Strings Conferences vs The New School App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strings Conferences
Explore two decades of String Theory progress through conference slides. Easily navigate presentations from 1998 to 2025 on your iPad.
- Access conference slides
- Navigate presentations
- String Theory content
- Historical data (1998-2025)
- iPad optimized
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Twenty years of (non-)progress of String Theory on your iPad! With this app, you can easily navigate all the slides from the past Strings conferences, from 1998 to 2025.
The New School App
Access school news, blogs, and announcements in one place. View photos, videos, and documents, and stay updated with calendar events and athletic details. Connect with faculty, students, and parents through the constituent directory.
- News and announcements
- Photos, videos, and documents
- Calendar events
- Constituent directory
- Access to student, faculty, and parent portals
- Athletic event details
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The New School app provides parents, students and faculty members with the information they need in one convenient place. The app includes: • Blogs, news and announcements • Pictures, videos and documents • Calendar events • Constituent directory and more • Access to student, Faculty and Parent Portals Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of the most important news, announcements and calendar events, and you have access on-the-go to the most current community directory. Users are able to: • Browse the latest published photos and videos • Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use • Catch up on current news • Review athletic event details, including opponents, game results, recap commentaries, and more • Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests. • Quickly find faculty, parent, student and alumni contact information • Call or email a constituent directly from your device The information presented in the The New School app is drawn from the same source as the The New School website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The New School App at every 3 months against Strings Conferences's every 11 months. The New School App also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Strings Conferences against 5.0 for The New School App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Strings Conferences ships an update every 11 months, The New School App every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strings Conferences | The New School App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuji Tachikawa | finalsite |
Customer experience
Strings Conferences
The New School App
In-app purchases
Strings Conferences
No in-app purchases
The New School App
No in-app purchases
