Studienkompass vs Noesia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Studienkompass
This app helps high school students explore career paths, discover their talents, and find suitable study programs or vocational training. It offers information on various options and provides support for the transition into higher education or the professional world.
- Career path exploration
- Talent discovery
- Study program information
- Vocational training details
- Internship and job listings
- Gap year planning
- Event calendar and sign-ups
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Studienkompass’ aims at contributing to more equity in the transition from high school to college or vocational education. Not the social and educational background, but the talents and interests of young people should be crucial for the choice and successful organization of their career path. In our understanding, fair is what corresponds to the individual needs, talents and abilities of young people and what compensates them for disadvantages related to their background. We want to help young people to get to know all possibilities after their graduation, to discover their own strengths and talents and to find a suitable course of studies or a suitable vocational training. Our aim is for young people to have a clear idea of their next steps into the professional world after graduating from secondary school. In addition, Studienkompass also provides important impulses and support for the first months after graduating from high school, during a gap year, at university or in vocational training. We help you discover your interests and find all the information that is relevant for you. Only by getting to know yourself and your possibilities of the professional world of the future, you can make a decision that suits you and leads you onto your individual path. The Studienkompass app contains a lot of information which can help you with your study and career orientation. This includes information about: • Studying • Vocational training • Internships • Jobs • Staying abroad • Gap years • Study- and vocational training funding • Entrepreneurship In addition, the Studienkompass platform also provides tips for parents, teachers and wide range of didactic material for volunteers. For participants in the Studienkompass program, there is a limited access area in the Studienkompass app. This features additional functions: Functions in general • Receive messages • Calendar of events • Sign in and out of events • Chat feature • Online Community • Photo Gallery Easy to use If you are already a scholarship holder or a volunteer of the Studienkompass, you can log in directly to your account. About us Studienkompass is a student support program founded in 2007 as the initiative of the Accenture Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Foundation and the German Business Foundation (sdw). The main sponsors are the Karl Schlecht Foundation, the aqtivator gGmbH and the aim - Academy for Innovative Education and Management Heilbronn-Franken. Numerous other business and foundation partners have joined the initiative in recent years. The program offers an intensive career orientation to young people whose parents have not studied. The participants receive continuous support in the last two years of school and throughout the first year after school. Studienkompass is one of the largest private education initiatives in the country. Currently, around 1,200 young people are being supported nationwide, and more than 2,600 young people have already successfully completed the program.
Noesia
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Most of the time you know what you should do. The problem is the week after, when the resolution gets quieter and everyday life gets louder. Noesia is an audio platform for exactly that week. Fifteen to twenty minutes, spoken by people who have worked on the topic for years. Listen on the way to work, on a walk after lunch, in the evening when things go quiet. No appointment. No video. No calendar entry. NOÉ IS WITH YOU Noé is your companion at Noesia. You talk about what you are working on, what is hard right now, what you have set out to do. Noé listens, asks back and keeps it. Next time, Noé still remembers what it was about. Someone new to leading needs different things than someone who has run a team for ten years. Someone facing a decision needs something else than someone who cannot sleep after a conflict. Noé hears where you stand and suggests the audio training that fits. Not the most popular one. The right one for this week. You simply start talking. No typing, no form. Noé takes notes and holds on to what sticks. Your goals stay visible, even when little is moving right now. No test, no grade, no assessment. A conversation that remembers. THE TRAININGS Every audio training is spoken by a person who has dealt with the topic for years: trainers, consultants, therapists, leaders. They tell their own cases, not textbook theory. Sharpened to what you will do differently afterwards. For work, it is about self-leadership, communication, leading teams, deciding, growth, everyday work and new work. About setting boundaries. Saying no. The conflict that will not go away. The new role you grow into. But much of what makes work hard starts somewhere else. That is why Noesia also has trainings on topics no professional development programme covers: self-doubt. Perfectionism. The argument at home that stopped being about the dishes long ago. Money. Friendships that fall asleep. Sleep that will not come. The question of meaning. What you listen to stays with you. WHAT THE APP DOES • Noé as a companion, by voice or text, with a memory that lasts for weeks • Recommendations that fit your situation, not a target group • Keep your goals in view and understand your strengths better • More than 200 audio trainings by real experts • Playlists that bundle several trainings into one listening path • Listen offline and pick up where you left off • In German, English, French and Greek FOR YOU OR FOR YOUR TEAM Many people listen to Noesia through their company, because companies book access for their teams. Others subscribe for themselves. In both cases: nobody in your company sees what you listen to or what you tell Noé.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Noesia at none against Studienkompass's shown. Noesia also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Studienkompass ships an update every 3 months, Noesia every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studienkompass | Noesia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft gGmbH | flowluap |
In-app purchases
Studienkompass
No in-app purchases
Noesia
No in-app purchases
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