Socrative Student vs Top Hat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Socrative Student
Engage in formative assessments with interactive quizzes, polls, and games. Students join classrooms using a code to answer questions and track their understanding. No student accounts are required.
- Interactive quizzes and polls
- Open-ended questions with voting
- Exit tickets for end-of-class review
- Space Race game mode
- Class, question, and student reports
- Multiple choice and True/False questions
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Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary! Features • Visualize student and whole class understanding • Multiple choice and True/False questions • Open-ended questions and vote on the results • End of class Exit Tickets • Play games with our Space Race! • Class, Question and Student level reports Supported Browsers and Devices • Socrative works on every browser: including Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. • Use any Web Enabled device: including Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops and Desktops
Top Hat
Enhance your learning experience with interactive resources, in-class participation tools, and dynamic digital textbooks. Engage with professors and peers, and test your knowledge with quizzes and polls to improve comprehension and retention.
- Follow lecture slides on your device
- In-class response system
- In-app discussions with peers and professors
- Dynamic, interactive digital textbooks
- Take polls and quizzes
- Access graded and non-graded homework
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Top Hat is the perfect companion app to our comprehensive assessment platform that helps you learn better before, during and after class. Top Hat makes learning fun and engaging (seriously!) and sets you up for success, helping you connect with your professors, your peers and the content you’re learning in and out of the classroom. Here’s what Top Hat offers you: Compelling resources, delivered on your smartphone or laptop: • Follow your prof’s lecture slides on your own device • Contribute in class with an easy-to-use response system that’s always with you • Participate with your profs and peers using in-app discussions Content tailored to your course: • Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more • Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever Quizzes, tests and polls that improve learning comprehension: • Challenge yourself by taking polls and quizzes on your own devices • Improve your knowledge retention with interactive assessment elements • Check for gaps in your understanding with graded and non-graded homework and short quizzes Thanks for using Top Hat. As you experience the app, we’d love to get your feedback: support@tophat.com or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @TopHat
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Top Hat at 4.6 against Socrative Student's 2.3. Top Hat also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (23K vs 631). Socrative Student's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 14%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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.
Top Hat holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 631, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Socrative Student's written reviews are positive against 14% of Top Hat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Socrative Student ships an update every 5 months, Top Hat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Socrative Student | Top Hat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (631 ratings) | 4.6 (23K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews — better | 14.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 631 | 23K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #160 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Showbie Inc. | Top Hat Monocle |
Customer experience
Socrative Student
Top Hat
User reviews
Socrative Student
From 631 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good app for learning
- 🚀 Helpful for class discussions
- 💡 Nice Doctor Who references
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🤯 Causes frustration and stress
Top Hat
From 23K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and intuitive interface
- 👍 Useful for attendance and in-class quizzes
- 💡 Potential for interactive learning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 💰 Expensive subscription fees
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with location tracking
Bugs and requests
Socrative Student
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes and crashes frequently
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Incorrect grading and score reporting
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to see missed questions
- Improve support for older devices
- Add more question types beyond multiple choice
Top Hat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Answers not registering correctly
- Slides not loading properly on mobile devices
- Inconsistent performance across platforms
Requested features
3 requests- Add page numbers and search functionality to ebooks
- Improve syncing between mobile and web versions
- Allow more flexible location settings for attendance
In-app purchases
Socrative Student
No in-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
