Slickdeals

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R2] 5/5 · US Love the savings!!: I have used slick deals for several years and I always look there first before buying. It’s my go to for Christmas shopping and finding the deals and promos in one spot is really a game changer! LOVE LOVE Slick Deals!!!
2. [R5] 5/5 · US Good deals on wide range of things: There are other apps I use to get things at a discount, but this is by far the first app I check for deals. This isn't full of clear-out, leftover stock that didn't sell somewhere. Its deals are posted by other users and the is a comment section where people comment on their experience and on tech stuff, their expertise with some users asking if a certain produc
3. [R8] 5/5 · US God-ly app: One of the best apps ever. I find amazing deals on this app on the regular.
4. [R22] 5/5 · US Excellent app for hot deals: This is for sure the best app for looking for good deals, I have found so many great deals in this app that I have recommended it to several friends and family.
5. [R13] 5/5 · US Window shopping without going to the mall: Slickdeals is my favorite hit every day. Not only do I find deals, the comments section often contain extremely useful details explaining the pros and cons. Often commenters include the situations in which the pros or cons are mitigated in the favor of not purchasing or purchasing.
6. [R6] 5/5 · US Good: So many deals and I just have fun scrolling through all the Darla
7. [R17] 1/5 · US Always crashes on: I am using this app over years. It was really nice and never had issues but these days it is always getting crashed and not responding on my iPhone. Every time I need to restart. Surprisingly no issues on my iPad.
8. [R37] 3/5 · US Ads Auto Opening: You scroll through and touch an ad, it automatically opens. Obviously it’s generating more income because it shows that people are clicking on ads when they’re technically not. Happens so often. Additionally, it freezes up when scrolling vertically through the home pages and I have to close the app and reopen it. I’ve tried to delete the app and re-download it but it seems like
9. [R45] 1/5 · US Too many app freezes after latest update: Recently this app used to hang or have memory leak hangs but lately within the last couple updates I find myself constantly force closing the app to reset it after a freeze or lock up just scrolling through for maybe 5 mins. This app used to be full of great deals but now people just post anything and it makes it really challenging to actually stumble upon
10. [R97] 1/5 · US Update is 455: Crashes CONSTANTLY and overheats my phone. UNUSABLE
11. [R3] 1/5 · US Ads ruining things: Okay app. Becoming more less usable with latest design and ads
12. [R11] 1/5 · US Ridiculous ad pop ups constantly: I used to like using the app but now they’ve coded it so it constantly has ads pop up in my face and opens my safari with ads. Zero stars if I could, garbage sleeze ball marketing
13. [R20] 1/5 · US Ads invoked by scrolling: Not sure what the point of using this app if it offers inferior experience comparing to website. I constantly “accidentally“ click on ad banners when scrolling. Turns out if your finger happens to be over the ad banner when scrolling, the ads will be invoked. Absolutely greedy and annoying behavior. For businesses buying ads on this platform, your product definitely gets
14. [R24] 1/5 · US Officially now garbage app: This app is exactly what’s wrong with capitalism. I was fine with an app that extracted affiliate profit from me to help me find items I actually wanted to buy. But that’s not enough apparently, now they’re littering the app with pop-up ads on top of ads. Time to find a new site.
15. [R1] 2/5 · US New app versions are deficient: Slow loading new app versions, products don’t show pictures. Slickdeals used to have a great app, now filled with bloatware, slow, worse than the previous version. Please talk to your devs
16. [R10] 1/5 · US Last upgrade made this app painful to use: This app was working well but they just had to “improve”. You click a link and go to some external page. When you go back to the app, it resets to “for you” page and goes to the beginning of the page. Never mind that you may have been scrolling 10 screens down on a sub-forum or front page or elsewhere. Always resets to “For You”. Extremely unfriendly! Ple
17. [R19] 1/5 · US Update is terrible!: I don’t write reviews that often, but I felt I had to come here and write a review. I love sleep deals, but this new app has made it terrible. There’s no easy way to get back to the homepage. The black makes it very hard to read. Just numerous issues with it. God please go back to the original.
18. [R36] 1/5 · US Filled with Bloat Now: All of the recent updates have made the app and SD in general progressively worse. The app is now slow and buggy, freezing on me all the time. It also insists on resetting and showing you the logo startup every time you enter the app. You can’t come back to where you were before. The app also insists on showing you promoted and “For You” deals first and foremost. As for the
19. [R12] 3/5 · US Automatic Refresh: Overall I really like the Slickdeals app. But what I hate is the automatic refresh of the page/tab that you are looking on. For example you are scrolling through the deals on a page and lets say you are half way through or wherever you are on that page of deals and then you switch to a different app and then you switch back to the slickdeals app and now you are back at the top
20. [R31] 3/5 · US The information sometimes is not correct: I see that sometimes it shows the wrong price and also not Alert me the items that I save on the list of Alert Items
21. [R76] 1/5 · US Pictures disappeared after new update: Ever since they updated the app with the new interface, all the pictures of the deals have disappeared and been replaced with the Slickdeals logo. Incredibly unpleasant to use now.
