Reviews for Seesaw

I have used this app as a teacher for many years. Seesaw regularly takes feedback and updates their platform accordingly. It is a great tool to use in classrooms and is great for communicating with families.

[Sept 2025 – Another update, another disappointment. All the negative reviews still applicable. Bizarre. ] I am flabbergasted that it STILL doesn’t use the Android back button! EVERY OTHER APP I HAVE DOES! Please, this app is such a pain to use because of this(in addition to other issues like zooming on photos) this should […]

I have used Seesaw for nearly a decade. They often update the site to add more activities and lessons, make it more user friendly for students, teachers, and families. All messages and activities can now be translated into 100 languages. It’s a wonderful tool for students to show what they know, learn new lessons, increase […]

Pathetic app. West of time in formatting. Portrait prints (pdf download) are coming out in landscape formats. Give option to upload scan copy of printed pdf as completed homework. Also, please ensure that homework given from school is visible to parents (may be you can control by read only version but should be visible). Currently […]

*frustrated mom sigh* This app used to be okay last year (PreK – worked most of the time, w/minor issues). Now (K1) the app simply crashes and won’t work, which forces me to UNISTALL and reinstall it every *UCKING day. I’m literally typing this review just before I do my daily reboot. Developers, can you […]

I’m having a lot of trouble using the Seesaw app on my phone. The screen is distorted, and I can’t adjust or resize anything to fit properly. I really love using Seesaw, but the app has been very inconvenient lately. Every time I get a message, I have to switch to my computer just to […]

I love this app, it is so great for the younger kids to keep track of what they need to do. My only wish is that the kids account had an option to click on an activity and hide it or move it to complete. Some days the activity tab has 25+ items, but only […]

No implementation of universal back button/gesture. App just about does the job, but is unrefined. Feels like a poor ios port from 10 years ago. I’m not raising this with support as I dont require support. Just pass this on to the dev team that they need to pick up a phone and compare with […]

This app is so ridiculously terrible it’s hard to know where to start. But, since I only have 500 characters, I’ll start with the fact that it’s now 2024 and basic navigation is impossible because the app doesn’t obey back commands. I guess it must be too new a concept, seeing that the back command […]

I hate hate hate hate HATE this app!! The entire right side of the screen is taken up by static and semi-static content that doesn’t need nearly as much space as it’s given. I mean really — do you need an entire quarter of the page to display the teacher’s name and class name, and […]

I love Seesaw because it is a journal where students can upload their work, manipulate their work, add voice overs to their work and so much more. I love the activities library where I can search thousands of pre made activities on any subject, or I can create my own, and upload for my students […]

I do this on a phone, so experinces may vary. But sometimes it wont let me draw and the text most of the time wont move. (For clarification, the drawing just glitches out as im using it, so there are huge gaps.) Also, sometimes when i try to go over to pencil it chooses highliter […]

I’ve not seen the full potential of this app while communicating with our teachers and other fellow parents but I look forward to it! Also, wanted to mention I noticed a bug. When the conversation between teacher and parents (group chat) gets to a certain point, in am unable to respond to the group chat […]

Not easy to navigate AT ALL!! I uploaded something in response to an activity and it put it in as an individual journal post. No option to edit or delete to try and redo it correctly. I am unable to find any kind of settings for the app regarding notifications or anything else. Very frustrating!! […]

This year this app has been a nightmare! Can’t close the app, it runs extremely slow, and I couldn’t send a message to the teacher, she had to message me first. Last year you could click on the post and it would open in another page so that you could zoom it on and out. […]

First I would like to say, I appreciate the concept that the devs made to allow students and teachers interact with each other and allow the students to have fun uploading homework. However, it is a very inefficient platform. What could be done on paper in 5-10 minutes, it takes over 25-45 minutes for my […]

Update: I just updated the app and I still am unable to use the back button with the app. I initially loved the app. It’s a great way to communicate with my son’s teacher. However, I am unable to use the back button on my device anymore, I agree with others about being able to […]

1. I need to be able to add multiple photos at once. 2. I need the notifications and inbox to be separate. 3. I need do not disturb/out of the office hours. 4. I need captions to go back to how they used to be. It’s harder to add them now. 5. I need add […]

This app is so clunky and slow to use on a phone. It being the preferred way to communicate with my child’s teacher makes it a very frustrating experience. It’s slow to load, slow to respond to the selection to reply to a message, won’t attach media (photos, etc). I also can’t use the back […]

Great app to use for scool, but it is so hard to make the scroll up or down icon pop up. It keeps disappearing and we aren’t able to scroll through what is in the journal. Can you please fix and make it always accessible? My children and I both struggle moving the mouse to […]