Populi vs Quimbee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Populi
This app connects to a college management system, allowing faculty and students to manage coursework, attendance, and communication. It offers features for grading, submitting assignments, checking grades, and accessing course materials.
- Automatic attendance via Bluetooth beacon
- Grade assignments and run discussions
- Submit assignments and take tests
- Check grades and view course bulletin boards
- Manage admissions leads
- View and pay balances, show ID card
- Search library and place holds
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For use with the Populi college management system. * Uses the same Populi login you use at your school. * Use your iPhone’s Bluetooth beacon to automatically take attendance. * Faculty can grade assignments, run discussions, take attendance, and post to course Bulletin Boards. * Students can check grades, submit assignments, take tests, contribute to discussions, and check in for attendance. * Faculty and students can join course conferences. * Add new admissions leads. * View and pay your balance, show your ID Card, view your calendars, look up school contacts, and keep up with To-Dos. * Search your Library and place holds on resources. * Browse, join and interact with groups. As a group administrator you can also manage group members and content.
Quimbee
This platform offers comprehensive legal study aids and bar exam preparation resources for law students. It features extensive case briefs, engaging video lessons, practice exams, and quizzes designed for efficient and effective learning.
- Case briefs database
- Video lessons
- Essay practice exams
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Learning Hub
- Issue spotters
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Quimbee is an all-in-one learning platform built to support law students and bar examinees at every stage of their legal learning journeys. More than 900,000 students have trusted Quimbee Study Aids for expertly written case briefs, engaging video lessons, essay practice exams, and multiple-choice quizzes that help them survive cold calls and excel on exams. With Quimbee SideBar Videos, bar examinees get short, science-backed lessons designed to help them quickly understand and apply core bar exam concepts — plus hundreds of targeted multiple-choice questions that reinforce learning, strengthen retention, and train recall when it matters most. The result: smarter studying and greater confidence on exam day. From your first day of law school through your final days of bar prep, Quimbee is by your side. Quimbee includes: - The world’s largest database of case briefs keyed to 990+ casebooks - 1,290 short, engaging video lessons designed to help you comprehend the most complex legal concepts in all 1L, 2L, and 3L subjects - 3 case brief viewing options allow you to read full briefs, quick summaries, or bullet points to study how you prefer - Learning Hub, which lets you add your classes and recommends essential study tools tailored to your law school casebooks - Comprehensive outlines, plus short Quicklines for last-minute reviewing - 7,000+ multiple-choice questions with answer explanations - 210+ issue spotters with model answers written by real law professors - Materials designed using integrated learning-science methodologies for efficient, effective learning - 270+ digestible videos covering every subject on your bar exam - 800+ multiple-choice questions to test your knowledge of bar exam material - Bonus videos on bar exam tips and strategy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quimbee at 77% against Populi's 28%. Quimbee also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). Populi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Quimbee sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Populi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quimbee holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quimbee has 2.5K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Populi's written reviews are positive against 77% of Quimbee's.
Populi ships an update every 7 months, Quimbee fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Populi | Quimbee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (26 ratings) | 4.8 (2.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.5% of reviews | 76.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 2.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Populi, Inc | Sellers International, LLC |
Customer experience
Populi
Quimbee
User reviews
Populi
From 26 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works for some users
- 👍 Can see grades and assignments
- 👍 Easy to navigate for some
- 👍 Good for on-the-go access
- 👍 In-app document viewer
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is useless for many
- 🐛 UI is outdated
- 🐛 Navigation is clunky
- 🐛 Lacks location/Bluetooth features
- 🐛 No accessibility support
Quimbee
From 2.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great cold call prep
- 🚀 Incredible app
- 🚀 Excellent resource for law school students
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Best Way to Study Law
Room to improve
- 🐛 Loopholes
- 🐛 App not well supported on Ipad
- 🐛 buggy
- 🐛 Quimbee's New Device Verification Locks You Out
- 🐛 Antiquated Payment Processing System
Bugs and requests
Populi
Reported bugs
41 issues- App stays on 'continue' page
- App is hacked
- App does not work on opening
- Assignments won't submit
- Files no longer open
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- App logs out users
- Cannot open files through the app
- Application feels stuck at v1
- App works only half the time
- App is full of bugs and crashes
- App frequently loses ability to view lessons and tests
- Error message: needs to be updated, but no update available
- App signs out every time it's opened
- Unable to access posted files
- Unable to login after iPhone update
- White screen of death after login
- App logs out constantly
- White screen of death when trying to log back in
- Cannot access lessons page
- App crashes when scrolling
- App freezes when navigating
- Cannot access lessons page on classes
- Inability to stay logged in
- Random logouts
- Developer claims issue fixed, but it's not
- App keeps logging out 3-4 times a day
- Problems with staying logged in
- Last update was 6 months ago
- Institution does not populate on login screen
- App is useless, like using a browser
- App not designed for iPads
- App uses center of screen on iPad
- Menu missing after upgrade
- Files no longer visible, 'unable to connect to Populi'
- App broke after iOS update
- App pops open and closes immediately
- New app update crashes immediately upon opening
- App doesn't communicate well with Populi server
- App doesn't offer same features as website
- App is slow
- Attendance feature is time consuming
Requested features
27 requests- Overhaul UI
- Add tabs to navigation
- Enable location and Bluetooth
- Accessibility support (font/icon size)
- Dark mode
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- Upload assignments from OneDrive/Dropbox
- Integration with online meeting apps
- Face ID unlock
- Save payment information
- Deep link push notifications
- Comment on assignments from app
- iPad version
- Print lessons
- Submit assignments
- Take tests
- Make all website features available on app
- Update app to include more website features
- Allow files to be opened in other programs
- View attendance
- View grades for all classes
- View past terms
- View degree audit
- View class dashboard
- Post/respond to class dashboard
- Save attendance default to 'present'
- Mail functionality
- Full complement of Populi features (bill paying, news feed, rosters, calendars)
Quimbee
Reported bugs
4 issues- App goes dark spontaneously at times
- App freezes a lot and has to be restarted often
- Can't access current tasks
- Videos don't save where you left off and quizzes have significant delay in the time they take to refresh the results
Requested features
7 requests- On the outlines for every topic, can you add links to cases that deal specifically with that topic
- Let me adjust the font size
- screen in screen support to watch the lectures while taking notes on my phone
- option to see all the Flashcards in a topic
- offline use would be great
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- more control over the flashcard use
- Bring back old printing
In-app purchases
Populi
No in-app purchases
Quimbee
- Gold Plan2 variants$299.99
Questions
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