Student App vs CourseCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Student App
Manage all your lessons and communications with your coach in one convenient app. Schedule sessions, track your progress, and utilize prepaid lessons. Get support and stay updated with notifications.
- Lesson management
- Coach messaging
- Lesson scheduling
- Prepaid lesson usage
- Progress tracking
- Support access
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Student App keeps your lessons in one place. Use it whether you booked on TeachMe.To or through your coach's CoachGrow site. Message your coach, get notified about new messages, schedule and manage upcoming lessons, use your prepaid lessons, track your progress, and get help from support.
CourseCat
This app provides honest reviews and detailed insights into high school courses, written by students who have already taken them. It helps students make informed decisions about their class selections by offering unit-by-unit difficulty, workload hours, and study tips.
- Honest course reviews from students
- Unit-by-unit difficulty ratings
- Real weekly workload hours
- Study tips and expectations
- Search and filter by department/level
- Class planning and tracking
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Your course catalog, finally honest. CourseCat is the course guide for High Schoolers — built by upperclassmen, for underclassmen. Before you pick next year's classes, see what they're really like from students who've already taken them. What's inside • Every course across all departments, in one clean catalog • Unit-by-unit difficulty and real weekly workload hours — not guesses • Honest reviews and ratings from real students • Study tips and what to expect, written by people who survived the class • Search and filter by department, AP/Honors, and more • Build a game plan: track classes you've taken, are in now, and are planning Why we made it: Course selection shouldn't be a shot in the dark. CourseCat turns word-of-mouth advice into something every sutdent can actually use — so you can balance your schedule, challenge yourself the right amount, and avoid surprises. Built by Portola students, for all of the students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Student App at 2.3K against CourseCat's 1. Student App also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). CourseCat's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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.
CourseCat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Student App has 2.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Student App ships an update every 5 days, CourseCat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Student App | CourseCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TeachMe.To | TechDigit LLC |
Customer experience
Student App
CourseCat
Bugs and requests
Student App
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
CourseCat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Student App
No in-app purchases
CourseCat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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