Comparison

Top Hat vs Welcome to UGA

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Welcome to UGA

This app offers essential information for new University of Georgia students and families attending orientation. It provides access to campus resources throughout your academic career, aiming to ease the transition to university life.

Highlights
  • New Student Orientation information
  • Campus resource directory
  • Information for families
  • Transition support
  • Bulldog life adjustment tools
Features
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Orientation at the University of Georgia is a hallmark event for many new students and families. The Welcome to UGA app provides useful information for the New Student Orientation session that students attend as well as campus resources that are available throughout your UGA career. This is a great resource to have at your fingertips to help you access the resources you need when you need them. Transitioning from successful admission to the UGA to your first night on campus can be tough, but the tools available here are set to make your time adjusting to life as a Bulldog, a smooth one.

Screenshots

Top Hat4 screens
Welcome to UGA3 screens

Verdict

The call

Top Hat and Welcome to UGA both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Welcome to UGA's written reviews are positive against 14% of Top Hat's. Top Hat's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (23K vs 16). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Top Hat against 4.6 for Welcome to UGA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of Top Hat's written reviews are positive against 100% of Welcome to UGA's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Top Hat ships an update fortnightly, Welcome to UGA every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Top Hat versus Welcome to UGA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTop HatWelcome to UGA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (23K ratings) — better4.6 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews14.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23K — better16
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#189 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB67 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTop Hat MonocleUniversity of Georgia Admissions

Customer experience

Top Hat

All ratings22,776 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.3%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews195 reviews
Positive14.4%
Neutral8.2%
Negative77.4%

Welcome to UGA

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Welcome to UGA

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Top Hat

No in-app purchases

None

Welcome to UGA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Top Hat free?
Top Hat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Welcome to UGA free?
Welcome to UGA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Top Hat or Welcome to UGA?
Top Hat is rated higher. Top Hat averages 4.6 out of 5 from 23K ratings, while Welcome to UGA averages 4.6 from 16 ratings.
Do Top Hat or Welcome to UGA have ads?
Neither Top Hat nor Welcome to UGA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Top Hat or Welcome to UGA?
Top Hat ships an update fortnightly, and Welcome to UGA every 4 months. Most recently, Top Hat was updated on September 26, 2026 and Welcome to UGA on September 16, 2026.

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