Harper Hub vs Tooling U
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harper Hub
Manage your academic life and campus experience with this app. Stay organized with a calendar, to-do lists, and event reminders. Access campus resources and receive important notifications.
- Calendar with events, classes, and assignments
- Push notifications for deadlines and announcements
- Access to academic tools
- Class management and to-do lists
- Campus event discovery and reminders
- Information on campus services
- Campus map with navigation
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Harper Hub is your place to connect, engage and navigate Harper College. Connect with clubs, organizations, events and departments on campus. Explore opportunities on campus and ways to make your student experience shine. Navigate campus with campus maps right at your fingertips.
Tooling U
Access manufacturing classes on your mobile device. This app provides easy access to your scheduled courses, including audio, video, and interactive content, for a convenient learning experience on the go.
- Access manufacturing classes
- View schedules
- Play audio and video content
- Interactive learning elements
- Mobile-friendly format
- User-friendly interface
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This free app offers convenient, easy access to manufacturing classes for students currently registered with Tooling U-SME. Use your existing username and password to log into your schedule on any tablet or smartphone and enjoy all the features of Tooling U-SME classes, including audio, videos, and interactive elements. It’s all your content available online, in a user-friendly, mobile format that delivers training wherever you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Harper Hub at 76% against Tooling U's 18%. Harper Hub also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Tooling U's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Harper Hub holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 264 and 230 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Harper Hub's written reviews are positive against 18% of Tooling U's.
Harper Hub ships an update every 5 weeks, Tooling U fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Harper Hub | Tooling U |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (264 ratings) — better | 4.4 (230 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 17.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 264 — better | 230 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harper College | Society of Manufacturing Engineers |
Customer experience
Harper Hub
Tooling U
Bugs and requests
Harper Hub
Reported bugs
14 issues- Unable to reply to posts on iPhone app
- Cannot see assignments on iPhone app
- No due dates available to put in calendar
- Homework assignments not linked to the app
- Announcements lag
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- Directory feeds to a 404
- Other features barely work
- App is unpolished and needs more testing
- Latest update v3.2.2 is worthless
- Icons unorganized and text garbled after update
- Needs iOS 7 compatibility
- No "remember me" button
- Login screen freezes (implied by frequent re-login)
- Notifications received but message not visible in app
Requested features
4 requests- Simplify the app slightly
- Integrate Harper email
- Add a "remember me" button
- Have college email on the app
Tooling U
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Harper Hub
No in-app purchases
Tooling U
No in-app purchases
