AsULearn vs Foldscope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AsULearn
Access course content, receive instant notifications, and track your learning progress. Upload files, participate in quizzes and forums, and view grades. This app facilitates offline course browsing and communication with others in your courses.
- Offline course content browsing
- Instant event notifications
- File uploads (images, audio, video)
- Progress tracking and task completion
- Quiz and forum participation
- View course grades
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With the AsULearn branded Moodle mobile app, you can - Browse the content of your courses, even when offline - Receive instant notifications of messages and other events - Quickly find and contact other people in your courses - Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device - Track your progress, mark tasks as complete and browse your learning plans - Attempt quizzes, post in forums and edit wiki pages - View your course grades ... and lots more!
Foldscope
This app allows users to capture, focus, and scale images taken through a specialized lens. It also provides a platform for sharing these images and text posts with a global community of users. Explore and discover microscopic worlds through shared content.
- Capture and focus microscopic images
- Scale images through the lens
- Share images and text posts
- Browse global user posts
- Explore the Microcosmos community
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Use the Foldscope app to scale and focus your images while using the Foldscope! - Capture, focus, and scale images through the Lens - Share your images and text posts on Microcosmos - Browse Microcosmos to explore posts from Foldscopers around the world
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Foldscope at 5.0 against AsULearn's 3.0. Foldscope also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). AsULearn's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 2). 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.
Foldscope holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AsULearn has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AsULearn ships an update every 4 months, Foldscope every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AsULearn | Foldscope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Appalachian State University | Foldscope Intruments, Inc |
Customer experience
AsULearn
Foldscope
In-app purchases
AsULearn
No in-app purchases
Foldscope
No in-app purchases
