Comparison

Brightspace Pulse vs Hartlink

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Brightspace Pulse

Stay connected with your courses on the go. Visualize upcoming deadlines, manage your time effectively, and receive real-time updates on course activities. Access course content offline and participate in discussions.

Highlights
  • Visualize upcoming dates and deadlines
  • Receive push notifications for course updates
  • Offline access to course content
  • Participate in Activity Feed discussions
  • Seamless browser login to D2L Brightspace
  • Apple Continuity support
Features
Currently charting
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Stay connected to learning anytime, anywhere with Brightspace Pulse. Brightspace Pulse gives learners and their authorized parents and guardians a convenient way to follow coursework, deadlines, progress, and important updates. Learners can: - Access their course content - View important dates and deadlines across their courses - Manage upcoming and overdue coursework - Receive notifications for Announcements, Grades, Quizzes, Assignments, Activity Feed posts, and more - Access supported course content offline, including video and audio - Participate in Activity Feed discussions - Open Brightspace in a browser to complete additional activities Parents and guardians can: - View upcoming and overdue work, grades, shared Portfolio items, and classroom updates - Receive notifications about quizzes and assignments with upcoming due dates - Follow multiple learners from one account, when supported by their school or organization Features vary by role and by your institution or organization’s Brightspace configuration. An account provided by your school, district, or organization is required. Parent and guardian access must be enabled by the learner’s school or organization. NOTE: iPhone, iPad, and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.

About

Hartlink

Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter events by hosting organizations or your interests, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on any activities.

Highlights
  • Discover campus events
  • Filter by hosting organization
  • Filter by activity tags
  • Add events to calendar
  • Student engagement platform
Features
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Use the Hartwick College Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

Brightspace Pulse4 screens
Hartlink1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Brightspace Pulse at 271K against Hartlink's 2. Brightspace Pulse also leads on chart position (#91 vs unranked). Hartlink's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hartlink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brightspace Pulse has 271K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Brightspace Pulse versus Hartlink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrightspace PulseHartlink
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (271K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings271K — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#91 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.19.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperD2L CorporationCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

Brightspace Pulse

All ratings271,102 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews962 reviews
Positive36.5%
Neutral11.1%
Negative52.4%

Hartlink

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Brightspace Pulse

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent log-out problems
  • Inability to load course content
  • Notifications not working as expected
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow file downloads and exports
  • Improve notification reliability
  • Optimize for tablet/iPad use
  • Add more customization options

Hartlink

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Brightspace Pulse

No in-app purchases

None

Hartlink

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brightspace Pulse free?
Brightspace Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hartlink free?
Hartlink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brightspace Pulse or Hartlink?
Hartlink is rated higher. Brightspace Pulse averages 4.8 out of 5 from 271K ratings, while Hartlink averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Brightspace Pulse or Hartlink have ads?
Neither Brightspace Pulse nor Hartlink shows ads.

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