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Zutobi: Permit & Driving Prep
Zutobi AB · 232,572 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 65 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.
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"free"
25 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Softlocked on the sign-up page. After selecting my state, the app takes me to the free trial page, and where there is no exit button. This softlocks the user unless they try the free trial." - anamebutnouser
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"trial"
19 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Softlocked on the sign-up page. After selecting my state, the app takes me to the free trial page, and where there is no exit button. This softlocks the user unless they try the free trial." - anamebutnouser
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"subscription"
17 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Weird Activity. Your app is seemingly sneaky when trying to take money from my account, even after I got rid of my subscription AND the app. The fact it’s still trying to process a payment off my card when I try to make a purchase is very irritating as it …" - Lorenzo Warren
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"money"
16 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Weird Activity. Your app is seemingly sneaky when trying to take money from my account, even after I got rid of my subscription AND the app. The fact it’s still trying to process a payment off my card when I try to make a purchase is very irritating as it …" - Lorenzo Warren
5
"free trial"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Softlocked on the sign-up page. After selecting my state, the app takes me to the free trial page, and where there is no exit button. This softlocks the user unless they try the free trial." - anamebutnouser
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"test"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Missing a lot of questions. I did all the problems, but see more than 10 questions in the actual test not included in the app. This app is a scam." - yilin.yang
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"without"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "don’t download this. it seemed like a good app for my upcoming test, but it wouldn’t even let me use the app without paying. every time i exited out and refreshed it would keep me on the subscription tab and wouldn’t let me exit. i’m not paying for an app i won…" - Cheryl_loves_keto
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"questions"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Missing a lot of questions. I did all the problems, but see more than 10 questions in the actual test not included in the app. This app is a scam." - yilin.yang
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"unless"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Softlocked on the sign-up page. After selecting my state, the app takes me to the free trial page, and where there is no exit button. This softlocks the user unless they try the free trial." - anamebutnouser
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"permit"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why is it forced?. I was going to get this app to try and start studying for my permit because everyone was giving this app great reviews and I kept seeing the ads on my fyp so I downloaded it and tried to set it up but after I did it automatically took me to…" - Lee 💜✨
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Missing a lot of questions
I did all the problems, but see more than 10 questions in the actual test not included in the app. This app is a scam.
Softlocked on the sign-up page
After selecting my state, the app takes me to the free trial page, and where there is no exit button. This softlocks the user unless they try the free trial.
Weird Activity
Your app is seemingly sneaky when trying to take money from my account, even after I got rid of my subscription AND the app. The fact it’s still trying to process a payment off my card when I try to make a purchase is very irritating as it stops me from purchasing other things. I’m reporting this app for such things as this definitely didn’t go unnoticed!
BEWARE waste of time
You have to buy the subscription to even use any of the contents in there.
Does not work
UI overlaps on the iphone SE 2022 and I physically cannot continue forward, it's softlocked
don’t download this
it seemed like a good app for my upcoming test, but it wouldn’t even let me use the app without paying. every time i exited out and refreshed it would keep me on the subscription tab and wouldn’t let me exit. i’m not paying for an app i won’t even need in a month. i’m really disappointed i thought i found a new great app to help with my test.
Shady practice
Do I really have to buy the damn subscription to access the contents of the apps without even knowing what is in it?
0 stars
Won’t let me cancel my subscription and keeps taking money from my account. Would give it zero but won’t let me
stupid!
glitchy could even push anything
Confused
I can’t push next after I choose the state it’s writing over the NEXT saying great but u can’t click to continue
Scam
Tried to use it but it won’t work unless I payed
Subscription required
After the free days, these chodes make you subscribe to their service. No thanks, a book at the DMV is free and does the exact same thing.
Scammers
Took my money before the free trial was up, denied my refund request twice. Also that money I had just gotten for my graduation so you guys are very cruel.
Pay???
So weird why yall make us pay we already gotta do too much
App stopped working and lost progress
I’ve been using the app past 2 days and today the paper stopped working I re downloaded the app countless times and yet nothing just infinitely loading
it costs money
learning about this should be free…
Nobody *really* Wants to Help You
No app wants to help you out of the goodness of their hearts for free anymore. If you get busy, you’re paying a $8 trial monthly. A knowledge test costs a lot of money and overall learning to drive is expensive with a bunch of fees along the path-why do you think you have the right to leech off of me further? Don’t pay? Then you’re limited on courses.
Annoying
It doesn’t even let you do it for free. You have to pay for it. You cannot even press X to go back to the home page because there is no X button.
Might be good
I can only give it one star because when I try to use the app it will let me select my state but then I cannot tap the next button on the next screen. There is some words that are over the next button and it effectively makes the me unable to continue even getting through the app setup. I’m using an IPhone 16.
HORRIBLE
I sign in but it doesn’t let me practice, doesn’t let me log back in, many ads, many glitches.
