Comparison

Meden vs Aora SJSU

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

Head to head
About

Meden

This app overlays digital posts onto real-world locations, allowing users to share thoughts, memories, and media that others can discover through their phone cameras. It creates a unique way to communicate and experience places by anchoring digital content to physical spots.

Highlights
  • Create and view AR posts at real-world locations
  • Discover nearby shared thoughts and memories
  • Interact with posts via likes and comments
  • Connect with friends and view their shared content
  • Explore an interactive map of nearby posts
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Meden lets you leave posts in the real world for your friends to find — and discover what others have left around you. Imagine walking into a café and discovering a post someone left there. Or leaving a photo at a party, a classroom, a park, or your favorite hangout spot so your friends can find it later. With Meden, posts don’t just live on your phone — they stay anchored to the real places where they were created. A post you leave at a real-world location can be discovered by people who come there later. Share your Meden map or Story video so friends can find what you left — and leave something for you too. Features: Leave posts at real-world places using photos, text, or selfies Discover posts others have left around you Explore the map to see where nearby posts have been left Go to a pin and reveal the post floating there in the real world Add friends and keep up with the posts they’re leaving around the world Share your Meden map so others can see what you’ve been leaving Share Story videos so friends can find the posts you leave Like, comment, and interact with posts you discover Capture AR scenes and post directly from real places Meden turns ordinary places into something social. A classroom, a coffee shop, a rooftop, a park — people can leave posts there for others to discover later. Leave a post. Find what others left. See the real world differently with Meden.

About

Aora SJSU

This app connects you with your campus community, showing real-time activities and plans. Discover what friends are doing, organize events, and share your location securely. It's designed for students to easily find and join social gatherings and activities on campus.

Highlights
  • Real-time campus activity feed
  • Location sharing with privacy controls
  • Event creation and management
  • Friend activity and plan discovery
  • Direct messaging and group chats
  • Campus-specific social networking
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Aora is your school, full screen. Open it and you see what your campus is actually doing right now. It's not an endless feed from everywhere. It's the people you go to class with, where your friends are, and the plans forming for tonight. NOW Say what you're down for in one tap: food, the gym, studying, a party. Pick a start and end time, add a place, and choose who sees it and who gets a ping. Friends tap I'm down, and anyone who can see it can ask to come. THE MAP Your campus on one map. See friends who share their location with you, every plan and event pinned where it's happening, and the places your friends want to go. Tap a friend to see where they are, how far away, and the weather there, then get directions in Apple Maps. PLANS Start one in a few taps with a place, a day, a time and a cover. Say you're going and your face lands on it. Friends can comment and invite people, and everyone going gets a ping when it starts. PLACES Save the spots you want to try and see which friends want to go too. Mark the ones you've been, rate them, and add a photo. Any saved place turns into a plan in one tap. POSTS AND BURST Post a photo or video in one shutter. Hold the shutter to shoot a Burst, then swipe through and keep your favorites in Memories. Add any of them to your profile whenever you like. NIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN Host an event in under a minute. Send one link and people RSVP by name, whether or not they have Aora. See which friends are going, run the door from your phone, keep a waitlist, and share one album with everyone who was there. SHARE YOUR LOCATION, YOUR WAY Choose exactly who sees you and for how long. Friends you share with see where you are, your battery, and whether you're on your way. Stop any time. BUMP TO FOLLOW Hold two phones back to back to follow each other instantly. YOUR HOUSE, IN ONE PLACE If you're in a house, it gets its own page with announcements, a calendar, an album, points, dues, contacts and a roster, one tap from Home. MESSAGES Reply to anything and it opens a thread. Send a voice note, or ask a friend for a pic of what they're up to. CRUSHES Pick people quietly. Nobody is told unless it goes both ways. --- Aora is campus only. You join with a school email or an invite from someone already in, and you only ever see your own school. Every post can be reported and every account can be blocked, both ways, instantly. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users.

Screenshots

Meden4 screens
Aora SJSU4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Aora SJSU at every 3 days against Meden's weekly. Meden's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Meden against 5.0 for Aora SJSU. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meden ships an update weekly, Aora SJSU every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meden versus Aora SJSU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMedenAora SJSU
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB67 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJose Rohan Arul NobleAora Social, Inc.

Customer experience

Meden

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Aora SJSU

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Meden

No in-app purchases

None

Aora SJSU

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meden free?
Meden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aora SJSU free?
Aora SJSU is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meden or Aora SJSU?
Meden and Aora SJSU are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Meden or Aora SJSU have ads?
Neither Meden nor Aora SJSU shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meden or Aora SJSU?
Meden ships an update weekly, and Aora SJSU every 3 days. Most recently, Meden was updated on October 30, 2026 and Aora SJSU on November 6, 2026.

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