Crash Course vs Micro.App
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!
Micro.App
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Micro.App is a microbiology revision app, bringing together concise revision notes, audio summaries, 7,903 MCQs and 621 image cards across 310 topics. Covers key areas of microbiology: • Bacteriology, virology, infectious diseases and tropical medicine • HIV and Clinical Virology • Laboratory microbiology — organisms, diagnostics and identification techniques • Clinical syndromes — infection presentations and causative agents • Antimicrobials — mechanisms, resistance and therapeutic use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Micro.App at none against Crash Course's 13. Micro.App also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months). Crash Course's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Crash Course sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Micro.App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crash Course ships an update every 4 months, Micro.App every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crash Course | Micro.App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Complexly LLC | Luke Blagdon Snell |
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
Micro.App
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
Micro.App
No in-app purchases
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