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Udemy Inc · Education · Free · v8.116.0

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Review-rating drop
0.56

2024-Q3 2.24 → last 90 days 1.68, text reviews

Peak quarter
2.24

2024-Q3, text reviews

Last 90 days
1.68

text reviews

Store rating
4.72

all 76812 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
3.04

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$129k

#85 top-grossing, Education

store 4.72 · reviews 2.24 → 1.68 · gap 3.04 store 4.72 reviews 1.68

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2024-Q2: 1.86★ from 29 reviews 1.86 2024-Q2 2024-Q3: 2.24★ from 21 reviews 2.24 2024-Q3 2024-Q4: 1.49★ from 43 reviews 2025-Q1: 1.94★ from 64 reviews 2025-Q2: 1.74★ from 53 reviews 2025-Q3: 1.65★ from 48 reviews 2025-Q4: 1.53★ from 36 reviews 2026-Q1: 1.35★ from 74 reviews 2026-Q2: 1.60★ from 78 reviews 2026-Q3: 1.63★ from 46 reviews 2026-Q4: 2.13★ from 8 reviews 2.13 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2024-Q21.86 29
2024-Q32.24 21
2024-Q41.49 43
2025-Q11.94 64
2025-Q21.74 53
2025-Q31.65 48
2025-Q41.53 36
2026-Q11.35 74
2026-Q21.60 78
2026-Q31.63 46
2026-Q42.13 8

Recent 1–2 star reviews

No support email or support phone number or support chat

★ · v8.115.0 · Oct 14, 2026

No support email or support phone number or support chat i canceled my membership and they still charged me for it and no one to reach for help

Good course. Horrible platform.

★ · v8.115.0 · Oct 6, 2026

Bought a course, downloaded to app, and used it a bunch. Now it has vanished from the app. The many and tedious troubleshooting things they put me thru did not resolve issue.

Annoying

★ · v8.115.0 · Oct 2, 2026

Constantly logs me out of the app. Downloads often wont play offline. Removed a course I bought without a refund and when I try to contact support within the app it fails. I could go on. There is some good content but the user experience is poor.

Account suspend for no reason!

★ · v8.115.0 · Oct 2, 2026

I’m extremely disappointed with how Udemy has handled my account suspension. My account was suspended because of an alleged security or verification issue involving Stripe, a third-party payment service. The frustrating part is that I have made my purchases legitimately, I have no late payments, and everything I bought on Udemy was fully paid for. I use Udemy regularly for my studies, so suddenly losing access to my account has seriously disrupted my ability to study and continue the courses I paid for. What makes this even worse is the lack of useful support. Instead of Udemy actually helping resolve the suspension, I was essentially directed toward the third-party payment provider. From a customer’s perspective, that is extremely frustrating. My account, courses, and purchases are with Udemy, yet I’m being left to chase down another company just to figure out why I can no longer access something I already paid for. I understand that security checks are necessary, but suspending a paying customer’s account without providing a clear explanation, a straightforward resolution process, or meaningful assistance is unacceptable. At this point, the experience has been incredibly inconvenient and disappointing. I simply want access restored to the courses I legally purchased and a clear explanation of what caused the suspension in the first place. Until Udemy improves the way it handles situations like this and actually helps customers resolve account suspensions instead of passing the problem elsewhere, I cannot give this experience anything higher than one star.

What is going on with Udemy!?

★ · v8.115.0 · Oct 1, 2026

Cannot play any courses. Did this platform give up? Update: yes they did. They sold out to Coursera. Thus why your courses are no longer accessible. That’s what’s wrong with investing with a platform like this. Be sure you always own and download and backup courses you purchase from any source from now on.

Great courses, but CarPlay support is buggy

★ · v8.114.0 · Sep 17, 2026

I primarily want to use this app in CarPlay. I don’t have time to sit at my computer or tv and watch these courses. There are many issues with this that have been around for years with CarPlay: Doesn’t show list of courses, just shows loading until i unlock my phone Doesn’t load courses even when I downloaded them in offline mode Will play a single course and not automatically proceed to the course Difficult to navigate through courses and find the one that you were previously watching

They don’t let you do returns

★ · v8.114.0 · Sep 17, 2026

I recommend caution, the 30 day return policy, is not true

Lost purchases, support unhelpful

★ · v8.113.0 · Sep 15, 2026

I lost access to my old email, customer support is outright refusing to disable the 2FA which is preventing me from logging into my account. I know my login user/password, however customer support is actively preventing me from accessing what I’d purchased. Their response was: “You bought it once, you can buy it again.”

App never works for me

★ · v8.113.0 · Sep 15, 2026

Whenever I try to use the app to learn things it doesn’t honor my subscription. It always says I have to purchase a class but when I go online through a web browser I can do all the things I couldn’t in the app. I also can’t search for anything in the app bc it gives me an error every time.

Audio fails between the lectures

★ · v8.113.0 · Sep 10, 2026

Super flaky audio that stops working between lectures: I have to kill the app each time and restart. Until it’s fixed it gate 1 star.

Comically bad.

