Comparison

SCU+ vs Tellytide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SCU+

This app serves as a comprehensive mobile portal for university students, offering easy access to campus resources, academic tools, and local information. It provides a personalized experience with an interactive map and customizable features to streamline student life.

Highlights
  • All-in-one campus resource access
  • Personalized user experience
  • Interactive campus map
  • Favorite and custom item creation
  • Local data storage for privacy
Features
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Everything SCU. One App. SCU+ is the all-in-one companion for Santa Clara University students. Quickly access campus resources, navigate around campus, and keep the information you use most in one convenient place. Whether you're finding a building before class, opening a campus service, or saving your favorite resources, SCU+ helps you spend less time searching and more time getting things done. Built for Student Life SCU+ brings together the tools and resources students use every day into a clean, easy-to-use experience. Browse campus resources, explore an interactive campus map, and keep your most-used information just a tap away. No clutter. No unnecessary features. Just everything you need for life at SCU. Make It Yours Customize the app to match the way you use campus. Favorite your most-used resources, create your own custom locations and notes, choose your favorite accent color, and enjoy a personalized experience that greets you throughout the day. Explore Campus Find your way around Santa Clara University and the surrounding area with an interactive map featuring academic buildings, dining locations, residence halls, parking, recreation, and more. Whether you're new to campus or have been here for years, everything is easy to find. Private by Design Everything you save in SCU+ stays on your device. Your personal data is never collected, and you remain in complete control of your information. Made for Broncos SCU+ is built by a Santa Clara University student to make everyday campus life a little simpler. SCU+ is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Santa Clara University.

About

Tellytide

Features
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Turn “one more video” into “one more why.” Less doomscrolling. More STEMscrolling. Choose educational YouTube creators you trust. Tellytide brings their videos together for your child to explore science, technology, engineering and math, alongside space, history, nature and other interests. Two ways to watch In Videos mode, swipe through videos, browse your chosen creators, and save discoveries to watch again. Search the channel chooser to jump straight to a favorite creator, even in a large library. Find finished videos in History. When the selected videos run out, the feed ends. Put curiosity on the telly Not every book is a choose-your-own-adventure. Sometimes, you just want to turn the page. With GOFT (Good Old Fashioned Telly), parents choose the channels and programmes play back to back. There’s no need to choose a new video after each one. Open the remote control to change channels, pause or play, skip to the next video, or restart the current one. Clear channel icons help children recognize what they want to watch. Parents can choose an icon for each TV channel on the web. Parents choose Videos, GOFT, or both modes. When both are allowed, viewers can switch using Change viewing mode in Settings or the GOFT viewing options. Start with a preview Try the sample feed in the app before creating your own. Set up your family feed: - Choose creators and viewing settings at tellytide.com. - Pair an iPhone or iPad with a six-character code. - Watch videos from your chosen creators, with settings managed by a parent. Parents can set a daily limit, add limits to individual creators, and decide whether Shorts appear. The parent dashboard shows watch activity. Search, comments and links out to the rest of YouTube are blocked in the player. No behavioral advertising or analytics SDKs are included in the child-facing app. We store pairing and watch time so the feed, history and limits work. We do not sell your data. Videos play through YouTube's official embedded player, so YouTube ads may still play. Tellytide is independent and is not affiliated with YouTube.

Screenshots

SCU+4 screens
Tellytide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tellytide at every 9 days against SCU+'s every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SCU+ ships an update every 6 months, Tellytide every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SCU+ versus Tellytide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSCU+Tellytide
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas SasinaAUGE XR AG

In-app purchases

None

SCU+

No in-app purchases

None

Tellytide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SCU+ free?
SCU+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tellytide free?
Tellytide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SCU+ or Tellytide have ads?
Neither SCU+ nor Tellytide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SCU+ or Tellytide?
SCU+ ships an update every 6 months, and Tellytide every 9 days. Most recently, SCU+ was updated on October 10, 2026 and Tellytide on October 2, 2026.

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