Nearpeer for College Reviews

To be quiet honest, the idea is right but it’s executed horribly. For one, the layout is horrendous and awkward to navigate. While you do have access to the possibility of meeting new people, hence it’s premise, Nearpeer itself makes it quiet difficult.
Whenever I try to navigate, I constantly have to awkwardly maneuver through the interface. It seems like it was meant to be a website, but it instead was forced into a mobile app. Quiet frankly, it seems like the software engineers don’t care about Nearpeer at all.
Additionally, I never get notifications from Nearpeer. I used to get texts and emails at first, but that doesn’t even happen anymore. Whenever someone texts me or someone in a group chat texts me, no notification pops up. Others have complained about this.
Likewise, it feels as if no thought was really put into Nearpeer . Everything is kind of crammed into a mobile app horribly, and it results in a horrible aftermath while trying to reach out to other incoming students.
Therefore, I don’t recommend Nearpeer, but if you want to try to connect with incoming freshman or others in your college/uni, then I guess you can try. However, be aware that you will have many difficulties while doing so. I have seen others give 5 stars, but I can’t relate. Tinder is better at connecting with local uni students than Nearpeer and that should say something.

I thought that Nearpeer was great, the layout is very weird and complicated but other than that it was fine. Until i could never log in again, the log in button doesn’t do anything at all. You press it and nothing happens, it happens in Nearpeer and on the online version. I contacted them after i had already tried deleting and reinstalling Nearpeer which didn’t work. I emailed them back the same day and haven’t reviewed a response.

I think it’s okay, but it’s got a lot of bugs.

As an out of state student, I didn't know anyone in my college class at first. And now my summer orientation is not happening on campus. So I was happy to get Nearpeer to help me find other students who live near me and are into sports and other things I like.

Works great for me. I’m kinda introverted until you get to know me. So I like being able to find individual people to connect rather than only a big chat group.

As a new student I signed up and right away started seeing matches with other students who have things in common with me. I like it!

I got to meet my classmates even though campus is closed. Found and connected with other students into kayaking. Can’t wait to get on campus.

Worked pretty easy, made some friends while we're all home

What a great app! Students able to build friendships before campus making the transition to college so much easier.

New to college so its great with Nearpeer to meet other new students in the same boat as me. pretty simple to figure out.

I know how weird it sounds. A mobile app that isn’t mobile friendly. But it’s true. I don’t know how but it’s true. The menu doesn’t work half the time it’s a nightmare to navigate and to type in. And sometimes it will log you out and fail to let you log back in. Great idea. Very poor execution

Please fix the bug that is preventing people from changing their profile picture

Nearpeer is so bad!! It makes me so sad because it’s such a great idea, but it will refuses to let me type, or search, and every single time I close Nearpeer , I lose where I was and what I was doing. Very disappointed :(

Looks like a great app! But wouldn’t let me make my account so, never knew what it was like to use it🤷🏽‍♂️

I could type a message and it wouldn’t show up and or send so Nearpeer was useless and crashed frequently

Click the icon and I get a white screen all the time. Nearpeer wont load

Wouldn’t pull up any other students profile or let me message people.

really works AWFUL on phones

Nearpeer is great for those entering college and wanting to meet new people whether it be their majors or by interests.