Comparison

BC Navigator vs Build Fluency

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

Head to head
About

BC Navigator

This app personalizes your college experience by providing access to course schedules, grades, tuition balances, and campus maps. It also offers features for faculty and employees, including roster viewing and time balance checks. Additionally, it allows for reporting issues, receiving emergency alerts, and managing appointments.

Highlights
  • View course schedules and grades
  • Check tuition balances and holds
  • Access Digital ID
  • Campus maps and location finder
  • Report facility issues
  • Receive emergency alerts
  • Manage appointments
Features
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The Brooklyn College Navigator app personalizes your College experience, and connects you to key BC information! • View your course schedule, tuition balances, stops/holds, and posted term grades • Faculty - View your course section rosters • Add courses and events to your personal calendar • Employees - Check your Time & Leave balances • Review your scheduled appointments and check the status of certain pending requests • Use your Digital ID instead of a physical card, with no term validation required • Maps - Find classes and offices - Locate nearby bathrooms, study areas, and more • Careers - Build & track your Career skills from first-year to Commencement • Fix-it - Report necessary bathroom repairs to Facilities • Emergency - Receive campus emergency alerts - Contact Campus Safety • Search course catalogs and campus events • Make appointments with campus offices and advisors • View BC Email and WiFi credentials • Track status of IT Systems Coming Soon: • Notifications of important deadlines and certain transaction updates • Receive class cancellation/relocation alerts • Access Faculty profiles • Connect with Student Clubs Your privacy is important to us. BC Navigator collects aggregate data to improve future versions of the application. No sensitive, personal, or identifying information will be collected. However, you do have the right to opt-out of this data-collection within the Application Settings. BC Navigator Development Team: Mandisa Washington, Anatoliy Gamaylo, Moshe Berman, Leonora Kissis

About

Build Fluency

This app helps you move beyond simple recognition of information to true understanding. Practice explaining concepts in your own words, either by writing or speaking, to build mental maps and strengthen recall. It's designed to help you think more clearly and speak with greater confidence.

Highlights
  • Practice explaining concepts
  • Written or spoken responses
  • Structured feedback
  • Build mental maps of subjects
  • Strengthen knowledge recall
  • Develop connected understanding
Features
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Most studying stops at recognition. You may remember a term or follow a definition, yet still struggle to explain the idea clearly in your own words. Fluency is designed to close that gap. The app helps you build a mental map of a subject by practicing explanation. Respond to prompts in writing or out loud, get structured feedback, and develop the kind of understanding that makes ideas easier to remember, use, and express. Fluency is built on two simple principles: - The best way to retain knowledge is to put it into your own words - The best way to understand something is to explain it to someone else Each session helps you: - Clarify what you actually understand - Notice gaps or weak connections in your thinking - Strengthen recall through active explanation - Build a clearer sense of how concepts fit together Over time, Fluency helps you map the territory of a domain. Instead of isolated definitions, you build connected understanding: concepts, vocabulary, and relationships that make the subject make sense as a whole. Domains include: - Economics - Psychology - Game Theory - Political Thought - Western Philosophy Whether you are studying for class, deepening your understanding, or following your curiosity, Fluency helps you move from recognition to real fluency, so you can think more clearly, explain ideas more effectively, and speak with greater confidence.

Screenshots

BC Navigator4 screens
Build Fluency4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Build Fluency at 100% against BC Navigator's 7%. Build Fluency also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). BC Navigator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (179 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Build Fluency sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. BC Navigator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Build Fluency holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BC Navigator has 179 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of BC Navigator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Build Fluency's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BC Navigator ships an update every 2 months, Build Fluency every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
BC Navigator versus Build Fluency: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBC NavigatorBuild Fluency
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (179 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews7.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings179 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrooklyn CollegeFOHBOH IO LLC

Customer experience

BC Navigator

All ratings179 ratings
Positive11.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative85.5%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive7.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative91.2%

Build Fluency

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

BC Navigator

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • App crashes when logging in
  • App crashes when opening ID
  • App crashes on iOS 14 and 15
  • App doesn't keep users logged in
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  • App shows error messages
  • App is frequently down
  • App bounces between screens
  • App doesn't open
  • App requires frequent sign-in
  • App has connection failed errors
  • App shows black spaces in dark mode
  • Login fails with timeout error

Requested features

3 requests
  • Alumni ID access
  • Physical copy option for ID
  • Dark mode compatibility fix

Build Fluency

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BC Navigator

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Build Fluency

One-time5
  • Unlock Economics$9.99
  • Unlock Game Theory$9.99
  • Unlock Political Thought$9.99
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  • Unlock Psychology$9.99
  • Unlock Western Philosophy$9.99

Questions

Is BC Navigator free?
BC Navigator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Build Fluency free?
Build Fluency is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BC Navigator or Build Fluency?
Build Fluency is rated higher. BC Navigator averages 1.5 out of 5 from 179 ratings, while Build Fluency averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BC Navigator or Build Fluency have ads?
Neither BC Navigator nor Build Fluency shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BC Navigator or Build Fluency?
BC Navigator ships an update every 2 months, and Build Fluency every 6 days. Most recently, BC Navigator was updated on October 14, 2026 and Build Fluency on September 13, 2026.

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