StudentPlus vs Explore U
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.
Explore U
This app helps college students discover and engage with their campus. It offers curated lists of buildings, traditions, and hidden gems, turning exploration into challenges. Users can track progress, save memories, and contribute to improving campus information.
- Discover campus buildings and traditions
- Turn exploration into practical challenges
- Track progress and save memories
- View places on a map with directions
- Add private photos to remember moments
- Suggest corrections and improvements
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Explore U helps students get more out of college by discovering the places, traditions, and experiences that make each campus unique. Browse landmarks, libraries, dining, venues, traditions, sports, museums, hidden gems, and other experiences selected for your university. Explore U turns campus discovery into something practical. Find your classes before the semester starts, save places you want to visit, complete challenges, explore with friends, and get to know your campus beyond the places you have to go. With Explore U, you can: • Browse campus places and experiences by category • Search and switch between available universities • Explore places on a map and open directions • Save favorites and create a personal class-location list • Complete campus challenges and track your overall progress • Keep a record of the places and experiences you have completed • Add private photos to remember campus moments • Suggest corrections, details, and photos to help improve campus information • Optionally sync completion and challenge progress with Sign in with Apple Each university has its own places, challenges, traditions, and progress. More campuses and experiences can be added over time. Normal use is account-free. Completion and challenge progress stay local unless you optionally sign in with Apple to sync them privately across devices. Favorites, class locations, and memory photos remain on your iPhone. Explore. Experience. Remember.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Explore U at 5.0 against StudentPlus's 1.7. Explore U also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). StudentPlus's advantage is ratings volume (815 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 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.
Explore U holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StudentPlus has 815 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
StudentPlus ships an update every 5 months, Explore U every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StudentPlus | Explore U |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (815 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 815 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rediker Software, Inc. | Joshua Saylor |
Customer experience
StudentPlus
Explore U
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
Explore U
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StudentPlus
No in-app purchases
Explore U
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is StudentPlus free?
Is Explore U free?
Which has better reviews, StudentPlus or Explore U?
Do StudentPlus or Explore U have ads?
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