iQ Student Accommodation vs Buzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iQ Student Accommodation
Manage your student accommodation experience with this app. Access essential services, track deliveries, and find information about your iQ home. Stay updated on events and offers, and manage your account details.
- Pre-arrival information submission
- Parcel delivery notifications
- Maintenance request logging
- Guest registration
- Washing machine availability
- Access iQ Handbook
- View and manage contracts
- Payment tracking and rebooking
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Make student life easier when you call iQ home. Our app is like having iQ in your pocket, always on hand whenever you need us. Book with iQ then download the app to provide your pre-arrival information – like whether you’ll be bringing a bike or want to join the onsite gym. Once you’ve moved into your new home, the app gives you access to everything you need to make life that little bit simpler. NEED TO CHECK IF THAT PARCEL’S ARRIVED? Head to iQ Services to ask the team a question, log a maintenance request or see your parcel delivery notifications. You can also register your guests and find out about washing machine availability before heading to the laundry. WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WIFI ACCESS? Visit the Information Centre for the iQ Handbook – the A to Z guide on everything you need to know about your iQ home. WANT TO SEE YOUR CONTRACT? The Account and Pay section has it – and makes it easy to check your payments, rebook for next year or book a short stay at an iQ property. WANT TO STAY UP TO DATE WITH IQ LIFE? The Reading Room brings you the latest news on our offers, events and virtual classes. Don’t miss out – download the iQ app. www.iqsa.com www.instagram.com/iqstudents/ www.facebook.com/iQStudents www.tiktok.com/iqstudents www.weibo.com/iqstudent
Buzz
Discover curated events in fashion, music, and art. Find album listening parties, brand activations, and exhibition openings. Search your city's hottest events and secure invites.
- Event discovery
- Fashion events
- Music events
- Art exhibitions
- City event map
- Secure invites
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Discover the best events across fashion, music & art with Buzz Social. Whether an album listening party, brand activation or an exhibition’s opening night, we centralise the events that you might otherwise miss. Our map allows you to search your city for the hottest events every night, and secure your invite. Curated by creatives, for creatives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buzz at 100% against iQ Student Accommodation's 40%. Buzz also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). iQ Student Accommodation's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
iQ Student Accommodation holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iQ Student Accommodation has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of iQ Student Accommodation's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buzz's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iQ Student Accommodation ships an update every 2 months, Buzz every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iQ Student Accommodation | Buzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (29 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | iQ Student Accommodation | James Frost |
Customer experience
iQ Student Accommodation
Buzz
Bugs and requests
iQ Student Accommodation
Reported bugs
67 issues- App does not give the option to sign up
- Fire alarm keeps going off
- App does not give the option of sign up
- App is utterly hopeless at loading
- App crashes more often
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- App never logs in properly
- App runs slowly
- App is completely unfriendly to users
- App has plenty of irrelevant news
- No contacts to reception or maintenance team
- No hotline
- No possible way to directly talk to anyone but a bot
- App has shown not an ounce of accountability
- Unbelievably dirty
- People robbed stuff from the kitchen
- App is glitchy
- App is practically impossible to use
- App has so many bugs
- UI was pathetic
- Signing in process did take a while
- Booking the dining room or vacuum cleaner is not easy
- Have to sign in all the time
- App either loads super slowly or not at all
- Cannot view pages to pay rent, check laundry or view parcels
- Cannot access to the Ask us part
- App literally always crashes and doesn't load anything
- Application can't be opened
- No response if you can't log in
- Once opened, no information needed
- Almost impossible to use it normally
- Oven in room was broken, needed to apply for repair, but app could not be used
- Doesn't load ever
- Have to download and delete and re-download
- App only shows part of iQ services
- Cannot see fix, laundry and parcel
- UI is good but it’s sooo slow
- Nothing happens after the login page
- After entering correct email and password, app prompts a IQ screen with green background and post that it gets stuck
- Few times it does show the next screen and when performing any action like accepting agreement it pops up a spinner which never goes away
- Tenant needs to create fast pass to move out, but button is not on website portal nor app
- Too much loading time
- Shows error such as SSO guid and invalid user info
- Have to enter user credentials EVERY time
- Even when checked 'remember device', it logs out
- Hate the app
- Have to close and log in about 5 times before login button works
- Always logging me out regardless of selecting 'keep me logged in'
- Asked questions multiple times with no response beyond 'we’ve received your message'
- Parcels update never works
- Stay logged in feature doesn’t work
- Login button don’t work
- Need to get fast pass
- Was a really easy to use interface until...
- Logging back in, screen goes white and nothing shows up
- Left it for some time, still a blank screen
- Deleted and downloaded again, turned phone on and off, switched WiFi, tried it all; screen still goes blank after logging in
- Lets me log in, but just says resident and doesn’t show contract or name and details
- Unable to file a maintenance request via app, option to do so isn’t even available
- Unable to login with the application
- Says password is incorrect and requires another type of password to be set up
- Tried to log in but the log in button doesn't even work
- Page won’t use my email
- When sending a request to confirm email, it freezes again
- It isn’t opening anything past the log in page
- Stuck at the log in page and it won’t let me log in
- App doesn’t work
- Stuck at the login page
Requested features
17 requests- Option to create an account
- Direct contact to reception or maintenance
- Dark mode
- Face ID login
- Improve app speed
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- Fix sign up issue
- Fix fire alarm issues
- Improve cleanliness
- Provide direct contact options
- Make moving out process easier
- Fix parcel update feature
- Ensure profile details are displayed
- Make maintenance requests available
- Fix password reset issues
- Ensure login button works
- Fix app freezing
- Ensure app opens past login page
Buzz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iQ Student Accommodation
No in-app purchases
Buzz
No in-app purchases
