Piazza vs SWE Events
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!
SWE Events
Access conference schedules, speaker details, and exhibitor information. Enhance your learning by taking notes and drawing directly on presentation slides. Connect with attendees and colleagues through in-app messaging.
- View conference schedules
- Access speaker and exhibitor details
- Take notes on presentations
- Draw directly on slides
- In-app messaging with attendees
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This mobile application allows you to view the schedule, presentations, exhibitors, and speaker details from select conferences and/or meetings. Users can take notes on adjacent presentations when they are available for each presentation as well as draw directly onto the slides themselves, all from within the app. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with the in-app messaging features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SWE Events at 4.5 against Piazza's 2.1. SWE Events also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 14%). Piazza's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
SWE Events holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 279 and 113 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Piazza's written reviews are positive against 25% of SWE Events's.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, SWE Events every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | SWE Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (279 ratings) | 4.5 (113 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 113 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | Society of Women Engineers |
Customer experience
Piazza
SWE Events
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
SWE Events
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
SWE Events
No in-app purchases
