break for School Loop 4+

Good alternative, still flawed

Ever since my old schoolloop app kept crashing during every use, I have been using this one. The best part about break is it gives you the ability to alter your grades to see exactly how certain assignments will impact your grade. However, my main concern with this app is that the “locker” feature seems to be broken. Instead of being able to open any of my teachers’ files, I am faced with a screen full of unresponsive documents. Additionally, this app is unable to send loop mail, so I find myself resorting to the official schoolloop website in times of desperation. Overall, this is a very convenient app if you just want to see your grades. I hope future updates will fix these missing features so Break can definitively be the better alternative for students.

Great app, could use a few more features

This app is great for checking to see how my grade would change if I had received a different score, or the score I need to get a certain grade. However, I still use the regular school loop app for everything else because of its appearance. This app does not look that great: some colors for classes are very similar, the UI is bland, and the items are close together. If I could suggest a couple of features, I might say to add the ability to change the color of specific classes. I would also appreciate if the point value for assignments and the period they belong to are visible on the assignments page. Overall, this is a great app for experimenting with your grade, but I don’t think it is suitable (in my opinion) for primary use at this state.

Developer Response ,

break now uses a new coloring algorithm that is guaranteed to deterministically choose colors that are as dissimilar as possible, which hopefully resolves your issues with the color scheme. I'm continually looking for ways to change the UI for the better, so I'll keep your other suggestions in mind when designing parts of the app.

Awesome!

I just got this app, and I think it is going to be a lot better than the regular school loop app. One small thing that could be fixed is to make everything easier to read. For example, the regular app uses gray text instead of black for the less important parts. When I’m reading my list of courses, I don’t really need to know which teacher is teaching the class, so that part can be less obvious. Then the other more important parts would pop out more. Again, looking forward to using this app.