Padlet 4+

Amazingly diverse tool

I originally heard of Padlet a couple years before I started using it. The idea sounded cool, and I bookmarked it to “come back to” at a later date. I wished that I hadn’t waited two years to do so! Once I did, I was greet with a great tool, and the app version is so powerful! Where most apps are obviously lightweight and limited versions of their powerful website “big brothers,” Padlet seems to pack just as much of a punch as its affiliated desktop website. Not only that, but Padlet just added a handful of new ways to post material. For a website that already seemed have limitless possibilities, I can’t believe it just got even stronger! Amazing work!

Great in theory. Glitches and bugs make the app very frustrating.

Make sure you save as you write, and often. I’ve lost progress SO many times because the app will glitch while I’m working (e.g., screen turns completely white, closes suddenly, freezes, etc.), which sometimes even happens on the desktop version. Other times it will take SEVERAL refreshes or retries before a card will actually show the latest version after a save, which has caused me to accidentally save over new versions with old versions on multiple occasions. I should really stop writing/editing text in the app directly and just copy/paste from Google docs instead, but I shouldn’t have to do that. There really needs to be a version history feature, a revert to previous draft feature, an autosave feature, or a way to retrieve cards that were deleted in error—because as it is now, once a version is lost, it’s gone forever.

I love this app so much in theory. With this many bugs, though (and with my most recent lost save, which I’m still mourning) I’m just not sure I can keep using it.

Developer Response ,

We have just released a new version (172.0) which should fix this issue, we are deeply sorry for the loss of service and are currently working to make sure this never happens again. If you are still experiencing any issues after the update, please send us an email to hello@padlet.com and we will help this resolved for you!

Good….but not great….

Padlet is an app i never heard of. Its an app my ELA teacher told me of in 5th grade, i didn’t like using it because……who likes doing homework? But i had to do it to stay as an A+ student so I used Padlet pretty often so i know padlet a lot. Padlet is a good app but there is a glitch or something that happens when i click on padlet, a blank white screen comes, i even tried re-downloading multiple times but it never worked. There is a problem that needs to be fixed but it doesn’t matter to me anymore because school is about to end and i will never do homework again! I mean except for 6th grade and every other grade that is left. I wouldn’t need to use padlet anymore so i wouldn’t care. But…..padlet still needs to be fixed or whatever because there is a glitch happening right now. This is all I got to say for now to help padlet.

Developer Response ,

Hi Anniya, sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue, we are deeply appreciate your help! Could you please send us an email describing the problem to hello@padlet.com and we will further assist you, thanks