Milady Exam Prep vs Verity Student
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Verity Student
Manage your academic life with this app. Track classes, check into events, view grades, and access important campus information. Stay connected with faculty and advisors to support your journey to graduation.
- Class schedule management
- Event check-in
- Grade viewing
- Access applications and calendar
- Make payments
- Communicate with faculty
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Verity Student is a modern solution for students to manage their class schedule, check-in to class and campus events, view their grades, access their applications and calendar events, make payments, as well as keep in touch with faculty and advisors. With real-time banners and features available at the fingertips, students can be successful throughout their journey towards graduation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Verity Student at none against Milady Exam Prep's 10. Verity Student also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). Milady Exam Prep's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 0%). 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. Verity Student asks for nothing beyond the download.
Milady Exam Prep ships an update every 4 months, Verity Student every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Milady Exam Prep | Verity Student |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cengage Learning | Verity IQ, LLC |
Customer experience
Milady Exam Prep
Verity Student
Bugs and 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
Verity Student
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Verity Student
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Milady Exam Prep free?
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