PurdueGuide vs StudiFlip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PurdueGuide
This app offers resources for Purdue students and guests, including an orientation guide and self-guided campus tours. It also lists event schedules for key university activities.
- Orientation guide
- Self-led campus tours
- Event schedules
- Boiler Gold Rush information
- Family Weekend details
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PurdueGuide provides tools and resources for Purdue students and guests, including an orientation guide and a self-led campus tour feature. The app also contains schedules for events such as Boiler Gold Rush/Boiler Gold Rush International, and Family Weekend.
StudiFlip
A dedicated marketplace for college students to buy, sell, and find essential items, housing, and services. Discover textbooks, furniture, electronics, sublets, roommates, and student-offered help all in one place.
- Buy and sell college essentials
- Find textbooks and supplies
- Browse housing and roommates
- Discover student services
- List items for sale
- Campus-specific marketplace
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College life comes with a lot to buy, sell, find, and figure out. StudiFlip brings it together in a marketplace built specifically for college communities. Find textbooks before class. Pick up furniture for a new apartment. Sell electronics or dorm items you no longer need. Look for a sublet or roommate. Discover tutoring, moving help, creative work, tech help, and other student services. BUY & FIND Browse the things students actually need for college life, including textbooks and academic supplies, electronics, clothing, dorm and home items, furniture, university merchandise, sports equipment, instruments, tickets, vehicles, free items, and more. SELL Moving out, graduating, upgrading, or just clearing space? List the things you no longer need and make them discoverable within your college community. HOUSING Explore housing-related listings for sublets, rooms, apartments, roommate searches, parking, and other rental needs. StudiFlip helps students discover listings; it does not own, manage, broker, lease, or guarantee housing. STUDENT SERVICES College needs go beyond stuff. Discover student-offered help for tutoring and learning support, career needs, photography and design, events, moving, transportation, tech, and everyday tasks. Students can also list skills and services they want to offer. WHY STUDIFLIP StudiFlip is built around college life instead of treating students like just another audience. Goods, housing, and services live in one student-focused marketplace, so the things you need for a semester, a move, a class, or everyday campus life are easier to discover in one place. StudiFlip is the marketplace for college life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StudiFlip at 5.0 against PurdueGuide's 2.8. StudiFlip also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). PurdueGuide's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
StudiFlip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PurdueGuide has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PurdueGuide ships an update every 3 months, StudiFlip every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PurdueGuide | StudiFlip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Purdue University | Studiflip, Inc. |
Customer experience
PurdueGuide
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In-app purchases
PurdueGuide
No in-app purchases
StudiFlip
No in-app purchases
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