Student Mobile App vs Milady Exam Prep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Student Mobile App
This app helps students at participating schools monitor their attendance. Users can clock in and out of school and review their attendance records. It's designed to simplify tracking school presence.
- Clock in/out functionality
- View attendance history
- School participation required
- Student attendance monitoring
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The Student Mobile App provides students who attend participating schools the ability to keep track of their attendance. This includes clocking in, clocking out, and viewing attendance history.
Milady Exam Prep
Prepare for your state board licensing exams with a comprehensive test prep tool. Covers a wide range of beauty and wellness professions to help you pass on your first attempt.
- State board exam preparation
- Cosmetology
- Esthetics
- Barbering
- Massage Therapy
- Nail Technology
- Student Instructor prep
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Preparing for your state board licensing exam doesn't have to be stressful when you use the #1 test prep tool from Milady. Whether you’re studying for Cosmetology, Esthetics, Advanced Esthetics, Barbering, Massage Therapy, Nail Technology, Eyelashes, Hair Removal, or Student Instructor, we have the information to help you pass your state board on your first try.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Milady Exam Prep at 4.7 against Student Mobile App's 1.6. Milady Exam Prep also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 61). Student Mobile App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Milady Exam Prep sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Student Mobile App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Milady Exam Prep holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Milady Exam Prep has 1.5K ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Student Mobile App's written reviews are positive against 29% of Milady Exam Prep's.
Student Mobile App ships an update fortnightly, Milady Exam Prep every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Student Mobile App | Milady Exam Prep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (61 ratings) | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emphasys Software | Cengage Learning |
Customer experience
Student Mobile App
Milady Exam Prep
Bugs and requests
Student Mobile App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Milady Exam Prep
Reported bugs
30 issues- Purchasing
- Slow and lacks easy navigation
- This new update is bad
- Great material but layout needs a little tinkering
- Purchased courses randomly disappear
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- Great for studying but SO BUGGY
- Worst login page
- Ok
- Fix it!!!!!
- App
- Robbed 😡
- Frequent issue
- Purchased Prep
- Scam
- Please give explanations for why the answers are right or wrong
- Questions are great. Functionality? Not so much
- PLEASE FIX! Great content horrible server issues!
- Fix it!!!!!
- PLEASE FIX! Great content horrible server issues!
- Glitchy
- This is easily the worst app I've ever used
- No funciona
- Doesn't work
- Functionality of app and editing of content left to be desired
- Got double charged on app and didn't get my test
- Purchased just for them to later on not allow me to use
- Bad app
- Bad App
- No la recomiendo ..
- Not Available in Spanish
Requested features
2 requests- Like
- Great for studying but SO BUGGY
In-app purchases
Student Mobile App
No in-app purchases
Milady Exam Prep
- Professional Educator$35.95
- Milady Advanced Services$35.95
- Milady Standard Esthetics2 variants$39.95
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- Standard Nail Technology$39.95
- Milady Standard Barbering2 variants$39.95
- Cosmetology 14th Edition$39.95
- Milady Advanced Services$39.95
- Milady Esthetics 3rd Edition$39.95
Questions
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