Rutgers Plus vs TreeChat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rutgers Plus
Connect with fellow students, manage academic life, and access campus resources. Find bus schedules, class information, dining hall menus, and a student marketplace. Share moments, engage in discussions, and chat with friends.
- Student social networking
- Bus schedule lookup
- Class management
- Professor ratings
- Dining hall menus
- Student marketplace
- Real-time chat
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A social networking app for Rutgers students which also provide everyday life essentials: look up bus schedules, manage your classes and rate your professors, check dining halls menus and food calories, sell items in the student market, share your moments, post discussions and events, and chat with your friends via real time messaging.
TreeChat
Connect with students at your university through private groups and friend lists. Share posts anonymously or publicly, and discover campus life through a dedicated feed. Engage in various chat groups to find your community.
- Join private university groups
- Add friends within your university
- View student profiles
- Anonymous feed
- Anonymous posting
- Join other chats
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With Treechat you are able to: - Join a private university - Add friends within your university - View other student's profiles - See an anonymous feed - Upload a post as an anonymous person - Join Other Chats
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TreeChat at 86% against Rutgers Plus's 14%. TreeChat also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0). Rutgers Plus's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
TreeChat holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Rutgers Plus's written reviews are positive against 86% of TreeChat's.
Rutgers Plus ships an update every 10 days, TreeChat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rutgers Plus | TreeChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (26 ratings) | 4.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Anbo Zhou | TreeChat LLC |
Customer experience
Rutgers Plus
TreeChat
In-app purchases
Rutgers Plus
No in-app purchases
TreeChat
No in-app purchases