Pay
I couldn’t even start without having to have a free trial i don’t care to pay this app sucks
No
Stole my money b4 the free trial was up and put me in debt
Free doesn’t Exsist here
I wanted to practice to get my permit and heard a lot about this app and it’s great reputation, after I got it and signed up, it continuously wouldn’t let me start unless I subscribed to do plus, which I didn’t want to do. But I would have been forced to anyway if I wanted to practice with this app.
Sucks
You can only take one test without PLUS, of which the free trial consists of three days. It’s like these app creators want people uneducated on driving
Paying??
Never said that one had to pay, after that it led you to a page and you couldn’t exit out of it unless u subscribed.
i can't even use the app
it's forcing me to do the 3 day trial and when i did i still couldn't use the app because it's stuck on the screen where it's forcing me against my will to subscribe to this stupid app😭 can't even do an authentic review cus i can't use the mf it's just behind a pay wall like omg
this app is NOT FREE!!!!!!!!!!
completely misleading app and scams you into paying a WEEKLY FEE!!!!! disgusting how a company can profit like this over people’s SAFETY. learning driving safety rules should be FREE and accessible to everyone!!!
Misleading ‘Free’ App Advertising
Advertised as a free app, but you can’t actually use it without being pushed into a subscription/free trial immediately. There’s no clear option to continue for free, which feels misleading and frustrating. Very disappointing experience.
Outrageous subscription service
$8.99 every week? Insanity
No reminder that the trial subscription is ending or near ending either? Terrible honestly I lost a lot of money this way
No reminder that the trial subscription is ending or near ending either? Terrible honestly I lost a lot of money this way
Your pay wall is horrendous
Why when I first download the app and I go into it the FIRST thing I’m greeted with is the app FORCING me to look at reviews for plus and then it forces you into the screen of a 3 day trial. There is zero button to get you out of this and there are no other options in the app. It’s ridiculous because I want to earn my permit without having to pay more money than I need to but when I’m cornered into purchasing a subscription it’s really truly irritating.
Not subscribing for a test.
Why can’t it be free? I get maybe setting a subscription for ads maybe. But to take a test? BS!
Charged before trial end.
The App is really great and all but I was charged before the renewal date, I wasn’t supposed to be charged until June 4th and have already been, so now I’m having to go through a refund process. Won’t be using this app again.
Bad practices
After using this myself, I recommend recommended it to a class of 30 children. I was overcharged and Zutobi would not help me at all.
Monthly subscription?
Why would I pay a monthly subscription to learn how to drive??? That’s just money gouging, this should be free to teach everyone how to drive safely. 👎🏽
Forced to Get Plus
They force you to purchase a trial for plus and don’t provide an X button to get out of it.
Missing knowledge - Scam
I took my state motorcycle permit test this morning. I passed within 16 questions. Out of those sixteen questions, 7 of them were about three wheeled vehicle or motorcycle sidecars. I took every module/test in the app and NOT ONCE was three wheeled vehicles or sidecars ever mentioned. I had to use intuition and physics knowledge to deduce the correct answers in order to pass or I would have failed due to literally never covering the subjects at all. For an app that costs $7.99 PER WEEK, that is an absolute scam. A very large majority of individuals would have failed that test this morning and Zutobi ROBBED my $7.99
Sucked
They did not have much of what you needed for the permit test and I canceled my fees but they still charged me.
Stupid
Hi, I am almost old enough I drive. And I got this app based on an ad I saw! So I was like, " Cool, let me download this! So I decided to use it after a few days! So I log in, till I realized that I HAVE TO PAY TO USE THIS APP. BTW GUYS IF YOU WANT TO GET YOU BETTER PRAY YOU GOT THE MONEY!!
paying in app
if you gonna have to pay to use the app just make the app itself cost money. not wasting my money on this.
Still charged me after canceling free trial, TWICE.
Like the title. I had cancelled the free trial the same day and I was still charged $7.99. Twice. Fool me twice I guess.
unusable without subscription
can’t answer questions unless i pay for subscription but won’t lead me to said subscription
This app is butt
Makes you pay for it and it sucks
7.99 a week
I downloaded the app thinking I could get free supplemental help for learning to drive, before I can even do a lesson, it says I need to pay 7.99 a week to use the app.
Pay to Use
Why have it be a free pay if you have to pay to use it. There’s no options to use a free version, only a 3 day free trial and the you have to pay 7 dollars a month. There’s other apps you can use for free that will teach you the same things.
Greedy 🥀
Every time I open the app it asks me to pay 8$ a week. They let you answer 6 questions in chapter 1 then make you pay to continue 🥀
THEY KILLED my family!!!!!
Took $16 dollars from my girl
Paywall
Forces you to pay.
Takes ur money
I canceled my 3 day free trial 2 days before it was going to renew. It somehow still charged me regardless of me canceling it. There was nothing I could have done since my subscription said it was cancelled.
greedy
can’t finish a lesson without them forcing you to start a trial
It sucks
You get to chapter 1 and you’re ready for the questions but you can only get the question six for me and then ask you to pay for it to proceed so this app isworthless
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Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)