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 offers a straightforward interface for easy communication between students and instructors.
- Class discussions
- Q&A functionality
- Announcements
- Simple interface
- Low data mode
- Reputation system
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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 update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (282 vs 67). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Campuswire holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 282 and 67 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 every 11 days, Campuswire monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | Campuswire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (282 ratings) | 2.5 (67 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.7% of reviews — better | 9.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 67 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Monthly |
| 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 | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | CampusTech, Inc. |
Customer experience
Piazza
Campuswire
User reviews
Piazza
From 282 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Useful app
- 🚀 Great for tracking classes
- 🚀 Convenient mobile access
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
- 🐛 Lacks key features from web version
- 🐛 Poor user interface and navigation
- 🔒 Login and authentication issues
Campuswire
From 67 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Low data mode helpful
- 👍 Reputation system liked
- 👍 Simple interface
- 👍 Convenient communication tool
- 👍 Easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App doesn't update properly
- 🐛 Notifications not working
- 🐛 Search and chats not working
- 🐛 Replies/answers not showing
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
Reported bugs
25 issues- App crashes
- App doesn't update
- Notifications do not work
- Search and chats do not work
- Replies are not present
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- Answers do not show up
- Can't access thread posts
- No refresh for Q&As
- Can't send links to posts
- Can't navigate back in iPhone
- Can't write a question after entering title
- Text disappears while typing
- Deep links don't work
- Live rooms don't work
- Cannot get a link to a post
- Receiving negative number of notifications
- Assessment test graphics are not visible
- App prompts to update when already updated
- App closes on its own
- App closes every 10 seconds
- App is bricked/unusable after update
- App won't let me sign in and crashes without opening
- App crashes when visiting a post
- Answer did not send, retry causes crash
- Post has duplicate replies
Requested features
17 requests- Add a calendar option
- Access campus calendar from the app
- Fix the back button navigation on iPhone
- Allow writing questions after entering a title
- Improve reply functionality
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- Show all responses on posts
- Enable access to thread posts
- Allow sending links to posts
- Implement a refresh feature for Q&As
- Fix disappearing text while typing
- Enable deep linking for sharing
- Fix live rooms functionality
- Allow getting links to posts
- Fix notification system (show positive counts)
- Ensure assessment test graphics are visible
- Improve staff interactions
- Address school's high turnover rate
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Campuswire
No in-app purchases
