PikMyKid Reviews

Frustrating and Intrusive

RandomPerson303

Beware- this app frequently deletes reviews, likely in an attempt to reduce the low star ratings. Reasons not to use this app 1. It purports to speed up pick up, but it has made it slower and more frustrating. 2. Teachers are staring at an ipad instead of interacting with children or walk up parents. 3. It encourages texting while driving—you have to pull up in your car and check in with app. 4. It is basically spyware. It has an invasive data use (“anti-privacy”) policy. It is a paid app (by the school), but yet it reserves the right to sell your data, send you ads in the app and on the website, and use your email to send you ads. You can’t turn off tracking or location services. When you use the website, it keeps track of what website you come from and go to—why would it need to do that? 5. It doesn’t allow parents to park and walk up.

School just started

S.Clermont

Our school told me to download this and it seems to serve its purpose so far to decide who picks up. I had to update my phone number with them to see my daughters info though. Dismissal at my school is terrible— so I think this will help. I’ll update review after a few weeks.

Terrible

jdl234

This app leaves a lot to be desired. There is no real time responsiveness from when you tap in the screen and the action is completed. It sometimes takes several minutes from when you tap and the action is complete. This is not related to how new your phone is. Also the app frequently freezes and quits. Please fix these bugs!

Pretty cool and convenient

DREWPDOGG69

It’s nice to be able let the school know how my daughter is going home for the day if I’m late. Or I can even coordinate a carpool to go home with her friend. The carpool line is a lot quicker too.

OK. Meh... Just OK.

ssorcdivad

Our school adopted this system about a year ago and so we are somewhat forced to use it. Some of the workflows inside the application are not intuitive, and the fact that the help bubbles appear every time you login is irritating; yeah, I got how to use the application last year. Also needs touch ID support so I don’t have to keep re-entering my password while trying to perform routine tasks such as changing pick up or marking one of my kids absent. Good idea, just mediocre execution lets down what could be a great app.

Gets worse with time.

Pete Raz

Doesn’t remember my username and password even though I check “remember username and password”. Makes me click through the “tips” pop-ups every time I use it. I could have written this a year and who knows how many versions ago and it would be the same thing because apparently they don’t fix anything. Unfortunately I have no other option through my kids daycare. If I did I would switch because this thing is awful.

Not user friendly.

Reva321

This app is poorly designed but offers a practical service to schools. It’s ludicrous that you need to create each child’s schedule separately, without the option to create the same schedule for multiple kids at once. It’s also very difficult to confirm the delegations. It needs an option to show you day by day what your delegations are that covers all children.

Terrible App

thomas the emo

Do not download if you have a choice. Do not let your school force you to use an app that will use your data for stuff you dont agree to.

Hunger games in the lot. Do not use this

housevinyllab

Unless your school has 2 kids in it, this app will crash as soon as parents try to announce their arrival. Took 1.5 hours to get all of the elementary aged kids out of my kid’s small school. The system crashed as soon school let out. Save yourself the trouble and do not even mess with this junk heap! If there were a negative star option, this would be the time to use it. I’ve never reviewed anything in my life, so that should give you some indication as to how bad this was. Trust me and stay away. Our school’s parking lot was like the hunger games. Parents were blocking the road, there was a giant game of snake happening in the church parking lot south of the school. People were cutting in cars and narrowly avoiding fender benders...can’t say enough. It was pandemonium. I’m sure the developers are nice folks, they just created an app that just doesn’t work.

Our School Uses This

eschurig1

Unfortunately our school uses this app. Its garbage. The basic idea is good but execution is not. Needs some serious work.

PikMyKid Reviews – Page 10