Piazza vs Campuswire
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!
Campuswire
This tool simplifies class discussions, Q&A, and announcements for college courses. It provides an easy-to-use platform for students and instructors to engage with course material and each other.
- Class discussions
- Q&A functionality
- Announcements
- Simplified communication
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Campuswire is the tool for college classes that makes class discussions, Q&A and announcements extremely simple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Campuswire at 2.5 against Piazza's 2.1. Piazza's advantage is ratings volume (277 vs 63). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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.
Campuswire holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 277 and 63 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of Piazza's written reviews are positive against 10% of Campuswire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piazza ships an update fortnightly, Campuswire monthly. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Piazza | Campuswire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (277 ratings) | 2.5 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better | 9.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 277 — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | CampusTech, Inc. |
Customer experience
Piazza
Campuswire
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
Campuswire
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Campuswire
No in-app purchases
