I love this app! 5/5
By bri is fabulous
Hi, I’m Brionna. I’m a young writer and I really like using this app to write stories as I desire. However theres just a few things that make the app amazing!
-Spell check (really helpful.)
-Adding images to your doc (I find it really fun adding pictures to your writing!)
-The size, Font, Color of text, And the background text banner. (I use the size and font a lot and it just looks so much better!)
-Being able to name your document and save it. (I find it really helpful since I write multiple things that I can name it and easily find it again.
-Bri :) (P.S for the developers, I love your app and you have made me a better writer!! :). )
Embarrassing 1/5
By ARD_1998
I had more control over my preferences and formatting with the 2004 version of microsoft word. Doesn’t let you change the default formatting options. You can clear it but then it gets rid of ALL of the formatting. Trying to add any new formatting after clearing just goes back to the default. I’d be embarrassed to show anyone any document I typed up on the mobile version of google docs. Abysmal user experience. Simplicity is good but let the user decide how simple or complex their formatting is.
This App isn’t comparable to Web version 1/5
By Cco5678
The app is so hard borderline impossible to format any documents properly. Im challenge anyone reading this to try to indent only the first line of a paragraph. It’s infuriating.
The app doesn’t have all the formatting options on the website version, thought the app would be fully equivalent to the web version.
Let’s go 5/5
By Durahn
It’s an overall decent lunch maybe can you add a bear for adoption
Decent 5/5
By _OreoTheLilBandit_
It’s good it just need better translation options that are more accurate and a book format option
I worked on scripts with friends and the collaboration is nice plus stories on my own the main my issue is how long it takes to scroll down when you have over 100 pages now if there was a book format option then it would reduced those numbers in half and make it easier to load
It also sometimes won’t let me enter it when I put on offline access it would say you don’t have access or no wifi connection stuff like that
terrible 1/5
By icefrost21
hate it.
Ugh 1/5
By daughertyfrhhuvs
Why do the google apps not let me do many of the functions that I am able to do on the desktop version? On my iPad I have to have the apps & it is really frustrating how basic the apps are.
Good app no issues 5/5
By buttermilk_babyyy
I’ve been using Docs for school assignments for years and it’s always been a good experience. Easy to share assignments and edit things. Love it
Eh 3/5
By violet_gg
Nice and convenient for writing but the stupid little technical difficulties make it insanely annoying to use. Hanging indent doesn’t work half the time no matter what formatting options I put in, and I write on mobile mostly, so I have to literally COPY AND PASTE an indent. Formatting on mobile in general is not good. You have to get on a computer and make sure everything looks okay afterwards anyways.
It’s good. But.. 4/5
By september wolf5
So I’ve quiet enjoyed this app and just enjoyed writing random things on it. But I also did write some things I spent days on and now it’s vanished and won’t return meaning I have to remake all of this.
Make a iPad-compatible version 3/5
By Linny/Darcy
Love it on the computer, hate it on the iPad which is my primary workplace.
Great! But will crash a lot. 5/5
By AstroMeYT
The app is great. I love that I can get into my files anywhere, and make them available offline. The one problem is that the app will crash a lot. This is counteracted by the auto save every time you add just one letter!
Jesus 5/5
By some random dude50000
Loves you so love him and others
Love it, but Apple isn’t supported 4/5
By Iyanniii
The app is great for students however Apple Pencil isn’t supported so it makes it difficult for students with iPads to use.
i lost all of my doc please help me 5/5
By silent whisper yt???
i am sobbing dude
okay so i wrote this whole doc offline and i go in online to send it to a friend and the whole thing is gone. I am on iPad and i have tried everything. i need it back. please someone help me with this. i spent DAYS on this doc and i can’t lose all my hard work.
Essays 1/5
By I kove your game but
I have to write to many things on this for school I hate it
Good 5/5
By Revala732
I love it because it has fonts, style, color, formatting, lists, add-ones, and more! Only problem is it crashes often.
Limiting 2/5
By Maryam2mimi
The app is very limiting on my iPad. It does not allow me to highlight texts as it would in the browser. If I don’t push enter a bunch of times, my latest text is at the very bottom of my screen; it doesn’t allow me to scroll further down past what is written. I try my hardest to avoid having to use the app.
