myFSU Mobile vs SYNTHO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
myFSU Mobile
Access essential university links, tools, and resources for students, faculty, and staff. Manage courses, finances, timesheets, paychecks, and benefits from a central hub. Quickly navigate to frequently used websites and applications.
- Course access
- Financial management
- Timesheet and paycheck info
- Benefit information
- Account management
- Quick links to websites
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Find out what’s happening on campus! Florida State University’s official mobile app serves as a personal gateway to the links, tools and resources you need to be successful as a faculty, staff or student. As a student, gain quick access to your courses and finances and manage everything from financial aid to adding and dropping classes. Meanwhile, faculty and staff members can find a snapshot of their timesheet, paycheck and benefits information, with additional links to resources for advising, teaching or administrative functions. From this central location, everyone can manage their FSU account and use the quick links to jump to frequently used websites and apps.
SYNTHO
Learn electronic music production with over 150 hours of curated content. Connect with a community, share your music, and receive expert feedback. Structured cohorts offer a guided learning path to elevate your skills.
- 150+ hours of curated content
- Arrangement, mixing, mastering lessons
- Community newsfeed and profiles
- Expert tutor feedback
- 8-week structured cohorts
- Direct messaging and user following
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SYNTHO is an electronic music education application. Inside the app you gain access to 150+ hours of carefully curated content covering all aspects of the production process such as arrangement, creativity, mixing and mastering, drum processing and much more. Connect with like minded users as you build your own custom profile, communicate and share music via the newsfeed. You can also receive feedback from our expert tutors on your finished tracks or any productions in progress. This will be done in both live classrooms and day to day inside the app. Along with this, we will run 8-week cohorts where you can follow a roadmap of content and assignments delivered by the SYNTHO tutors with the aim to take your music to the next level. This will offer an option to have more accountability and structure in your learning journey. App features - Newsfeed A way to connect with other members and stay engaged daily via status’, track shares and more. Personal profile Build a place to showcase your music and thoughts. Comment on videos Great conversation and share insights with other members. Most popular videos feed Get instant access to the most valuable content and find out what everyone is watching. Carefully curated categories Easy to navigate and find what you want. Search function Offers a quick and easy way for you to find what they need. Tracks and videos are ‘tagged’. Follow users Stay connected with users that you are interested in and want to get to know. Direct message users Stay connected with users that you are interested in and want to get to know Send a ticket Got an idea for a video? Send a ticket on what you want to learn and we can make it into a video.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SYNTHO at 5.0 against myFSU Mobile's 2.1. SYNTHO also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). myFSU Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2). 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.
SYNTHO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of myFSU Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of SYNTHO's.
myFSU Mobile ships an update every 6 months, SYNTHO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | myFSU Mobile | SYNTHO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Florida State University | SYNTHO App ltd |
Customer experience
myFSU Mobile
SYNTHO
Bugs and requests
myFSU Mobile
Reported bugs
32 issues- Login screen doesn't fill iCloud Keychain password
- Cookie to save Duo for 60 days not supported
- FSU page doesn't fit screen (redundant scroll bars)
- Crashes during startup
- Map points all locations as bottom quarter
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- Blackboard component could be better
- Blackboard not working
- Login fails / cannot connect to school
- App always has issues
- App stopped working
- Map feature is helpful, but other features are not
- Blackboard feature no longer works
- App has never done me wrong (contradicted by many others)
- App doesn't give walking directions anymore
- Poor specific database
- Cannot access Blackboard anymore
- Login failure for classes
- Doesn't work anymore! Login fails
- App works only once in a while
- Bb doesnt work
- Was good until it stopped working
- App no longer works
- Blackboard No Longer Works!
- Bug: blackboard feature no longer works
- Not showing game that is being played now
- Directory function works well
- Campus Building locator is essentially useless
- Calendar function does not provide a true academic calendar
- Map can be viewed only in portrait orientation
- Loads very slow
- Blackboard integration missing
- Dining hours are completely off
Requested features
13 requests- Add GPS navigation feature
- Add bus schedules/tracking
- Add ability to view Blackboard assignments
- Improve maps (vending machines, buildings by prefix)
- Make map available in satellite images
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- Add easy access icon for FSU email
- Add walking/driving directions on map
- Add parking locator to map
- Add iPad version
- Add Arts Calendar
- Add push notifications for FSU ALERTS
- Add ability to view grades
- Add team pictures
SYNTHO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
myFSU Mobile
No in-app purchases
SYNTHO
No in-app purchases









