Piazza vs Boilerexams
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!
Boilerexams
Prepare for your exams with a comprehensive question bank and practice tests. Utilize a built-in whiteboard for problem-solving and access video solutions from other students. Focus on challenging topics and simulate timed exam conditions.
- Extensive question bank (2,700+)
- Past exam simulations
- Topic-based filtering
- Built-in whiteboard
- Video solutions from students
- Timed exam practice
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With over 2,700 questions available, Boilerexams is the best place to study for your exams. - Take past exams to practice what actual exam questions might be like. - Filter by topic and focus on the problems that give you the most trouble. - Solve problems in the app with the built-in whiteboard. - Stuck on a problem? Watch solutions, made by other students, so you get similar questions correct in the future. - Start timed exams to practice taking an exam with some time pressure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boilerexams at 100% against Piazza's 14%. Boilerexams also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1). Piazza's advantage is ratings volume (279 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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.
Boilerexams holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 279 ratings behind it against 6, 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 100% of Boilerexams's.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, Boilerexams fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | Boilerexams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (279 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | Linus Skucas |
Customer experience
Piazza
Boilerexams
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
Boilerexams
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Boilerexams
No in-app purchases
