If you can afford it it’s worth it especially for online schools. Well it was for me at least. Course Hero basically got me my college degree. I’ve been trying to finish school for 10 years but things always got in the way from health to money and at this point in my life I didn’t have time to invest in going to class for 2 years to finish and tens of thousands of dollars. I found a school called WGU where I can finish as fast as I can complete the work they give me. So I decided to use Coursehero because many of the classes required written assignments that were on there. Thanks to their documents I was able to finish 22 classes in 6 months. I knew the info but didn’t have time for the coursework. With this I was able to fly through that material and just study for actual exams and did great on those. Some of their uploads aren’t good but there’s usually quite a few really helpful ones for each course. You should really study multiple previews to see who seems like they really know their stuff before you choose which to unlock and if you find a good one see if that uploader has things in other courses you have. The cost seems to be what turns many people off and those who try to lower it by doing uploads seem to have issues. So I definitely get that. If you can’t afford the subscription it might just irritate you. I can’t speak much on if that’s worth it. I didn’t want to deal with all that so I felt just paying the subscription cost was more than worth it if the documents were helping. I didn’t like the monthly limit on unlocking documents but for some reason despite the speed I went and unlocking some documents that were worthless and having to do more than one for the same assignment I never seemed to hit it. However I only used it for a few papers per class. If the cost isn’t a big issue for you I highly suggest it.

STEER CLEAR. DECEPTIVE PRACTICES. Will not permit you to view or unlock any documents until you have submitted 10 docs for 1 unlock. I submitted 14, 6 were denied and 9 were approved. It still kept asking me to submit 10. Every time you get close to submitting the threshold of 10 documents - it will reset and force you to submit another 10 or pay for a $10 monthly subscription. It will not allow you to remove or delete the documents you posted. You may delete the account but they will keep your submitted study materials and will not honor their end of the bargain by cheating. I am very disappointed and feel cheated. They took my submissions and did not reciprocate on their end - plus they will keep my submissions whether I delete the account or not. Go with Project REAL or google classroom. Don’t waste your time here

The content itself overall is fine. I usually use the website on my laptop which is where I submitted 3 questions. They were kinda long I suppose. I also uploaded images to provide information necessary for the question to be answered. When I submitted them all, every single response I got from the tutors was that the question was incomplete or missing information. Obviously it’s not the tutors fault, but I wasn’t sure why they couldn’t see it. I tried opening the questions on my app and only about two lines were shown without any more of the question available. The images were provided.I have no idea why the whole questions weren’t shown, and it’s very frustrating! My comments on the questions that even gave a pdf link to the whole assignment didn’t help as no tutors seemed to be able to answer anything. Very confused and frustrated. I contacted support. I don’t expect anything too soon since I only contacted them very recently.

I downloaded the app expecting at least SOME free content, but that would have been too easy. So I paid the year subscription which is really just paying for 30 unlocks...which if you want an additional 30 is $70...I have yet to find anything but actual answers to tests (so still making my own flash cards) or other people’s essays and answers. It’s not anything advertised for the free app and even after you pay for it you still don’t get full access or maybe not even what you’re looking for. I canceled my subscription within minutes and emailed within a half hour asking for a refund. I didn’t use any unlocks as none of the content offered matched what I was looking for, I have yet to hear back. If you want free flash cards use quizlet. They have premium options too that I haven’t explored, but if I wanted to it’s significantly cheaper. So far I’m getting better help for free from a different app. If you’re a college student you’re better off spending your money on an actual tutor, or food.