Trajecta vs · Uni App
Uni App and Trajecta agree on something most chancing tools get wrong: you cannot judge an application from stats alone, so both read the whole thing, essays included. Then they part ways. Uni App ($29 a month) returns scores across admissions dimensions and a spike chart. Trajecta ($24.99 a month or $249.99 a year) stages the committee deliberation itself and hands you the argument. This page compares them straight.
01 · Area by area
Uni App descriptions below are from their own site, collegecraft.app, retrieved on the date under the last panel. Where the products overlap, the comparison is about mechanism, not quality claims.
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With Uni App
Uni App is $29 a month for full access, and free to start with a basic spike chart. The product is an application analyzer: you bring a finished or in-progress application and it evaluates the whole thing, with an admissions chat assistant alongside.
With Trajecta
Trajecta Pro is $24.99 a month or $249.99 a year, with a free tier for profile building, the direction compass, missions, and college list organization. Month to month it is slightly cheaper. The shape is different: Trajecta wants to meet a student years before there is an application to analyze, and build toward one.
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With Uni App
Uni App reads the entire application, every essay, activity, grade, and detail, and returns scores across admissions dimensions: academics, extracurriculars, impact, awards, personal qualities, institutional fit, and intellectual vitality. The output is a scored profile of your application.
With Trajecta
Trajecta also puts the entire application in, but the output is a deliberation, not a scorecard. A specialist essay reader files a report, four officers read the file through different lenses and disagree with each other in writing, and a chair resolves the recorded split into a decision with next steps. You see the argument, not a set of numbers.
Watch a full run on a real application →03
With Uni App
Uni App gives line-by-line essay edits and includes AI detection for suspicious content. Essay feedback is one dimension of the overall application analysis.
With Trajecta
Every draft gets inline feedback tied to the full profile, which is how it catches an essay that contradicts the activity list or repeats what another part of the file already says. A brainstorm workspace comes before drafting, and there is no per-draft limit. In the committee, a specialist reader files on the essays before the officers weigh them against everything else.
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With Uni App
Uni App’s spike chart maps where an application is pointed and how sharp the point is, and it is a genuinely good visualization, free to generate. It describes the application you have.
With Trajecta
Trajecta’s direction compass does a related job earlier in the timeline: it places the student on two axes from the record itself, with a ranked evidence list, then keeps working, suggesting majors, scoring new activity ideas for fit, and turning the gap before application season into weekly missions. It is a map that assigns next steps, not only a chart of where you stand.
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With Uni App
Uni App says its scores are calibrated against verified data from real admitted and rejected students, and, to their credit, it also acknowledges plainly that admissions is inherently subjective and scores can vary between runs.
With Trajecta
The committee reads against each school’s own Common Data Set: enrolled-freshman GPA, test bands, and the admission factors the school itself files. That grounding is public, so every number the officers cite links to a data page the family can check. The same honesty applies here: a simulation is a rehearsal of the conversation, not a prediction.
Browse the college data →Uni App pricing and feature descriptions verified against collegecraft.app. Retrieved July 19, 2026. Trajecta pricing current as of the same date.
02 · Side by side
| Uni App | Trajecta | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $29/month. Free to start with a basic spike chart. | $24.99/month or $249.99 a year for Pro. Free tier included. |
| What goes in | The entire application: essays, activities, grades, details. | The entire application, plus the profile history built in the years before it. |
| What comes back | Scores across admissions dimensions, plus a spike chart. | Four written officer reads, a recorded disagreement, a chair decision, and next steps. |
| Your essays | Line-by-line edits, with AI detection. | Unlimited inline feedback tied to the whole file, plus a specialist read in committee. |
| Grounded in | Calibration against admitted and rejected student data (their description). | Each school's published Common Data Set, linked and checkable. |
| Honest limits | Scores describe the file. They cannot argue with each other about it. | No dimensional score report and no spike chart. A simulation is not a prediction, ours included. |
Both columns are honest. The limits row applies to us too.
03 · Credit where due
Uni App shares more philosophy with us than most tools on this list, which makes the credit easy to give.
The spike chart
Mapping an application’s point and sharpness in one visual is a genuinely good idea, well executed, and free to try. If you want a quick read on how pointed your profile looks, generate one. We mean that.
Honest about variance
Uni App states on its own site that admissions is inherently subjective and that scores can vary between runs. That is more honesty than most scoring tools manage, and it deserves credit.
The whole file, taken seriously
Like us, Uni App refuses to judge an application from stats alone: essays, activities, and details all go in. The disagreement between the products is about output, scores versus a staged argument, not about what deserves to be read.
04 · FAQ
Uni App (collegecraft.app) is an AI application analyzer. It takes the entire application, essays, activities, grades, and details, and returns scores across admissions dimensions like academics, impact, personal qualities, and institutional fit, plus a spike chart, line-by-line essay edits, and an admissions chat assistant. It costs $29 a month, free to start with a basic spike chart. Verified against collegecraft.app in July 2026.
The output. Uni App returns a scored profile: numbers across dimensions describing your application. Trajecta returns a deliberation: four AI officers read the file through different lenses, disagree with each other in writing, and a chair resolves it into a decision with next steps, anchored to the school’s own Common Data Set. Scores tell you where you stand. The argument tells you why, and what to fix.
Month to month, Trajecta by a little: $24.99 against $29. On the annual plan, $249.99 works out to about $20.83 a month. Both have free starting points. The bigger difference is scope: Uni App is priced as an application analyzer, Trajecta as a counselor for the whole runway plus the analysis at the end.
Treat every score, theirs, anyone’s, as directional. Uni App itself says admissions is subjective and scores can vary between runs, which is honest and correct. No tool can know the rest of the applicant pool or what a school needs that year. That is why Trajecta stages the committee conversation instead of producing a number: the rehearsal is the useful part.
Sure. A spike chart is a quick external read on how pointed your profile looks, and it is free to generate. Trajecta is where the work happens: building the record, drafting the essays, and rehearsing the room. If you only pay for one, pick by whether you need an analysis or a counselor.
Yes. The free tier includes profile building, the direction compass, mission planning, and college list organization, no credit card required. Pro at $24.99 a month or $249.99 a year adds essay feedback, activity coaching, and Committee Review.
Build your profile free, then put your finished application in front of a room that has to explain itself.