Strayer vs Phoenix Edu
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.
Phoenix Edu
This app connects students, parents, and teachers with institute information. Students and parents can track attendance, homework, and assignments, while staff can manage attendance and queries.
- View daily attendance
- Access daily homework
- Download assignments
- Send queries to staff
- View academic activities
- Fill attendance (staff)
- Set homework (staff)
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Phoenix Edu App for their Students, Parents & Teachers to View & Download Institute Information. Students & Parents can View Daily Attendance, Daily Homework, Download Assignments, Send Queries, View Academic Activities and many more things. Staff can Fill Attendance, Set Homework, View Own Attendance, Manage Queries and many more things.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strayer at 3.8 against Phoenix Edu's 1.3. Strayer also leads on ratings volume (274 vs 3). Phoenix Edu's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). 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.
Strayer holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strayer has 274 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Strayer ships an update monthly, Phoenix Edu fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strayer | Phoenix Edu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (274 ratings) — better | 1.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 274 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strayer University | Zibma Infotech |
Customer experience
Strayer
Phoenix Edu
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
Phoenix Edu
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Strayer
No in-app purchases
Phoenix Edu
No in-app purchases
Questions
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