Comparison

Quimbee vs West Academic Audio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Quimbee

This platform offers comprehensive legal study aids and bar exam preparation. It provides expertly written case briefs, engaging video lessons, practice exams, and quizzes designed to help law students succeed. The app supports learning from the first day of law school through bar prep.

Highlights
  • Extensive case brief database
  • Engaging video lessons
  • Practice essay exams
  • Multiple-choice quizzes
  • Issue spotters with model answers
  • Learning science-based methodologies
  • Bar exam prep materials
Features
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Quimbee is an all-in-one learning platform built to support law students and bar examinees at every stage of their legal learning journeys. More than 900,000 students have trusted Quimbee Study Aids for expertly written case briefs, engaging video lessons, essay practice exams, and multiple-choice quizzes that help them survive cold calls and excel on exams. With Quimbee SideBar Videos, bar examinees get short, science-backed lessons designed to help them quickly understand and apply core bar exam concepts — plus hundreds of targeted multiple-choice questions that reinforce learning, strengthen retention, and train recall when it matters most. The result: smarter studying and greater confidence on exam day. From your first day of law school through your final days of bar prep, Quimbee is by your side. Quimbee includes: - The world’s largest database of case briefs keyed to 990+ casebooks - 1,290 short, engaging video lessons designed to help you comprehend the most complex legal concepts in all 1L, 2L, and 3L subjects - 3 case brief viewing options allow you to read full briefs, quick summaries, or bullet points to study how you prefer - Learning Hub, which lets you add your classes and recommends essential study tools tailored to your law school casebooks - Comprehensive outlines, plus short Quicklines for last-minute reviewing - 7,000+ multiple-choice questions with answer explanations - 210+ issue spotters with model answers written by real law professors - Materials designed using integrated learning-science methodologies for efficient, effective learning - 270+ digestible videos covering every subject on your bar exam - 800+ multiple-choice questions to test your knowledge of bar exam material - Bonus videos on bar exam tips and strategy

About

West Academic Audio

Access audiobooks and lectures offline with this app. Download content, adjust playback speed, and view transcripts. It's designed for users of West Academic Study Aids.

Highlights
  • Offline audio access
  • Downloadable content
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Lecture transcripts
  • Improved navigation
Features
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The West Academic Audio app provides offline access to audio content and audio lectures available through your subscription to West Academic Study Aids. Sign in to the app using your West Academic username and password. • Browse West Academic’s collection of audio titles and lectures • Download individual tracks or an entire title • Speed up or slow down a lecture to adjust to your listening style • View lecture transcripts (where available) • Improved navigation to get you to your recently played titles faster and discover new audio titles Looking to read West Academic books on a mobile app? Download the West Academic Library app for access to books while on the go. West Academic is the leading publisher of casebooks, treatises, study aids, and other legal education materials in the U.S. Founded on the principle of making legal information more accessible, and rooted in a long history of legal expertise and innovation, we’ve been a leader in legal education publishing for more than 100 years.

Screenshots

Quimbee4 screens
West Academic Audio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: West Academic Audio at none against Quimbee's 2. West Academic Audio also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Quimbee's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 46%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quimbee sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. West Academic Audio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Quimbee against 4.8 for West Academic Audio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quimbee has 2.5K ratings behind it against 445, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Quimbee's written reviews are positive against 46% of West Academic Audio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quimbee ships an update fortnightly, West Academic Audio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quimbee versus West Academic Audio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuimbeeWest Academic Audio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5K ratings)4.8 (445 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.7% of reviews — better46.2% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5K — better445
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB23 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSellers International, LLCLEG, Inc.

Customer experience

Quimbee

All ratings2,521 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral7.4%
Negative16.0%

West Academic Audio

All ratings388 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral0.8%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative46.2%

User reviews

Quimbee

From 2.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great cold call prep
  • 🚀 Incredible app
  • 🚀 Excellent resource for law school students
  • 👍 Excellent app
  • 👍 Best Way to Study Law

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Loopholes
  • 🐛 App not well supported on Ipad
  • 🐛 buggy
  • 🐛 Quimbee's New Device Verification Locks You Out
  • 🐛 Antiquated Payment Processing System

West Academic Audio

From 445 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great audio resources
  • 👍 Accessible on the go
  • 🚀 Faster downloads than old app
  • 🚀 Variable speed playback
  • 👍 Deletable tracks and collections

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Periodically signs out
  • 🐛 Deletes all downloads
  • 🐛 Access to audio gone
  • 🐛 Replaced by eBooks
  • 🐛 No solutions from support

Bugs and requests

Quimbee

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App goes dark spontaneously at times
  • App freezes a lot and has to be restarted often
  • Can't access current tasks
  • Videos don't save where you left off and quizzes have significant delay in the time they take to refresh the results

Requested features

7 requests
  • On the outlines for every topic, can you add links to cases that deal specifically with that topic
  • Let me adjust the font size
  • screen in screen support to watch the lectures while taking notes on my phone
  • option to see all the Flashcards in a topic
  • offline use would be great
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  • more control over the flashcard use
  • Bring back old printing

West Academic Audio

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Periodically signs out and deletes all downloads
  • Access to audio material is gone, replaced by eBooks
  • Tracks refuse to download, then app won't let user log in after reinstall
  • App won't download or play anything
  • App will not let me login
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  • Cannot download content
  • App loses place in track

Requested features

5 requests
  • Wider selection of audio lectures
  • Sleep timer
  • Reading in addition to audio option
  • Sort library by downloaded audios
  • Stream instead of download files

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quimbee

One-time1
  • Gold Plan2 variants$299.99
None

West Academic Audio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quimbee free?
Quimbee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is West Academic Audio free?
West Academic Audio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quimbee or West Academic Audio?
West Academic Audio is rated higher. Quimbee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5K ratings, while West Academic Audio averages 4.8 from 445 ratings.
Do Quimbee or West Academic Audio have ads?
Neither Quimbee nor West Academic Audio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quimbee or West Academic Audio?
Quimbee ships an update fortnightly, and West Academic Audio every 2 months. Most recently, Quimbee was updated on November 1, 2026 and West Academic Audio on November 3, 2026.

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