Scholly: College Scholarships 4+

Okay, I decided to try this out (because looking for scholarships that I qualified for is like going through a rabbit hole). Interesting enough, you cannot make a free account. It’s MANDATORY to pick a payment plan. Oh! And that plan gives you a short “free trial.” I picked a month so I could really use all the app’s advantages.

I’m here to tell you that I’m better off using the commonly known scholarship websites. I was hoping this app would help me find scholarships that are more local and/or don’t have that much competition. But majority of the scholarships that matched with my profile are just from other popular sites, mostly from Unigo.

When it comes to the app: I also don’t understand why I can’t scroll down on certain scholarships. If you click on the description and it’s too long, you won’t be able to scroll down and read the rest of it. Most importantly, you can’t scroll down and click on “apply.”

Another pet peeve about this app is that on my profile I stated that I’m attending a community college and yet the app keeps matching me to scholarships that are for high school students. 😒

Let’s say you tell Scholly you are from Florida. They will still send you scholarships where the requirement is to be a resident from Wisconsin or any other state you don’t live in.

Hey there - Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful. You should definitely only be matched with opportunities made for you, and not those available only to other states - we have passed along your feedback and will fix this bug asap!

I’m really confused by this app...I was so excited to come across a platform that helps match students with scholarship opportunities! However, as a student struggling to finance an education...I cannot afford to pay a monthly fee for a service that *might* or might not help (as many of the reviews suggest it has simply eaten their money with no results, anyway.) Doesn’t this seem counterintuitive, when the money spent on the monthly/annual fees could actually go toward financing one’s education itself??? Sort of funny to target a demographic clearly in need of funds but also make them pay out of pocket when the whole premise is that they likely can’t...not everyone has parents whose pockets they can reach into. I’m disappointed. I get that the developers have to make money to keep this running— if you charged a one-time, up front purchase fee rather than tricking people into downloading a free app that requires a paid subscription to access, you would honestly get enough active downloads/users to keep your app afloat (and improve its actual functionality.) You may think it’s not that deep, but this is a form of elitism, just reinforcing the idea that success on this front still has to be bought. You can’t imagine how disheartening that is.

Hello - Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We've always been focused on protecting users privacy. We don't sell data and don't sell ads so we support the app through a small subscription. We understand while some would disagree, but our goal is to do what's in the best interest of our users data.

I downloaded this App and it never worked properly from hour one. Constant glitching, the app not opening or the app sometimes opened but my phone would freeze and all open apps would crash, my screen would go to the Home Screen and I’d have to give my phone a hard restart just to get the phone working again. I followed the directions on the Scholly website for IPhone users on how to cancel my subscription and it was canceled within days. When I go to my settings and click on my name it says my Scholly subscription was canceled in March of 2020. It’s now DECEMBER of 2020 and I just discovered on my bank statement that Scholly has been making unauthorized charges on my bank account EVERY MONTH for $7.99 since I canceled it back in MARCH! I sent Scholly an email, a direct message on both Twitter & Instagram and a private message on Facebook. I got a response from Facebook with a link to where Scholly claims I could cancel my subscription but it was just a broken link that took me nowhere. There is no 800 number to call. This company should be shut down completely, it’s a total disgrace and nothing more than a scam to make unauthorized monthly charges from your bank account with absolutely no way to stop them!

Hey there - Thank you for taking the time to provide your experience. We've worked diligently on improving the app and are excited to continue to roll out updates so that it provides an overall user-friendly experience. Please reach out to info@myscholly.com for further assistance.