Best Piazza alternatives: apps like Piazza

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

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10 free apps

Updated November 2026

Piazza Technologies, Inc.

Piazza is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to Piazza

Gradescope by Turnitin

Assessment Anywhere

Editor's Choice

📚 Education

1.4😞(275 ratings)

Free

Easily upload assignments for courses using this app. Submit files from your device or scan your work directly. Assign pages for variable-length assignments and resubmit if needed before the deadline.

What We Love

🚀 Quick and effective submission process
👍 Clean and well-designed app
📸 Convenient scanning and photo upload

Room to Improve

🔑 Frequent log-in issues and lack of session persistence
📱 Suboptimal iPad and tablet experience
🐛 Buggy scanning and submission functionality
🤔 Lack of key features like viewing graded assignments

Campuswire by CampusTech, Inc.

Strong Contender

📚 Education

2.5😞(67 ratings)

Free

This tool simplifies class discussions, Q&A, and announcements for college courses. It offers a straightforward interface for easy communication between students and instructors.

What We Love

👍 Low data mode helpful
👍 Reputation system liked
👍 Simple interface
👍 Convenient communication tool
👍 Easy to use

Room to Improve

🐛 App crashes frequently
🐛 App doesn't update properly
🐛 Notifications not working
🐛 Search and chats not working
🐛 Replies/answers not showing
🐛 App is unusable
🐛 Login issues
🐛 App prompts for update when already updated
🐛 Can't navigate back on iPhone
🐛 Can't write a question after entering title
🐛 Can't follow up with replies
🐛 Can't see past first response
🐛 Can't access thread posts
🐛 Can't send links to posts
🐛 No refresh for Q&As
🐛 Text disappears while typing
🐛 Deep links don't work
🐛 Live rooms don't work
🐛 Can't get link to a post
🐛 Negative number of notifications
🐛 Assessment test graphics not visible
🐛 Staff are rude
🐛 School has high turnover

UC San Diego by University of California, San Diego (Business Affairs)

Worth Considering

📚 Education

3.1😞(61 ratings)

Free

Access essential campus information and services with a mobile-first approach. Log in securely, view your schedule, find dining options, and navigate campus with ease. Stay updated on news and events, and access your student or employee ID.

What We Love

👍 Useful for shuttle tracking (historically)
👍 Informative for course and DH hours (historically)
👍 Good for incoming freshmen (historically)
👍 Directory is very useful (historically)
👍 Map is helpful (historically)
👍 Great initiative for a university app (historically)
👍 Informative and easy to use (historically)
👍 Great app for students, faculty, alumni (historically)
👍 Online directory useful (historically)
👍 Map good (historically)
👍 Streaming video, news, sports updates (historically)
👍 Graphics and easy-to-read font (historically)
👍 Directory, sports articles, scores, schedules great (historically)
👍 Course lookup, location on map, building pictures (historically)
👍 Map works great (historically)
👍 Directory super helpful (historically)
👍 Great use of technology (historically)
👍 Convenience, usefulness, friendly (historically)
👍 Beautiful application (historically)
👍 Fantastic app (historically)
👍 Great app (historically)
👍 Awesome moving shuttle map (historically)
👍 Very helpful for anyone associated with UCSD (historically)
👍 Good resource (historically)
👍 Great app (historically)
👍 UCSD Prideeeeee (historically)
👍 Sweet (historically)
👍 Fantastic App! Thank you! (historically)
👍 UCSD! (historically)
👍 Wooot were the first public university to do this! (historically)
👍 Excellent App but missing many possible features (historically)
👍 So useful!! (historically)
👍 Nice! (historically)
👍 Sweet! (historically)
👍 Great use of technology (historically)
👍 Über-Useful Application!! (historically)
👍 Awesome (historically)
👍 This awesome but there is room for more! (historically)
👍 Wonderful (historically)
👍 Awesome App! (historically)
👍 Works great for a first verision (or v. 1.01) (historically)
👍 What a wonderful application! (historically)
👍 Recent updates are great
👍 New AI features coming soon

