The verified college social app · real campus takes · .edu required
.edu only — no exceptions.
A screen recording of the yapp app: scrolling the campus feed, posting a yap, and joining a live room.
Everything you'll yap on
your campus take feed. upvote the heat, downvote the L's.
weekly campus photo stories, one per school.
one a day. next issue.
drop-in video rooms, your campus only.
live audio rooms — speak up, or just listen.
ephemeral DMs — shoot your shot, it disappears in 24h.
meet verified students at your school — and peek at other campuses.
01 — The Front Page
The campus take feed. Post a yap, let your whole campus weigh in, then upvote the heat and downvote the L's. Scope it to Everyone or just your Campus. It's the take feed, rebuilt for verified students.
aura isn't a vibe — it's campus karma, earned from your upvotes.
shoutout to whoever returned my airpods to the library desk. @lostandfound you're a real one.
02 — The Photo Desk
Weekly campus photo stories, with a story rail per school — tap a college to see everyone's campus moments.
Rice
UTD
SMU
UNT
UTA
UH
Shahad hackathon nights at Rice hit different 🌃 #ricehacks
maya golden hour on the boulevard 💛 #smu
devon they brought an F1 car to the plaza?? 🏎️ #utd
amara we actually made it 🎓 #classof2026
03 — Now Broadcasting
College live audio and video rooms only your campus can walk into — drop-in video for 2 to 8, unlimited ears for live Talk audio. No lobby, just join.
04 — The Back Channel
Disappearing messages by design — these ephemeral DMs vanish in 24 hours. Drop a Note, send a wave, start an in-chat game — all gone by tomorrow. Sent in pink, received in graphite, just like the app.
Messages disappear after 24 hours
A daily dual-camera capture — front and back at once, shared only with your verified campus. Next issue.
get notified when Moments dropsLive on campus right now
Field report
they stood on the quad with a sign that said "talk to us." the whole campus pulled up.
That's the whole idea. yapp is where your campus already is — loud, around, and verified. no randos, no bots, no bored adults: just the people you'd actually run into between classes.
— dispatched from the plaza · 1:14 pm
Sign up with your .edu email. We detect your school instantly — pink check, you're in.
Auto-scoped to your university. The whole app — feeds, rooms, DMs — is your campus by default.
Real students, real aura. No bots, no bored adults — gated on purpose.
The switch
yapp does the campus take feed those apps are known for — post takes, upvote and downvote, see what your school is saying — then goes further. It's a cleaner Yik Yak alternative (and a fresh take on Fizz and Sidechat): verified students only, real names, on iPhone and Android, with Live video, Talk audio, vanishing DMs and a daily Moment. Yik Yak is iOS-only and Sidechat absorbed it — yapp is the verified, cross-platform option built for 2026.
| yapp | Yik Yak | Fizz | Sidechat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who's in it | Verified .edu students | Anyone nearby | Verified students | Verified students |
| Post under your real name | ✓ | — | — | — |
| iPhone and Android | iOS + Android | iOS only | iOS + Android | iOS + Android |
| Upvote / downvote feed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live video rooms | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Live audio (Talk) rooms | ✓ | — | — | — |
| DMs that vanish in 24h | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Daily Moments + weekly Wraps | ✓ | — | — | — |
Comparison reflects yapp's design and widely-reported facts about each app as of 2026. Yik Yak, Fizz and Sidechat are trademarks of their owners and aren't affiliated with yapp; their features may change.
The fine print, in plain English
yapp is a social app for verified college students only — a campus social network where you post Yaps (text or photo takes), upvote the good ones, drop into Live video and Talk audio rooms, and DM friends. It's scoped to your school, with a .edu email required to get in.
yapp is the new campus social app rolling out in 2026, school by school. It's not on every campus yet — sign up with your .edu email to claim your campus pass, and we'll notify you the moment your school goes live. The waitlist is open now.
Yes — yapp ships on both iOS and Android. Unlike Yik Yak, which was iOS-only, yapp is cross-platform from day one, so your whole campus can be on the same app no matter what phone they carry.
Yes. yapp is free to download and use for any verified college student. Just sign up with your .edu email, get your pink verified check, and you're on your campus feed — no subscription, no paywall.
Yes — a valid .edu email is required, no exceptions. yapp detects your school instantly and verifies you as a real student, including most community colleges and universities. That's the whole point: no bots, no bored adults, no strangers — just the people you'd actually run into on campus.
Yes — everyone on yapp is a verified college student, signed up with their .edu email, so every take comes from a real classmate. Never a bot, a stranger, or a fake account, because there aren't any. Real students, your real campus.
yapp covers the same campus take feed those apps are known for — post takes, upvote and downvote, see what your school is saying — but goes further with Live video rooms, Talk audio rooms, vanishing DMs, Moments and Wraps. It's verified-students-only, cross-platform, and private by design, making it a cleaner Yik Yak, Fizz and Sidechat alternative.
yapp is private by design: verified .edu accounts only, private profiles, follow requests, two-factor login, mute and block, and hidden words. Verified, real-name posting adds the accountability the incumbents lack, and DMs vanish after 24 hours — built to avoid the bot and harassment problems that got other campus apps banned.
Your home feed is scoped to your verified school, but Discover lets you peek at what other campuses are saying. If your school isn't live yet, sign up with your .edu email anyway — we'll save your seat and open your campus as soon as enough students join.
Yaps (real campus takes with upvotes and "aura" — yapp's version of karma), Wraps (weekly campus photo stories), Moments (a daily dual-camera capture, campus-gated), Live rooms (drop-in video for 2-8 people), Talk rooms (live drop-in audio), DMs (1:1 and group, voice notes, in-chat games, ephemeral), and Discover to find people at your school and peek at other campuses.
Yes — Discover surfaces people at your school, mutuals, and other campuses, so yapp doubles as a campus friend-finder. Because everyone is a verified student, you're meeting real classmates, not bots or strangers — a safer way to make friends in college than open social apps.
yapp is rolling out to US colleges and universities campus by campus throughout 2026. Sign up with your .edu email to claim your campus pass — if your school isn't live yet we'll save your seat and notify you the moment your campus opens.
Sort of — it's the campus-only, verified version of that idea. You get the upvoted-feed energy people like about Reddit and the drop-in voice and video rooms people use Discord for, but everyone is a verified student at a real college, scoped to your campus.
06 — The Pass
.edu only, no exceptions. Download the app and verify in seconds.
or save your seat with your .edu
Off the feed · also from yapp
Random 1-on-1 video chat with real college students — like Omegle, except every face on the other side is a verified .edu student. No bots, no creeps, no randos from the void. Hit connect and meet someone new on campus.