★ · v8.113.0 · Sep 7, 2026

Where to begin? Udemy.com won’t consistently load in any browser except Chrome. Safari and Edge it produced a Download Udemy.com? Popup and nothing else. Tapping on things with the mouse (from iPad in Safari) doesn’t do anything but your finger works. The UI in general makes you wonder if Udemy employs anyone with a clue about UI. You have these presentations and videos and a floating course bar that are fighting for real estate on a crammed iPhone display and it takes some effort to get it to where you have the course topic/presentation with the video overlayed and everything else off the screen because any other way the slides are being crammed down and are illegible. This should be the default view. Having the course topics list there is a distraction and not relevant in the moment. Leaving a rating is another dumpster fire. You get two modules in and it’s hounding you about a review. I LITERALLY just started the course. The by the 2nd or 3rd module (considering the first is. How to use Udemy) I haven’t had enough exposure to anything to have valuable feedback unless it’s going THAT bad. On the mobile app, there’s NO WAY to leave feedback. We could’ve easily baked it into the UI under “More” but nope. Why do things that make sense and make it easy for people to leave the feedback we’re harassing them about? Instead they require a browser on a laptop or desktop. And you’d think ok, THEN it’s pretty straight forward? And you’d be thinking wrong. So following their instructions there’s three ways to leave a course rating: first is the annoying popup that’s way too early. Second from the course card in My Learning which only produces “Share, Create New List, Favorite or Archive” - not rating option. Or within the course player it says and shows there should be a Leave a rating button. Yet in the browser next to Your Progress where it should be is blank space. If I was an employer that had experience with Udemy’s app or website that alone would invalidate the worthiness of any credentials from the site or app because it’s very poorly designed and executed. Additionally it’s becoming like YouTube where anyone can and does produce content and with AI it’s turning into a bunch of AI-generated courses with no real substance.

App messing up on iPad

★ · v8.113.0 · Sep 6, 2026

The app keeps saying I have no connection and doesn’t show my current progress or the other learning path I purchased on the tablet but’s the web version on my iPad is working fine and shows everything. The app is updated

Bug on the App under My Learning

★★ · v8.112.0 · Sep 3, 2026

From quite a few time I am noticing that when you access your course materials under my learning and for any reasons it does not load and if you exit the app it close it and reopen the app the course is longer available under My Learning. This is really annoying and it does not appear back until you go on the desktop browser and access the same course. Pls try to fix this.

Dis functional

★ · v8.112.0 · Sep 2, 2026

Terrible app. Constantly freezing and not connecting. The website doesn’t even work on some browsers

Suddenly having LOTS of issues

★★ · v8.112.0 · Sep 2, 2026

With the latest Apple OS update, this app is having some MAJOR problems. There are a handful of courses that I have purchased that aren’t loading and then have dropped off of my courses list in the app. But if I log in with my web browser, they all show up and load/play just fine in the browser. This is the first time in the 5 years of using this app that I have encountered any problems whatsoever. In the past, it has worked great! PLEASE FIX SOON! I REALLY LOVE your app - I just don’t love the problems right now. 😬

Terrible on iPad

★★ · v8.112.0 · Aug 31, 2026

The apps UI functionality doesn’t even work on iPads you can’t watch videos or load your old courses without getting an error. You are better off using the web version.

Practice Test functionality is Janky

★ · v8.111.0 · Aug 28, 2026

Can’t take the practice tests that I paid. Thanks for nothing.

Useless

★ · v8.111.0 · Aug 25, 2026

Classes are falsely advertised as accredited but they are not. Classes are useless except for maybe self knowledge. Waste of money. Instructors are difficult to understand and the printed materials are not in proper English. Waste of time and money

Website is much better app is trash

★ · v8.110.0 · Aug 24, 2026

I have used Udemy for over a decade now but every time I try to use the phone app it’s glitchy or just does not work. I do not understand how the App Store is allowing this app to be listed when it’s down half the time and even when the app is “working” it is slow or the actual fetching of data is non existent. Just use the website or if you’re in a real pinch use the web mobile version the App Store version is just garbage.

Broken & unusable

★ · v8.110.0 · Aug 23, 2026

This app used to be pretty good. Now, it’s literally unusable. It lists only two courses I’ve purchased—despite the fact that, when I dig into the settings, it shows that it has downloaded copies of several more… of course, it won’t let me watch those videos, but they’re still taking up space on my phone! Worse than worthless.

Course content good, app bad.

★★ · v8.110.0 · Aug 21, 2026

The app is super glitchy. Lots of bugs. UX is inconsistent. Features don’t work. Would not recommend the iOS experience. Not good.

Poor app performance

★ · v8.110.0 · Aug 15, 2026

For an app who's sole purpose is to have the videos playing properly, it can't even do that. For days i haven't been able to play ANY videos through the app. i have to play the videos from my browser. Udemy, if you're taking this much $$$ from us for your courses, the least you can do is atleast make a good UI and have it be FUNCTIONAL. It's the bare minimum

Can’t use the app

★ · v8.109.0 · Aug 7, 2026

The app is really bad. Most of the time I can’t access it because the login via Google doesn’t work. Keeps asking to verify over and over again. This happens most of the time to the point where I just join from my laptop. Udemy has good content but the app is horrible

Ads now during a course I bought

★ · v8.109.0 · Aug 7, 2026

Udemy has gone downhill in the last few years, but this is a new low. Ads for coffee before I can start my lesson (which I paid for)

Some classes will not work in app only browser

★ · v8.108.0 · Aug 5, 2026

Some classes will not work in app only browser

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