Thrive at UT vs Circuit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thrive at UT
This app supports University of Texas students in navigating campus life. It offers guidance on friendships, mindfulness, and challenges through videos and interactive activities. The goal is to help students make positive changes for a better daily experience.
- Campus life navigation
- Friendship building guidance
- Mindfulness techniques
- Challenge management
- Student video stories
- Interactive learning activities
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Specifically designed for students throughout the University of Texas system, Thrive at UT helps you live your best life. Eight topic areas including building friendships, becoming more mindful, and managing challenges help you better navigate the ups and downs of campus life. There are short videos of students sharing their own stories as well as interactive activities to help you learn more about yourself. Thrive helps you make small, simple changes that can have a powerful impact on your daily life!
Circuit
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Circuit builds you running routes to explore wherever you are. Tell it how far you want to go, and Circuit generates a loop from right where you're standing that passes the best-rated nearby parks, landmarks, and hidden gems along the way. No manual route planning, no guessing where to go in a new city. Just pick a distance or length of time and run. WHERE TO RUN, SOLVED • Enter a distance (or how much time you have) and get a complete loop back to your start • Routes are built around real points of interest: parks, monuments, waterfronts, and markets • Traveling somewhere new? Circuit turns an unfamiliar city into a route worth running COLLECT AS YOU GO • Every place you run past gets added to your personal Journal • Collect 40+ badges across ten categories: distance, streaks, cities explored, and more • Build a runner profile that shows off your badges and where you've been RUN YOUR WAY • Track live pace, distance, and route progress • Follow other runners, share your runs, and see what your friends have discovered • Sync completed runs to Apple Health so they sit alongside the rest of your activity The world is meant to be explored. Explore it with Circuit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Circuit at 5.0 against Thrive at UT's 4.5. Thrive at UT's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Circuit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | Thrive at UT | Circuit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | QUINLAN DAVID O'CONNELL |
In-app purchases
Thrive at UT
No in-app purchases
Circuit
No in-app purchases









