74
BU Score
Strong
Blackboard
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Blackboard is an iOS app from Anthology Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.6★ across 439,054 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 74 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Education app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (439,054 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 169 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v11.4.0🔄 updated 2d ago🌐 AR, BG, CA, CS, DA +25📂 Education💰 Free🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📝 About this app
Download the Blackboard App and stay seamlessly connected with your courses and elevate your learning experience. Whether you're a student or an instructor, this app integrates with your institution’s Blackboard platform to bring you essential tools and real-time updates on the go.
For Students:
- Stay Informed: Instantly view updates and changes to your courses.
- Real-Time Alerts: Receive notifications for due-dates, announcements, and more.
- Manage Coursework: Easily complete and submit assignments, take tests, and track your progress.
- Check Grades: Access grades for courses, assignments, and tests with just a few taps.
- Plus More: Explore additional features tailored to enhance your educational journey.
For Instructors:
- Efficient Course Management: Upload and organize course materials and assessments effortlessly.
- Timely Notifications: Set up custom alerts such as when submissions are ready for grading, messages from students, and more.
- Streamlined Grading: Grade assignments and provide feedback from your phone or tablet.
- Engage Students: Send course announcements, create and manage discussion threads, and interact with student comments.
- And Beyond: Utilize more tools designed to support your teaching and engagement.
Please Note: The Blackboard App functions in conjunction with your institution’s Blackboard server. Access and features may vary based on your institution's settings and software updates.
By using this app, you agree to our terms and privacy information - https://www.anthology.com/trust-center/terms-of-use
For Students:
- Stay Informed: Instantly view updates and changes to your courses.
- Real-Time Alerts: Receive notifications for due-dates, announcements, and more.
- Manage Coursework: Easily complete and submit assignments, take tests, and track your progress.
- Check Grades: Access grades for courses, assignments, and tests with just a few taps.
- Plus More: Explore additional features tailored to enhance your educational journey.
For Instructors:
- Efficient Course Management: Upload and organize course materials and assessments effortlessly.
- Timely Notifications: Set up custom alerts such as when submissions are ready for grading, messages from students, and more.
- Streamlined Grading: Grade assignments and provide feedback from your phone or tablet.
- Engage Students: Send course announcements, create and manage discussion threads, and interact with student comments.
- And Beyond: Utilize more tools designed to support your teaching and engagement.
Please Note: The Blackboard App functions in conjunction with your institution’s Blackboard server. Access and features may vary based on your institution's settings and software updates.
By using this app, you agree to our terms and privacy information - https://www.anthology.com/trust-center/terms-of-use
🆕 What's New · v11.4.0
Feature
- Grades page improvements. Page now loads faster.
Bug fixes
- Star button not announced as selectable. VoiceOver now identifies the button icon as a selectable control for marking courses as favorites.
- Extraneous prefix announced before day of week in Calendar. VoiceOver now reads days of the week without the extraneous "Cap" prefix.
- Filter button not detected by VoiceOver on Courses screen. The filter control on the Courses screen is now selectable and announced by VoiceOver.
- View Profile button announced incorrectly. The View Profile button is now announced with its correct label.
- Dismiss button not selectable in Activity Stream. The Dismiss button can now be selected and activated using VoiceOver.
- Login error after session timeout for SAML SSO users. Users can now log in successfully after a session expires from idle timeout.
- Grades page improvements. Page now loads faster.
Bug fixes
- Star button not announced as selectable. VoiceOver now identifies the button icon as a selectable control for marking courses as favorites.
- Extraneous prefix announced before day of week in Calendar. VoiceOver now reads days of the week without the extraneous "Cap" prefix.
- Filter button not detected by VoiceOver on Courses screen. The filter control on the Courses screen is now selectable and announced by VoiceOver.
- View Profile button announced incorrectly. The View Profile button is now announced with its correct label.
- Dismiss button not selectable in Activity Stream. The Dismiss button can now be selected and activated using VoiceOver.
- Login error after session timeout for SAML SSO users. Users can now log in successfully after a session expires from idle timeout.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Blackboard
- Developer
- Anthology Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.blackboard.student
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BG, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HE, GA, IT, JA, KO, MS, MI, NB, NN, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI, CY
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1648916522
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Direct revenue estimates for the iOS app 'Blackboard' are not publicly available. The app functions as a companion to the Blackboard Learn learning management system, which is primarily sold to educational institutions through subscription models, rather than generating revenue from individual in-app purchases. Anthology Inc., the parent company of Blackboard, reported approximately $240 million in annual revenue for its Teaching & Learning segment (which includes Blackboard Learn) in fiscal year 2025.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, Prospeo, Owler, Zippia, ElevenFlo, Bondoro, Growjo
Citations: bondoro.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.0★ · 8.2% 5★ · 51.0% 1★
5★4 (8%)
4★2 (4%)
3★9 (18%)
2★9 (18%)
1★25 (51%)
+135 ratings/week
Praise: great ×4 best ×1 awesome ×1Complaints: bug ×4 crash ×4 terrible ×3 worst ×2 hate ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ Great
Can we get color schemes though ?…
★★★★★ رائع
👍🏻…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ It’s difficult
i can’t read the discussions and posting the discussion is complicated. it won’t scroll all the way over for me to fully read anything…
★☆☆☆☆ Terrible App
The app doesn’t work at all anymore. It keeps saying “error on our side. Try again later.” It constantly says that and doesn’t ever get fixed or work “later.”Everything is glitchy, it kicks me out a bunch, it won’t load anything. I can’t ev…
📈Ratings growth439,054 ratings+22% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (17 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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