Needs better drop down functionality for students 1/5
By thingsareok22
When creating science or learning documents. It’s very hard to add a photo from camera.
The top menu bar keeps disappearing. And you waste time scrolling to trigger the + function and then still have two clicks to go before you can add a photo via a camera. Must be improved.
Constant freezing 1/5
By corndogluvr69
The most irritating app. Do not use if you need something efficient. App wants to delay text and will not respond to touch.
I dislike the new design 2/5
By ReinaBangtan
Google, please change the design of the Google Doc back to what it was before. I’m autistic and I haven’t been able to open my documents since yesterday because the format changed. Nothing looks right anymore. I’m not good with change but as a writer I need access to my documents and this is absolutely not going well.
Everything was fine before - before the format changed and made all the edges curved. Contrary to popular belief, not everything needs a smooth, nonexistent edge. I liked the 90 degree angles of the format. And now the color of the font is off. The black does not look as opaque as it should be and I legitimately fear it will trigger a migraine, something I’ve had too much within the last several years and would like to limit as much as possible.
Terrible app 2/5
By bjkgfbj
Very limited in functionality and freezes every time I try to add someone to a document.
does google docs delete the function of translating the docs 2/5
By sunn_uynos
It seems so and I can’t find the function
Bad quality 2/5
By oofer gang123456789
Really bad quality. I have zero tabs open other then this app and I’m on the app for less than 5 minutes and my phones feels like it’s going to explode. The small annoying way you have to type is such a pain the neck. It’s almost impossible to zoom out and just extremely annoying in general. Horrible quality
Google Crash Simulator 3/5
By MistrGrin
Fairly useful app, but crashes randomly. In particular, four in five times I turn off my phone with the app open, unlocking the phone crashes the app. Incredibly irritating when writing long documents that require a minute straight just scrolling down to get back, due to the slow loading in of the document.
Needs far more optimization for long documents, and far more app stability. Somehow none of the ‘bug fixing’ updates ever help this, despite my years of using the app. At this point I’m half-convinced that a single developer is working on this app and just submits the same exact program as an ‘update’ every month in order to seem like they’re doing their job.
I might come back later and edit this review, but as it is I just got done with scrolling back to the bottom of a 500+ page document only for it to crash a third time.
Please do better.
VERY VERY VERY BAD 1/5
By Grace😪
I downloaded this app to write my essay but I finally finished and It mixed up and deleted some of my words and made my teacher give me an F when I tried to explain to her it’s THIS APPS FAULT!!!’ GUILTY! FRAUD!! BAD!!!!!!
Wont let me edit my own documents 1/5
By MILK GUY12
I have completely cleared my storage to the point where I'm 11 gb under the limit and yet it doesn't let me edit my own documents because it says i haven't “freed enough space” on top of this it barely ever loads correctly, it takes all of my effort just to edit a line, it has taken literal days sometimes for an edit made in the app to be registered on the computer and vice versa, i could keep going on but if it weren't for the fact that everything I've written is already on here i would have switched to Microsoft word a long time ago. Fix your horrible system.
Meh 2/5
By Lizzzzzzbeth
Keeps force closing on me when I try to use “Find & Replace”.
Crashes a lot and glitches 1/5
By sweetthing24
The page would not respond when I was trying to type it has crashed 10 times in the last hour I have been on the website. This is very frustrating, especially since my project is due tomorrow.
This app is complete trash 1/5
By Teddismama
Whenever I change the font it just automatically changes to Ariel.
Ipad App 4/5
By sesman
I would love it if we could create different windows like you can in text messages and chrome so you can have two different documents open at the same time using the split screen to see both, instead of having to go back and open them separately.
Not the best way to do that 1/5
By mzbyrdz
I’m sorry but I hate this app because I didn’t meant to press remove of this device I barely even know what that means what I do but I clicked on it and it removed everything that is logged into itI’m sorry but I give it a one I love typing to
Why 5/5
By hate the wedgies game!
Why does this have to happen? I love this app but it gets annoying sometimes.When I type a word incorrectly it helps me,I like that help.But when I have a word apart like”criss cross” it corrects me with”crisscross” but when I put them together it says it needs to be apart.I hate that correction if it’s not gonna make up its mind! Please read,this is important so people won’t get triggered!
