Top Hat vs Auburn Safety
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
Auburn Safety
This official university safety application provides students, faculty, and staff with enhanced campus security. It delivers critical safety alerts and offers immediate access to essential campus safety resources and emergency contacts.
- Real-time location sharing for safety
- Direct emergency contact access
- Anonymous safety concern reporting
- Instant campus emergency notifications
- Emergency preparedness guidance
- Centralized campus safety resources
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Auburn Safety is the official safety app of Auburn University. It is the only app that integrates with Auburn University's safety and security systems. Campus Safety has worked to develop a unique app that provides students, faculty and staff with added safety on the Auburn University campus. The app will send you important safety alerts and provide instant access to campus safety resources. Auburn Safety features include: - Friend Walk: Send your location to a friend, who can watch you walk home in real-time. - Emergency Contacts: Contact the correct services for the Auburn University area in case of an emergency or a non-emergency concern - Tip Reporting: Multiple ways to report a safety/security concern directly to Auburn University security. - Safety notifications: Receive instant notifications and instructions from campus safety when on-campus emergencies occur. - Emergency Plans: Learn what to do in case of an emergency - Campus safety resources: access all important safety resources in one convenient app. Download today and ensure that you’re prepared in the event of an emergency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Auburn Safety at 50% against Top Hat's 15%. Auburn Safety also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Top Hat's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 10) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). 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.
Auburn Safety 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 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Top Hat's written reviews are positive against 50% of Auburn Safety's.
Top Hat ships an update every 2 weeks, Auburn Safety every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | Auburn Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 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 | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | Auburn University |
Customer experience
Top Hat
Auburn Safety
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
Auburn Safety
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
Auburn Safety
No in-app purchases
