BlackTom vs TalkWall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlackTom
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留学不是孤独冒险,而是一场有人同行的旅程。 BlackTom 为全球留学生打造 校园专属社区: 赏金猎人:随时随地帮你解决校园生活中的各种需求 社交网络:加入学习群、兴趣社群、跨校交流,找到同频伙伴 校园广场:匿名分享、真实动态、资讯不掉队 在 BlackTom,你既能高效解决问题,也能遇见更好的朋友。 让留学生活,更温暖、更高效、更有趣。
TalkWall
Connect with fellow students at Australian and New Zealand universities. Discover campus events, find clubs, and access real subject reviews to make informed academic choices. Engage in campus chat and find study or gaming groups.
- Subject reviews with usefulness and difficulty scores
- Campus event listings from universities, unions, and clubs
- Club directory with contact and social media links
- Student chat and community feed
- Automatic translation for posts and comments
- Rankings of worst-rated courses
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TalkWall is a campus community for students at 11 universities across Australia and New Zealand, including Melbourne, Monash, Sydney, UNSW, UQ, ANU, Adelaide, UWA, UTS, RMIT and Auckland. Real subject reviews, no bad picks · One page per subject, scored on usefulness, difficulty and recommendation, and every subject listed by faculty · Reviews from students on the site, Reddit and StudentVIP in one place · The Ten Worst Courses: a ranking to check before you enrol · Prerequisites, assessment and weekly hours on every page Every campus event, picked for you · Events from the university, the student union and every club on one board, plus what's on in the city · Pick your major and interests, and For you keeps the events that match, with the reason on each one · Club Instagram accounts synced every hour Find your club, find your squad · Club directory with each club's email, website and Instagram · Game squads, meetups and project teams: find teammates by game Connect with your uni crowd · Chat with classmates, find your people, and see what students are talking about and what's on at uni and in clubs, as it happens in the For you feed · Delete your own posts any time, and hide anything you'd rather not see · Word filters, reporting and blocking, with reports handled within 24 hours Posts and comments translate automatically between English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Built by a university student. Free, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TalkWall at every 3 weeks against BlackTom's every 2 months. BlackTom's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BlackTom ships an update every 2 months, TalkWall every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackTom | TalkWall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tom AI LLC | 子龙 陈 |
In-app purchases
BlackTom
No in-app purchases
TalkWall
No in-app purchases









