BYU

Junior in college here. I work at an on campus job and I LOVE this app. I use it to clock in/out for work, I can easily add money to my cougar cash (which is slightly cheaper than purchasing food at the cougar eat regularly bc through cougar cash it is tax free), and it’s the superior way to search for classes each semester because you can refine your searches to credit hours and times (unlike the web version of MyMap). These are just a tiny selection of the super helpful widgets that this app has. Super happy that the app developers really seem to have students’ priorities in mind, and kudos to everyone who helped design the app. <3 Also PS, your student ID in this app often qualifies as an official ID for a lot of BYU-related things, and I’ve used it in a pinch when I don’t have my physical ID on hand.

App is useful and anyone who has a smartphone should get it. That being said, there are 2 big issues that I find utterly ridiculous that haven’t been fixed yet: 1) sign in. Why bother signing in on the home menu if you have to sign in again when you use any of the menu features? I should be able to sign in once and then when I want to access, say, YMessage, I can just tap YMessage and it sends me straight to my inbox instead of making me sign in EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. That I try to access it. Assuming you have a secure password, this gets old fast having to enter your password every time you want to use any of the features. 2) many features use the desktop version of the webpage instead of the mobile version. I don’t know if there even is on many of those pages, but I shouldn’t have to zoom in 4x to sign in, which is one of the pages that you see in desktop version. If you fix these issues, 5 stars easy. Until then, the app is very annoying to use and I might as well use a computer for all the convenience it is. UPDATE Thank you very much for your honest and actually helpful response. A lot of developers seem to just copy and paste the same “we’re sorry but we won’t actually help you” response to everything but BYU read my comments, explained why the issues a) are recognized but unfortunately can’t be fixed for perfectly reasonable reasons, b) are only limited to a few sections of the app anyway (I have used tons more of the app than when I originally wrote this review and have seen that it is true). For these reasons I will be changing my rating from 2 stars to 4. UPDATE 2: please add in functionality in the Learning Suite widget for LS messages. In order to access these on my phone I have to actually visit the webpage in a browser because it doesn’t look like you can in this app. At this point I’ve just stopped using the LS widget in favor of the webpage. Please fix this.

The BYU app is a must for any student or visitor to BYU. It maps your classes for you, which can help any new students feel less overwhelmed. The Y-Time feature allows me to clock in and out of campus jobs, and the Learning Suite feature allows me to check on the details and grades for an assignment quickly. When I forget my ID card, it pulls up a picture of it, valid for any instance in which you need to verify my identity (e.g. intramural sports check-ins). I also appreciate the Vending feature, which shows me where the nearest machines are as well as what items they’re stocked with currently. This app is a must-have!