App Profile: Five Star Study App

idekatthsisbe

Rating: 3/5

I was very excited for an app that could make digital copies for my notes to have them available via google drive. the other features such as scheduling and reminders seem promising. For the main feature though (making a digital copy of notes) I’ve found that a large amount of the margins are cropped out which means most of my notes end up unreadable unfortunately there’s no way to adjust the cropping of the scans. The app has a nice organization system but for people who use the whole page it becomes useless. Which is unfortunate considering said feature is the MAIN FOCUS, concerning how long this app has been out I doubt I’m the first to experience said issue and I don’t see it being changed anytime soon.

Flora226

Rating: 5/5

Wow! A company that finally made something useful. I’m impressed and pleasantly surprised. I purchased a Five Star 5 subject notebook from Office Max on clearance today. I wasn’t feeling that great when I bought it so I didn’t noticed all of the little details about the app until later on in the evening. I downloaded the app not expecting much while making flash cards for my biochemistry class. I tested out the app by writing a question on the first page and keying in the answer. Then I placed my physical flash cards on the page and the question was on the front of the virtual card in app and I typed the answer in on the back. OMG! When you can turn biochemistry notes and questions into a fun game it makes a huge difference. This is a blessing for me. I’m going to go back to Office Max and buy as many of these notebooks as I can for my classes for next semester. The app is easy and fun to use. I can’t wait to tell my professor about this because it makes reviewing the material so much fun. I’ll definitely be using the app on my lunch break, for sure. Thank you Five Star.

mcollier2557

Rating: 2/5

I downloaded this app when I saw the ad on a five star notebook I got for the school year, and although I was initially very excited, the app was ultimately a disappointment. First off, the app has a lot of potential. The google drive integration is perhaps the strongest feature for me. Additionally, the ability to categorize notes into different subjects is also great. This is all well and good. Then there are the flaws, the biggest of which, in my mind, is the blurriness of the scans. I am very used to scanning documents with my phone, but the scanning quality on the fivestar app is simply abysmal. My handwriting looks washed out and pixelated. Having quality scans is the thing that needs to be fixed most urgently. Then there are minor things, such as the inability to rename scans, and the fact that when you take photos of multiple pages, they are shown as multiple documents as opposed to one, scrolling document. FiveStar, I would highly recommend you take a look at Rocketbook’s app and how that works. The scans are very crisp, and multiple scanned pages get put into one single document. Would love to see this app improve over the next month before school really gets started.