HKA-APP
For your studies at the HKA
Free
The HKA-APP gives you orientation during your study at Hochschule Karlsruhe (HKA).
HKA-APP: Developed from students for students of the Karlsruhe University (HKA),
the app allows for comfortable access on all online services of the Karlsruhe University (HKA).
The features of HKA-APP are:
• News | Get news from student unions and other institutions
• Study Help | Get specific information and assistance for your studies.
• Campus | Find the most important buildings and offices of the Karlsruhe University (HKA)
• Persons | Contact professors and employees of Karlsruhe University (HKA) quickly
• Canteen | Always have the meal offers of the Karlsruhe Studierendenwerk at hand
• Calendar | Download your personal schedule or add own calendars to your device
• Grades | Look up your personal grades and exam information
• Learning places | Keep up to date on free learning places
Visit http://www.hka.app for more information or connect with us on
on social media https://linktr.ee/hka_app
We also welcome any form of feedback on the HKA-APP!
If something doesn't work as promised, you can always contact
us directly via Facebook or support@hskampus.de.
Via "Feedback" in the menu, you can give us feedback directly!
more Good luck with your exams!
This update includes further stability improvements and bug fixes to make your app experience even more reliable:
- Canteen: We fixed a bug that caused the menu to be unavailable on some days.
- Login: We’ve improved the login process so that you’re no longer accidentally logged out.
4.10.49 Jul 8
This update includes further stability improvements and bug fixes to make your app experience even more reliable.
- The KVV / Public transport feature has been discontinued.
- Liquid Glass optimizations.
- New hka.app domain.
4.10.47 Jun 3
Good luck with your exams!
This update brings several great improvements:
- iOS 26 support: The app now fully supports iOS 26 and takes advantage of modern Liquid Glass for a fresh, high-quality appearance.
- UI & interaction: Interface elements have been redesigned and aligned with the latest Apple Human Interface Guidelines, delivering a native look & feel and intuitive interaction.
- App icon: The app icon now supports system-wide icon tinting (tinted app icons) and automatically adapts to the colors selected in iOS.
- Learning Places: This section has been completely rebuilt from the ground up, resulting in significantly improved performance, stability, and a smoother overall experience.
In addition, this update includes further stability improvements and bug fixes to make your app experience even more reliable.
We’re excited to share that the HKA app is now published through the official account of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
For technical reasons, a one-time re-login in the app is required.
4.10.46 Jan 20
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the title in the bottom TabBar to disappear when a detail view was opened.
4.10.41 07/21/2025
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- News: Fixed an issue where individual news items were displayed multiple times within a single news category.
4.10.40 07/14/2025
Good luck with your exams!
This version brings a handful of great improvements:
- Grades: Access your exam results even more easily—anytime, anywhere. Simply sign in to the app.
- Stability and bug fixes: We’ve made the app more reliable under the hood.
4.10.38 07/04/2025
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Stops: Delays in departures are now highlighted in red.
- Login: If the HKA login is unavailable, you will receive an appropriate message during login.
4.10.30 05/18/2025
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when loading very large images on a news item.
- Campus: The font color now has more contrast.
4.10.27 05/03/2025
Good luck with your exams!
This version comes with some great improvements:
- Public transport: The feature is back, and you can use it.
- People: The search function has been restored – quickly find professors and staff with ease.
- Campus, People & Onboarding: These sections have been technically revised and, in some cases, completely redeveloped, improving performance and app stability significantly.
- News: Images are now available offline – stay informed wherever you are.
- Cafeteria: The legend has been completed so you can easily access all meal details.
This update also includes additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
4.10.26 01/27/2025
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Resolved an issue that caused the app to crash when no grades were recorded in QiS.
4.10.24 12/22/2024
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Improved User Display: The layout has been optimized to use less space in the "More" tab.
- People Retrieval Fix: You can now view people in the app again and check their office hours, office locations, email addresses, and phone numbers.
- Login Stability Enhanced: A bug causing unexpected user logouts in certain situations has been fixed.
4.10.22 12/15/2024
This update includes bug fixes & stability improvements
4.10.18 11/13/2024
Version v4.10.16:
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
Version v4.10.15:
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Login: The login now works again with your HKA account (RZ-Kürzel). Please log out in the app and log in again with your current HKA RZ-Account.
- Grades: The grades can now be accessed again via the HKA eduroam Wi-Fi in the app .
- News: The news is back with a new design and keeps you informed about everything important.
- Campus: Get information about buildings, administrative offices, and student councils again.
- Calendar: The semester plans are available again.
- Calendar: Add a new calendar even faster now.
- Cafeteria: The icons in the legend are now aligned with the text.
- Study Help: The Study Help is an extension of the Freshman Help and will replace it in the future.
