Top Hat vs VCU RamsConnect
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
VCU RamsConnect
This app serves as a private community for VCU student organizations, departments, and campus partners. It offers tools for campus involvement, event planning, and managing student organization finances.
- Private VCU community
- Campus involvement tools
- Event planning and assessment
- Student organization finances
- Community partner engagement
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RamsConnect is the private community for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) student organizations, departments, and campus community partners. RamsConnect provides impactful tools for campus involvement, event planning and assessment, and student organization finances.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Top Hat at 23K against VCU RamsConnect's 261. Top Hat also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and chart position (#129 vs unranked). VCU RamsConnect's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Top Hat holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 261, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 14% and 14% positive.
Top Hat ships an update fortnightly, VCU RamsConnect monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | VCU RamsConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) — better | 4.3 (261 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.4% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 261 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #129 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | Novalsys, Inc |
Customer experience
Top Hat
VCU RamsConnect
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
VCU RamsConnect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
VCU RamsConnect
No in-app purchases
