Piazza vs HSHV 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!
HSHV Mobile
Browse and search adoptable animals from a local humane society. Sign up for alerts to be notified when a specific type of animal becomes available for adoption.
- Browse adoptable animals
- Search for specific animals
- Sign up for PetAlert notifications
- View animal availability
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This is the mobile app for the Humane Society of Huron Valley. It allows you to browse and search all of our animals for adoption as well as sign up for our PetAlert system that will notify as soon as an animal you are looking for is available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HSHV Mobile at 75% against Piazza's 14%. HSHV Mobile also leads on rating (3.3 vs 2.1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Piazza's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (279 vs 4). 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.
HSHV Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 279 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Piazza's written reviews are positive against 75% of HSHV Mobile's.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, HSHV Mobile every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | HSHV Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (279 ratings) | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | Baseline Creative |
Customer experience
Piazza
HSHV 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
HSHV Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
HSHV Mobile
No in-app purchases
