Interstride vs Purple Knights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interstride
This app helps international students find career opportunities with employers who welcome their unique backgrounds. It facilitates job and internship searches, community building, and guidance through immigration processes.
- Find jobs and internships
- Connect with international-student friendly employers
- Build community
- Navigate immigration landscape
- Career success resources
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The #1 place where international students find career success. Interstride makes it easy for you to find jobs and internships from international-student friendly employers, build community, and navigate the complex immigration landscape.
Purple Knights
This app serves as a personalized campus information hub, providing students with easy access to grades, course schedules, events, and campus news. It offers a centralized and secure dashboard for managing academic information and staying updated on university happenings.
- View class schedule
- View grades and assignments
- Register for events
- Access campus news
- Register for classes
- Check email
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The new and improved Purple Knights app is your personalized hub for timely, actionable campus information. It offers easy access to grades, course schedules, events, and other information relevant to you and your academic journey here at UB. With the Purple Knight app, you can… - View your class schedule - View grades & assignments - Register for events - See the latest campus news - Register for classes - Check email ...and much more all through a centralized, secure dashboard!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Purple Knights at 5.0 against Interstride's 4.4. Interstride's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (39 vs 6). 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.
Purple Knights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interstride has 39 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Interstride ships an update every 2 months, Purple Knights every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interstride | Purple Knights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Interstride LLC | University of Bridgeport |
Customer experience
Interstride
Purple Knights
In-app purchases
Interstride
No in-app purchases
Purple Knights
No in-app purchases
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