Summer Programs vs HPU+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Summer Programs
This app guides students through Beacon College's Summer for Success program. Access your daily schedule, upcoming events, and campus locations to prepare for a successful college transition.
- Event access
- Daily schedule
- Campus locations
- Transition preparation
- Learning difference understanding
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This app serves as a companion and guide to students enrolled in Beacon College's Summer for Success program. It provides effortless access to the upcoming events, daily schedule, campus locations, and much more. Beacon College's summer program aims to give college-bound high school students who learn differently the skills, confidence and preparation to successfully transition from high school. We do so by helping them better understand their learning differences, recognize early stumbling blocks and know what they need to succeed in their first year of college. Our core courses are structured to meaningfully prepare students for college to be more effective and confident learners. Most importantly, rising juniors, seniors, and new graduates get to experience what it’s like to live — and learn — on a college campus.
HPU+
Access a complimentary streaming library of professional development and life skills content. Learn from leadership series, university news, live events, and podcasts. Develop wisdom, distinction, and awareness as a leader with on-demand content.
- Life skills and leadership development content
- Weekly new episodes of "3-Minute Master Class"
- HPU News and Live Events
- Podcasts and interviews
- On-demand streaming
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High Point University is respected for its focus on Life Skills and leadership development. This complimentary streaming app features the professional development series “3-Minute Master Class” with HPU President Nido Qubein - a power-packed life skills series to help you develop wisdom, distinction and awareness as a leader (new episodes launch weekly). HPU+ brings the best of HPU News, Live Events, podcasts, interviews with industry leaders and so much more. Now, the High Point University values-based experience is available on-demand anywhere you stream. App Features: • Complimentary library of leadership development and life skills content • Behind the scenes look at High Point University • Live events broadcast at HPU • Original Series: Transformation YOU with Nido Qubein • Academic Innovations Podcast
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Summer Programs at none against HPU+'s shown. Summer Programs also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). HPU+'s advantage is ratings volume (171 vs 6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Summer Programs against 4.9 for HPU+. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HPU+ has 171 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Summer Programs's written reviews are positive against 75% of HPU+'s.
Summer Programs ships an update every 2 weeks, HPU+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Summer Programs | HPU+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.9 (171 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 171 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beacon College, Inc. | High Point University |
Customer experience
Summer Programs
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In-app purchases
Summer Programs
No in-app purchases
HPU+
No in-app purchases
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