Gradescope Reviews

Gradescope Reviews

Published by on 2026-02-13

🏷️ About: Students, upload your assignments to Gradescope more easily than ever before! If your instructor uses Gradescope for your assignments, you can now upload your submission with our mobile app. After installing and opening the app, login to see your Gradescope courses and assignments.


       


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Overall Customer Experience 😎


🤬 Negative experience
75.5%

😎 Positive experience
24.5%

🫥 Neutral
0.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 223 combined software reviews.

Is Gradescope Safe?
Gradescope appears generally safe, but use with caution.
24.5/100

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Is Gradescope Legit?
Gradescope appears legitimate, though exercise caution.
24.5/100



Read 44 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

1.4 out of 5
Teehee

I hate school and Gradescope

Trash

Seems only for portrait mode and will log you out every time you close Gradescope . Better to just have this app online and was hoping for a way to export files directly to this app from note-taking apps but have to download them first.

Horrible.

Doesn’t remember sign in, this happens on pc too, what a STUPID FEATURE. My uni also has 2FA so signing into this garbage program always takes 10 years. It also cannot even show you questions on Gradescope and redirects you to your web browser if you try (seriously, why even have a mobile app?) this program is an embarrassment and it blows my mind that my university even uses it. Trash.

Literally useless, web version is better

You can’t do anything. You can’t submit regrades, view incorrect problems/feedback, all you can do is see that something is graded or not. Why even have an app? It also does not remember the sign in details so you have to enter the school and login manually every single time. Pretty poor development, but then again education doesn’t get the funding it deserves does it?

The most godawful app I’ve ever used

Gradescope is unusable. It knows what school I go to, yet when I’m logging in, it makes me find my school from a list of every school that uses their service. It also apparently unable to remember my login info. I also can’t upload a lot of my assignments on Gradescope and have to use the web version. Would rate 0 stars if possible.

Worst App

Making you log in every time you open Gradescope is so annoying. It also needs to do a better job of sending notifications before the assignment is do. Canvas is better and I don’t know why people us this.

annoying sign in

it logs you out every single time you use Gradescope . then you need to navigate through 8 different portals. i’ve had some wi-fi issues before, and it took me 30 MINUTES to log in. that is unacceptable.

Can’t Even Sign In

I tried to sign into the mobile app using my college account and everything, but I can’t even get past the sign in screen. Every time I enter my credentials it just takes me back to the sign in screen. Quite literally a useless app.

Should have just been a website

Why even make an app if you’re just going to direct the user to a website every time they need to do any task of substance. Gradescope has wasted so much of my time and my this app experience would be far better if it simply never existed.

I Love Logging In Every 5 Seconds

Please just remember my login info. Use Face ID or something. It takes so long to select the school and enter my login each time I just want a quick check of my grades.

Broken app

You have to sign in every single time you open Gradescope and viewing feedback will just take you to an error screen. App is almost completely useless.

This is fire lowkeyley

download this yo

Complete garbage

Sadly I am forced to use Gradescope for school. Every time I have to use it I have to sign in again. That is if I want to check my grade or submit an assignment which I do several times a week. Gradescope is untested and half functional.

Why does it log you out immediately?!?

The log in process is lengthy enough with university ONIT. I have to keep Gradescope open (and device unlocked!) or I am instantly logged out and need to redo the whole process. Very annoying and makes it very hard to submit assignments!!! :(

Does not work on ipad

This does not work on my ipad.
Simply useless for me to only be able to grade on my desktop.

Unusable app

Gradescope fails to expand to my tablets size. It has no zooming functionality. It makes me sign in every signgle time without even being able to search for my school. Inconvenience every time. Only people use Gradescope because they are forced to

improvements needed

this app itself is great, but Gradescope is so annoying to use. It doesn’t keep you signed in so I have to sign in every single time. And on the iPad app, it looks like it hasn’t been adapted for iPadOS.

Developers PLEASE fix these issues. With so many college students using this app these need to be changed.

