Top Hat vs UHD A
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
UHD A
This app provides on-call UH&D Residence Education professionals at the University of Iowa with duty overviews, expectations, and essential resources. It serves as a central hub for critical information needed while on duty.
- Duty Overview
- Duty Expectations
- Duty Resources
- Contact Information
- On-call professional support
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Duty Overview, Duty Expectations, and Duty Resources and Contact Information This application is available to on-call UH&D Residence Education professionals responding to duty at the University of Iowa.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Top Hat at every 2 weeks against UHD A's every 32 months. Top Hat also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 2). UHD A's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 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.
UHD A 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, UHD A every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | UHD A |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | The University of Iowa (ITS) |
Customer experience
Top Hat
UHD A
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
UHD A
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
UHD A
No in-app purchases
