Top Hat vs GryphLife
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
GryphLife
This app connects you to the University of Guelph community, helping you manage your schedule, discover events, and access campus resources. Stay informed with important notifications and find your way around campus with an integrated map.
- Event discovery and reminders
- Calendar for classes and assignments
- Campus community wall
- Groups and clubs information
- Campus services directory
- Push notifications for alerts
- Campus map with navigation
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GryphLife brings campus to your fingertips and enables you to connect with the University of Guelph community: Find on-campus events and clubs quickly, no matter what you're interested in, there's something on GryphLife for you. Make friends, ask questions and access campus resources at any time! Some other exciting features include: + EVENTS: Discover campus events, set reminders and track your attendance + FEATURED ACTIVITIES: Orientation, Homecoming, etc. + CAMPUS COMMUNITY: Meet friends, ask questions, and keep up with what's happening on the campus wall + CLUBS: Get involved with campus organizations and meet people with similar interests
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GryphLife at 86% against Top Hat's 15%. GryphLife also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Top Hat's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). 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.
GryphLife 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 3, 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 86% of GryphLife's.
Top Hat ships an update every 2 weeks, GryphLife every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | GryphLife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #207 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | University of Guelph |
Customer experience
Top Hat
GryphLife
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
GryphLife
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
GryphLife
No in-app purchases
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