Reviews for GroupMe

I originally rated this app 5 stars. Within the last month or two, however, the app is prone to frequent crashes, it is slow as all hell to load, and does not push notifications despite being set to do so. Images won't search or post, and I have random issues with sending and receiving messages. I really hope they roll out a new update soon, because this app has become incredibly poor.

Groupme has been a useful tool for communication since I've been a college student. It's interface is user-friendly and very intuitve for anyone that is familiar with group chats. For simple chitchat and coordination, I cannot think of a better app. However, this app does have limited functions that make large groups (100+) hard to manage and interact with. I would not use this app for any serious large event planning nor to manage various groups. It's a great app but keep expectations low.

While easy to use, the app takes a long time to load and doesn't properly notify me when there are new posts. There have been upwards of 28 notifications I missed throughout the day but didn't know about it because the app failed to indicate I had unread messages. Update: The notifications issue seems to have been improved. While I still occasionally don't get notifications, it's much better than before.

I have only one issue with this app. It only lets to you send videos if they're 30 seconds or less. They do provide good accommodations for this. You can select which portion of a longer video to send. It would be nice if we could just do any length though. Other than that it is a brilliant program. We never have issues of people not receiving messages. It lets you schedule events very easily. You can take polls. It covers mostly everything you'd want from a group conversation app.

Simple app that does the job well. Very useful to have groups and teams separate from messages to individuals. While the service works fine, the app could use a little extra design polish. Animations, iconography, and dark themes have come a long way in the last few years. Adding some improvements there would go a long way — just keep the dark theme gray, not black.

For the most part the app is great for what it's supposed to be. Hard to complain about something that's so simple. The only real problem I have is when it comes 2 adding people 2 groups. There's a constant error message that comes up when I try to add someone to a group, telling me that, "person X could not be added to the group." There will be no explanation as 2 why, but then when u go to check the memebers, it adds the person 2 the group during half the time it's telling you that it can't.

Very buggy, for many years. Just a few examples: - Reactions don't refresh while in chat, must leave chat to see updates - Links jump all up & down the page, giving the impression they were sent by other people - If I click on a pop-up notification immediately after I received it, it pops up again a few seconds later, and repeats until I let it sit for a minute or 2. - Messages often say failed to send, so I try again, and it shows up twice. So many more examples, ran out of available characters

This app is so glitchy on android phones. 1.) my profile photo has been updated several times, but it still shows up as the one I had about a year (maybe even longer) ago. 2.) loading the emojis does not work at all, at least recently, with wifi or data. 3.) when i click on other's profile pictures to view them larger, it again shows me their older profile pic from who knows when, not the current one. 4.) changing your phone number is awful. You get kicked out of your groups. + Much more

When it works it's great, when it doesn't it sucks! I couldn't get notifications, so I uninstalled the app. BIG MISTAKE! When I log back in, none of my current groups show up. I can't search for them, they're not under hidden or archived. It's a good thing I am logged in on my work iphone otherwise I would not be able to access important conversations. Disappointing after years of using this app.

This seems like a good free option for group messaging. I have two major complaints: 1) it's super frustrating that read status doesn't sync across devices. So if I read messages on my phone, I have to go to my tablet and open all the same messages to get the unread bubbles to go away. As a result, I often either think there are no new messages when there are or I open it thinking there are new messages but I already saw them on another device. 2) it takes too many clicks to get where I want.

It works as intended, BUT It tracks practically every move you make, every website, every app, and it just sits in the background collecting data on you. If you don't care about that then go for it. I wouldn't be using it if I had a choice, but it's what a group aim involved with uses so I disable it and just turn it on periodically to get updates from them. I left it on for an hour and had Duck Duck Go track it and it tried 244 times to get info from me in that timeframe. Insane.

This is one of my favorite apps. Which is why I am upset with the most frequent update. I don't know what caused it but there are a ton of new bugs: some group members won't load in the member sidebar (which as a result won't let me tag them), I don't get any notifications (even when tagged) and deleting/getting deleted frim a group is faulty. PLEASE FIX THIS DEVS!

A Mostly Good Messaging App The main advantage of GroupMe over texting is that it's multi-platform, and it's easy to add people to groups. There's no limit to group chat size, unlike Snapchat. The main disadvantage is that it doesn't handle photos and videos very well, especially videos. Videos longer than a few seconds either fail to load or take more than a minute to buffer, and it's impossible to upload a lot of pictures at once. Overall good, but there are some bugs.

1 star, the UI in the app looks great but is often slow to refresh. I often miss messages, calls, and notifications. sometimes they pop up, most of the time, they don't and I have to manually go in and check them. Which is not good when you are trying to use this app to talk to you employer and supervisors and it doesn't give you updates, I forget and them all of a sudden I missed two dozen messages about work in 24 hours.

edit: the search function is atrocious. search only goes so far back and you have to click 'keep looking' a million times to get very far back. It's good. I like the updates. You know what would be kinda cool and very helpful? Edit: thanks for the update with the search option. If you could get into a group and do a search of a topic. Then it would take you to where it finds the keywords searched and you can read that part of the conversation.

This app has been up and down for the last decade, but about a year ago they switched a to a really bad system. You get messages without getting notifications, you get reactions to your messages and notifications about them, but there's no easy way to check who reacted to what, it's really become a mess. I wish they'd never changed anything, it used to be so good.

While I am sure that my limited utilization of the app could influence my high rating, it's quite perfect for the groups I am in. Then again, that's also part of why it's perfect... without any substantial learning curves, it accomplishes goals of tailored communication efficiently and with easy adjustment as groups morph in membership or focus.

I've used this app for a really long time, close to 10 years. It's always been one of the best in my opinion. The latest update , late September 2025 I guess? Awful. Why they went to a monochrome, gray on gray on gray look is beyond me. It's so dull and small, little contrast which makes it hard to read. Please change it back, give us options to modify or something. Thanks!

This would get 5 stars, but some of the features on my app don't work. I cannot join calls or see videos sent by others. When I try to join calls, a pop-up appears saying that my app version doesn't support calling. Before the v15 update it said this, and once I updated my app, the issue has persisted. When I try to play videos, a different pop-up appears saying: "Can't play this video". Updating or restarting the app doesn't work. These are small issues, if they're fixed I'll give 5 stars

I cannot edit or delete my OWN texts. I cannot join group calls. The latest update makes the interface look like absolute garbage, and, worst of all, you can only have three admins per group. We need more than three admins! I'm supposed to be able to have all these features, but I don't. If you're looking for a group chat app, use something different.