We analyzed 88 negative reviews from the top 5 Salary Negotiation Timer apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
32% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Logs me out when I click on the notification when there's an open shift, by the time I log in the shift is already taken, resulting to having less gigs - less"
"This new purple Nowsta makes you sign out randomly which is crucial when you trying to be the first one picking up a shift. Ridiculous"
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The user interface is extremely slow. It does not refresh well and when receiving a motivation for a shift, you have to wait 5+ minutes"
"With the recent update as of december 2025 when you open it, it loads forever!! Not just mine but my bosses too! We have to wait for it to load first before we can clock in"
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"After the recent update I can't open the app anymore it crashes immediately. I've deleted and reinstalled it but nothing works. This is negatively affecting my work."
"Every time I try to take a job/shift, i'll hit accept an app will crash and close and log me out"
25% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"This new 'purple' nowsta is horrible, completely unnecessary update that no one asked for"
"Hate the new look and the functionality of it all. If I had the option to use a different app for work I would. No one wanted this."
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"It crashes, makes me sign in everytime I open it and won't let me see my team, which is crucial for phone numbers to contact"
"App keeps logging me out of my account between uses and teams tab no longer shows phone numbers, it instead only has the option to call"
8% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Salary or wages should not be exposed on any page of the app. In fact, there should be an option to hide your salary or wages in the app. This is a personal data that should never be exposed"
"I DO NOT want my number shown within the app! If anyone needs to contact me it's should be to people who hired me! Having numbers displayed to anyone could potentially be dangerous."
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Workers cannot clock in or out reliably, requiring phone restarts and causing time tracking issues that affect their pay
"Also I often have to restart my phone to clock in or out of a shift, which is also a huge inconvenience when time is tight"
Screen cutoff issues and tap targets positioned under system UI make critical buttons inaccessible
"I'm unable to hit the Calendar button with my iPhone 17. It's in the upper right corner near the battery charge indicator and Wi-Fi indicator. It's impossible to click on it."
The update made a straightforward scheduling app unnecessarily complex with poor color choices and buried features
"I'm soooo annoyed they just updated this and it's soooo awful. It was PERFECT before now im super overstimulated. I just don't understand why they think it needed to change. It's so visually unappealing and confusing"
Users report no responses to bug reports and broken feedback features (shake to report doesn't work, expired feedback forms)
"Needs to be updated to work on newer phones. Part of the screen is cut off. Also, there's no way to give them feedback. It says to shake to do it but that doesn't work, and the jotform they link to is expired."
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