Top Hat vs MyCampusHub
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
MyCampusHub
Connect with your campus community to buy, sell, and trade goods and services. Organize and discover campus events, fostering a more integrated and collaborative student life. Build your network and enhance your campus experience.
- Buy and sell marketplace products
- Offer services
- Create campus events
- Build campus network
- Student-focused platform
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Buy and Sell marketplace products, services and create events within your campus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyCampusHub at 5.0 against Top Hat's 4.6. MyCampusHub also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Top Hat's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 2) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
MyCampusHub 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, MyCampusHub every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Hat | MyCampusHub |
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | CampusHub LLC |
Customer experience
Top Hat
MyCampusHub
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
MyCampusHub
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
MyCampusHub
No in-app purchases
