Comparison

Campus Roots vs Patio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Campus Roots

Connect with fellow students, access campus resources, and engage in a student-only marketplace. Share your achievements, find tutors, and buy or sell items within your university community.

Highlights
  • Student networking
  • Campus resource access
  • Tutor requests
  • Student marketplace
  • Buy/sell textbooks and furniture
  • Direct messaging
Features
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Campus Roots is helping enhance the college experience. Connections 1. Grow your network at your university and get to know all your fellow students , Post what you are doing, working towards, or achieving at your university. 2. Message with your connections and start getting closer to them & add suggested people to your connections that have similar connections as you. My Campus 1. Request a tutor for getting access to university recourses. 2. Organized and simplified access to campus resources, Simplified access to your campus’s bus routes and schedule. 3. Easy access to your school’s resources through the learning management system & Easy access to your campus’s late night transportation service. Marketplace 1. Request a product or service from your fellow students & Buy or Sell the same to fellow students. 2. Earn money while getting rid of old textbooks or furniture. 3. Provides the user with a comfortable and easy transaction process that only involves the students on your campus. Secure and simple sign up process to make transactions.

About

Patio

This app allows users to create distinct "patios" for different aspects of their lives, enabling casual sharing of updates, photos, and thoughts with specific audiences. It offers a more focused way to connect with friends and communities around shared interests.

Highlights
  • Create themed 'patios' for life events
  • Share text, photos, and links
  • Control audience for each patio
  • Follow updates from friends
  • Public or private interest-based patios
  • Casual, text-like sharing
Features
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Patio is a new way to share with friends. Make patios for different parts of your life — trips, daily fits, close friends, gym updates, baby pics, local recs, sports, hobbies, or anything else you want to share. A patio is like a chat with followers. Text updates, photos, links, thoughts, and moments, then let the right people follow along. Unlike sharing to one profile to everyone you've ever known, Patio gives every part of your life its own space and audience. Use Patio to: • Share more casually with friends • Create private spaces for specific people • Follow updates from the people you care about • Make public or private patios around your interests • Share as easy as texting

Screenshots

Campus Roots4 screens
Patio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Patio at every 5 days against Campus Roots's every 2 months. Patio also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Campus Roots's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Campus Roots has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Campus Roots ships an update every 2 months, Patio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Campus Roots versus Patio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCampus RootsPatio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB101 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperCampus Roots IncPelican Studios, Inc.

Customer experience

Campus Roots

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Patio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Campus Roots

No in-app purchases

None

Patio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Campus Roots free?
Campus Roots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Patio free?
Patio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Campus Roots or Patio?
Patio is rated higher. Campus Roots averages 4.7 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Patio averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Campus Roots or Patio have ads?
Neither Campus Roots nor Patio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Campus Roots or Patio?
Campus Roots ships an update every 2 months, and Patio every 5 days. Most recently, Campus Roots was updated on November 3, 2026 and Patio on October 31, 2026.

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