StudentPlus vs Lumina Grades
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StudentPlus
Access grades, scores, attendance, schedules, and homework on your mobile device. Stay updated with school announcements and alerts through a personalized calendar. This app fosters a stronger connection between students and their schools by providing essential academic information.
- Secure mobile access to grades and scores
- View attendance and homework assignments
- Access class schedules
- Receive school announcements and alerts
- Personalized combined calendar
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StudentPlus gives each student secure, mobile access to their grades, scores, attendance, schedule, and homework. Students can easily view school announcements, alerts and a personalized, combined calendar. StudentPlus creates a stronger connection between the school and the student by sharing information that is critical for success and learning.
Lumina Grades
This app helps students manage their academic performance by providing visual grade tracking, AI-powered study recommendations, and predictive tools. It offers a clear overview of progress and alerts for missing work, all within a secure, student-focused environment.
- Visual grade trajectory graphs
- AI-powered grade optimization
- What-if grade simulation calculator
- Smart dashboard with GPA overview
- Missing assignment alerts
- Secure student credential handling
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Take control of your academic life with Lumina Grades, the smartest companion for students. Designed with a sleek, distraction-free interface, Lumina Grades transforms your raw grades into powerful insights so you know exactly where you stand and where you need to focus. Features: • Beautiful Trajectories: See your grades visually. Our trajectory graphs show your exact percentage history so you can track your momentum throughout the semester. • AI Tutor: Ask the Lumina Grades AI Tutor. It analyzes your current grade and category weights to pinpoint exactly where you should focus to maximize your grade. • What-If Calculator: See the future. Instantly drop low scores, add upcoming mock assignments, or simulate a final exam score to see exactly how it will impact your overall GPA. • Smart Dashboard: Your GPA, days left in the semester, and a quick summary of your class stability, all beautifully organized on your home screen. • Missing Work Alerts: Never let an assignment slip through the cracks. The Lumina Grades attention tab automatically flags missing assignments and unusually low scores from the current semester. Lumina Grades is built strictly for students. We never see your password, and your credentials stay securely inside your district’s portal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lumina Grades at 100% against StudentPlus's 16%. Lumina Grades also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.8). StudentPlus's advantage is ratings volume (842 vs 6). 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.
Lumina Grades holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StudentPlus has 842 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of StudentPlus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lumina Grades's.
| Parameter | StudentPlus | Lumina Grades |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (842 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 842 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rediker Software, Inc. | Xcel Innovation Labs LLC |
Customer experience
StudentPlus
Lumina Grades
Bugs and requests
StudentPlus
Reported bugs
5 issues- Please fix the bug where when you check your grades it is default set to second semester
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Request timed out every time I try to go on
- School Name is Invalid
Requested features
4 requests- Please add a recent scores widget for iOS 14
- Please fix the bug where when you check your grades it is default set to second semester
- Should be able to save password so you don't need to keep typing it in when you click on the app
- Can you put the calculation of my GPA somewhere? That would really help in terms of how much more I need to work and what needs to be done
Lumina Grades
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StudentPlus
No in-app purchases
Lumina Grades
No in-app purchases
