Northeastern Orientation vs uSafeHS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Northeastern Orientation
Discover programs, resources, and experiences tailored for students and families at Northeastern's Boston campus. This app helps you navigate campus life and connect with available opportunities.
- Campus program discovery
- Resource information
- Student and family focused
- Boston campus navigation
- Experience highlights
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Welcome full-time undergraduate students enrolled on our Boston campus for the first time in Fall 2026 and Spring 2027.
uSafeHS
This app provides high school students with gamified lessons on building healthy relationships and responding to bullying. It offers access to resources and a simulated tool for leaving risky situations, plus confidential reporting to school staff.
- Gamified eLearning modules
- Healthy relationship education
- Bullying and harassment response
- Access to school/community resources
- Simulated text/call tool
- Confidential reporting
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The uSafeHS Healthy Relationships app helps high school students learn how to build healthy relationships and how to safely respond to unhealthy behaviors like bullying and harassment, using gamified eLearning modules based on the CASEL social-emotional learning framework. uSafeHS also offers easy access to school, community, and online resources. A simulated text / call tool helps students leave uncomfortable or risky situations. Students can also use the app to confidentially report concerns to school staff.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Northeastern Orientation at 3.9 against uSafeHS's 3.3. Northeastern Orientation also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 67%). uSafeHS's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Northeastern Orientation holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Northeastern Orientation's written reviews are positive against 67% of uSafeHS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Northeastern Orientation | uSafeHS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (14 ratings) — better | 3.3 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Northeastern University Information Services | uSafeUS LLC |
Customer experience
Northeastern Orientation
uSafeHS
In-app purchases
Northeastern Orientation
No in-app purchases
uSafeHS
No in-app purchases
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