App Academy

status: pivoted · checked 2026-10-08

Checked 2026-10-08: appacademy.io is live, but the original full-time immersive is gone. The tuition page's meta description reads 'App Academy, powered by Coding Temple', the FAQ says 'App Academy has partnered with Coding Temple to deliver select programs using Coding Temple's award-winning curriculum', and the catalog now mirrors Coding Temple's (AI Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Quality Assurance; 'Live Private Cohort' 5 months part-time evenings or 'Blended Learning' self-paced up to 6 months, start 'Anytime'). Wayback snapshots show the old $23,150/$15,900 tuition page with no Coding Temple mention on June 13, 2025, a Coding Temple Typeform on the homepage by August 2, 2025, and the 'powered by Coding Temple' tuition page by October 28, 2025. Course Report marks the school closed; its course-dates page still lists 2024-2025 cohorts. source

App Academy, the selective San Francisco immersive famous for its deferred-tuition model, no longer exists in that form; since mid-2025 the name sells Coding Temple's part-time programs at $5,995 to $10,000 with a nine-month job guarantee. It might suit someone who wants Coding Temple's format and prefers the App Academy brand, but the two are now the same product. Before paying, read the contract to see which legal entity, guarantee and refund terms you are actually signing, and ignore the 2019 outcomes and the 1,100 old reviews.

The facts

Category	Software engineering, Cybersecurity
Website	appacademy.io
Based	San Francisco, CA (legal address, 2021 terms) · founded 2012
Format	online-live, in-person
Programs	AI Software Engineering (Live Private Cohort 5 mo / Blended up to 6 mo), Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Quality Assurance, App Academy Open (free)
Length	22 weeks (FAQ: Live Private Cohort '5 months', Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30 PM CT; Blended Learning 'up to 6 months' self-paced at 20 hrs/week, start anytime. The legacy software-engineer-online page still describes a 24-week, Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PT program with a $20,000 price and 15%/3-year ISA; it conflicts with every other page and appears stale.) verified
Tuition	$5,995 to $10,000 Own site, conflicting: tuition page '$10,000' base with '$3,500' pay-in-full price or $189/month x 36; FAQ 'Live Private Cohort: $9,995+' and 'Blended Learning: $5,995+' with a $1,000 pay-in-full discount; legacy course page $20,000 upfront or ISA. Figures match Coding Temple's own pricing ($10,000 list, $4,000 limited-time upfront). verified
Financing	upfront, installments, deferred, loan Tuition page: pay in full discount; interest-free installments; deferred tuition through Climb or Edly starting 3 to 9 months after graduation, no deposit, soft credit check. FAQ job guarantee: 'you will gain meaningful employment within 9 months of graduation or your money back' subject to effort conditions; the older Placement Protection page describes a 36-month window with full or partial (30%/20%) forgiveness tied to a 'Good Faith Job Search' with strikes. Which terms apply to current enrollments is not stated; get the signed version.
Admission	basic assessment FAQ: no prerequisites, minimum age 18, applicants 'must demonstrate aptitude through an admissions process', decisions within 2 business days. Legacy page: non-technical assessment and interview then technical challenges. Historical acceptance rate about 5% (Wikipedia, 2014) no longer applies.
Stack	Python, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Flask, FastAPI, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Git, embeddings/retrieval

Outcomes

self-reported

Placement: 81% (SF) and 87% (NY) of all 2019 campus graduates placed; 93%/95% among job-search participants. Median salary: $104,037 (SF) / $86,913 (NY) average first-year compensation, 2019 graduates. Reporting period: 2019 campus cohorts, data as of August 2021 (outcomes-information page). Nothing newer; the figures describe a program that no longer exists.. verified source

Interview-prep depth

our read of the published curriculum

The syllabus is not public in enough detail to score. FAQ cites Coding Temple's 'top-tier career services'; Coding Temple's site lists a tuition-protection guarantee and career coaching. No mock-interview, DS&A or system-design detail is published for the current programs.

Job support: light. FAQ cites Coding Temple's 'top-tier career services'; Coding Temple's site lists a tuition-protection guarantee and career coaching. No mock-interview, DS&A or system-design detail is published for the current programs.

Whatever the program covers, the interview itself is free to prepare for here: coding patterns, system design, practice prompts, company guides.

What a careful reader should know

on the record

Resolution of the status conflict: Course Report's 'closed' notice (last review June 12, 2024) refers to the original Hash Map Labs immersive; the appacademy.io brand was relaunched in mid-2025 as 'App Academy, powered by Coding Temple', a different school (founded 2015, online, 4.77 on Course Report, 466 reviews) with its own curriculum, pricing and guarantee. No press release or news coverage of the arrangement was found; the privacy policy and terms (last updated June 30, 2021) still name Hash Map Labs Inc. and do not mention Coding Temple, and the regulatory page still lists California BPPE and NYSED approvals for the old entity. The 1,153 Course Report reviews and the 2019 outcomes describe the old program. App Academy's ISA (15% for 3 years, $31,000 cap) survives only on a stale page. Reddit sentiment on the relaunch could not be sampled this session (search tools blocked).

Third-party signals: Course Report 4.65 (1153 reviews). SwitchUp 4.69. Graduation-time star ratings are collected by the schools; weigh them accordingly.

Sources (27)

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