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Top Hat - Better Learning

Top Hat - Better Learning

Take Charge Of Your Education

23K ratings
191 reviews
#39 in free Education
📚 Education
📊 Productivity
Free

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • July 23, 2013
  • August 3, 2026

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Enhance your learning experience with interactive resources, in-class participation tools, and dynamic digital textbooks. Engage with professors and peers, and test your knowledge with quizzes and polls to improve comprehension and retention.

✓Follow lecture slides on your device
✓In-class response system
✓In-app discussions with peers and professors
✓Dynamic, interactive digital textbooks
✓Take polls and quizzes
✓Access graded and non-graded homework
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Top Hat. Based on 23K reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 3 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this Education app.

Positive things

  • 🚀Smooth and intuitive interface
  • 👍Useful for attendance and in-class quizzes
  • 💡Potential for interactive learning

Negative things

  • 🐛Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔋High battery consumption
  • 💰Expensive subscription fees
  • 🔒Privacy concerns with location tracking
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What's New in Top Hat

8.109.0

August 3, 2026

Thank you for using Top Hat! To make our app better for you, we bring regular updates to the App Store. In this update, we have made improvements to the subscription experience for eligible users, along with performance improvements and bug fixes.

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This app dropped -2 positions in Education chart.

Last updated on August 28, 2026.

User reviews

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Good but needs improvement

How am I paying for an app to learn but the questions don’t work.. I’m unable to choose my answers.
Other than that, it is pretty efficient
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Response from developer

Thank you for bringing up an issue to our attention! Please contact us at https://support.tophat.com/contact so we can troubleshoot the issue and ensure everything else stays efficient.

Bad for exams

I was taking a FINAL EXAM on my ipad and it bugged out and froze my ipad, my ipad has never done this before, except during my Midterm where other classmates around me and me included were taken out of the exam multiple times this happened within the last 2-3 weeks of each other bc it’s summer courses rn. Not to mention when you’re doing work it clicks you out of the assignment for just pressing the back button or ‘Done’ instead of the X, like keep up
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Seven_HellsSeven_Hells

Botched

I would rate this app higher if it worked consistently. What an amazing concept, executed poorly. I feel so bad for the instructors who have to fumble around with it just to make it work. Usually they just give up.

Doesn’t work that great for me either. :(
PugsInTVPugsInTV

Mandatory update during a test

Was writing a test on tophat when all of a sudden i was unable to use anymore
nwatoonwatoo

Response from developer

We’re sorry to hear you ran into trouble during your test. This typically happens if the app version becomes outdated. To prevent this in the future, we recommend manually checking for updates before starting any assessment. If you’re still having trouble, please reach out to our support team at https://support.tophat.com/contact for further investigation.

App is buggy and customer service is so unhelpful

This isn’t the first time that the app doesn’t keep up with presentation. I tried everything, from reinstalling, updating and even clearing cache. I spoke to customer service agent Ederlyn Q, whose only suggestion was to use the website as I am trying to troubleshoot the app. Leaves me on read and then ends the chat like the issue was solved. Spoiler, it wasn’t. I am not the only person that has had issues with the app on both my phone and tablet, I thought that because most of the negative reviews came from a few years back they would have fixed the lagging issue , but nope. The app bugs, lags and will have a stroke mid presentation
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Response from developer

It’s incredibly frustrating to do all the troubleshooting steps, and to not have a solution. We want to investigate exactly what happened during that interaction and, more importantly, get to the bottom of your app experience. Please contact us with your case number or username/account information, and reference to this review, so we can investigate further.

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Answers not registering correctly

Bug

Slides not loading properly on mobile devices

Bug

Inconsistent performance across platforms

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Requested Features

3 requests

Add page numbers and search functionality to ebooks

Feature

Improve syncing between mobile and web versions

Feature

Allow more flexible location settings for attendance

Feature

FAQ

What does Top Hat do?

Top Hat is a learning companion app that enhances your educational experience. It provides interactive resources, allows for in-class participation, and offers dynamic digital textbooks to help you learn better before, during, and after class.

What are the key features of Top Hat?

Key features include following lecture slides on your device, an easy-to-use in-class response system, in-app discussions with professors and peers, dynamic interactive textbooks, and the ability to take polls, quizzes, and homework assignments.

Is Top Hat free to use?

Based on the provided information, the app is free to use. There are no mentions of subscription fees or in-app purchases for core functionalities.

What devices is Top Hat compatible with?

The app is designed to be used on your smartphone or laptop, suggesting compatibility with a wide range of mobile and desktop operating systems.

How does Top Hat help improve learning?

It improves learning by making content more engaging through interactive elements, facilitating active participation in class, and providing tools like quizzes and polls to test comprehension and reinforce knowledge retention.