- Feedback: It is now even easier to give early feedback to the HKA-APP team by participating in the beta test through the feedback section.
4.10.16 09/30/2024
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes:
- Login: The login now works again with your HKA account (RZ-Kürzel). Please log out in the app and log in again with your current HKA RZ-Account.
- Grades: The grades can now be accessed again via the HKA eduroam Wi-Fi in the app .
- News: The news is back with a new design and keeps you informed about everything important.
- Campus: Get information about buildings, administrative offices, and student councils again.
- Calendar: The semester plans are available again.
- Calendar: Add a new calendar even faster now.
- Cafeteria: The icons in the legend are now aligned with the text.
- Study Help: The Study Help is an extension of the Freshman Help and will replace it in the future.
- Feedback: It is now even easier to give early feedback to the HKA-APP team by participating in the beta test through the feedback section.
Good luck with your exams!
4.10.15 06/25/2024
We have implemented the following improvements in this version:
- Mensa: The error message for missing information in the Mensa display has been improved.
- News: The selection of news categories is now displayed in alphabetical order.
- Grades: The display has been improved in the event that the grade overview and grade point average cannot be displayed for data protection reasons.
Due to the current problems in the HKA infrastructure, individual features are unfortunately temporarily unavailable or do not provide any data.
Good luck with the exam period!
4.10.8 01/23/2024
In this version we have implemented the following improvements:
- News display: Fixed the HTML display in the news so that the formatting is now displayed correctly.
- News list: Date display has been added to the news list.
- Login: Usernames are now automatically converted to lowercase. This improves consistency and avoids potential case sensitivity issues.
Good luck with the exam period!
4.10.7 11/13/2023
Welcome to our latest update!
1. Redesign of the news and notes tab: Our team has thoroughly redesigned the design and structure of the news and notes tab. The new user interface is now clearer and more intuitive. In addition, we have added a new feature that allows you to group news items by date. You can find this option in the settings. This makes it easier for you to find and read the latest messages, as well as check your grades. We are sure you will love these improvements!
2. Mensa Tab Improvements: A new feature is that the date in the Mensa Tab will automatically jump to the current day when you reopen the app if a day in the past was previously selected. This way you'll always be up to date on what's available to eat in the Mensa today.
3. Other small bug fixes and design improvements.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. You help us to constantly improve our app. We hope you enjoy these new features and look forward to your feedback!
4.10.6 07/05/2023
Added new menu navigation, login, mensa selection and legend. Furthermore, you can now select feature preferences individually
4.9.1 02/07/2023
Some bug fixes
Added english localization of info for first aiders
4.8.0 06/27/2022
- Grade retrieval for master's students who were previously in bachelor's degree program is available again
4.7.5 02/14/2022
- Bugfixes
- Bugfix in the canteen view
4.7.4 12/16/2021
- Bugfixes.
- Refresh manually with Pull-to-refresh.
- Rebranding.
4.7.3 07/01/2021
- There is a new news widget.
- Login has been extended to include calendar and people access.
- Searching for people is possible again and the app no longer crashes.
- The layout of the appointment view has been revised and now follows the iOS standard.
- It is now possible to completely disable analytics data and crash reports.
- MMT and W students can now access their timetable again.
- The texts and translations have been revised.
- People no longer appear twice in the list.
- Cells that do not contain information are no longer displayed.
- The code has been tidied up and warnings have been removed.
- The background update has been revised.
- In addition, small bug fixes and optimisations.
4.6.4 02/06/2021
- Minor design changes and Dark Mode support
- Added Freshman - Aid Kit for new students
- New calendar functions
- Replaced two separate logins with a single system wide login
- Fixed sorting of learning places
- Fixed personal calendar bug for W-Students (InfoTools)
- Improved stability when adding personal calendars
- Bunch of other bug fixes and performance enhancements
4.6.3 07/06/2020
v4.5.1:
The date of news is displayed correctly again.
v4.5:
The biggest new feature in this version is the possibility to personalize the app via faculty assignment. Once you have entered your IZ username, people, places and timetables belonging to your faculty will be highlighted.
Other new features are:
- Onboarding and new "What's New" view
- Fixed crashes when fetching grades
- Images of persons are now scaled correctly
- Fixed crash when opening list of persons
- Improved usability of schedule and canteen
- Added colors of new tram lines
Found an error? Contact us via Facebook, Instagram or support@hskampus.de!
4.5.1 07/10/2019
Good luck with your exams!
This update includes further stability improvements and bug fixes to make your app experience even more reliable:
- Canteen: We fixed a bug that caused the menu to be unavailable on some days.
- Login: We’ve improved the login process so that you’re no longer accidentally logged out.
more Version 4.10.49 Jul 8
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