22. [R34] 1/5 · US From very useful to complete garbage: Used to be a great app for finding good deals. Now their search throws hundreds of results completely unrelated to the search instead of what I am looking for.
23. [R66] 1/5 · US New UI is a massive downgrade: Been using the SD app for many years, and this new UI “update” provides about 20% of the functionality of the previous app - example: Ssarch results have been dramatically reduced. Very sad that the old app is dead.
24. [R74] 1/5 · US Bring back the old UI: I’ve been using Slickdeals daily for 10 years, this new update is awful. They need to fix the search, it doesn’t save recent searches. The comments in deals are new to old which is terrible for reading others thoughts on deals. The search feature does not work well, missing deals. Just bring back the old UI, it worked perfectly.
25. [R43] 3/5 · US Promo Codes Not Working: Tried a few Amazon promo codes to discount the item, but did not work. What has been advertised for Woot! and Walmart have been spot on and great.
26. [R9] 2/5 · US Doesn’t display correctly on iPad mini: Text and buttons go off the screen on an iPad mini Fully updated. Tried deleting and reinstalling Been bad for at least a couple weeks
27. [R125] 5/5 · US Not built for iPad Mini: fonts are too small, like font size 3 or smaller.
28. [R14] 2/5 · US Invasive app: This app is highly invasive. It appears designed to track your every move online, from the deal images you view to the links you click. I understand they earn money through affiliate links, but there's no legitimate reason to embed tracking in the product images themselves. I have a DNS-based ad/tracker blocker on my network, and because of it, none of the images load, which confi
29. [R30] 1/5 · US Trackers getting worse: Been using the site and app for many years. The link tracking now is being blocked more and more and the new app is a step down
30. [R82] 1/5 · US Even on an iPhone 16 Pro Max this crashes due to their analytics. Need immediate fixing: The app used to be great but after the big update it’s become a battery sucker with all the multiple ad/analytic tracker hits these days. Not to mention removing the ability to flush the apps cache. I get that it’s a business, but you’re hurting your business and reputation for over more than a year with this
31. [R15] 4/5 · US Good, not great: Only issue is there are too many promoted deals (aka, paid advertising).
32. [R25] 1/5 · US Toxic community: Moderators have their own agenda, mainly reposting deals community has shared and getting the commissions. Very fishy on how staff posts get upvotes and other posts get downvotes. Pretty toxic environment. A lot of the critical reviews are 100% accurate. Moderators spam a single item for each color then mysteriously they all make to the front page. Using the app will get you dri
33. [R39] 2/5 · US Wish I can downgrade: New app is so bad, i really wish I could downgrade. App quality is going down as “paid deals” posted by staff are going up.
34. [R7] 2/5 · US Removed DMs and too many fake “deals”: Give us DMs back and the 100+ notifications per hour is insane. Most of the notifications are unworthy to be called deals.
35. [R94] 1/5 · US Stop with the spam: Stop sending me notifications every day about sweepstakes. That’s literal spam.
36. [R201] 3/5 · CA Canada: Not for Canadians
37. [R207] 3/5 · CA For Canadian customers...not so great!: I am just starting to use this app that I downloaded over a year ago, and it was so very disappointing to find awesome deals on the nice format, only to discover that the deals were available for Americans only. The app would be VASTLY improved if it could tell you if the deals were available for Canada, the U.S., or both, maybe with a Canadian flag and Amer
38. [R23] 1/5 · US Unreliable: Every time you scroll through the tabs when you first load the app the deals will not load. Have to always force close the app and reopen it. More reliable just to use the browser.
39. [R212] 4/5 · CA My Search Engine for Best Deals: I am living in Canada but whenever I'm looking for best deal in the US, I always use Slickdeals for best deal at the time and I am always happy with the deals I have got.
40. [R69] 1/5 · US New Feature: Pop Up Ads: Pop ups? In 2025? Seriously?
41. [R40] 1/5 · US New Update is TERRIBLE: Whoever approved this app update, never used the original app. This new UI and bloat they added makes the app unusable. Everything doesn’t need to be made “modern” just because you can. Go back to the simple UI design of the past.
42. [R49] 1/5 · US New design is awful: Please bring back the old design. I used this app every day, but now it’s just not the same. The old design was perfect. Horrible update.