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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. [R1] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Not a robot: I haven’t logged in to LinkedIn in years. Trying to login seems impossible. The “not a robot” prompts are apparently too difficult for me to understand. Mark all boxes with busses. If a bus bleeds over to another square does that count as a square? Tried both ways and still I fail it. Try the audio version. Am I supposed to put spaces between the words? Try both ways and still fail. H
2. [R7] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Problematic & Evasive: Sign in process can be outlandishly time consuming and ID requirements can be shockingly invasive.
3. [R10] LinkedIn 1/5 · US CANT SIGN IN: It won’t let me sign in. I’m being led in circles. To approve a sign in, I have to “follow steps in your LinkedIn app” well I can’t. I’m trying to sign into the app. To sign in it says it will send an email to verify myself, in that email, it says “We noticed you recently tried to sign in to your Linkedin account from a new device. You can finish signing in to your LinkedIn account b
4. [R13] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Janky barely works: The app barely works. Spent 10 mins on one recaptch only to find out it was stuck in a loop
5. [R3] LinkedIn 3/5 · US Cannot Access Certain Features Unless You Pay: I can no longer extensively browse people through search because I have to pay in order to look at more than 5 people but I can't afford to pay for the monthly or yearly membership as it's ridiculously priced. I understand how Premium makes sense for the job application process but everyone should have unlimited access to the search capabilities.
6. [R19] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Like there’s any choice: LinkedIn practically monopolizes the job market and gives heavy advantages to the employers rather than the employee. They spam you to pay for their premium services and yet can’t identified and verified a real person. The platform is crowded with so called ceos and job gurus. There’s no real authenticity to what these companies really are. They do not do anything about th
7. [R27] LinkedIn 3/5 · US App usability and features are degrading and moved having paywall: Quality of this app and LinkedIn overall gradually has been degrading over the last few years. With the latest update they are focusing on further limiting features and searches. I expect this focus on making $ at any cost to the user experience to continue and LinkedIn will become fully paid app. The good news there are now alt
8. [R35] LinkedIn 5/5 · US Only rating 5 starts so you’ll see it: I think it’s absolutely insane that it wants me to pay for looking at Jobs?? That’s so ridiculous!!
9. [R4] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Once I paid, it crashes every time I open it: Once I upgraded to premium. Every time I open the app on my iPad it prompts me for an update. And doesn't allow me to do anything. I click update. Which brings up the App Store. Asking me to open the app. And it starts all over again, prompting me for the update. I've deleted the app. Reinstalled the app. I can do nothing on LinkedIn. Because all I get
10. [R6] LinkedIn 3/5 · US Comments are buggy: Cursor jumps to the end of text when attempting to revise comments on a post, no matter where it is placed. Tagging more than one user in comments also fails.
11. [R21] LinkedIn 3/5 · US How does this app get 4.8???: This app especially on the iPad is really cumbersome and difficult to use. LinkedIN has put little thought into making it a good experience. You have one app, one job things just don’t work well. I’d be paying for their upgraded subscription if I felt they would do a better job of something as simple as one app.
12. [R22] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Fails to open: This app closes after the startup screen. Sometimes it works.
13. [R33] LinkedIn 3/5 · US Lost my Premium membership: I just paid $42 with taxes for a monthly premium subscription on June 12, 2026 and should have premium until July 12th but for some reason my premium subscription is gone from my account on LinkedIn but it still shows as active in my subscriptions on my phone. That’s a lot of money for a subscription for it just to disappear.
14. [R37] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Customer Service about hacked Account: I tried to Get my account back multiple times after finding out my account was Hijacked and now being impersonated, And now the LinkedIn customer service is just ignoring my plead, so if this doesn’t get resolved or have my Number Changed to my Actual number 1386, I Will personally File a Lawsuit For Discrimination Against My Data
15. [R50] LinkedIn 4/5 · GB Customer Service: I would have the pro subs but LinkedIn have banned me from doing anything on here making it hard to contact friends for opening and myself from speaking to clients and recruiters. Very frustrating.
16. [R8] LinkedIn 4/5 · US Impossible to find saved jobs on app: No option to find saved jobs on the app, must use PC for this feature seems overly cumbersome
17. [R48] LinkedIn 3/5 · GB Disappearing features: I cannot access my list of jobs in the job tracker using the app, I have to switch to the website. Additionally, The "in app" job application (the Apply button) breaks GDPR rules by defaulting the checkbox to be ticked when completing a job application review to follow the job poster. GDPR rules clearly state any form of subscription or similar must be a user choice to op
18. [R16] LinkedIn 1/5 · US Stop letting ads take over my audio: Stop letting ads take over my audio
19. [R20] LinkedIn 4/5 · US App concept and execution are great but the amount of notifications should be criminal: I could not understand why I was getting flooded with random summaries and updates constantly so I went to check- they had added several dozen individual controls for turning off notifications. It took me 15 to 20 minutes to turn them all off. That was a cheap trick I don’t appreciate.