Room to Improve

🐛 Horrible to use
🐛 One of the worst apps ever used
🐛 Insanely bad app
🐛 Unintuitive UI
🐛 Cards don’t stay on consistently
🐛 Worthless
🐛 Map is particularly dysfunctional
🐛 Searches of known buildings yield no or spurious results
🐛 Removed parking structures
🐛 Shuttle Tracker Useless
🐛 New shuttle tracker not functional
🐛 Usually doesn’t work
🐛 Loading errors and no useful data
🐛 Annoyed that the app doesn't always save personalized card selection
🐛 Sometimes can't even personalize Cards selection
🐛 Restaurant/market hours are never accurate
🐛 Functions keep disappearing even after reinstalling
🐛 ID card function disappeared and wouldn't reappear
🐛 App is still designed for an iPhone 4
🐛 Glitchy and outdated
🐛 So many glitches
🐛 Not optimized for iPhone 6/6 Plus
🐛 Inexcusably slow
🐛 Barely usable
🐛 Shuttles STILL down!
🐛 Crashes when startup
🐛 Crash w ios5
🐛 Crashes with startup
🐛 Poor development
🐛 Bad update
🐛 Crashes after update
🐛 Cannot even use
🐛 Mediocre App
🐛 No more native functionality
🐛 Thin shell around the mobile version of the UCSD website
🐛 Slower and less usable
🐛 Replaced custom design with a webpage that doesn't fit properly
🐛 Crap since last update
🐛 Filled with bugs
🐛 Update is horrible
🐛 Completely useless after update
🐛 Too many bugs
🐛 Clunky approach to accessing bus map
🐛 Current shuttle tracker not functional
🐛 Map doesn't tell you where you are
🐛 Not formatted for any of the iPhone 10 sizes
🐛 Classes card always shows Monday
🐛 Cluttered and unprofessional UI
🐛 App fails to open at all
🐛 Latest update broke the app
🐛 Does the job sometimes, yet unreliably
🐛 Need to delete and reinstall app frequently
🐛 Have to open then close app just to get login to work
🐛 Login doesn't work until delete and reinstall
🐛 UI of scrolling through list of cards can be better
🐛 Map is particularly dysfunctional
🐛 Searches of known buildings spelled correctly yields no or spurious results
🐛 Removed parking structures
🐛 Shuttle Tracker Useless
🐛 New shuttle tracker DOES NOT DO ANYTHING
🐛 No bus information at all
🐛 Usually doesn’t work
🐛 Loading errors and no useful data
🐛 Annoyed that the app doesn't always save personalized card selection
🐛 Need a stable internet connection for cards
🐛 Sometimes can't even personalize Cards selection
🐛 Option to see classes doesn't show up
🐛 Restaurant/market hours are never accurate
🐛 Functions keep disappearing even after reinstalling
🐛 ID card function disappeared and wouldn't reappear
🐛 Shows loading throbber for ID card
🐛 ID card not successful with home, campus, and cellular internet
🐛 Scrolling through dining options is inefficient
🐛 App is not formatted for any of the iPhone 10 sizes
🐛 Classes card always shows Monday
🐛 Cluttered and unprofessional
🐛 App fails to open at all
🐛 Crashes immediately
🐛 No backwards compatibility
🐛 Quitting on me ever since update
🐛 Doesn't even open after last update
🐛 Crashes after update
🐛 Cannot even use
🐛 Crashes on start up
🐛 Crashes on startup loadscreen
🐛 Web app that isn't even Retina or iPhone 5 compatible
🐛 Gone from native app to thin shell
🐛 Slower and less usable
🐛 Replaced custom design with a webpage that doesn't fit properly
🐛 Crap since last update
🐛 Filled with bugs
🐛 Update is horrible
🐛 Completely useless after update
🐛 Too many bugs

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University of Michigan

by The University of Michigan

Free

Access academic information, personalized class schedules, and campus resources. Find people and places, get location-based updates on transit and dining, and discover university events.

In-app messages and remindersPersonalized class scheduleCampus building and people search

Enhance classroom engagement with real-time polls, quizzes, and attendance tracking. Facilitate live discussions and share resources seamlessly. This tool aims to make teaching and learning more efficient for educators and students.

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