Niche: College Search
#1 app for college seekers
How much does Niche: College Search cost?
Prices are current as of 12 Sept 2026.
Niche: College Search has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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| Rating / 5 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
| Reviews | 1.6K | 19K | 18K | 10K | 6.3K | 3.4K | 2.4K | 1.7K | 1.5K | 1.5K | 1.1K |
| Released | 2018 | 2017 | 2023 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2013 | 2020 |
| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $99.00 | — | — | — |
| 3-month price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $89.99 | — | — | — |
| 6-month price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $239.00 | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $299.00 | — | — | — |
The going rate for each plan in United States, in its own currency, shaded from the cheapest price on the row to the dearest.
Niche: College Search reviews
4.2 out of 5, based on 1,575 reviews.
What people like
- Shows colleges and scholarships in one place
- Grading system makes college info easy to understand
- Helps you find schools that want to pay for you
What they complain about
- Forces you to give personal info
- Crashes a lot on your phone
- Requires payment for scholarships and data
Great education app
Love education never give up try hard in education be organized be productive don’t procrastinate
Profile questions
Profile asks questions that cannot be skipped and you cannot go back.
College search
Helps with colleges
Onboarding is not relevant
really enjoy your platform and found it to be very useful when househunting or picking a place to live with the four sides of child education. But now for some reason when I download the application, it forces me through onboarding, which does not have an option for parent, and all the options are anchored at students. And I have no way of moving forward from that screen. That’s a product decision then its weird to say the least, if that’s just a bug, please fix it.
stupid
Its hard to navigate and wont let me pass the “add more schools” page. Ive already been accepted to college and it made me put two more colleges that im not even thinking about. It should have a progress page to track your progress but i dont see one.
Top for high school students
It’s exactly what high school students need or want one problem it will default every thing to in-state but not a problem if someone in your close family is military
Bad update
This app used to be very helpful for housing search and quality Neighbourhood findings and other information about cities, houses, neighborhoods and colleges.. etc. Now, I see that the new version is narrowed to just colleges so it’s useless for older people who are looking for other stuff other than colleges
I like looking at colleges here
It’s good very good but finding my major was a little weird
Minor Complaint
There are black people who aren’t “African American”. Actual Africans, Central Americans, South Americans, and every other black person who’s not American, regardless of location. Please fix your race categories.
Absolutely love this app
This app got me excited for college again. I was very nervous about college being that skipped my junior year, so college for me was something that I thought would be harder. It’s so motivating to see just how many colleges are interested in me, and are willing to pay for me to attend their university. Also it’s great for simple knowledge about the different universities out there.
lost all usefulness
like many others before me, this app used to provide helpful information. better decision would have been to create a new app just to do your college lead generation instead of taking the good brand this once had and losing it. maybe i’ll use the website but this app is deleted after this post. cheers.
I LOVE
This is an amazing resource and I use it on both my phone and computer but I do feel it preforms better on computer then on phone. It crashes a lot on my phone. Overall though I LOVE IT
Not easy to access for K-12
This app doesn’t have the option to bypass setting up information about colleges. Even if I wanted to put in random information, step 6 requires my contact information so I can be matched with colleges. I’m on here specifically for K-12 information, college is the last thing on my mind. The website is so much easier than the app because of this. Pretty disappointing, please consider an edit.
Highschool student
Tbh its hard to look into this stuff and I'm glad I found this app cus it has like everything I need in one place :3
What happened to cost breakdown???
Was using this for last 9 months. The cost breakdown changed and has no out of state costs or living cost anymore. Now using another app. And when we started using for college search. It shouldn’t need so much personal info to use. Not a fan.
Accessible
This app provides an amazing overview of all the colleges an scholarships out there for students to use as well as a insight into how the website is worked. Would recommend 10 out of 10.
Helpful!
A very helpful app, I’m applying for collages soon and the app had been so good to see what the websites don’t directly tell me, I also love the grading system cause it’s easier for me to understand than just saying if it’s good or not
Won’t let me in
You have to make an account and it just keeps saying my birthday is invalid so I can’t make an account or use the app
Niche
High school student here, this app has helped me tremendously tbh
It’s hard to use
I don’t like this app it wants you to pay for access to use it and access for scholarships. Why do we have to pay to get a scholarship or put information in? Doesn’t make sense
Greattt
this app is so got a lot of good s scholarships
Not good
Where are the K-12 schools?? Limited and invasive.
Amazing
GREAT
？
这个app里面的东西根本点不开啊啊啊啊
idk
told me to rate it. pretty neat app
AÇILMIYOR
Açılmıyor , internet var her program açılıyor bu AÇILMIYOR
Payton
I am hoping Niche can help guarantee me a future in college!
Niche: College Search FAQ
- Is Niche: College Search free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does Niche: College Search have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to Niche: College Search?
- RaiseMe - College scholarships (4.8 from 18,549 reviews), BigFuture School (4.6 from 18,364 reviews) and Going Merry Scholarships (4.8 from 10,292 reviews).
Niche: College Search download
Last updated 27 days ago.
Niche: College Search sells in 175 countries. It was released 8 years and 4 months ago, on 13 May 2018. It holds a 4.2 rating from 1,575 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does Niche: College Search make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.