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 be a basic feature that should have been there from the start. Do not tell me to contact support; just pass this on please and let users know you're going to add it.

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 skill using technology. It's an excellent way to communicate between teachers and parents, and being able to show parents what their children are doing/learning.

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 it is not visible to parents.

*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 fix it? No? Great! - Annoyed mom just trying to stay in the loop. 🥴

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 respond or add something. At this point, the app is pretty much unusable for me, and I’m considering uninstalling it unless the issues are resolved soon.

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 6 for the day and the rest are old but we can't move/hide them so it takes time going through them every time you click an activity and go back to the tab. Also my camera is zoomed in when I take a pic to add and I can't zoom out. NEED HELP!!!

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 almost any other app.

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 was only just introduced in 2008. September 2025 Update: Basic navigation still impossible. App deserves zero stars.

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 another quarter pane to list three or fewer submenus for Inbox and Activities? What a colossal waste of useful space, especially when there are so many worksheets, etc. that need to be displayed on the left side of the screen. It's also not apparent what is the difference between items in the Journal vs. items in Activities that are marked "Done" or "In Progress." I wish the app allowed us to categorize and show/hide the items ourselves. Not every assignment requires a response to the teacher, so they sit and clutter up the Activities panel indefinitely. Printing from this app is a nightmare, even when you use the Print Activity option. It has to add the Seesaw branding to the worksheets, which shrinks the overall content of the worksheet and makes it more challenging to the student, especially younger ones (K-2nd) who are developing their handwriting. The teachers have had to email us the worksheets separately as PDFs because the app is so crappy. One good thing: it updates quickly on all of the other platforms when you update the status of an assignment. I'm accessing Seesaw from an iPad, laptop, Android phone and desktop and the cloud-based storage is very responsive.

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 to complete. It is a great way to communicate with parents and families. This app is essential to any teacher at any grade level!

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 for some reason? Plus, the pencil doesnt stay on the color I want when switching to it. If i try to edit my text, it just makes another text box. I mean, i couldnt make a better app, but you guys working on it can.

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 myself. I'm sure by other parents are noticing this too. Would greatly appreciate it if your dev team looked into this issue. Thanks!

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!! Would not recommend!!

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. I can zoom it this year but as the post gets bigger it cuts the sides off and you can't slide it from side to side anymore to read it. Please, Please fix the issues!!

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 kid to do the work. We ended up just printing everything out, making them do it on paper, then uploading the picture of their work instead of doing the work in the app, because it was just taking too long. Here are some of my chief complaints and improvements desired: 1. While I understand why the worksheet uploaded by the teachers are an image file (so that the kids can't edit it) because of this feature, they are forced to draw text boxes to fill in the blanks. because the text boxes automatically come in a larger size, students are forced to type everything up, close the text option, use the select option, then resize the text. Would it not be easier for the teacher to be able to upload a pdf version and then convert the platform into a pdf writer with drawing capabilities? 2. The app and website are both buggy. The website lags terribly and it is impossible to do any work on it. The app crashes every so often, doesn't save frequently (its a kids app, it should save automatically after every change), so students are forced to do the work over and over again. 3. The text box function. I am sorry to bring this up again, but it is terrible. It's worse than paint. It should have an option of selecting text size, but instead the default text size is a poster size. navigating the text box in itself is a challenge. It isn't intuitive for a tech savvy parent, let alone a grade-schooler. 4. There is a constant pop-up that comes out that tells you to update your app, when I have the most updated version. Seems like other people are having this issue, so hopefully it will get ironed out. All in all, I appreciate the concept, but it definitely needs work.

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 add more than one picture, and can you put teacher image announcements back in the main feed as well that was helpful for me to keep track of important information without searching for it in messages.

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 a photo to go back to go it used to be. You added one additional step to add a photo from device which is time consuming. Please separate add from drive/device/etc. again. 6. There are numerous other things I'd change about Seesaw itself.

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 button to get out of the app. Honestly I wish our school district would use another method. Seesaw is awful.

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 make it show up and when it does we can't get to it fast enough before it dissapears again. So frustrating.