Piazza vs Tufts Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piazza
This platform facilitates communication and learning for higher education. Students can ask and answer questions, while instructors can monitor student engagement. It provides real-time updates and a centralized space for class interactions.
- Ask and answer questions
- Real-time updates
- Centralized class communication
- Student engagement monitoring
- Mobile access for students and instructors
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Piazza is the leading social learning platform for higher education, used by hundreds of thousands of students and more than 15 thousand professors for centralized class communications and polling. If you're a student, the Piazza app lets you ask and answer questions in all your Piazza classes from your mobile device, and updates you in real time when your peers are engaged. If you're an instructor, the app gives you a simple way to check in on your students during those spare moments between meetings. Stay connected to your class with Piazza!
Tufts Mobile
Access essential campus information and services for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Track shuttles, find locations, view dining options, and stay updated on news and events.
- Campus shuttle GPS tracking
- Location finder
- Dining hall hours and menus
- University news and events
- Student information system access
- Sports schedules and scores
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The Tufts Mobile is a university initiative to provide on-the-go information for campus communities and for anyone who wants to connect to Tufts. Tufts Mobile includes: Personas for Students, Faculty/Staff, and Visitors Real-time GPS tracking of Tufts Shuttles Find locations on Tufts campuses Dining locations, hours, and menus Admissions Latest Tufts news Student Information System Apps & Software Study Spaces Laundry Tufts Bookstore Alerts & Closings Jumbo sports news, schedules, and scores Events Calendar Technical Support And more...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tufts Mobile at 4.4 against Piazza's 2.1. Piazza's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (279 vs 8). 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.
Tufts Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 279 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of Piazza's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tufts Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, Tufts Mobile every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | Tufts Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (279 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | Tufts University |
Customer experience
Piazza
Tufts Mobile
Bugs and requests
Piazza
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to post or reply
- Randomly logs out users
- Fails to load posts and resources
- Incompatible with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to access course materials
- Improved formatting and editing tools
- Better organization of posts and discussions
- Seamless integration with web version
Tufts Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Tufts Mobile
No in-app purchases
