Strayer vs AMCAT Test
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strayer
Manage your academic life on the go with this app. Track assignments, grades, and course announcements, and integrate them with your personal schedule. Stay connected with classmates and access important student resources from anywhere.
- Assignments and grades tracking
- Course announcements and updates
- Personal schedule integration
- Student community access
- Live chat with assistant
- Admissions portal access
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Introducing Strayer Mobile: Everything you need in one portable place, wherever you go! The Strayer Mobile app keeps you connected and organized, so you can smoothly incorporate earning your degree into your busy life. Assignments, grades, important course announcements and updates – all integrated with your personal schedule and always with you. Strayer Mobile offers: - An enhanced version of your iCampus dashboard, where you can see weekly class assignments, and even pull your course up within the app! - Task and calendar functionality, helping you plan your course work. - Live Chat with Irving assistant - An easy way to participate in Strayer Student Communities and stay connected with your classmates wherever you are. - Push notifications from your courses when your grades have been updated and when announcements are sent out. - Access for new students to the Admissions Portal, in the palm of your hands. You can also check your degree progress; get in touch with your professors, success coaches, and the Help Desk; and read the latest “Get Inspired” articles.
AMCAT Test
Assess your skills with a 90-minute test to be matched with thousands of jobs. Receive certifications recognized by global corporations and personalized training recommendations for areas needing improvement. This app allows you to take the AMCAT test if you have login credentials.
- 90-minute skill assessment
- Job matching to thousands of roles
- Globally recognized certifications
- Personalized training recommendations
- Take AMCAT test via app
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AMCAT is a 90 minute test which matches your skills to jobs. AMCAT matches you to 1000s of jobs and guides you to jobs you are most likely to succeed in. Get certifications which are recognized by 3000+ global corporations. Get training courses recommendations based on the precise skills that you lack which may be preventing you from landing the right job. If you have the AMCAT login credentials (through employers, booked individually), you can use this app to take the AMCAT test. If you don’t have the login credentials you can book the test using the AMCAT – match my skills to jobs app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amcat-match-my-skills-to-jobs/id1089151893?mt=8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AMCAT Test at 83% against Strayer's 9%. AMCAT Test also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). Strayer's advantage is ratings volume (275 vs 68). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AMCAT Test holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 275 and 68 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Strayer's written reviews are positive against 83% of AMCAT Test's.
Strayer ships an update monthly, AMCAT Test every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strayer | AMCAT Test |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (275 ratings) | 4.8 (68 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 275 — better | 68 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strayer University | Aspiring Minds |
Customer experience
Strayer
AMCAT Test
Bugs and requests
Strayer
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on launch
- App does not open
- App force closes after login
- Notifications are duplicated or linger
- Grades and objectives not syncing
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- Courses not loading
- App closes when submitting answers
- Videos not playing on iOS devices
- App keeps logging out users
- Bad gateway errors
- App not updating with real-time information
- App not refreshing daily information
- Touch ID not working
- Login credentials not recognized
- App resets username when switching apps
- Blackboard app integration issues
Requested features
6 requests- Update notifications
- Improve iPad compatibility
- Fix video playback
- Improve Touch ID functionality
- Show overall GPA
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- Better Blackboard integration
AMCAT Test
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Strayer
No in-app purchases
AMCAT Test
No in-app purchases
