My Warwick vs Unibuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Warwick
This app consolidates essential information for University of Warwick students and staff, offering customizable updates on news, events, and academic matters. Stay informed on the go with features like email, calendar access, and urgent alerts for safety and academic changes.
- Personalized news and event feeds
- Email and calendar integration
- Traffic and department updates
- Assignment deadline reminders
- Lecture change notifications
- Urgent safety alerts
- Customizable tiles and notifications
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My Warwick brings together information for students and staff at the University of Warwick. It puts the things you need to know in a single place, for you to keep up to date on the move, without needing to check in via a computer or laptop. You can customise everything to suit you. Choose the tiles that show what matters to you, see the news and events you want to, and turn off the tiles and notifications you don’t want. You can check your emails and calendar, see traffic alerts, updates from your department and more. You can get alerts when something needs your attention – whether that’s because an assignment deadline is approaching or if a lecture is moved or cancelled. The University can send you urgent messages just in case there’s something that you need to know to help you stay safe. We’re developing the app all the time, so please share your feedback on what works for you.
Unibuddy
Connect with current and prospective students to get authentic insights and make informed decisions about university. Chat with peers to navigate your transition into higher education.
- Connect with current students
- Chat with prospective students
- Get university information
- Make informed decisions
- Transition to university support
- Join university communities
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Helping you to make connections and get the information you need to make the best decisions for you as you transition into university. Download the app and sign in to chat to current students or other prospective students, depending on what stage you're at in your decision making journey. If you have been invited to a community to chat to other prospective students, follow the steps in your invite to create an account. Experiences shared, decisions made. With this app you’ll be able to make connections across the different universities you’re interested in or applying to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: My Warwick at 63% against Unibuddy's 4%. Unibuddy's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). 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.
Unibuddy holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unibuddy has 106 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of My Warwick's written reviews are positive against 4% of Unibuddy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
My Warwick ships an update every 3 months, Unibuddy every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | My Warwick | Unibuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (106 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 3.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 106 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Warwick | Unibuddy Limited |
Customer experience
My Warwick
Unibuddy
In-app purchases
My Warwick
No in-app purchases
Unibuddy
No in-app purchases
