UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides vs UCBN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides
Navigate major events at the University of California, Berkeley with this mobile guide. Access schedules, maps, and essential information to make your event experience smoother.
- Event schedules
- Interactive maps
- Event information
- Navigation assistance
- Major event coverage
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Your handy mobile guide to major events at the University of California, Berkeley. You can find schedules, maps, and information to help you navigate events at Cal.
UCBN
This app helps University of California students locate essential resources like food, housing, and financial aid across all UC campuses. It features an AI assistant to guide students through common questions and connect them with relevant campus services.
- Browse essential needs services
- Filter by campus and category
- Review service details
- Save useful resources
- Share information
- Ask AI for guidance
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UC Basic Needs helps University of California students find essential-needs resources across UC campuses. Browse services for food, housing, financial support, health and wellbeing, family assistance, legal support, care coordination, technology, transportation, off-campus referrals, and other student support needs. Filter by campus and category, review service details, save useful resources, and share information when a student or supporter needs it. The app also includes Ask AI, a plain-language guide that helps students understand where to start for UC essential-needs questions. Ask AI uses the selected campus context and points users toward relevant campus resources when available. UC Basic Needs is not an emergency service and cannot monitor chats or dispatch help. If someone may be in immediate danger, call 911. For suicide or mental-health crisis support, call or text 988.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UCBN at 5.0 against UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides's 3.4. UCBN also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UCBN holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides ships an update every 6 weeks, UCBN every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides | UCBN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California, Berkeley | Timothy Galarneau |
In-app purchases
UC Berkeley / Cal Event Guides
No in-app purchases
UCBN
No in-app purchases
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