First Ruston vs Modern Campus Involve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First Ruston
Stay connected with church activities through messages, notifications, and event updates. Access the Bible and view the church calendar directly from your mobile device.
- Watch or listen to messages
- Receive push notifications
- Read the Bible
- View event calendar
- Stay connected with church
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This app will help you stay connected with what is going on in our day-to-day as a church. With this app, you can tune in to watch or listen to messages, stay updated with push notifications, read the Bible, and view our calendar for events. Mobile app version: 6.17.2
Modern Campus Involve
Discover campus organizations and events, sync them to your calendar, and check into activities using your digital ID. Leaders can also manage event check-ins within the app. It's designed to boost student engagement and track involvement.
- Discover organizations
- Find tagged events
- Sync events to calendar
- View Digital ID
- Run Event Check-In
- Facilitate event check-in
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Use the all-new Modern Campus Involve app to find out how you can get involved on campus, check-in to events with your Digital ID, and more! Organization leaders and administrators can also facilitate the event check-in process all in the same application. • Discover organizations to get involved in • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Sync interesting events to your calendar • View your Digital ID • Run Event Check-In • And More! Powered by Modern Campus Involve. Involve provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, track and measure learning, and improve retention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: First Ruston at 5.0 against Modern Campus Involve's 1.9. Modern Campus Involve's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (56 vs 3). 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.
First Ruston holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Campus Involve has 56 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
First Ruston ships an update every 31 months, Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First Ruston | Modern Campus Involve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.9 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The First Baptist Church of Ruston Louisiana | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
First Ruston
Modern Campus Involve
Bugs and requests
First Ruston
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Modern Campus Involve
Reported bugs
30 issues- Login trouble
- App crashes
- Search bar does not work
- Categories in search bar are unhelpful
- Garbage backend
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- Login error for campus
- Camera not working (iPhone 15)
- Won't ask permission for camera
- App steals information
- Can't find school/nothing to click
- Can't sign in
- Presence not good for college
- Used by schools to track students
- Can't log in
- Login Issue
- Not worth downloading
- Failed to log in
- App suuuuuucks
- Won't let me log in
- Can't log in to start using it
- Gave me Ebola
- Caused grandma to die from cancer
- Made parents divorce
- Keeps giving option to log in after many tries
- Link does not load for student account
- Stuck on first screen
- Stuck on intro page
- Won't work on iPhone and iPad
- Won't let me past location select screen
- Stuck on the first page after opening
Requested features
5 requests- 💡 Improve login system
- 💡 Fix search functionality
- 💡 Enable camera for check-ins on iPhone 15
- 💡 Provide clarity on data usage
- 💡 Offer a regular check-in system alternative
In-app purchases
First Ruston
No in-app purchases
Modern Campus Involve
No in-app purchases
Questions
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