Top Hat vs You at UI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Top Hat
Enhance your learning experience with interactive resources, in-class participation tools, and dynamic digital textbooks. Engage with professors and peers, and test your knowledge with quizzes and polls to improve comprehension and retention.
- Follow lecture slides on your device
- In-class response system
- In-app discussions with peers and professors
- Dynamic, interactive digital textbooks
- Take polls and quizzes
- Access graded and non-graded homework
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Top Hat is the perfect companion app to our comprehensive assessment platform that helps you learn better before, during and after class. Top Hat makes learning fun and engaging (seriously!) and sets you up for success, helping you connect with your professors, your peers and the content you’re learning in and out of the classroom. Here’s what Top Hat offers you: Compelling resources, delivered on your smartphone or laptop: • Follow your prof’s lecture slides on your own device • Contribute in class with an easy-to-use response system that’s always with you • Participate with your profs and peers using in-app discussions Content tailored to your course: • Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more • Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever Quizzes, tests and polls that improve learning comprehension: • Challenge yourself by taking polls and quizzes on your own devices • Improve your knowledge retention with interactive assessment elements • Check for gaps in your understanding with graded and non-graded homework and short quizzes Thanks for using Top Hat. As you experience the app, we’d love to get your feedback: support@tophat.com or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @TopHat
You at UI
Explore the University of Iowa campus with personalized visit experiences. Attend sample lectures, interactive sessions, and information sessions on admissions and student life. Customize your day with a variety of academic and extracurricular options.
- Personalized visit experience
- Sample lectures and interactive sessions
- Admissions and financial aid info
- Campus and residence hall tours
- Customizable schedule
- Live updates and notifications
- Campus map and resources
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You at UI is the University of Iowa's largest and most in-depth campus visit experience. Join other future Hawkeyes for a day of sample lectures and interactive sessions with world-renowned faculty, student life staff, and current UI students to get a real sense of what it's like to be a University of Iowa student. You at UI is all about you! You'll choose from a menu of options to shape your own experience—with selections ranging from biology to creative writing, business to engineering, the UI Honors Program to Academic Support, student leadership opportunities to study abroad, and much, much more. There also will be information sessions on admissions, scholarships and financial aid, along with housing and residence life. You'll be able to tour campus and residence halls, enjoy complimentary lunch in one of our market places, and explore downtown Iowa City. Home: • Get the latest details on what's happening when and where • Live updates will keep you on top of any last minute changes or rain plans • Quick access to your schedule My Schedule: • Keep track of your own schedule by adding events you want to attend • Get notifications reminding you when your favorite events are starting • Sync events with your calendar to be sure you don't miss out Map: • The entire campus is at your fingertips Resources: • Keep the all of the important information at your finger tips • Get the latest updates from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Top Hat at every 2 weeks against You at UI's every 25 months. Top Hat also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 2) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). You at UI's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (9.1 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.
You at UI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Top Hat ships an update every 2 weeks, You at UI every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | You at UI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #197 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | Legit Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Top Hat
You at UI
Bugs and requests
Top Hat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Answers not registering correctly
- Slides not loading properly on mobile devices
- Inconsistent performance across platforms
Requested features
3 requests- Add page numbers and search functionality to ebooks
- Improve syncing between mobile and web versions
- Allow more flexible location settings for attendance
You at UI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
You at UI
No in-app purchases