Why Do I Need This To Edit 3/5
By Lady2728
So, I have a document that is very long, a project that I’ve been working on. My laptop is broken so I’m restricted to my phone right now. I’m unable to access my project to edit it since everytime I try to open the doc the app crashes, meanwhile I can easily open the doc on my browser on my phone. It just makes no sense.
Great! 5/5
By Ilovecubes
Very productive and useful. :) I am so impressed!
Poor Default layout 2/5
By Rtolps (also Instagram name)
Would be fine but when typing a document over a page in length it pushes the words all the way down to the bottom of the screen on my 12.9” iPad pro. Makes it impossible to use without turning page layout on but you cannot make page layout turn on by default, so whenever you tap out of the document and go back it turns off page layout. Absolutely obnoxious.
Um actually 🤓 5/5
By DylanCamuso
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Too unpredictable for my work 1/5
By excellent timer
Twice this app completely erased a document I was working on without any notification or way of retrieving it. I deleted the app.
Good 5/5
By raven2452
Good for school work and just writing stuff i want to remember
Very useful but I have a suggestion 5/5
By Njfreak
I remember using this app on my phone a lot, writing and stuff. it is fairly useful when I want to write on the go, or I don’t have my computer on me for some reason. However, I want to make a suggestion.
I know it is mainly IOS’s fault for this, since I cannot seem to do it anywhere, but please add some sort of option for us to indent (if there is one, then let me know, but Ive seen others complain about this). It would make writing smoother and easier if we had this option. I am a little surprised there has not been one added at all yet (based on my knowledge, its been years). A little button (if you cannot add it to the keyboard) off to the side would do.
That is all. If indenting was added then that would be cool.
Make dark mode available on all platforms 1/5
By Literallyjustletmereview
You’ll get your five stars when you make dark mode available for PC. It’s an accessibility issue you can easily afford to fix.
Bugs 5/5
By Highschoolkidfeli
I use this app for my school work all the time on my iPad. This is one of the only apps I use to take notes. However, when I try to highlight something and un highlight something it kicks me out of my doc and I have to reopen it. It gets quite tedious especially when we’re taking notes and are on a time limit. Hopefully they can make an update to fix this problem.
good but missing one thing… 3/5
By 25Ashley87
It’s a great writing application but for the love of god PLEASE let ipad users write equations on documents!!!
Great app but not so great for iPads and phones 3/5
By xnjxjsnsuzjskksbdbxusnsjsk
During school I use google docs to write essays and do school work. But at home, I don’t have a laptop or anything except and iPad and a phone. So I would love to finish my work at home so I have more free time at school. So I downloaded google docs on my phone and iPad and it was very laggy. When I wanted to choose a template to create something knew that I could work on, I kept on scrolling and it kept on lagging as I scrolled. My phone is brand new and I have an iPhone and it is the latest model. It is not laggy at ALL on any other apps except this one. Also as I am saying this, there are not a lot of templates to choose from. There were kids who want to be organized and have a daily routine thing on their iPad or phone, but google docs doesn’t have the exact template. The only things there are like teacher stuff and resumes for pets and people. I would really like it if you fixed this and I have read other ratings and they seem to have the same problem too.
It would mean a LOT of you fixed these bugs and add more templates!
Thank you!
-urmom
Decent 3/5
By asdfnihsdBSI
Most of the time it works fine but there was this other time when I was writing an important paper and it crashed and it deleted an ENTIRE PAGE. There was no undo button or anything and worst of all my teacher didn’t believe me.
PLEASE Make an Option for Documents to be non-editable 5/5
By Keyboarddewd
I know there is an option to change individuals from editors to viewers, but I would really like to see an easy way for make a document only editable for you without having to go in and individually change people’s viewer status. Other than that, amazing tool for writing VERY immersive documents in a short amount of time
Cannot have multiple documents open at once 1/5
By Alex G 44
The functionality of the Google Docs iPad app is very poor as you cannot have multiple google docs open side by side like you can with Word or Pages.
:( 1/5
By Daven Daniel
It’s much better than editing on chrome or safari for iPad, but somehow STILL lacks the ability to splitscreen. It would be 5 stars with the option to split screen!!
Can’t figure it out. 1/5
By Johny Johny, Yes Papa?
I can’t resize images on my iPad. This app is nothing like the computer version, its so much more confusing. Why is nothing where it’s supposed to be?
