Students' Union vs Fresh Resident
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Students' Union
This app helps students connect with their Students' Union to discover events, purchase tickets, and join sports and societies. It allows for easy voting in elections and provides a central hub for all SU-related activities.
- Connect with your Students' Union
- Discover and search events
- Purchase event tickets
- Join sports and societies
- Vote in elections
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Get the most from your student experience with Your Students’ Union App! Your one-stop-shop for getting involved with your Students’ Union. It’s your SU - at your finger tips! Discover events, vote easily in elections and join sports and societies with a few quick steps. Key features: - Connect with your SU, to get the most from their services - Discover and search events - Purchase tickets and skip the queues for all of your favourite events - Get involved with your Sports, Societies and other groups by purchasing your memberships - Vote for your Students’ Union representatives in elections - Find out what’s going on in your Students’ Union and how you can get involved And much more... Download it for free now and login via your Students' Union!
Fresh Resident
Manage your living experience seamlessly with this app. Track account activity, make secure payments, submit maintenance requests with progress updates, and handle lease renewals. Stay informed with announcements and connect with neighbors.
- Account oversight and balances
- Secure online payments
- Maintenance request submission and tracking
- Lease renewal signing
- Package tracking
- Announcements and events updates
- Resident community connection
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Fresh’s Resident app lets you manage everything from the palm of your hands. Designed with all the tools and features to make living with us as easy as possible. In our handy App you can: - Complete account oversight of all your activity and balances. - Ability to make secure online payments. - Easy maintenance request submission with progress tracking along the way. - Sign and complete your lease renewals. - Package tracking so you never miss a delivery. - Keep up to date with announcements and events. - Connect with fellow residents. Your life, Your home. Your App
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Verdict
Students' Union and Fresh Resident both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Fresh Resident's written reviews are positive against 0% of Students' Union's. Fresh Resident also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Students' Union's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Students' Union against 4.0 for Fresh Resident. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fresh Resident has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Students' Union's written reviews are positive against 67% of Fresh Resident's.
Students' Union ships an update every 3 weeks, Fresh Resident every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Students' Union | Fresh Resident |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 67.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STUDENTS' UNION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LTD | Yardi Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Students' Union
Fresh Resident
Bugs and requests
Students' Union
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Fresh Resident
Reported bugs
25 issues- Redirects to different places when paying
- Session expired errors during payment
- Recurring payment didn't happen on planned date
- Authentication hangs
- Custom amount field needs clearing
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- Screens are very dark until tapped
- Balance never correct
- Can't make head or tail of credits & adjustments
- No notice of last 2 rent payments
- Amounts showing in US dollars
- App says US dollars but payment is in Sterling
- Payments section shows everything with a minus figure
- Debits and credits all have a minus figure
- Nothing is clear, gives random money payments
- Installments aren’t clear on the app
- Poor layout, cannot see full screen when confirming payment security
- No one responses via the contact details given
- Difficult to pay rent, redirects and shows errors
- Authentication hangs, many tries to add a card
- Not very intuitive design
- Hard to find the info you need
- Not very intuitive, Not good for payments
- Poor layout
- Clumsy, doesn’t present screens properly
- Confusing payment figures
Requested features
16 requests- Allow seeing tenancy year
- Delete old tenancies
- Show this month's payment
- Allow payments in stages
- Add a note feature
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- Clearly state rent due and amount on homepage
- Offer automatic payment
- Improve navigation for multiple accounts
- State tenancy period or year for account selection
- Show breakdowns of payment easily
- Show how much is paid and needs to be paid
- Allow users to put in complaints via the app
- Improve UI for payment security confirmation
- Fix currency display issues
- Clarify payment installments
- Allow setting up bank accounts
In-app purchases
Students' Union
No in-app purchases
Fresh Resident
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Students' Union free?
Is Fresh Resident free?
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Do Students' Union or Fresh Resident have ads?
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