Comparison

Carrot. vs Aora SJSU

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Carrot.

Connect with friends authentically and earn digital currency for your engagement. Answer daily questions or pose your own, rewarding friends with earned coins. Experience real value for social interaction.

Highlights
  • Connect with friends authentically
  • Earn digital currency (Carrot Coin)
  • Answer daily questions
  • Post and send questions with rewards
  • Reward friends with coins
  • Transfer coins to external wallet
Features
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Tired of social media? Dig deeper. Carrot allows you to connect with friends authentically, at any time, and earn digital currency while you do it! Answer a new question each day and earn EVERY time. Entice friends to answer your clever questions and reward them with coins you’ve earned. Carrot is a social messaging app that allows users to post & send questions with digital currency attached. The Daily Dig® is a question sent to all Carrot app users for a daily opportunity to earn. Digital currency are Carrot Coin tokens minted on the Polygon blockchain and can be used in-app as rewards, or transferred out of the app to an external wallet. You and your friends get REAL VALUE for app engagement! So what’s the hold-up? Start Digging today! Terms of service: https://www.digcarrot.com/terms-of-service/

About

Aora SJSU

This app connects you with friends and campus activities in real-time. See what people are up to, plan events, and discover places on a campus map. Share your location selectively and manage group activities easily.

Highlights
  • Real-time campus activity feed
  • Location sharing with privacy controls
  • Event planning and management
  • Interactive campus map
  • Friend activity status updates
  • Private crush matching
  • Group house management
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Aora is your school, full screen. Open it and you see what your campus is actually doing right now. It's not an endless feed from everywhere. It's the people you go to class with, where your friends are, and the plans forming for tonight. NOW Say what you're down for in one tap: food, the gym, studying, a party. Pick a start and end time, add a place, and choose who sees it and who gets a ping. Friends tap I'm down, and anyone who can see it can ask to come. THE MAP Your campus on one map. See friends who share their location with you, every plan and event pinned where it's happening, and the places your friends want to go. Tap a friend to see where they are, how far away, and the weather there, then get directions in Apple Maps. PLANS Start one in a few taps with a place, a day, a time and a cover. Say you're going and your face lands on it. Friends can comment and invite people, and everyone going gets a ping when it starts. PLACES Save the spots you want to try and see which friends want to go too. Mark the ones you've been, rate them, and add a photo. Any saved place turns into a plan in one tap. POSTS AND BURST Post a photo or video in one shutter. Hold the shutter to shoot a Burst, then swipe through and keep your favorites in Memories. Add any of them to your profile whenever you like. NIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN Host an event in under a minute. Send one link and people RSVP by name, whether or not they have Aora. See which friends are going, run the door from your phone, keep a waitlist, and share one album with everyone who was there. SHARE YOUR LOCATION, YOUR WAY Choose exactly who sees you and for how long. Friends you share with see where you are, your battery, and whether you're on your way. Stop any time. BUMP TO FOLLOW Hold two phones back to back to follow each other instantly. YOUR HOUSE, IN ONE PLACE If you're in a house, it gets its own page with announcements, a calendar, an album, points, dues, contacts and a roster, one tap from Home. MESSAGES Reply to anything and it opens a thread. Send a voice note, or ask a friend for a pic of what they're up to. CRUSHES Pick people quietly. Nobody is told unless it goes both ways. --- Aora is campus only. You join with a school email or an invite from someone already in, and you only ever see your own school. Every post can be reported and every account can be blocked, both ways, instantly. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users.

Screenshots

Carrot.4 screens
Aora SJSU4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aora SJSU at none against Carrot.'s 13. Aora SJSU also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Carrot.'s advantage is ratings volume (343 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Carrot. sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Aora SJSU asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aora SJSU holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Carrot. has 343 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Carrot.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Aora SJSU's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carrot. ships an update every 3 weeks, Aora SJSU every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Carrot. versus Aora SJSU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarrot.Aora SJSU
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (343 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings343 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB67 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCarrot Group IncAora Social, Inc.

Customer experience

Carrot.

All ratings338 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral0.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%

Aora SJSU

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Carrot.

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Account deletion difficulties
  • Harassment incidents

Requested features

5 requests
  • Better explanation of app features
  • More frequent image posting/sharing
  • Ability to post more digs per day
  • Dislike button
  • Dark mode option

Aora SJSU

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Carrot.

Subscriptions4
  • Creator Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Enterprise Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Creator Plus - Annual2 Months trial$19.991 Year
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  • Enterprise Plus - Annual2 Months trial$199.991 Year
One-time9
  • Buy Coins - $0.99$0.99
  • Purchase 10,000 Coins$0.99
  • Buy Coins - $4.99$4.99
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  • Buy Coins - $9.99$9.99
  • Purchase 100,000 Coins$9.99
  • Buy Coins - $19.99$19.99
  • Buy Coins - $49.99$49.99
  • Buy Coins - $99.99$99.99
  • Purchase 1,000,000 Coins$99.99
None

Aora SJSU

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carrot. free?
Carrot. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aora SJSU free?
Aora SJSU is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Carrot. or Aora SJSU?
Aora SJSU is rated higher. Carrot. averages 4.8 out of 5 from 343 ratings, while Aora SJSU averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Carrot. or Aora SJSU have ads?
Neither Carrot. nor Aora SJSU shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Carrot. or Aora SJSU?
Carrot. ships an update every 3 weeks, and Aora SJSU every 3 days. Most recently, Carrot. was updated on November 3, 2026 and Aora SJSU on October 31, 2026.

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