Happy advising season everyone! It is time for every student’s least favorite holiday where everyone’s looking for the easiest way to block out their schedule—Coursicle solved that problem last semester. You could easily connect to your school and look up classes on a semester basis. Everything was perfect.

Then the 4.0 update hit.

This conniving, overly complicated, “biggest improvements in 9 years” update that ruined the platform entirely.

Want to add a class for next semester? You have to click three buttons to do so.

You want to SEE that class you just added for next semester? I hope you are ready to scroll through the next three months week by week.

Did you accidentally click a button? Whoops, you are back at today’s date. Scroll again.

Do not even think about adding an online course. What was shown neatly before in the top-right corner is now invisible. Good luck figuring that out.

Joe Puccio, Coursicle co-founder, posted about the update on his Reddit account, monstermac77.

“This is something we’re actively working on… If you take a look at the web, that’s what we’re going to implement on iOS… It’s proven pretty difficult to implement [a semester swapping button], but we have some temporary fixes we’re going to put in now until we can get it to be as fluid as web,” Puccio said in response to a question regarding setup.

The app went down for multiple days to give the developing team time to implement and bug-test, but the update feels like an alpha or beta version rather than a full concept.

The initial goal of Coursicle’s 4.0 update was to “create tasks, customize colors, add events, get class/homework reminders and share your schedule,” Puccio said in a Reddit  post.

Coursicle is a platform designed to help students create schedules, not headaches. This design update is subpar at best, providing little to no positives for the community. Multiple people have spoken about their struggles with the app, many replying to Puccio’s Reddit post with bugs or questions.

The developers started the update with several great ideas—they simply fumbled the execution and possibly lost some customers.

Updates can make or break an app, and Coursicle is standing on thin ice. Students can only hope it will be debugged and fixed by the time Fall 2025 registration rolls around.