CPP Mobile vs Nearpeer for College
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CPP Mobile
Access Cal Poly Pomona campus information and services. Find academic details, dining options, maps, transit, events, and campus life updates. Stay connected with campus highlights and social media.
- Academic information access
- Campus highlights
- Dining locations and hours
- Maps and transit
- Campus life updates
- Event listings
- Social media integration
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The CPP Mobile app is the official app from Cal Poly Pomona. Use CPP Mobile to access campus information and services including academic information, campus highlights, dining locations and hours, maps and transit, campus life, social media, events and more.
Nearpeer for College
Connect with fellow students at your college. Discover shared interests, find new friends, and easily message classmates. This app helps you build your college community through its peer matching engine.
- Discover shared interests with peers
- Find and connect with classmates
- Meet new people and make friends
- Message across connections and groups
- Peer matching engine for 1:1 connections
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Get connected to your college community. With Nearpeer, you’ll find your people. Download the app now and sign-up to: -Discover what you have in common with your peers -- shared interests, experiences, location, and more -Find, connect with, and meet your peers faster - and make friends -Easily message across connections, groups, and more Our peer matching engine sparks new, 1:1 peer connections across your community. Nearpeer is available at participating U.S. colleges and universities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nearpeer for College at 3.0 against CPP Mobile's 2.0. Nearpeer for College also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months). CPP Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nearpeer for College holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 53 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CPP Mobile's written reviews are positive against 38% of Nearpeer for College's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CPP Mobile ships an update every 7 months, Nearpeer for College every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CPP Mobile | Nearpeer for College |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (38 ratings) | 3.0 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cal Poly Pomona | Nearpeer, Inc. |
Customer experience
CPP Mobile
Nearpeer for College
In-app purchases
CPP Mobile
No in-app purchases
Nearpeer for College
No in-app purchases
Questions
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