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Starving Student Card App
SUW Design · 70 ratings · ★ 3.3
3.3
★★★★★
70 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 20 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"card"
7 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I have a physical card, and all I want to see is the map for deals, but it won't let me do that without purchasing an online card" - Eden Page
2
"work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App Very Buggy, Please Add Codes or Printables. We just got this but cannot get the app to work most the time. Often things in the app are not clickable or it just gives an error code when you try to log in. It wouldn't matter if I could ju…" - Kalen Zeiger
3
"deals"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I have a physical card, and all I want to see is the map for deals, but it won't let me do that without purchasing an online card" - Eden Page
4
"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Constantly stops or doesn't load quickly." - Nollie Cardon
5
"website"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App Very Buggy, Please Add Codes or Printables. We just got this but cannot get the app to work most the time. Often things in the app are not clickable or it just gives an error code when you try to log in. It wouldn't matter if I could ju…" - Kalen Zeiger
6
"slow"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Been loading so slow today, what's going on? 1/10/25" - Derek Woodward
7
"paid"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can't use the app if I've already purchased the card nobody knows how to use the app when the $30 is already been paid period in other words I can't use the app" - Delores Angel
8
"doesn work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
📋 All 20 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
I have a physical card, and all I want to see is the map for deals, but it won't let me do that without purchasing an online card
Constantly stops or doesn't load quickly.
App Very Buggy, Please Add Codes or Printables. We just got this but cannot get the app to work most the time. Often things in the app are not clickable or it just gives an error code when you try to log in. It wouldn't matter if I could just go to the website and get a coupon code or print something off, but as it, it's not very usable.
Such a massive ripoff. They charge you the same fee every year. However, the perks do not reset or update every year, so you end up paying the same amount every year for less and less benefits.
This app is definitely sketchy, I was about to log in but it would pose a security risk specially if u can't spell log in right and with this being the only review and with only 5k downloads I can't trust it. neither should you
The deals on the preview are not showing up once i log in under my subscription account. Very dissatisfied with this app.
Constantly makes me press login if I hit the back button. Is slow, and limited features. Can't hide any stores or do anything extra.
Got a new phone and it's saying I need to pay again. What a waste of money. I tried to email their customer support with no response.
Can't use the app if I've already purchased the card nobody knows how to use the app when the $30 is already been paid period in other words I can't use the app
Signed up through Google play, paid $30, and now can't redeem my subscription. Please contact me devs
App now doesn't work with android? Log in just brings me to the buy a new card page, when I select already member and type in my account info it just takes me back to buy a new card.
Mobile app for Android does not work. I can access the website from my laptop, but the mobile app is not ready for prime time. I'd prefer to go back to the paper cards.
Always glitches and pulls up a pdf list of places
App doesn't work and in unable to use the coupons. It's a great idea to go paperless, but I would rather carry around paper and actually be able to use the coupon card I paid for.
Love the deals of course and longtime fan of the starving student card, but the app is giving me issues. More often than not, deals will not redeem when I swipe. Nothing happens. Time is wasting and I can't use the deals because they won't redeem. Please fix this.
Slow. Doesnt work.
Doesn't work, says it can't load the website. If it wasn't ready yet, why did you release it?
Been loading so slow today, what's going on? 1/10/25
Despite what the owner says, I am unable to see which locations I can use the card at. It just tells me how many miles away from some point of location. The physical card told me locations, plus the offers did not change, like they do on the app. I will not buy another.
It's nice when it works but they leave deals on that aren't actually offered so that it looks like they have more deals. It's super annoying when you get to a place and they say that they don't do it anymore. It is reasonable when you have a printed card but not for an app
Sentiment summary
53%
Positive (4-5★)
14%
Neutral (3★)
33%
Negative (1-2★)