AIU Faculty vs Essence AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AIU Faculty
This app helps university faculty connect with students and manage course content on the go. It provides tools for instant communication, tracking student progress, and organizing academic tasks. Faculty can post announcements, send messages, and access student performance data securely.
- Class notifications
- Student communication tools
- Track student progress
- Manage course content
- Calendar reminders
- Speech-to-text for discussions
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Receive class notifications and stay connected with your students with the American InterContinental University Faculty Mobile App. Mobile offers a secure, convenient way to take brief classroom interactions on the go. Anytime. Anywhere. The AIU Mobile app provides faculty facilitating online and at ground campuses an opportunity to connect with students and course content: • Instant access to students needing additional support • Tools to enhance on the go student interaction - post announcements, send email messages, and call students direct • A mobile friendly and interactive view of adaptive learning - assign adaptive learning actions, send messages, and track student lesson progress • Tools to plan course work, manage time, and add classroom workshop and Live Chat reminders to a personal calendar, along with e-reader, cloud storage, and speech-to-text functionality to respond to Discussion Board posts • A home view specially-designed for what faculty review daily – student dashboard information detailing LDA, submissions, adaptive learning progress, graded/ungraded assignments, and discussion board engagement
Essence AI
Engage with AI chatbots embodying unique personalities and knowledge bases. Learn from historical figures and experts, play back audio conversations, and share your discussions across devices. This app offers a new way to explore information and expand your understanding.
- Interact with unique AI chatbots
- Learn from historical figures and experts
- Suggested conversation starters
- Audio playback of conversations
- Share conversations
- Sync across iCloud devices
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An Essence is more than an AI Assistant. An Essence has unique style, knowledge, and generative abilities. With the Essence AI app, you can learn physics from Einstein, business from Bezos, breath with Hof, cooking with Oliver, and much more. Features of the app include: - The ability to search and message with several unique AI Chatbots (Essences) - View and quickly use suggested conversation starters - Playback the audio of your conversation bubble - Share a conversation with a friend or on social media - Sync your conversations across iCloud devices Many exciting features are on the horizon. Some enhanced essences have custom voices. This is only the beginning. Download now and join us on a journey expanding human consciousness with AI. If you are interested in creating your own Essence, visit https://www.essenceai.app/ on your desktop or mobile browser. Terms and Conditions for auto-renewing subscriptions can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Essence AI at 4.3 against AIU Faculty's 3.6. Essence AI also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). AIU Faculty's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support. On price and ratings volume 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. Essence AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. AIU Faculty asks for nothing beyond the download.
Essence AI holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 12 respectively.
| Parameter | AIU Faculty | Essence AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (7 ratings) | 4.3 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Intercontinental University | Benjamin Carl Karst |
Customer experience
AIU Faculty
Essence AI
In-app purchases
AIU Faculty
No in-app purchases
Essence AI
- Unlimited Requests Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month









