eLearning For You LMS vs Beacon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eLearning For You LMS
Access all your training materials, books, social learning features, messages, and news in one place. This application centralizes your learning resources for convenient access on the go.
- Access training materials
- View Bookshelf resources
- Utilize Social Learning
- Manage Messages
- Read News updates
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The eLearning For You LMS app makes it easy to access everything to do with your eLearning For You training, Bookshelf resources and much more including Social Learning, Messages and News.
Beacon
This app serves as a comprehensive digital guide for student life, offering features like timetable viewing, campus navigation, and access to university services. It helps students find contact information, check resource availability, and stay updated on news and events.
- View timetable
- Campus maps and points of interest
- Staff and service contact details
- PC availability checks
- News and events browsing
- Societies and clubs search
- Answers to common service questions
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Beacon is your intelligent digital guide to student life. Just like you, it will be learning more and more skills and knowledge over the years to come, some of the things it can do include: - View your timetable - View campus maps and find points of interests - View the contact details for your lecturers, personal tutor and course leader - Search the staff directory - Check PCs availability - Find contact details for the university services - Request important documents - Browse news and events - Order a new student card - Search the societies and clubs you can join - Get directions to rooms and places on the campus - Get answers to common questions across all our services: Careers, Counselling, Digital, International Student, Library, Student Enabling, Student Services and Students' Union
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eLearning For You LMS at 5.0 against Beacon's 4.5. eLearning For You LMS also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Beacon's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
eLearning For You LMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of eLearning For You LMS's written reviews are positive against 21% of Beacon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
eLearning For You LMS ships an update every 2 months, Beacon every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eLearning For You LMS | Beacon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 21.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Access UK Ltd | University of Staffordshire |
Customer experience
eLearning For You LMS
Beacon
In-app purchases
eLearning For You LMS
No in-app purchases
Beacon
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is eLearning For You LMS free?
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