Five Star Study App 4+

Filler Paper

I am truly enjoying the app and it’s functionality with the notebooks. My daughter needs to review tons of notes and material for midterms and finals and having an extra copy on hand make me feel more at ease. The only drawback I have is that I went ahead and bought filler paper with the same format as the notebooks for her binders but when I try to scan the notes it is not reading the size of the filler paper. It’s a letdown being each pack is about $5 just for loose leaf paper. She writes the most notes for Science and now I won’t be able to use this paper. I can take a picture instead but I purchase purposely to make flash cards at study guides and just can’t get it to work for the loose leaf paper 😔

Developer Response ,

I am very sorry to hear the filler paper isn't working. Do you see the QR markers in the corners of the pages? If you could provide more information, we could better help with this issue. If possible, could you send more information to juli.hallas@acco.com or send a response in the app under feedback. We want your daughter to continue to enjoy the app.

Impressive!

Wow! A company that finally made something useful. I’m impressed and pleasantly surprised. I purchased a Five Star 5 subject notebook from Office Max on clearance today. I wasn’t feeling that great when I bought it so I didn’t noticed all of the little details about the app until later on in the evening. I downloaded the app not expecting much while making flash cards for my biochemistry class. I tested out the app by writing a question on the first page and keying in the answer. Then I placed my physical flash cards on the page and the question was on the front of the virtual card in app and I typed the answer in on the back. OMG! When you can turn biochemistry notes and questions into a fun game it makes a huge difference. This is a blessing for me. I’m going to go back to Office Max and buy as many of these notebooks as I can for my classes for next semester. The app is easy and fun to use. I can’t wait to tell my professor about this because it makes reviewing the material so much fun. I’ll definitely be using the app on my lunch break, for sure. Thank you Five Star.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for the great review! We are continuously making improvements and appreciate your feedback.

Potential, but ultimately disappointing (SUGGESTIONS)

I downloaded this app when I saw the ad on a five star notebook I got for the school year, and although I was initially very excited, the app was ultimately a disappointment. First off, the app has a lot of potential. The google drive integration is perhaps the strongest feature for me. Additionally, the ability to categorize notes into different subjects is also great. This is all well and good. Then there are the flaws, the biggest of which, in my mind, is the blurriness of the scans. I am very used to scanning documents with my phone, but the scanning quality on the fivestar app is simply abysmal. My handwriting looks washed out and pixelated. Having quality scans is the thing that needs to be fixed most urgently. Then there are minor things, such as the inability to rename scans, and the fact that when you take photos of multiple pages, they are shown as multiple documents as opposed to one, scrolling document. FiveStar, I would highly recommend you take a look at Rocketbook’s app and how that works. The scans are very crisp, and multiple scanned pages get put into one single document. Would love to see this app improve over the next month before school really gets started.