PointSolutions vs Rate Your Campus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PointSolutions
Engage with live polls and assessments on your web-enabled device. This tool enhances learning by increasing retention and allowing instructors to gauge comprehension through real-time data collection. It supports various question types and provides tools for tracking progress and communication.
- Real-time and self-paced polling
- Display of questions and response options
- Multiple choice, hotspot, and short answer questions
- Attendance tracking
- Grade data monitoring
- Messaging to presenter
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The PointSolutions polling app (formerly TurningPoint) allows you to use your web-enabled device to respond to questions in real time and self-paced modes. PointSolutions is proven to increase retention and engage learners while allowing instructors to collect data to ensure comprehension. A variety of subscription options are available. FEATURES & FUNCTIONS: • Questions and response options are displayed on your device when polling is opened so that you can answer in real time or at your own pace during self-paced assessments. • Screen displays group responses, user response and indicates correct answer when polling is closed • Multiple choice, multiple response, hotspot, numeric response, true/false and short answer, open-ended question types available • Respond to attendance prompts • View courses you're enrolled in and track grade data • Ability to send messages to communicate questions or concerns to the presenter • Navigate through self-paced assessments in various ways: swiping, navigation carousel, question list view NOTE: PointSolutions mobile is compatible with iOS 13 and above. Users participating in sessions with previous OS versions can participate using a web browser by visiting ttpoll.com. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Rate Your Campus
This platform allows college students to review their campus experience. It's an independent student-built resource for the University of Cincinnati community.
- Campus experience reviews
- Student-built platform
- University of Cincinnati exclusive
- Independent rating system
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Rate Your Campus is the ultimate review platform for the college experience, currently exclusive to the University of Cincinnati community. Rate Your Campus is an independent platform built by students, for the University of Cincinnati community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rate Your Campus at 100% against PointSolutions's 22%. Rate Your Campus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and monetization model (free vs subscription). PointSolutions's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 3). 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.
Rate Your Campus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PointSolutions has 12K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of PointSolutions's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rate Your Campus's.
PointSolutions ships an update every 5 weeks, Rate Your Campus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PointSolutions | Rate Your Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (12K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Turning Technologies, LLC | Nolan Esterman |
Customer experience
PointSolutions
Rate Your Campus
Bugs and requests
PointSolutions
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes during sessions
- Responses not recorded properly
- Compatibility issues with older devices
- Polling questions not opening/closing properly
Requested features
5 requests- Remember login ability
- Improved stability and reliability
- Simpler user interface
- Geofence enabled sign-in
- Notification system for active questions
Rate Your Campus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PointSolutions
No in-app purchases
Rate Your Campus
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PointSolutions free?
Is Rate Your Campus free?
Which has better reviews, PointSolutions or Rate Your Campus?
Do PointSolutions or Rate Your Campus have ads?
Which is updated more often, PointSolutions or Rate Your Campus?
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