Piazza vs TartanConnect
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!
TartanConnect
Discover and engage with over 400 campus groups and events at Carnegie Mellon University. Connect with peers, manage organizations, and stay informed about campus activities and resources through system notifications.
- View events from 400+ campus groups
- Connect with fellow students
- Check-in for campus events
- Create group discussions
- Manage organizations
- Receive system notifications
- Find campus resources and links
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TartanConnect is now available as an app! Tartans are able to view upcoming events from over 400 groups on campus at Carnegie Mellon University. You can connect with fellow Tartans, check-in for campus events, create group discussions, manage their organizations, and receive system notifications. Users can find up-to-date programs, campus groups, links, resources, and more! Get immersed in: ● Student Government-Recognized Organizations ● Fraternity & Sorority Chapters ● Tepper Graduate Organizations ● Department Sponsored Organizations ● Student Governance ● Offices & Departments ● Events & Programs ● & more! Take advantage of these amazing opportunities happening on your campus!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TartanConnect at 4.0 against Piazza's 2.1. Piazza's advantage is ratings volume (282 vs 3) and review sentiment (14% vs 0%). On price, update cadence, 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.
TartanConnect holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 282 ratings behind it against 3, 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 TartanConnect'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, TartanConnect every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Piazza | TartanConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (282 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | Carnegie Mellon University |
Customer experience
Piazza
TartanConnect
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
TartanConnect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
TartanConnect
No in-app purchases