Horrible App , Great web function

It never let me login on Gradescope . I would go through the steps and then it would take me back the opening page it has when you open Gradescope . The website is great but I wanted Gradescope for on the go and it was horrible and I couldn’t even use it.

kinda pointless?

i cant even use notifications bc it logs me out every single time. notifications do not work.

Updated often for what??

Takes 10 seconds before letting you click sign in then makes you select ur school before making u select ur school again seconds later. Fire the people working on Gradescope because they are clearly not doing anything.

HORRIBLE

Gradescope is absolutely terrible. It doesn’t remember my login so I have to sign EVERY SINGLE TIME. It is always having crashes so it prevents you from turning in your work. It also doesn’t help that professors are clueless and don’t know what to do either yet they still want us to have it 🙄. If I could rate this 0 stars I would.

Literally unusable

So whenever I try and scan a submission it gives me an error the second I open the camera but whenever I submit a file there’s an error on submission. And both of these issues persist even after redownloading.

Scan Errors

I think the newest update ruined scan functionality on my iPhone. Timed submissions are no joke and Gradescope almost cost me a significant grade. I restarted app and deleted and reinstalled to no avail. A total bummer because it was working well before.

so many issues, so much potential, please improve

Gradescope could be so useful, and in many ways (in principle), it should be. Being able to scan and directly upload to this app is a huge win. Unfortunately, Gradescope suffers from so many buggy issues and flawed design choices. Please fix these:

- You have to log in every time you open Gradescope . Every. Single. Time.
- Attempting to change or add to your submission COMPLETELY removes your scans.
- Scanning is relatively buggy
- You cannot view your actual this app submissions in Gradescope after submitting!! This is essential to this app itself!
- You can’t see how you assigned numbers to questions in Gradescope in an assignment. It displays all the numbers in one long line and, once again, requires you to use your browser to view.

Overall, Gradescope is just above the bare minimum. Please, fix the above issues and Gradescope will actually be one of the most helpful/useful apps for assignment submission.

Unoptimized iPad app

iPad app is just the phone app slapped in the middle off the screen. And massive black bars on either side

I cannot login

The web version works fine, but somehow the mobile version doesn't even have my school. I go to NYU, not a small school by any means.

iPad II

Gradescope doesn’t adapt to iPads so IPad users are stuck using a phone screen as an app. It’s probably less useful than just linking the webpage to the Home Screen

(Almost) Useless!

this app already had a decently functional mobile web version. But, the most annoying part of using it was having to re-select my school and log in every single time. Gradescope DOESN’T FIX THAT! If you have Gradescope closed for more than a few minutes, it logs you out completely (it can’t even remember your school).

I recognize some of this could be institutional policy out of this app’s control, but there’s no reason Gradescope can’t remember the school I use to log in and use native iOS auth components (i.e. ASWebAuthenticationSession) to correctly and securely access password auto fill and WebAuthn/Passkeys for institutional login. Otherwise, what’s the point of having an app at all?

Bad login

The inbuilt scanner is amazing but the design where I have to login through my school portal every time I close Gradescope is not very user friendly.

Works fine, horrible scan quality

Gradescope works as intended for uploading documents but I wish the devs would either steal someone else’s pdf scan api or improve their own, because scanning documents to submit on Gradescope takes at least 5 tries almost every time to get writing to be not burnt out but also not bleached off.

iPad version desperately needed

The iPhone version does not work well on the iPad! Especially annoying if you’d like to upload a PDF from a note taking app.

Works but I don’t want to log in every time I use the app

Why do I have to re-enter my school and user information every time I open Gradescope it’s so tedious and annoying

A Pain to Use

Requires you to log back in every time, which is very annoying. Also, when viewing a graded assignment, it’s not intuitive how to see where you lost points.

One positive is that it has a really good document scanning functionality.

Camera scan issues

As far as I can tell the biggest motive to get this is to directly upload work to this app without using an intermediary like adobe scan, but unfortunately the scanning functionality is very poor. It gets out of focus easily and there is no good way to make it refocus so it just stays out of focus until it wanders back into focus. It is also bad at picking up writing in various lighting conditions, so as far as I can tell Gradescope is just a waste of time.

