Piazza vs Meridian Go
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!
Meridian Go
This app centralizes campus information, connecting students and staff with organizations, events, and available spaces. It offers a unified experience for discovering and managing campus life.
- Campus organization discovery
- Event listings and management
- Space booking and availability
- Unified campus experience
- Student and staff focused
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Discover, connect, and manage everything your campus has to offer—all in one place. Meridian brings together organizations, events, and spaces into a unified experience designed for students and staff.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meridian Go at 100% against Piazza's 14%. Meridian Go also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1). Piazza's advantage is ratings volume (282 vs 5). 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.
Meridian Go holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 282 ratings behind it against 5, 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 Meridian Go's.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, Meridian Go fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | Meridian Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (282 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | James Brandon Liu |
Customer experience
Piazza
Meridian Go
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
Meridian Go
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Meridian Go
No in-app purchases
