise.
33. [R10] 1/5 · US Selling your data to your employers: App barely worked half the time, wonder why they want your email address? It’s to sell the data to your employer. Don’t trust it, don’t use it, and use an application that doesn’t “need” your personal identifier to use.
34. [R27] 1/5 · US Anonymous is a lie: Now expects you to post with your real name or company (which is bad when at a smaller company), marks titles as "pending" for several months. Deleted the app, since it's basically LinkedIn pretending to be something else.
35. [R164] 5/5 · US Good insight: Great platform for community to connect. I do worry about anonymity on bowls that are created or managed by the company you work for. Would be nice for Fishbowl to confirm it is complete and anonymity.
36. [R334] 3/5 · CA Not for Canadians: Not useful for Canadian… need more industries and more companies to be added
37. [R335] 3/5 · CA Not suitable for Canadians: The App contains a lot of US data and information, not suitable for Canadian professionals
38. [R95] 4/5 · US Great app to engage with people in different industries: Great App, not too much to complain about.
39. [R140] 5/5 · US Great app and community!: Highly recommended.
40. [R142] 5/5 · US What an awesome site!: Beyond informative from real people sharing so much job related info!!!
41. [R26] 1/5 · US Customer service nonexistent: Can’t even do simple things like update job title. No response from customer service. Has literally been 10 months of pending. Terrible
42. [R37] 3/5 · US Not bad: This app sounds great in theory, it is in amazing idea. However, there are many things that need to be fixed in the app. An example is the ability to change your position if you, for instance, get a promotion. Changed mine almost 6 months ago and it still shows as “pending”… don’t think anyone is reviewing those.
43. [R41] 1/5 · US It’s fine.: Its fine. The conversations are decent. Support is terrible. I updated my title and it’s been pending for over a week…. Seems like the app has no dev or support.