Comparison

InitialView vs CMU Orientation Quest

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

Head to head
About

InitialView

This platform provides live, unscripted interviews for academic program admissions. It helps assess applicants' English ability and interpersonal skills for boarding schools, undergraduate, and graduate programs worldwide. The service offers admission officers assurance through its proprietary interview technology.

Highlights
  • Live, unscripted interviews
  • English ability assessment
  • Interpersonal skills evaluation
  • Proprietary interview platform
  • Global admissions support
  • Admission officer assurance
Features
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For InitialView Students and Schools' Admission Officers' Use. InitialView was founded in Beijing, China in 2009, and in a short time it has become a world leader in interview services, having provided interviews to thousands of applicants to top academic programs. We provide live, unscripted interviews which are then uploaded to our proprietary interview platform. Our proprietary platform allows viewers to, within seconds, determine the interviewee’s English ability and interpersonal skills. Our technology is currently patent-pending in both the U.S. and China. Our interviews have been a part of more than 40,000 applications reviewed by over 200 boarding school, undergraduate, and graduate programs. We have interviewed applicants in over 50 countries. We are able to provide admission officers a level of assurance about our interviews, processes and operations in China in a way that is unmatched by others in international education.

About

CMU Orientation Quest

Features
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O-Quest has challenges that open over the course of CMU's orientation week for first years to complete to earn points for their house in THE CARNEGIE CUP. Navigate to challenges and tap the posters to explore campus while winning points you can also redeem for free prizes!

Screenshots

InitialView4 screens
CMU Orientation Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: InitialView at 3 against CMU Orientation Quest's 1. InitialView also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
InitialView versus CMU Orientation Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInitialViewCMU Orientation Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTerry CrawfordCarnegie Mellon University

In-app purchases

None

InitialView

No in-app purchases

None

CMU Orientation Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InitialView free?
InitialView is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CMU Orientation Quest free?
CMU Orientation Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do InitialView or CMU Orientation Quest have ads?
Neither InitialView nor CMU Orientation Quest shows ads.

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