Piazza vs CourseMonkey
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!
CourseMonkey
Engage with campus life by swiping to answer student-generated polls on courses, campus life, and more. Discover real grade distributions and create your own polls to share with friends or your entire campus.
- Swipe to answer polls
- View poll results and creators
- Create custom polls
- See real grade distributions
- Organize friends into circles
- Unlock customization options
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CourseMonkey: your campus, one swipe at a time. Every card is a question. Swipe to answer, then flip it to see how everyone else swiped. Some cards are about courses and profs. Some are about whether you should bring your funky dog to campus. All of them are made by students like you. SWIPE, DON'T SCROLL Two decks: Following, for cards from people and courses you care about, and Explore, for what your campus is talking about right now. Every card takes two seconds to answer - and then come the results. FLIP FOR THE RESULTS Once you swipe, tap to flip the card: see the split, the vote count, and who made it. It's a poll, a meme, and a conversation in one. MAKE YOUR OWN CARDS Got a hot take, a GIF that sums up midterm season, or a genuine question? Make a card in seconds, pick who sees it: your whole campus, your friends, or people who took the same course, and watch the votes roll in. REAL GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS Before you register, see how a course actually grades: averages, medians, and the full grade breakdown, alongside what students said about it. YOUR CIRCLES Bring your people into circles and see how the people you actually trust swiped. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Unlock name colors, styles, and badges as you contribute. Mix and match to make it yours. Courses, campus, and groupchat vibes - all in one deck. Come swipe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Piazza at 2.1 against CourseMonkey's 1.0. Piazza also leads on ratings volume (282 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
Piazza holds the better App Store score, 2.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 282 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, CourseMonkey every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Piazza | CourseMonkey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (282 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | 4Utopia, Inc. |
Customer experience
Piazza
CourseMonkey
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
CourseMonkey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
CourseMonkey
No in-app purchases








