We analyzed 158 negative reviews from the top 5 Co Working Guide apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
35% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Every other time you open the app (even switching between apps), it crashes. The other ti"
"I am a huge coda fan, but their mobile app drives me crazy. It is constantly crashing (or rather, going back to the docs Home Screen) with an error message that says 'Coda encountered a problem.'"
30% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The app is essentially an interactive viewer of your coda pages. You can interact with certain things but page edits are limited to text. No blocks or databases."
"Can't sort or filter tables. Can't move pages."
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I love the interface. But compared to Notion, this app is not available offline, which I hate. Please make it available offline and add a dark mode."
"it says it works offline, but beca"
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"THEN later get an email that I only have a 14 day trial and have to start paying $9.99+ per month to keep it. There is NO mention anywhere wh"
"Then looked at my bank account last week and I was surprisingly charged for another year. I've never had a company NOT send an email letting you know they're about to charge you"
10% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"when you contact their customer service you don't even get a canned response to let you kno"
"I sent their support team a question a week ago and never got a reply"
8% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Not sure the developers of this app know much about native iOS features and how they could improve this app like a thousand percent. Add contacts manually?!? Are you serious!?!"
"The keyboard covers the message box, so you can only see the first two lines of what you are writing."
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users report the mobile apps feel like browser views rather than native experiences, with poor performance and desktop-oriented layouts
"This feels more like a web view app to me. It actually works better in the Chrome browser."
Users struggle with basic navigation, document loading failures, and inability to manage pages/content on mobile
"It's just a PITA to navigate back and forth and con"
Co-parenting apps require manual entry of all information without ability to import contacts, calendars, or sync with existing systems
"The whole thing is a major data entry hassle that makes spreadsheets lo"
Users experience excessive loading delays and are forced to repeatedly log in, disrupting workflows
"slowness of the app to load"
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