20. [R15] LinkedIn 3/5 · US New layout: Hate the new location of the notifications into this tiny bell at the top of the screen.
21. [R18] LinkedIn 3/5 · US New Updates are frustrating: Please go back to the way we would be notified of new posts. This new look is not intuitive.
22. [R24] LinkedIn 3/5 · US Mobile app view sucks: The way the text and buttons show up on the new update suck! Texts are much smaller and so are the buttons. Please bring back the bigger font and the way the buttons were displayed. Everything looks compact now and it’s just not user friendly.
23. [R39] LinkedIn 3/5 · GB UX must hate puzzle players: Overall the app is good apart from one element in particular. I’m a daily puzzle player and it’s absolutely infuriating that to later go and check the results to see where you rank you 1. press the results button (which shows you the completed game, not results) 2. press the See results button (which shows you a splash screen comparing you to CEOs/people with your nam
24. [R51] Glassdoor | Jobs & Careers 1/5 · US Sold out: Glass door has sold out the employees that expect honesty from fellow employees by allowing companies to delete negative reviews essentially turning a pier reviewed platform into another app shilling our data for corporate reputation washing.
25. [R52] Glassdoor | Jobs & Careers 5/5 · US Stephanie, LPN: Thank you Glassdoor for really understanding what it takes for nursing professionals to level up they’re employment!!!
26. [R54] Glassdoor | Jobs & Careers 1/5 · US AI has ruined the app: New AI update has made the app unusable for me. Terrible and not at all user friendly.
27. [R56] Glassdoor | Jobs & Careers 3/5 · US Ghosting: Way too many ghost jobs/companies
28. [R65] Circle Communities 1/5 · US App goes dark: When watching a video in the Circle app, if I pause video & navigate to another app or answer a phone call and navigate back to the video the video is dark and will no longer play and I have to completely close down the app and it loses my spot in the video. It would also be nice if the app would remember between PC and mobile device where you were at in the video (same login) inste
29. [R66] Circle Communities 5/5 · US Community Support: This has been a great way to share our weight loss journey, getting tips and encouragement, and celebrating wins!
30. [R67] Circle Communities 3/5 · US It's great but has a couple surprising flaws.: Just started using this app for a community art space. First big frustration is trying to create a post. It'll show the different fields of title and your message etc. but once I tap to start writing, the fields crowds together so I can't see the message field. Trying to scroll up or down doesn't do anything. I have to go to the Web version to create
31. [R68] Circle Communities 2/5 · US Not a fan: I find the platform very difficult to navigate and I find that the search is not helpful at all. I’m not a fan of the layout whatsoever and it is just not something that I would ever put my business on.
32. [R79] Mighty Networks 1/5 · US Infuriating: I can never login easily. The app never remembers me, so I invariably have to find an email notification that I’ve got a message, click the link from the email that sends me to a webpage that then asks me if I want to get the app, which I already have, and THEN it opens the app. The group I belong to is a private group & so when I search for it, it doesn’t show up. If I click on “sign
33. [R81] Mighty Networks 3/5 · US Cool but glitches: It is a cool app with so much but I often have to reset or remove and reinstall the app. Too many glitches.
34. [R82] Mighty Networks 1/5 · US Forced update now can’t use app: What a pain The required update forced me out of being able to use the app Their answer - use the web browser. How about not forcing an update (making it required and can’t do anything till you do) I would do zero stars but not possible.
35. [R83] Mighty Networks 5/5 · US Easy and friendly: This is a nice, safe place to go and feel loved and to share.
36. [R94] Buffer 5/5 · US Great overall but needs more apps: I love how easy it is to set posts for multiple platforms! It has so many already but honestly it needs an option to add accounts for apps not listed and be able to schedule posts for them too. Especially places like Reddit! Now ofc I’m not sure if they have to talk to the apps developers to allow them to integrate it, but if not then it’s definitely time for mor
37. [R95] Buffer 3/5 · US Has big issue!: It seems like a great app however I say “seems” because why did i have to reset my Instagram password to login only to be told it was incorrect? Once I got it logged in, it sent me through a whoooole verification process that had so many glitches on its own that it confused itself into thinking i was messing up so it no longer allowed me to continue. I got one channel logged in but
38. [R96] Buffer 1/5 · US 1 Star is being awfully generous: Can’t login to InstGram and it’s been like that for a Year. Complete waste of time and an App
39. [R97] Buffer 5/5 · US Helpful: Really simple to use allows me to post one video to all my socials I recommend but they should lwk add a editing part so you can edit your vids
40. [R107] Fishbowl 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.
41. [R108] Fishbowl 5/5 · US I love it: I love it
42. [R109] Fishbowl 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.
43. [R110] Fishbowl 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