Brightside Mentoring vs StudyHub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brightside Mentoring
This app connects young people with experienced mentors to explore future career and education paths. It offers insights into university life, jobs, and financial planning.
- Mentor connections
- Future options exploration
- Career insights
- University life information
- Financial planning advice
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Brightside connects trained mentors with young people who are exploring options for their future. Using this app, volunteer mentors from all professions share their knowledge and experience with young people in order to help them make informed decisions about their future. This app also provides interesting and useful information about university life, careers, money, jobs and much more.
StudyHub
This revision app helps students create personalized study courses from their own notes and files. It transforms uploaded content into interactive lessons and offers various practice question formats to aid learning. Track progress and stay focused with a structured roadmap for each subject.
- Personalized study courses
- Convert notes/files to interactive lessons
- Multiple choice and fill-in-the-gap questions
- Track revision progress
- Structured roadmap for courses
- Edit and expand study materials
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StudyHub is a revision app for GCSE and A-Level students, but also supports other levels of study. Build personalised study courses based on your subjects, exam board and target grade. Upload notes, photos or PDFs, and StudyHub turns them into short, interactive lessons that are easier to revise from. With StudyHub, you can: - create study courses from your own notes, files and prompts - turn photos and PDFs into revision content - revise with short lessons instead of long blocks of reading - practise with multiple choice, fill-in-the-gap, matching and reorder questions - add to, edit and expand your courses whenever you need - track your progress with streaks, XP, gems and course progress - stay focused with a clear roadmap for each course StudyHub is designed to make revision feel more structured, more manageable and easier to keep up with every day. Legal Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.softwarelink.co.uk/privacypolicystudyhub
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Verdict
Brightside Mentoring and StudyHub both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 64% of StudyHub's written reviews are positive against 0% of Brightside Mentoring's. StudyHub also leads on ratings volume (49 vs 1). Brightside Mentoring's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. StudyHub sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Brightside Mentoring asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Brightside Mentoring against 4.9 for StudyHub. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StudyHub has 49 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Brightside Mentoring's written reviews are positive against 64% of StudyHub's.
Brightside Mentoring ships an update every 10 days, StudyHub every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brightside Mentoring | StudyHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (49 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 49 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Brightside Trust | Sultan Javed |
Customer experience
Brightside Mentoring
StudyHub
In-app purchases
Brightside Mentoring
No in-app purchases
StudyHub
- Unlimited access$2.997 Days
- Unlimited access$3.997 Days
- Premium Access$4.991 Month
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- Unlimited access$4.991 Month
- Unlimited access$9.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Unlimited access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Unlimited access$39.991 Year
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Access$39.991 Year
- Unlimited access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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