Fresh Resident vs Now Students
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Now Students
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The Now Students app has everything you need to manage your stay in one convenient app. From the app, you can easily access everything from your contract, rent payment schedule, Energy Performance Certificates, How-to guides and other useful documents provided by Now Students, all completely digital and paperless. You can also see the payment status of all your rent instalments, with useful reminders sent to you before each instalment is due. For questions, help and advice, live-chat lets you directly message the residence team. You can even report maintenance issues with photos and check on the status of those tickets. A News Feed and Events Calendar means you can find out about events in your residence and meet new friends, so you don’t miss out on anything. Features: - Real-time maintenance ticket notifications - Direct messaging with your residence team - Tenancy document hub - Meet other students in your residence - Discover popular events in your residence - View all your upcoming and past payments in one place
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fresh Resident at every 6 months against Now Students's every 12 months. Fresh Resident also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fresh Resident ships an update every 6 months, Now Students every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and May 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fresh Resident | Now Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yardi Systems, Inc. | NOW STUDENT LIVING LIMITED |
Bugs and 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
Now Students
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fresh Resident
No in-app purchases
Now Students
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fresh Resident free?
Is Now Students free?
Do Fresh Resident or Now Students have ads?
Which is updated more often, Fresh Resident or Now Students?
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