IEEE vs EnginPrep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IEEE
Access the latest technology news and innovations. Read and download IEEE magazines, manage virtual meetups, and connect with members. Discover conferences and stay informed about the world of technology.
- Personalized experience and recommendations
- Latest technology and innovation news
- Read and download IEEE magazines
- Schedule and join virtual meetups
- Locate IEEE members
- Discover conferences and meetings
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The IEEE App gives you the ability to engage and connect with all things IEEE: • Personalize your experience and recommendations • Stay up-to-date with news on the latest technology and innovations • Read and download your IEEE magazines • Schedule, manage or join meetups virtually • Locate IEEE members by location, interests, and affiliations • Discover conferences and meetings Staying connected to the latest technology and innovation resources has never been easier. The world of technology is in your hands with the IEEE app.
EnginPrep
Prepare for the FE Civil and Mechanical exams with daily practice problems and comprehensive review lessons. Track your progress, identify weak spots, and take timed mock exams. Sync your learning across devices with a single account.
- Daily FE practice problems
- Worked solutions for all problems
- Topic-specific content review
- Timed mock exams
- Weak spot identification drills
- Progress tracking and syncing
- Cross-device compatibility
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Pass the FE exam with EnginPrep, the FE prep platform built by an engineer who’s been through it. Practice on your phone, review on your laptop, and keep every bit of progress with one account on enginprep.com and this app. Start free, no sign-up required: three new FE problems every day with complete worked solutions, for both Civil and Mechanical. FREE DAILY PROBLEM SET A fresh set of three exam-style problems each day, the same set on the website and in the app. Work them, check your answer, and read the full solution. FULL ACCESS INCLUDES Quick Practice Choose your topics and work through hundreds of problems written to the NCEES exam specification. Every problem has a step-by-step solution, and figures zoom so you can read every dimension. Content Review A lesson for every topic on the Civil and Mechanical FE specs, with practice problems you can regenerate for new numbers until the method sticks. Exam Mode Timed mock exams that mirror the real FE: topic weighting from the NCEES spec, a full-length 110-question exam or a shorter session, breaks, and no feedback until you finish. Then a score breakdown by topic so you know exactly where you stand. Weak Spot Drills The app tracks your accuracy by topic and builds a drill from your lowest-scoring areas. Spend your study time where it counts. Progress Tracking See accuracy by topic, sessions over time, and your daily streak — synced with the website so you can study anywhere. ONE ACCOUNT, EVERYWHERE Your EnginPrep subscription covers enginprep.com and this app. Start a session on your phone during a commute and finish the review on your laptop that night. Built for the FE Civil and FE Mechanical exams. Works on iPhone and iPad, light and dark mode. Questions? Email team@enginpeers.com.
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Verdict
IEEE and EnginPrep both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of EnginPrep's written reviews are positive against 7% of IEEE's. IEEE's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. EnginPrep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. IEEE asks for nothing beyond the download.
EnginPrep holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 150 and 192 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of IEEE's written reviews are positive against 62% of EnginPrep's.
IEEE ships an update every 5 weeks, EnginPrep every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IEEE | EnginPrep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (150 ratings) | 4.4 (192 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.5% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 150 | 192 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Inc | EnginPeers LLC |
Customer experience
IEEE
EnginPrep
Bugs and requests
IEEE
Reported bugs
49 issues- Cannot download magazines
- Cannot read magazines in PDF format
- Membership card to Apple Wallet does not work
- Email address input format validation error
- App sticks on a loop when adding card to wallet
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- Sign in doesn't work
- Cannot sign in with IEEE password
- Cannot read Computer Magazine online or PDF
- Magazine zoom in is not good
- No panning when zoomed
- Downloaded PDFs don't have navigation
- 404 errors when reading content online
- Privacy settings not properly appearing
- App crashes when opening
- App crashes every time trying to open
- App crashes when opening on iPhone
- App crashes after showing splash screen
- App crashes after trying to open a notification
- Magazines get out of focus on iPad
- Extra white bar appears on iPad
- Zooming on page blocks text
- Taping screen causes zoom out
- Download button has no effect
- App freezes and crashes all the time
- Orientation locked
- Cannot access magazines
- No working links in magazines
- Cannot copy text from articles
- UI not flexible for phone, not supportive for tablets
- Only magazines show up for content
- Glitchy, slow magazine interface
- Cannot highlight or clip articles
- Unintuitive magazine interface
- No offline reading
- Crazy phone-based UX
- iPhone screen too small to read journals
- App nonfunctional on latest iOS
- IEEE Magazines not available
- Articles in Trending section disappear if not bookmarked
- No iPad version
- Forces portrait mode on iPad
- Cannot read Spectrum
- Lost ability to read offline
- Impossible to use entire screen on iPad
- Cannot make displayed magazine larger
- Multi-step process to download PDF
- iPhone screen size for iPad
- Out of focus when enlarging on iPad
- Articles don't show text
Requested features
16 requests- Add membership card to Apple Wallet
- Improve magazine zoom and panning
- Consistent online reader experience
- Allow saving reading progress
- Improve UI for better readability
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- Develop a dedicated iPad version
- Enable offline magazine reading
- Add navigation features to PDFs
- Improve sign-in process
- Fix email format validation errors
- Make privacy settings visible
- Add horizontal reading support
- Improve search functionality
- Improve back and done navigation
- Allow copying text from articles
- Enable external links in articles
EnginPrep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
IEEE
No in-app purchases
EnginPrep
- Premium Content$4.99
