Top Hat - Better Learning

Top Hat - Better Learning

Take Charge Of Your Education

23K ratings
195 reviews
#145 in free Education
📚 Education
📊 Productivity
Free

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • July 23, 2013
  • September 28, 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's New in Top Hat

8.110.0

September 28, 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 included general stability and performance improvements.

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This app dropped -7 positions in Education chart.

Last updated on September 30, 2026.

User reviews

App is unusable

The app is buggy and rarely works. The functionality itself is fine, but you can’t have an app that is this critical to grades and learning that just doesn’t do anything. Every time there is a question in class, I see AT LEAST 10 people being unable to sign into the app, making them lose points for no fault of their own.
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this program sucks

the app is fine, it’s just that the entire program is confusing, anti-intuitive, and difficult to use. Sometimes I can enter data on desktop, sometimes I can only do it on the app. The “show your work” portion of many assignment are so confusing and hard to use. I hope I never take another class that uses this awful program. I love learning and school and top hat is ruining my semester.
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Terrible and buggy app.

I hate this app do not use it. This app is glitchy and will not allow you to add courses in it. If you don’t want to absolutely fail your attendance in this knockoff kahoot app you must use the web app. Terrible horrible app do not use.

Useless for instructors

My program is implementing this as an eTextbook platform and it is not instructor-friendly but it IS pushing AI really hard. TopHat in general seems to have forgotten instructors exist and do things other than present in classrooms, but the app doesn’t even try. Locked out if your course access is as an instructor.

PS do not respond to this with a chatbot (this will be ignored, like all feedback)
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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

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.

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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

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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.