HKUST Staff vs POLY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HKUST Staff
This application streamlines administrative tasks for back-office staff, offering mobile access to functions like expense receipt uploads. It also provides quick links to other essential resources for university personnel.
- Streamline administrative tasks
- Mobile access to functions
- Expense receipt upload
- Quick links to useful apps
- Improve efficiency
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HKUST Staff is an Apps to help Back Office Staff to improve the administration work more efficiently. It gives you mobile access to some administrative functions (e.g. Expense receipt upload etc.) and easy link reference to other useful Apps for UST staff members.
POLY
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POLY:U:WAY helps you find and navigate to the places you want to go in the University, and provides location-based news and notifications at PolyU campus. Install now and enjoy your visit at PolyU.
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Verdict
HKUST Staff and POLY are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HKUST Staff | POLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
In-app purchases
HKUST Staff
No in-app purchases
POLY
No in-app purchases
