Crash Course vs Utter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crash Course
Access thousands of free educational videos covering humanities and sciences. Enhance your learning with supplemental flashcards and quizzes for select courses. Join a community dedicated to making education fun and engaging.
- Thousands of educational videos
- High school and college level courses
- Humanities and sciences subjects
- Supplemental flashcards
- Quizzes for review
- Community of learners
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Watch thousands of educational videos and review your learning with the Crash Course App! At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational content should be available to everyone for free. We produce courses that accompany high school and college-level classes ranging from the humanities to the sciences. On YouTube we have created a community of over 10 million subscribers that believe, like us, that learning should be fun, engaging, and thoughtful (and silly when appropriate). This app is a portal to our thousands of videos online and a place to review your learning with supplemental flashcards and quizzes. Flashcard decks are currently available for all episodes of Anatomy & Physiology, Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry, and we'll be continually adding more content. So please join our community of learners because you are the exception!
Utter
This app uses AI to automatically generate study guides, quizzes, and flashcards from recorded lectures or YouTube videos. It aims to help students improve their grades by providing efficient study materials. The tool is presented as a legal and ethical alternative to other AI-powered study aids.
- AI-generated study guides
- Automated quizzes
- Flashcard creation
- Lecture recording
- YouTube video analysis
- Ethical AI usage
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Let AI take notes for you! Record lectures and automatically generate study guides, quizzes, and flashcards from lecture notes. Get the grade you want and deserve by using AI legally and ethically. Utter AI is the most trusted and reliable alternative to Study Fetch, Quizard, Answers AI, Otter, Wave AI, and Turbolearn AI. NEWEST FEATURE - Get notes, study guides, quizzes, and flashcards from YouTube videos! - Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crash Course at 4.8 against Utter's 3.4. Crash Course also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). Utter's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 months). 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. Crash Course sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Utter sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crash Course holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crash Course has 1.6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Crash Course ships an update every 4 months, Utter daily. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crash Course | Utter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Complexly LLC | Friday Lunch, LLC |
Customer experience
Crash Course
Utter
Bugs and requests
Crash Course
Reported bugs
4 issues- Courses disappearing after updates
- Search function not working
- Trouble downloading content
- App crashing during use
Requested features
6 requests- Add math and English courses
- Expand course selection
- Improve search functionality
- Allow offline video viewing
- Add progress tracking and favorites
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- Implement landscape mode on tablets
Utter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crash Course
- Contribute $1.99$1.99
- Contribute Tier 1$1.99
- Contribute $4.99$4.99
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- Contribute Tier 2$4.99
- Contribute Tier 3$9.99
- Contribute Tier 4$14.99
- Contribute Tier 5$19.99
- Contribute Tier 6$24.99
- Contribute Tier 7$29.99
- Contribute Tier 8$39.99
- Contribute Tier 9$49.99
- Contribute Tier 10$59.99
- Contribute Tier 14$99.99
Utter
- Unlimited$4.997 Days
- Unlimited$7.997 Days
- Unlimited$9.991 Month
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- Unlimited3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Unlimited$29.991 Year
- Unlimited$39.991 Year
- Unlimited$59.991 Year
- Unlimited3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Unlimited3 Days trial$89.991 Year