Fine app but logging in is super frustrating

The actual UI isn't bad and Gradescope is far easier to use than scanning a pdf and uploading on a PC, but the biggest issue with Gradescope is that you end up going through numerous different login portals every time you open Gradescope .

If I want to submit an assignment, I need to first select what school I am attending in a super long list of schools, then I have to log in through my schools portal, and sometimes I get a 2FA prompt on top of that. Occasionally it just doesn't even work and I have to start from square one. Now this might be mildly annoying but it's really exacerbated by the fact that every time I need to upload an assignment I have to go through this process again. After spending several hours on an assignment it's so frustrating to have to browse through several menus just to upload a PDF.

I get it's probably for security but I don't need NSA level protection for my PDF uploader. If someone really wanted to hack into my account and upload my homework for me so be it. If this issue was resolved I'd instantly give Gradescope five stars because otherwise it's a great application.

Keeps signing me out

Why do I have to log in eat time? It doesn’t even save the school for me.

Needs an iPad version

Lots of students use iPads now, the iPhone version is inadequate. It surely can’t be that hard to slightly adjust the UI and it’s scaling to work on iPads. I just got Gradescope though and will update with more use.

Login issues

I would expect Gradescope to keep you logged in especially if it’s on a personal device. Not the case for Montana State University (net ID) it logs you out every single time and redirects you to the schools website to log back in. It isn’t the quickest process and has almost cost me a few assignments that I was in a pinch on. Please fix this!

Just needs improvement

Ideally this should be an amazing app that works just like the website. But unfortunately to do a lot of the main tasks it requires or redirects you to go to the website. And I think most people download Gradescope so they do not have to visit the website all the time. I hope the devs take this to consideration on their next update.
Other than this, it’s an amazing app and I like the recent updates.

Lifechanging

I love this app 😍

Quick and effective

As an ME student at Purdue, submitting work is quick and takes 10 seconds. Must have app.

Clean design, well done

I haven’t had login problems.

The scanning/add file option allows me to submit photos from my camera. It’s very quick; I love it.

Gradescope is well designed — I can access everything I need (which in reality isn’t that much).

My only complaint is I have to open this app from a browser to view graded submissions. Not having it in-app seems like missing critical functionality.

Don’t understand all the low reviews.

While definitely not perfect, Gradescope was simple to use and it didn’t give me issues and had its own (imperfect) scan system so I didn’t need to use another app. And it’s not trying to milk me for my money like most other scanning apps!

Normally I’d give it 4 stars due to the iPhone interface for iPad and the scanning taking a couple tries to get right, but I’m giving it 5 stars to counter the ridiculously low average rating Gradescope has.

Finding out this app existed was one of the best days of my life

YES A this app APP I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!! Submitting my work is so much easier now 😁



Is Gradescope Safe? 🙏

Gradescope appears generally safe, but use with caution. JustUseApp Safety Score for Gradescope is 24.5/100.
This assessment is based on our NLP analysis of 223 user reviews. Combined with the app store average rating of 1.4/5.

Safety Analysis

88.6% of users say app is risky 🚨
88.6%

6.8% of users say app is safe 👍
6.8%

4.5% of users have some concerns ⚠️
4.5%


Is Gradescope Legit? 💯

Gradescope appears legitimate, though exercise caution. Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for Gradescope is 24.5/100 .
This conclusion is based on analysis of 223 user reviews.

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Features

To upload a submission, click on the assignment in the “Not Submitted” tab and either “Select File” to select an existing file from your device or “Scan” all pages of your completed work using your iPhone’s camera.

Students, upload your assignments to Gradescope more easily than ever before! If your instructor uses Gradescope for your assignments, you can now upload your submission with our mobile app.

Note: For V1 of the app, you will be directed to our mobile website for any advanced functionality, including viewing feedback and submitting timed, programming, or online assignments.

For variable-length assignments, “Assign pages” to indicate where your answer for each question appears within your submission.

After installing and opening the app, login to see your Gradescope courses and assignments.

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