StudyDate vs Side Quest Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StudyDate
Connect with fellow university students to find study partners and build friendships. This app helps you discover classmates based on your courses, interests, and study habits, making campus life more social and less intimidating.
- Profile customization with academics and interests
- Smart Pairing algorithm for connections
- Course-specific group chats
- University email verification for safety
- Discover classmates by course
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StudyDate brings university classmates together. Meeting new people on a giant college campus may seem like a daunting task. StudyDate digitizes this essential aspect of college life by providing a smarter, safer, and less intimidating medium to build connections with your peers. MEET YOUR CLASSMATES Customize your StudyDate profile with your academics, personal interests, study habits, and other attributes. View other students’ profiles filtered by course and let our advanced Smart Pairing algorithm go to work connecting you with your future best friend and go-to study partner. COURSE GROUP CHATS It’s easy to chat with all your classmates at once! StudyDate’s full-course group chats are easy to locate and automatically created for every course at your university, perfect for sharing useful information and getting that passing grade. SAFE AND SECURE StudyDate is a network exclusively for college students. The app requires all users to go through a university email verification process to ensure that there’s a real student behind every profile.
Side Quest Master
Connect with others for real-life tasks and assistance. Find help for errands, tutoring, or any other need. Offer your own services to those who require them.
- Connect for errands
- Find tutors
- Offer assistance
- Real-life task solutions
- User-to-user help
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One-Stop Solution For Real-Life Quests Need a ride to Target this weekend? Looking for a tutor in Calculus? SQM connects you with someone who can help!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Side Quest Master at 5.0 against StudyDate's 4.6. Side Quest Master also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). StudyDate's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Side Quest Master holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StudyDate has 88 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of StudyDate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Side Quest Master's.
StudyDate ships an update every 2 months, Side Quest Master every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StudyDate | Side Quest Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (88 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lisa Shenkman | Renwen Fan |
Customer experience
StudyDate
Side Quest Master
In-app purchases
StudyDate
No in-app purchases
Side Quest Master
No in-app purchases
