Project Gallery
Here are screenshots and descriptions of some of the outstanding projects from Winter 2025, nominated by your TAs (and presented in no particular order). Congratulations everyone!
WatCourse
An app that empowers Waterloo students in their course selection.
Jack Tao, Kaiz Nanji, Mujtaba Rehman, Siyeon Jung
Waterloo students know that choosing the right courses can make or break a semester. WatCourse lets them quickly find exactly what they’re looking for in a way that wasn’t possible before. It’ll tell you exactly what a course is really about and let you know if you have to look out for any group work or exams, just ot name a few. It also keeps track of courses you like to make sophisticated AI powered predictions, ensuring you choose the best courses possible.
FlickPicks
FlickPicks is a social, movie review app, that suggests movies to watch together.
Jonathan Gagnon, Malvika Patel, Neha Padala, Shaili Kadakia
Users can enter movies they have watched, and rate and review using a star rating and text. Users can add friends on the app to see their ratings and reviews. Users can also find movies to watch with friends. Friends will be shown the same set of movies to like/non-like using a swipe method. Any movies liked by both users will be shown as the suggested movie to watch for both users.
Roomie
An app that makes sharing a space simple. Manage chores, shared lists, and more—together!
Alara Bulur, David Li, Germain Zhang-Houle, Nicklaus Zhang-Houle
Roomie is a roommate management app that helps university and college students living with roommates manage their shared households. Roomie makes the tedious processes of keeping track of chores, sharing todo lists, and communicating with your roommates more efficient, leaving you with more time to do what you enjoy.
Good Samaritan
A crowd-sourced mobile safety app for KW students.
Alex Lu, Gavin Song, Jerry Zhu
Good Samaritan is a mobile safety app designed specifically for university students in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. It solves the problem of safety confidence when commuting alone by providing location-based safety alerts, an interactive map of safe and unsafe zones, and quick-access emergency contacts all crowd sourced from user inputs. It empowers students to confidently navigate campus and city spaces, especially during late-night commutes and social events.
Pet Care Manager
The Pet Care Manager app helps pet owners easily organize and manage their pets’ needs.
Estefany Gonzalez Portillo, Kyle James Hirschfeld, Raquel Jaen Delgado, Andrea Lopez Iglesias
Pet Care Manager includes features to track feeding, grooming, and vet appointments, store vaccination and health records, and log training progress. Users can connect with other pet owners through a community feature and share pet profiles. The app supports multiple users, making it perfect for families to collaborate on pet care.
Chopify
A fridge management app for every at-home cook!
Alena Luo, May Ly, Jennifer Ying, Edward Zhou
Help people track their grocery inventory and reduce food waste. Simply scan your grocery receipts to save the items in-app. Receive expiration reminder notifications, build a grocery list based on your inventory, and more.
Washare
A car-wash card sharing application! Split the costs with your friends.
Martin Choi, Rishi Keny, Matthew Sekirin, Jerry Wang
Many car owners struggle with the high cost of car washes, especially during the winter when regular washes are necessary. Season passes often aren’t worth the cost for individuals, as they require significantly more frequent use than most people realistically need or can fit into their routine. A system that enables users to share season passes affordably and reliably can make them more accessible and cost-effective by splitting the cost among multiple users.
DuoCode
A Duolingo-style learning app for Data Structures and Algorithms.
We aim to help CS students strengthen their problem-solving skills by deepening their understanding of data structures and algorithms, enabling them to excel in job interviews and apply these concepts in practical, real-world scenarios.
DineSafe
An app that helps people with dietary restrictions, allergies, or specific eating plans to track food consumption and find safe dining options at restaurants.
Vivan Garg, Emily Huang, Daniel Peng, Christina Zhang
DineSafe is an app for individuals with dietary restrictions, allergies, or specific eating plans. It helps users track their food intake and find safe restaurant options without compromising their health. With features like personalized dietary profiles (covering all legal allergens), confidence scores for all restaurant menu items, a food diary, and the ability to save favorite places, DineSafe makes dining out safer and more convenient.
Trapezoid
Trapezoid is an open social media platform for goal-oriented individuals to share their progress.
Anne Sun, Hannah Hwang, Justin Chung, Laura Tan
As students with passionate interests, we often find ourselves stuck in our own bubble as we each pursue our goals. We want to bring together friends with ambitious goals by having a shared platform to keep others in the loop of what they are working on. Trapezoid is a social media platform that allows users to share their progress on their goals, and to connect with others who have similar interests. Users can create posts about their goals, and can friend other users to see their progress. The platform also includes features such as viewing user timelines and liking posts, and visualize progress of each user’s goals.
WaterlooMeets
WaterlooMeets - Find Your Academic & Social Match.
Ashmita Mittal, Conor Lamont, Jack Emo, Noah Menikefs
WaterlooMeets is a platform designed to help University of Waterloo students discover their academic match—peers who share similar courses, goals, and interests. From study groups to project partners or shared passions, this app goes beyond connections—it creates opportunities for collaboration and connection.
WatCourse
A fancy cool app that makes selecting, saving, and sharing your term courses that much easier! :)
Alia Cai, Johnson Ji, Monica Trinh, Steven Gu
The current method for building and viewing class schedules for students at the University of Waterloo is absolutely atrocious. We are busy enough as it is, and the stresses associated with ensuring that we have actual classes to go to each semester compounds on our woes, cementing our eventual academic demise. This problem primarily stems from everyone’s eternal adversary: the Quest Enroll feature. The calendar display is unusable, the schedule export functionality is non-existent, course search features feel tedious and confusing, and there’s no visual cues during the process of class rearrangement. We aim to fix this.
BetterNotes
BetterNotes: A note-taking app that is not just good, but better.
Arjun Sodhi, Cindy Li, Derek Yuan, Jeri Fan
BetterNotes is a note-taking platform designed for students in math and computer science courses who take notes virtually. It supports a wide range of content formats—including Markdown, code blocks, math equations, media, graphs, and free-form canvases—making it easy to capture complex ideas. To help students stay organized, BetterNotes presents their notes in a structured, mind map–like view that reflects the flow and hierarchy of their thoughts.
Zuna
An outfit sharing social media app.
Michelle Hu, Ryan Matthew Tapp, Clifford Xing, Ted Haozhe Zhang
Zuna is a social media application that helps users find the clothes they want as quickly as possible. The intended users are fashion conscious individuals who are seeking a platform to share and find clothing that fits them. On other social media platforms, users often post comments asking where parts of an outfit are from. With Zuna, creators can post their outfits and directly link products, and users can see what’s from where at the click of a button.
Ruby
Menstrual Calendar Application.
Bhavika Dindyal, Khadija Tahir, Momina Butt, Sarah Joo
A mentrual calendar application that targets 18-40-year-old women who menstruate, including both students and professionals. The app address their specific needs related to tracking and managing their menstrual cycles, understanding their bodies, and supporting their wellness goals.
GrubGuru
GrubGuru is a mobile app that solves indecision when choosing restaurants as a group.
Brasen Xu, Richard Zhu, Samuel Zheng, Steven Wu
When dining out with a group, it often becomes hard to choose the best place to eat - whether that be because of dietary restrictions or personal preferences. GroupGrub solves this indecision by providing a platform to search, choose, and vote on restaurants.
