Student Roost vs stuDex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Student Roost
This app simplifies student living by connecting residents, sharing property events, and managing parcel notifications and payments. It offers a convenient way to stay informed and engaged with your living community.
- Connect with neighbors
- Discover property events
- Parcel delivery notifications
- Track payments
- All-in-one resident management
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Say hello to the all-in-one Student Roost app, designed to make living with us as simple as possible. Get to know your neighbours, find out more about events happening in your property, get notified about your parcels and even track your payments all from the palm of your hand with our brand new resident app.
stuDex
Discover student events, societies, and local deals in Bristol. Connect with other students through meetups and activities. Find your community and make the most of university life.
- Discover student events and nights out
- Find societies and sports clubs
- Browse local student deals
- Create and join meetups
- Explore campus and city activities
- Verified student-only platform
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Discover student life across Bristol with stuDex. Built for students in Bristol, stuDex helps you find events, societies, sports clubs, student nights, local deals, activities and meetups happening around campus and across the city. University life moves fast. Events are shared across social pages, society plans disappear into group chats, student offers sit on different websites, and some of the best things happening around Bristol are easy to miss. stuDex brings more of student life together in one place. What you can do with stuDex • Discover student events, nights out and things to do around Bristol • Find societies, sports clubs, tasters and campus activities • Browse local student deals and offers • Discover meetups around sport, hobbies, study, music and social interests • Create your own meetup and help other students get involved • See what’s happening and discover new things to do Find your next plan Looking for something to do tonight, plans for the weekend or a new activity to try? Instead of searching through different social accounts, group chats, society pages and websites, open stuDex and see what’s happening around you. Find your crowd University is about more than where you study. It’s also about what you do and who you meet. Discover societies, sports clubs and student meetups around shared interests, and find more ways to get involved throughout the year. Want to organise something yourself? Create a meetup around something you’re interested in and help other students find it. Explore Bristol There’s a lot happening in Bristol. The difficult part is knowing where to look. stuDex helps you discover student nights, events, activities, local venues and offers across the city — whether you’ve just arrived or already know Bristol well. Find somewhere new. Try something different. Make more of your city. Student-only by design Sign up with your university email to access a verified, student-focused platform built around university life. For Freshers and beyond New to Bristol? Use stuDex to explore your new city, discover societies and clubs, find events and start working out what you want to get involved in. Already settled in? Find something different to do this week, discover a new activity, browse a local deal or create a meetup around something you enjoy. Student life doesn’t stop after Freshers. stuDex helps you keep discovering what’s happening throughout the year. stuDex is independently developed and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Bristol, UWE Bristol or any other university. Find your next plan with stuDex.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: stuDex at 100% against Student Roost's 16%. Student Roost's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Student Roost ships an update every 9 days, stuDex every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Student Roost | stuDex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kinetic Solutions Limited | Futurekind Technologies Limited |
Customer experience
Student Roost
stuDex
In-app purchases
Student Roost
No in-app purchases
stuDex
No in-app purchases









