Top Hat vs myLU
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
myLU
Access personalized updates and campus news from Liberty University in one convenient location. This user-friendly app organizes content for easy access to academic, financial, and athletic information.
- Personalized updates
- Campus news
- Academics
- Financial check-in
- Student checklist
- Liberty E-mail
- Athletics updates
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Welcome to Liberty University's myLU app, a personalized, user-friendly experience on both desktop and mobile platforms. It organizes content so that you can access personalized updates and LU campus news all in one convenient location. Features include the following: - Customizable Set Navigation - Customizable Newsfeed - Application Pages - myWidgets - Academics - Financial Check-in - Financial Aid - FlamesPass - Student Checklist - Liberty E-mail - Liberty Flames Athletics - Public Safety Protocols - Push Notifications - User Profile and Settings - Search
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Top Hat at 4.6 against myLU's 2.4. Top Hat also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 202) and chart position (#134 vs unranked). 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 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 202, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Top Hat's written reviews are positive against 13% of myLU's.
Top Hat ships an update fortnightly, myLU every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | myLU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) — better | 2.4 (202 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.4% of reviews — better | 13.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 202 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #134 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | Liberty University |
Customer experience
Top Hat
myLU
User reviews
Top Hat
From 23K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and intuitive interface
- 👍 Useful for attendance and in-class quizzes
- 💡 Potential for interactive learning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 💰 Expensive subscription fees
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with location tracking
myLU
From 202 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy navigation (Yahweh our Breath)
- 👍 Helpful for pending tasks (Yahweh our Breath)
- 👍 Appreciated IT personnel (James Carroll Prince)
- 👍 Convenient for quick checks (Mars3942)
- 👍 Works great for some needs (CamRon3000)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Never works (DaliBear3, Bruh69ballsdeep)
- 🐛 Broken app (D0Ul0S)
- 🐛 Constantly loads/spins (DaliBear3, 18Bran, Bart's wife arb)
- 🐛 Failure to connect (MommyGall3, prettyinink0402, Zach121482)
- 🐛 Unusable after update (18Bran)
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
myLU
Reported bugs
27 issues- Cannot connect to network
- App just spins and cannot log in
- Session keeps expiring
- App doesn't work anymore
- Constantly loads and says failure to load
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- Blocks Kaltura
- Endless loop of apps going back and forth to sign in
- Third party block issue
- Constantly fail to connect to the internet
- Stuck in perpetual loading or says cannot connect
- Constantly crashes and logs out
- Microsoft Authenticator not popping up
- White screen when trying to log on
- Hardly ever access email, only shows white screen
- Blank white screen upon opening
- Unable to login with unexpected error message
- Login loop
- Redirects to webpage for basic functions
- Cannot see washers and dryers
- Cannot find anything easily
- Logs you out daily
- Takes you to webpage for dining hours
- Does not come close to LU Today's functionality
- Login issues with Microsoft Authenticator asking for QR code or code and URL
- Endless sign in loop
- Keeps going back to Microsoft login screen
- Refreshing back to sign in page
Requested features
8 requests- Bring back LU Today
- Improve app functionality beyond links
- Fix Kaltura video player issue
- Make app more mobile-friendly
- Add dining hours information
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- Add bus maps
- Improve login process
- Fix screen fit on iPhone 15 Pro Max
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
myLU
No in-app purchases
